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Overheard at AFL Headquarters this week by MRP rep about what to do to prevent MFC from playing finals

We can't free kick them out, this would look too obvious, so we will 50metre them out of the contest, they won't be expecting that....

my precious......

Where there's smoke there's fire. We see it all too often. These umpires are definitely questionable. It does make me wonder if they're getting paid off. I genuinely try to see it from an unbiased perspective at games, but these one sided games are getting out of hand. The betting industry has never been bigger. Something is wrong.

David Schwartz we know you read DL. Raise the topic on radio.

You blokes are kidding yourself. They may be incompetent, but there's no umpiring conspiracy against any team.  

Conspiracy believers are nut jobs.  Name one that has ever been proven true. 

We do tend to get a few shockers against us of the stick when that no.42 guy is umpiring. Ah well.

Some shockers today again.

I actually think the entire rule book needs to be re-written.

That 50 against Hogan is one of the worst I've seen...

Today was a horrible effort by the maggots. What they paid to them was at times pathetic and cost us many goals, but what they then didn't pay for us was atrocious.

49 minutes ago, The Chief said:

You blokes are kidding yourself. They may be incompetent, but there's no umpiring conspiracy against any team.  

Conspiracy believers are nut jobs.  Name one that has ever been proven true. 

Watergate would be one. The Manhattan Project would be another.

17 minutes ago, Gorgoroth said:

That 50 against Hogan is one of the worst I've seen...

Today was a horrible effort by the maggots. What they paid to them was at times pathetic and cost us many goals, but what they then didn't pay for us was atrocious.

If you're going to pay those then there would be 10-15 50s a game.

And then to not keep the consistency and pay the two exact same ones for us was laughable.

They are a blight on the game.

I don't know what the bloody hell they are teaching them.

Far too many free kicks given these days for the smallest things , they take a lot of enjoyment out of watching the footy.

They should umpire every game like a grand final , let the game go more and only pay the obvious ones.

Still dont know how jordan lewis didnt get a free for his tackle at the end of the 2nd q on the half forward flank

1 hour ago, The Chief said:

Conspiracy believers are nut jobs.  Name one that has ever been proven true. 

The one where the Rothschild family run the secret world government.

Umpiring today was unbelievably bad.

Most of the frees they paid were there ...... but for each one they paid there were another 5 the same that were not paid.

50 meters. Kicks not going 15. Running through the "protected area". Holding off the ball. Plus the old favourite: dropping the ball.

Lions last 2 goals before half time were from "marks" that might have gone 10m on a fisherman's tape measure.

1 hour ago, The Chief said:

You blokes are kidding yourself. They may be incompetent, but there's no umpiring conspiracy against any team.  

Conspiracy believers are nut jobs.  Name one that has ever been proven true. 

Well if you promise not to use the cone of silence, i'll say (whisper) the first twenty two games this year we played in.........

6 hours ago, willmoy said:

Overheard at AFL Headquarters this week by MRP rep about what to do to prevent MFC from playing finals

We can't free kick them out, this would look too obvious, so we will 50metre them out of the contest, they won't be expecting that....

my precious......

"We got Salem last week on a 'nothing report', (?) and we did report JW4 yesterday for going for a spoil.

And Berine today  -. MRP will only look at his jumper, and his record and ensure he will miss...how many possible games do they have...oh, 5"

 

1 hour ago, The Chief said:

You blokes are kidding yourself. They may be incompetent, but there's no umpiring conspiracy against any team.  

Conspiracy believers are nut jobs.  Name one that has ever been proven true. 

I am a conspiracy theorist, and I may be a nut  job, but that doesn't mean that all are.  

It's been like watching a different game this weekend of footy. You constantly see, (and i made it my intention to watch the flows of other games yesterday and today), in other games, blokes running past within 10 metres of the player on the  mark, you see blokes getting pushed in the back, you see players being held and shepherded off the ball, just to name a few. You go to our game and we are being free kicked against for the same things. Every other Team"s Captain and other players question the umpires without fear.

What the bloody hell is going on???

2 minutes ago, willmoy said:

IWhat the bloody hell is going on???

The adjudication of Australian rules football at the AFL level is in crisis.

Umpiring. MRP.

The executive can't see it because they're too busy gloating about how close the season is.

8 minutes ago, Mazer Rackham said:

The adjudication of Australian rules football at the AFL level is in crisis.

Umpiring. MRP.

The executive can't see it because they're too busy gloating about how close the season is.

Absolutely agree, needs to be an independent investigation about the inconsistency from game to game, round by round. It is getting unbearable and all fans are confused as [censored]. I think the 50's were there today as our players are dumb, maybe not Hogan one but the holding the balls (numerous) that weren't paid in Lions forward 50 was a disgrace.

So, were those the worst 50 meter penalties you have ever seen in today's match?  The umpires seem interested in self importance, rather than accuracy or context.

3 hours ago, jnrmac said:

Watergate would be one. The Manhattan Project would be another.

Don't see conspiracies in either of those. One was a crime and they got caught and the other a government sponsored scientific development that ended a war.

I'm sure you'd find a thread against the umpires on most club supporter sites. They're just incompetent, clearly not helped by HO constantly changing the rules and interpretations.

14 minutes ago, buck_nekkid said:

So, were those the worst 50 meter penalties you have ever seen in today's match?  The umpires seem interested in self importance, rather than accuracy or context.

The one against hogan sure was.

It wasnt even a mark.

Whilst I agree that the state of umpiring of the game in general is a problem, I don't see it being any worse for us than a lot of other teams and the game in general.

What's the fix?

I think the first thing they could do is start to acknowledge mistakes, Kennedy is making a farce of it with his crazy interpretations.

The next is stick to the rule book and not make up new rules in the guise of interpretation.

The 2 things are really connected; when an umpire makes a mistake Kennedy introduces another interpretation to make it right.

36 minutes ago, The Chief said:

Don't see conspiracies in either of those. One was a crime and they got caught and the other a government sponsored scientific development that ended a war.

I'm sure you'd find a thread against the umpires on most club supporter sites. They're just incompetent, clearly not helped by HO constantly changing the rules and interpretations.

See you agree. They're only conspiracy theories until they're proven. Then they're fact.

2 hours ago, Mazer Rackham said:

The adjudication of Australian rules football at the AFL level is in crisis.

Umpiring. MRP.

The executive can't see it because they're too busy gloating about how close the season is.

If they're up to their eyeballs in loveins why give a [censored] !