Umpires

[swans85]

According to BigFooty.

#9- Matt Stevic
#25- Shaun Ryan
#27- Michael Avon

Goldspink has Monday Night.

[sharp9]

The umpires were shocking last night. Missed some really, obvious important frees, but paid some other tiggy-touchwood in front of the sticks.

Just shocking.

[goswannie14]

Originally posted by sharp9
The umpires were shocking last night. Missed some really, obvious important frees, but paid some other tiggy-touchwood in front of the sticks.

Just shocking.

But who cares as long as St Kilda loses.

[Lucky Knickers]

Interesting decision when the boundary ump copped the ball to the head. Should it have been a ball-up rather than OOBOTF?

[Mike_B]

I don't care whether we get Goldspink this year, he's no longer at the top of my most-hated umpires list. That honour, and by a long way, goes to McInerny. Goldspink and McLaren at least partly redeemed themselves with their GF effort last year.

[timthefish]

Originally posted by Lucky Knickers
Interesting decision when the boundary ump copped the ball to the head. Should it have been a ball-up rather than OOBOTF?

only by technicality. cousin's had belted that on a trajectory out of the stadium.

[floppinab]

Originally posted by timthefish
only by technicality. cousin's had belted that on a trajectory out of the stadium.

I'm pretty sure the right decision was made there. In this instance it's as if the umpire is the "invisible man", the ball might deviate, bounce back into the play, whatever, but a decision should be made as if he wasn't there. In which case the correct decision was made as the ball continued OOBOTF after hitting the umpie on the head.

This rule has lead to the interesting situation which has happened a couple of times in the past few years (one comes to mind in the Syd. Prem League) where if the ball hits the goal umpie, does not completely cross the goal line and rebounds into play, it is play on and no score is recorded.

[Ryan Bomford]

Originally posted by floppinab
This rule has lead to the interesting situation which has happened a couple of times in the past few years (one comes to mind in the Syd. Prem League) where if the ball hits the goal umpie, does not completely cross the goal line and rebounds into play, it is play on and no score is recorded.

Same thing happened in a pre-season match in Canberra v the Tigers a few years back, as I recall. Micky O was robbed of a goal when the goal ump entered the field of play to intercept a grubber kick from an acute angle.

Pretty funny at the time.

[Thunder Shaker]

Originally posted by floppinab
This rule has lead to the interesting situation which has happened a couple of times in the past few years (one comes to mind in the Syd. Prem League) where if the ball hits the goal umpie, does not completely cross the goal line and rebounds into play, it is play on and no score is recorded.

We should give the goal umpires telescopic necks.