(11-15-2022, 08:55 PM)BluePhantom date Wrote:They've already taken away the goal umpiring decisions.Yep, and it's an horrendously slow review process, the game is becoming more like Gridiron by the day, soon we'll have 30s of play and 5min of review.
They are about to add a fourth field umpire in an attempt to eliminate variability and improve marginal decisions, but the problem is that the more field umpires they have the more versions of events they see, it won't help it'll make things worse.
They should kybosh the goal review process and add a second goal umpire to each goal line, this can have a real and very tangible impact on results without slowing the game down at all!
The benefits of extra goal umpires flow onto the boundary line umpires as well, when you have two goal umpires you can have the nearside goal umpire sharing in more of those FP decisions and still get reliable score adjudications.
Finally, removing the goal review removes the score review beggars, it's becoming a blight on the game, legions of players crying foul begging for a goal review because they got a pooftenth of a follicle on the fast moving pill. Even worse, some of the less forthright types have started flicking their fingers randomly when trying to make contact, just to sway or confuse the score reviewer. It won't be long before the over-coaches have this as part of the training drill!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"