Advantage Rule

[Life Long Saint]

What the hell was the umpire thinking paying advantage to Milera when he was still chasing the ball to pick it up?

Surely you can't be at an advantage when you don't even have the ball in your hands!

Do these idiots even know what they're doing?

[gringo]

On evidence over time I would say not.

[joffaboy]

What the hell was the umpire thinking paying advantage to Milera when he was still chasing the ball to pick it up?

Surely you can't be at an advantage when you don't even have the ball in your hands!

Do these idiots even know what they're doing?

P66 will defend the decision.

Quote of the night from Paul Roos. :"I dont care what the rule says that was dropping the ball" So even if the rule is there Roos want the umpire to give the deciasion the other way.

FFS WTF??????

[St DAC]

Roos was right. That was dead set incorrect disposal, and should have been penalised. instead we end up scoring a goal.

So we're not always on the wrong end of umpire mistakes ...

[Buckets]

What the hell was the umpire thinking paying advantage to Milera when he was still chasing the ball to pick it up?

Surely you can't be at an advantage when you don't even have the ball in your hands!

Do these idiots even know what they're doing?

P66 will defend the decision.

Quote of the night from Paul Roos. :"I dont care what the rule says that was dropping the ball" So even if the rule is there Roos want the umpire to give the deciasion the other way.

FFS WTF??????

C'mon JB you know full well they Roos loves giving it to us!

[SainterK]

Oh well, evens out when Milne was so gonski holding the ball and got away with it

[Stillwaiting]

It's amazing the umpire could actually come up with that call.

[StPeter]

Some bad ones both ways but thought maybe we got slightly the better of it....unlike the Freo, West Coast and Port games where we were slaughtered by them.

[mr six o'clock]

I have watched three games so far this weekend , cats/blues stk/gc ess/syd .
The umpiring in all three games has been very confusing in all three . Some very good decisions have been made as have some very poor decisions and therein lies the consistency problem , it justs F@#$s my brain over !!!
E.g. in last lights game the umpires were hot on holding the ball , players were barely taking possession and getting pinged , then one player picked up the ball , took on an opponent , got caught , did two 360's before the umpire blew his whistle , all the while players and fans were calling bbaalllll .
Umpire says to tackler , ball up ! no prior opportunity !
ITS NUCKING FUTS !!!!!

[kosifantutti]

What the hell was the umpire thinking paying advantage to Milera when he was still chasing the ball to pick it up?

Surely you can't be at an advantage when you don't even have the ball in your hands!

Do these idiots even know what they're doing?

Bizarre decision. Milera was also grabbed as he went to chase the ball after the umpire called advantage.

[bozza1980]

It was definitely odd.

The idea that you can have taken your advantage without having taken possession of the ball defies logic.

[plugger66]

What the hell was the umpire thinking paying advantage to Milera when he was still chasing the ball to pick it up?

Surely you can't be at an advantage when you don't even have the ball in your hands!

Do these idiots even know what they're doing?

P66 will defend the decision.

Quote of the night from Paul Roos. :"I dont care what the rule says that was dropping the ball" So even if the rule is there Roos want the umpire to give the deciasion the other way.

FFS WTF??????

The decision was wrong. They make mistakes every game and that was a mistake. Why would I defend an obvious error?

[PJ]

There were some glaring inconsistencies. Milera handballs then is tackled - decision, play on. Same thing earlier (not sure of the name of the GC PLAYER), a GC player gets rid of the ball quickly and is tackled, decision, holding the man when not in possession.

[saintspremiers]

Roos was right. That was dead set incorrect disposal, and should have been penalised. instead we end up scoring a goal.

So we're not always on the wrong end of umpire mistakes ...

How umpires miss things like this makes the mind boggle. Some decisions are black and white.

[plugger66]

Roos was right. That was dead set incorrect disposal, and should have been penalised. instead we end up scoring a goal.

So we're not always on the wrong end of umpire mistakes ...

How umpires miss things like this makes the mind boggle. Some decisions are black and white.

They may have been in the wrong position or blocked by a player.

[saintspremiers]

Roos was right. That was dead set incorrect disposal, and should have been penalised. instead we end up scoring a goal.

So we're not always on the wrong end of umpire mistakes ...

How umpires miss things like this makes the mind boggle. Some decisions are black and white.

They may have been in the wrong position or blocked by a player.

True but there are three umpires. If one misses a howler another should overrule and correct it immediately.

[Leo.J]

They aren't going to get any better, so there's not much point in me crapping on about them... as frustrating as they are.

I don't actually have an issue with the Umps, my gripe is with the AFL and the rubbish that they come up with, which generally makes the game harder to umpire....

The funny thing is they're trying to make it easier to adjudicate in most cases.