AFL Umpires Australian Football League
Uploaded by spud91 on Sep 04, 2007
Contention: That AFL umpires are hopeless and are highly protected by the AFL
Audience: AFL Fans
AFL Umpires are the worst people of controlling a situation/game. You don’t see basketball referees going up to players talking back the way AFL umpires do. The Footy rules committee only keeps changing the rules because the white maggots aren’t calling them are calling one but not the rest. AFL umpires are the most protected official’s in the game of sport. Why? The AFL is so over protective of their umpires cause they don’t want the AFL to get a bad name because of it’s officials.
Of course every umpire is allowed to make a mistake their are only human but AFL umpires follow them up with even more silly decisions. In last years Grand Final Darren Golspink gave a free kick to West Coast when it should have been to Sydney and then he gave them a 50 m penalty as Hall played on. Then to even the game up he give Sydney a free kick, which wasn’t there, followed by a 50 m penalty. Which put Sydney straight in front of goals if Sydney could kick straight it could have changed the end result. Umpires are just a third team on game day in florescent yellow and greens tops on green bossing around the players. Wishing they, were Chris Judd rather then being labelled as “white maggots” and “green maggots?” Umpires may get abused and hassled on game day, I understand about the abuse they get from players and spectators, but that does not give them the right to completely ruin the game and turning it into a game of Netball.
You never hear about umpires in the news and I’m here to tell you that they can do even worse then the players. Can everyone remember the comments that James Hird Made about Scott Mc Clearn about his bad umpiring on the footy show. This news was in the news for weeks. Russ O’Deller an AFL umpire last year commented on the sub standard of play at a Richmond and Bulldogs game. He quoted “Half these blokes wouldn’t get a game in under 15’s in New South Wales.” We don’t hear about AFL Umpires in the Media is because the AFL is too protective of they men in white rather then players bringing in the money. Every time an AFL, players go out and...