(03-16-2023, 11:06 PM)LordLucifer date Wrote:Four umpires yet none of them saw McKay, Cripps & Curnow continually being held or blocked, somtimes they were bearhugs, other times they were sleeper holds.Yes, I just do not get it, it can't be that the event is unsighted, looking at replays today you can sometimes see the umpire in the vision looking at the contest from less than 10m away.
Woeful umpiring !!
Twice I saw Charlie jump for the footy with Grimes or some other defender hanging onto him around his waist.
With BigH it's a bit different, the Nthmond small/medium defenders jump into his from front on, they basically fly from the side turning their back into BigH with zero intent to mark the footy.
Years ago at junior footy I would see coaches do the very same to Weiters, simply because he was so dominant, it was crap coaching and even worse umpiring. In the end one day Weiters was carted off with a concussion from being simultaneously hit front on while he was tunnelled from behind in the marking contest. He never even got a free kick, they restarted with a ball up up after the ambulance that collected Weiters had left the field of play!
All this crap started years ago when umpires started ignoring blokes like Franklin and Hall putting their hands in defender's backs, BT would commentate and bitch and moan if the forwards were pinged, now to even things up umpires let all this stupid wrestling and scragging persist, it's bullsh1t football and rubbish umpiring, and a major reason why we are unlikely to ever see KPFs have 100 goals season regularly.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"