Saintsational Fan Forum - A passionate community of St Kilda Football Club fans discussing news, history, players, trade rumours, results, AFL stats and more.
*BaLLy iS BeST* wrote:- when the umpire got in the way and goddard fell over the top of him with the ball. Shouldn't the umpire have stopped play? What if they had got possession from that?
Two questions raced through my mind on Sunday as I watched this unfold.
1. Why was BJ standing behind the umpire?
2. Why did Blake handball it to him there?
We seriosuly can't blame the umpire for that one.
It's the umpire's duty to stay out of the way.
(Edited after P76's reply)
Last edited by kosifantutti23 on Thu 09 Jul 2009 1:50pm, edited 1 time in total.
*BaLLy iS BeST* wrote:- when the umpire got in the way and goddard fell over the top of him with the ball. Shouldn't the umpire have stopped play? What if they had got possession from that?
Two questions raced through my mind on Sunday as I watched this unfold.
1. Why was BJ standing behind the umpire?
2. Why did Blake handball it to him there?
*BaLLy iS BeST* wrote:- when the umpire got in the way and goddard fell over the top of him with the ball. Shouldn't the umpire have stopped play? What if they had got possession from that?
Two questions raced through my mind on Sunday as I watched this unfold.
1. Why was BJ standing behind the umpire?
2. Why did Blake handball it to him there?
We seriosuly can't blame the umpire for that one.
It's the umpire's duty to say out of the way.
Yep!!! That's exactly why players get fined for running into them.
what about in the first quarter, ball gets a holding the ball decision for a tackle laid on rooke, fisher picks up the ball, and handballs it to ball, as he believes, rightly, that it is his free kick, umpire immediately calls play on, forcing ball to get rid of it under pressure.
Another instance would be when ablett got pinged and we played on but turned it directly over, as we all seem to recognise, the umps were consistant in advantage all day. Only thing that bothered me was that geelong got an enternity to get rid of the ball, and often it would be held up, usually resulting in a ball up, but yet play continued, and usually geelong seemed to dig the ball out and run away from the contest when play should have stopped.
kosifantutti23 wrote:
It's the umpire's duty to say out of the way.
Yep!!! That's exactly why players get fined for running into them.
I pay to watch the umpires so they should have right of way .
It's not about whether you pay to see them or not. The players are told not to run into the umpires (especially stationery ones). I just find it hard to blame the umpire for this incident.
The Robert Eddy collision earlier this season is another matter!
saint66au wrote:Lets face it, most people on here want whats good for St Kilda and look at umpiring calls that way
If that was us who had lost the ball with the advantage call ..and Mooney had taken a hanger and won the game for em..we'd want Chamberlain boiled in oil and be screaming that the cheating corrupt umps had cost us the game..Cmon..admit it
Its only human nature I guess, but most one-eyed fans will see 50/50 calls in their teams favour as "well thats footy you win some you lose some" but 50/50 calls against your team as incompetant corruption that should have the offending official doing an Under 9's game next week
the call was correct.....
did you miss this....
"
UMPIRE RIGHT:
The afl last night backed ump Ray Chamberlains decision.
Chamberlain called advantage where none appeared to exist after awarding Corey a free kick 45m from goal with the scores level.
Ump boss Gieschen said behind the goal footage vindicated Chamberlain.
"After the free kick was awarded to Corey, the ball spilled forward towards the Geelong goal" Gieschen said.
"Max Rooke elected to run on to the ball and take possession. Rooke was approx. 10m in the clear with no immediate pressure from opponents.
"Rooke elected then to handball to Varcoe and the ball was turned over to St. Kilda.
"The umpire... is not instructed to recall the ball for a later player skill or concentration error"
....end of story....
.everybody still loves lenny....and we always will
"Freedom of expression is the cornerstone of a free society,"
However, freedom of expression is not encouraged in certain forums.
