Driver of the Dan Hannebery bandwagon....all aboard. 4th April 09
Here is the typical Swans supporter after a game umpired but McBurney or Razor Ray
..And the Swans are the Premiers...The Ultimate Team...The Ultimate Warriors. They have overcome the highly fancied Hawks in brilliant style. Sydney the 2012 Premiers - Gerard Whately ABC
Here it is Again! - Huddo SEN
Amazing that both umpires and commentators are too stupid to actually listen to/read and remember the wording of the new rule! It is "Forceful" contact below the knees. Although forceful is not defined, surely it would be "a level of force LIKELY to cause injury." With the adjunct that any injury caused will see you suspended no questions asked...ie trying to close the loophole so Lindsay Thomas will not get off again. So nearly all the frees paid this NAB cup should not have been paid as the contact was not forceful (ie unpleasant for the recipient!!!) Surely this would be easy, you would think (rolleyes)
While we're on dumb umpires/rules of the game....why, oh why can they not enact a simple adjustment to the advantage rule so that it applies more like soccer (where it actually works properly!!!). How? Instead of yelling "Advantage, Advantage" to players who don't want it....the call is "Advantage if you want" whereupon the player can CHOOSE. So freakin' easy! No possibility of confusion and no possibility of the team which has earned the free kick being "penalised" for having done so!
Also no advantage can be given if players have stopped to see who the free is to.....so freakin' easy!!!!!!!!!!!! Why can't they get this right?????????????
"I'll acknowledge there are more talented teams in the competition but I won't acknowledge that there is a better team in the competition" Paul Roos March 2005
Rules must be simple so umpires are simply adjudicators, and no more - every time they are asked to have a "feel' for the game, they fail! So Stop expecting anything else!
Like "intentional" OOB - sure some are obvious, but they still pay ones where they could not possibly know the players "intention" unless they were clairvoyant!
I actually like the NAB Cup rule - you kick it out, they get it - simple!
"Forceful" is ridiculous! - I would respectfully suggest that "forceful" to the mind of a prancing maggot might conjure images of struggling for an hour to get served his "appletini" in a crowded bar, and then waving his arms about recklessly, whereas say a Barry Hall might also imagine a similar reaction in frustrating circumstances, but with different outcomes and ramifications
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