I'm finding football hard to watch and most of it is umpire mistakes .

I'm told the umpires are now allowed to check the stats before giving brownlow votes nowadays. So no problem looking at the free kick count and giving the three votes to themselves.

Edited 9 hours ago9 hr by YearOfTheDees

Who doesn’t love the Lasso rule?

Completely swung the game with an incorrect call. Then Martin kicks the critical goal

What a farce

Toe pokes off the ground called as free kicks

7 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Who doesn’t love the Lasso rule?

Completely swung the game with an incorrect call. Then Martin kicks the critical goal

What a farce

Toe pokes off the ground called as free kicks

IMHO the lasso rule has been a roaring success. It's kept the ball in play more often and removed most of the 50/50 boundary calls where umpires had to make a call about 'intention'. Obviously there will be examples of bad decisions, but I think this rule is a keeper

5 minutes ago, Big Col said:

IMHO the lasso rule has been a roaring success. It's kept the ball in play more often and removed most of the 50/50 boundary calls where umpires had to make a call about 'intention'. Obviously there will be examples of bad decisions, but I think this rule is a keeper

fair enough mate

I’m not a fan

seeing players shepard the ball out of play is not in keeping with the spirit of the game imo

The Cats had the umpires in their pocket, playing on own ground and Crows had a few of their best out. That tells me the farm boys are not very good.

20 minutes ago, Big Col said:

IMHO the lasso rule has been a roaring success. It's kept the ball in play more often and removed most of the 50/50 boundary calls where umpires had to make a call about 'intention'. Obviously there will be examples of bad decisions, but I think this rule is a keeper

But they overturned one bad decision then let a way more obvious bad decision go, the one that led to the Jack Martin goal.

Just like with every single rule, consistency is the key to success and acceptance.

1 hour ago, YearOfTheDees said:

I'm finding football hard to watch and most of it is umpire mistakes .

The rules being constantly changed for the worse has killed the game. For decades I watched 3-4 matches a weekend as a neutral. This year I’ve not made it through a single match that wasn’t a Melbourne match.

As a spectator sport, it’s dead. It completely lacks any sense of tension or strategy. The [censored] at the AFL alter the rules to manipulate how a team plays and remove options and strategies in the process. It’s become aerial ping pong with an abundance of scoring, and the inconsistent umpiring calls for already [censored] rules have made it unwatchable.

I don’t want to see mountains of goals kicked. The more goals there are, the less they mean and the less I care. I want to see teams fight for them or use smart strategy and skill to earn them. I don’t want to see free kicks awarded because an opposition player didn’t stand on the spot like a dog learning to toilet train when some fool yells STAND. It’s truly pathetic what the game has become.

The most gripping moments in footy to me were grand finals like Syd vs West Coast - low scoring, hard at it, and full of tension and drama. AFL matches now lack all of that.

Rant over. Hello darkness my old friend.

Cats winning at home with a heavily lopsided free kick count is no surprise. They’re a bog average football team. If they’re a contender this year, then footy is in seriously dire times. The talent pool to stretch soon to 19 and maybe 20 teams is really showing now.

2 hours ago, Ghostwriter said:

This has gotta be the most boring four-point-margin game ever 🥱

I actually dozed off on the couch early in the 4th quarter 🥱😁