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joffaboy wrote:The point Wallet is making which IMHO is a good one, is that 14 secs at such a crucial time is totally unacceptable considering the AFL's petty stance on minor things.
And, if you have read what I wrote I made the exact same point.
Umm - I did read what you wrote but then you edited it.
Lance or James??
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Wallace said the club would confront the AFL about the issue to ensure "the professionalism and integrity" of the competition remained paramount.
"We're going to end up with talk-back radio for seven days again over a clock situation – we should be talking about the feats of [St Kilda's] Stephen Milne and [Richmond's] Matthew Richardson playing the best football of his life," Wallace said during his post-match media conference.
"Those are the things we should be talking about from the game – not talking about things that can be controlled."
well terry - Who is taking it further- you could have made the comment to the AFL without alerting the world and the media in particular about it- thus making sure the media ask you that question all week and not what else you could have done.????
Continues to astound me that the AFL doesn't take better care of the clock. This is fundamental to every other timed sport.
The last couple of weeks we've seen instances of the haphazard clock control actually having te potential to impact (I suspect in this case had it been looked after the buzzer would still have gone with the ball in Reiwoldt's hands, but we'll never know now)... and the question I come to is how many seconds are lost in EVERY game because we're not all keeping half an eye on the clock to see it?
Needs to be tightened up. This is a professional sport. The timekeeping is amateurish.
"Everything comes to he who hustles while he waits"
- Henry Ford
I might be wrong but wasn't our final kick out called back because they hadn't yet called time back on??
So the ball was called back because in the umpires mind the clock hadn't started again, how could we have lost time returning it, if it hadn't started again??
I'm being silly here, however if the kick wasn't called back as it shouldn't have been and it had been left in the hands of a St Kilda player 40m clear of opponents with 3 clear options down field, there would not have been a turnover let alone a time keeper error and no decision for Jack Rieowldt to make.
bozza1980 wrote:I might be wrong but wasn't our final kick out called back because they hadn't yet called time back on??
So the ball was called back because in the umpires mind the clock hadn't started again, how could we have lost time returning it, if it hadn't started again??
I'm being silly here, however if the kick wasn't called back as it shouldn't have been and it had been left in the hands of a St Kilda player 40m clear of opponents with 3 clear options down field, there would not have been a turnover let alone a time keeper error and no decision for Jack Rieowldt to make.
I don't understand why it was called back?
And isn't time-on/time-off automatically done by the timekeepers after a goal/point?
AFAIK the Umpire has nothing to do with it - the timekeepers automatically stop the clock when the goal umpire signals the score and then automatically start the clock again when the ball is kicked out or the Umpire bounces the ball in the centre?
Does anybody know what was wrong with teh original kick-out?
They also decided that player Jack Reiwolt would have kicked a perfect pass to a leading Matthew Richardson 20metres out in front. Although no dead certainty in front of goal, the AFL has looked at the probability of Richo kicking it, and deemed a goal to have been scored. In accordance with rulings made during the StKilda v Fremantle game - the AFL has decided to change the result, notify all sport betting agencies of the change of result. A crowd of 10,000 Tiger fans are currently scavanging through the rubbish bins to retrieve their betting slips.
FFS!!!! ITS US VS THE AFL!!!
If everyone speeds, why haven't you been overtaken?
now boys back to the missing time......please remember that good old Aids Anderson has stated that the timekeeping chappies have swish Tissot shirts to go with their flash computerised tissot stopwatches.
Whoopdie Friggin do, this won't stop the problem!
Sounds like the timekeepers are a bunch of Stinger/GrumpyOne generational types that may need replacing with a few Gen X'ers!
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Mr Magic wrote:AFAIK the Umpire has nothing to do with it - the timekeepers automatically stop the clock when the goal umpire signals the score and then automatically start the clock again when the ball is kicked out or the Umpire bounces the ball in the centre?
If that's the case there should have been no reason for the ball coming back.
It happens quite a bit and it really irritates me, the new rule was brought into to encourage fast kick outs and yet kicks get called back and the defensive team has more time to set up their zone.
