Warning for the Melb game; there has been a rule change

[Enrico_Misso]

The Geish has done it again.
Changed the rules without warning.

There is a now a new rule.
"If you don't do everything possible to keep the ball in play it is a free kick against".

Introduced tonight in the Eagles game.
Reduced the game to a complete FARCE.

Well done Geish.
Last week you demonstrated you were corrupt.
This week you demonstrated you are inept.
What unpredictable irrational thing will you do next?

[saintkellerm]

I actually thought it was last week. If your name is Milne - free kick against you and maybe a 50 mtr penalty if the ump feels like it.

[Teflon]

Another "weekly" interpretation change.

Again, who the feck knows whats being done to improve umpiring these days as its behind the iron curtain.

Seriously, you want the public to stop ridiculing them? - remove the mystery and tell these trumped up maggots to get the feck OUT OF THE GAME and stop blwoing there whistle so they get to hear themselves on TV.

The old adage "children should be seen and not heard" was really written for umpires. Pay the frees that are clearly there and stop with the weekly shifts in interpretatio.

Deliberate out of bounds was a disgrace tonight.

[Rosco]

they were playing basketball tonight, last touch gives it to the other side

[dragit]

Although I don't like the spontaneity of springing the rule changes like that…

I do like the essence of penalising players who try and run the ball out, it's boring and I'm sick to death of the pathetic acting that players do when fumbling the ball over the line.

If they enforced this rule continually, the game would be more exciting and players would simply do more to keep the ball alive.

[Rosco]

Indoor cricket nets around the boundary would do the job

[SainterK]

Oh no.

I'm worried.

Some of our guys kick it so it goes out of bounds without meaning to.

[gringo]

It's ok that magoo will be in the phone patching up that then over emphasising some other trivial piece of crap that they will over officiate.

[ShanghaiSaint]

hmm like the idea of it but worry about some of our defensive kicks to hit that line. what if the kick was in a players direction but bounced out in a differnt direction?????

[Pwoit]

It's ok that magoo will be in the phone patching up that then over emphasising some other trivial piece of crap that they will over officiate.

English?

[WellardSaint]

Although I don't like the spontaneity of springing the rule changes like that…

I do like the essence of penalising players who try and run the ball out, it's boring and I'm sick to death of the pathetic acting that players do when fumbling the ball over the line.

If they enforced this rule continually, the game would be more exciting and players would simply do more to keep the ball alive.

amen. When its a close game and only a few minutes left, the team who's behind has more chance of catching up. And I would be happy if they brought in the rule of playing on if someone kicks backwards to waste time. Wasnt that trialled in the NAB Cup ?

[matrix]

yeah it was
not sure about this year but im sure it was in the nab the previous

[stevie]

So if a ruck man or defender belts the ball ten rows in, it's a free?

ABOUT f****** TIME!!............homos

[plugger66]

So if a ruck man or defender belts the ball ten rows in, it's a free?

ABOUT f****** TIME!!............homos

Has been for 3 years at least I think. It is basically classed as OOF or deliberate.

[perfectionist]

So if a ruck man or defender belts the ball ten rows in, it's a free?...

15.6 Free Kicks — Relating to Out of Bounds
15.6.1 When Awarded
A Free Kick shall be awarded against a Player who:
(a) Kicks the football Out of Bounds on the Full;
(b) in the act of bringing the football back into play after a Behind has been scored, Kicks the football over the Boundary Line without the football first being touched by another Player;
(c) intentionally Kicks, Handballs or forces the football over the Boundary Line without the football being touched by another Player;
(d) having taken the football over the Boundary Line, fails to immediately hand the football to the boundary Umpire or drop the football directly to the ground;
(e) touches the football after the boundary Umpire has signalled that the football is Out of Bounds, except for a Player who has carried the football over the Boundary Line under this Law 15.6.1 or a Player awarded a Free Kick under these Laws; or
(f) hits the football Out of Bounds on the Full from a boundary throw or a field bounce or throw by a field Umpire.

Since 2007.

[1965 Saint]

The Geish has done it again.
Changed the rules without warning.

There is a now a new rule.
"If you don't do everything possible to keep the ball in play it is a free kick against".

Introduced tonight in the Eagles game.
Reduced the game to a complete FARCE.

Well done Geish.
Last week you demonstrated you were corrupt.
This week you demonstrated you are inept.
What unpredictable irrational thing will you do next?

Please don't call him the Geish. It almost sounds like a term of endearment. The bloke is an incompetent fool

[Rosco]

So if a ruck man or defender belts the ball ten rows in, it's a free?...

15.6 Free Kicks — Relating to Out of Bounds
15.6.1 When Awarded
A Free Kick shall be awarded against a Player who:
(a) Kicks the football Out of Bounds on the Full;
(b) in the act of bringing the football back into play after a Behind has been scored, Kicks the football over the Boundary Line without the football first being touched by another Player;
(c) intentionally Kicks, Handballs or forces the football over the Boundary Line without the football being touched by another Player;
(d) having taken the football over the Boundary Line, fails to immediately hand the football to the boundary Umpire or drop the football directly to the ground;
(e) touches the football after the boundary Umpire has signalled that the football is Out of Bounds, except for a Player who has carried the football over the Boundary Line under this Law 15.6.1 or a Player awarded a Free Kick under these Laws; or
(f) hits the football Out of Bounds on the Full from a boundary throw or a field

Since 2007.

But only on the full, belting it out on the bounce isn't necessarily a free, requires interpretation via 15.6.1(c)

[battye]

So if a ruck man or defender belts the ball ten rows in, it's a free?...

15.6 Free Kicks — Relating to Out of Bounds
15.6.1 When Awarded
A Free Kick shall be awarded against a Player who:
(a) Kicks the football Out of Bounds on the Full;
(b) in the act of bringing the football back into play after a Behind has been scored, Kicks the football over the Boundary Line without the football first being touched by another Player;
(c) intentionally Kicks, Handballs or forces the football over the Boundary Line without the football being touched by another Player;
(d) having taken the football over the Boundary Line, fails to immediately hand the football to the boundary Umpire or drop the football directly to the ground;
(e) touches the football after the boundary Umpire has signalled that the football is Out of Bounds, except for a Player who has carried the football over the Boundary Line under this Law 15.6.1 or a Player awarded a Free Kick under these Laws; or
(f) hits the football Out of Bounds on the Full from a boundary throw or a field

Since 2007.

But only on the full, belting it out on the bounce isn't necessarily a free, requires interpretation via 15.6.1(c)

Really? How many times have we seen a defender belt the ball out over the boundary line on the full - coming over the top of the pack or from within the pack - without it being called as a boundary throw in. All the time.

By "boundary throw" or "field" - do they mean from a boundary throw in or a bounce/ball up?

[plugger66]

15.6 Free Kicks — Relating to Out of Bounds
15.6.1 When Awarded
A Free Kick shall be awarded against a Player who:
(a) Kicks the football Out of Bounds on the Full;
(b) in the act of bringing the football back into play after a Behind has been scored, Kicks the football over the Boundary Line without the football first being touched by another Player;
(c) intentionally Kicks, Handballs or forces the football over the Boundary Line without the football being touched by another Player;
(d) having taken the football over the Boundary Line, fails to immediately hand the football to the boundary Umpire or drop the football directly to the ground;
(e) touches the football after the boundary Umpire has signalled that the football is Out of Bounds, except for a Player who has carried the football over the Boundary Line under this Law 15.6.1 or a Player awarded a Free Kick under these Laws; or
(f) hits the football Out of Bounds on the Full from a boundary throw or a field

Since 2007.

But only on the full, belting it out on the bounce isn't necessarily a free, requires interpretation via 15.6.1(c)

Really? How many times have we seen a defender belt the ball out over the boundary line on the full - coming over the top of the pack or from within the pack - without it being called as a boundary throw in. All the time.

By "boundary throw" or "field" - do they mean from a boundary throw in or a bounce/ball up?

Only if the umpire cant tell who did it, As perfectionist said since 2007 that rule has been in play. Cant remember any frees missed when I have watched games. Also if some does the same thing through the goals or behinds that is also a free.

[perfectionist]

...Really? How many times have we seen a defender belt the ball out over the boundary line on the full - coming over the top of the pack or from within the pack - without it being called as a boundary throw in. All the time.

By "boundary throw" or "field" - do they mean from a boundary throw in or a bounce/ball up?

Sorry, my cut and paste missed a phrase, which I have amended. The full clause reads:
(f) hits the football Out of Bounds on the Full from a boundary throw or a field bounce or throw by a field Umpire.

So, at a throw in or ball up, hitting the ball out on the full is a free. Hitting the ball out on the full as part of a spoil should not be a free, especially as it would be hard to work out the last player to touch it. If there was (say) a field kick, and it bounced, and then a player hits it out of bounds, on the full or otherwise, that then comes under part (c), and will be a question of umpire interpretation. Pretending to fumble the ball is the usual approach.