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Roughly half the number really required ...

In case you missed it sue, there are 4 field umpires per game now plus an emergency. That's 45 field umpires per round, not counting the ones who are injured or out of form and working at lower levels. The required number is quite a bit higher than a team's playing list.

I think you've entirely missed my point in response to your original reference to "accountants and physiotherapists".

A significant number of children grow up with a desire to play AFL so those playing for modest sums have fulfilled a life long ambition, so they calculate that certain sacrifices are worth it. These are your "other reasons". I don't think many children grow up with a lifelong ambition to be an AFL umpire. I'm not saying umpiring can't be rewarding but "other reasons" don't apply in anything like the same way.

It's not "like any organisation" because umpires have a limited career span and there's only one employer world wide

The post playing career "club sponsored" job prospects for players are provided by influential club supporters, there is no "AFL" equivalent for umpires. There's also post career playing and coaching at lower levels with associated jobs for players that umpires don't have.

You'd need to pay them a lot though, at least the same as the highest paid players, because they will be sacrificing their best years of career development umpiring - and what then? Those accountants and physiotherapists can go on doing that work beyond their involvement in football because they've been building their career. Players have club sponsored job opportunities beyond football.

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Strange that he's playing for Casey if it's about knee swelling. Is he playing restricted minutes at Casey?

Collingwood's midfield bats deeper than ours so De Goey and Sidebottom are very handy outs. MFC: Mids: Oliver, Petracca, Viney, Sparrow, Brayshaw // Wings: Langdon, Hunter CFC: Mids: Pendlebury, N.Daicos, Mitchell, Crisp, Adams // Wings: J.Daicos, Hoskin-Elliott

I'll let @WheeloRatings give the definitive answer but I imagine the simulations use the Team Ratings as a basis, including for finals (which in each season simulation will have finalists allocated based on H&A results) and that's how the results are calculated. Currently we have the highest overall Team Rating, 1st for Defence and 3rd for Attack.

We only played 3 good quarters in the 2021 GF

You're asking the media to do something in relation to umpiring that they can't even do in relation to game play. Media analysis of AFL is pathetic all around.

Being a left hander and footer probably help differentiate him a bit.

So he's not worthy of a rising star in his best game so far, but in two years he'll be almost impossible to play against?

You have the power to choose that - don't hold back, treat yourself, you deserve it!.

Predictions of Collingwood invincibility evaporating in the WA sun

Feeling a bit MFC 2013?

That's a ridiculously unreal expectation, thankfully

And HF as well

I reckon that shows we were lucky to win vs Richmond. We should have won against Freo last week but we got out of jail against the Tigers.

Where can I see Centre Bounce Attendances? @WheeloRatings?

Really looking forward to next week. We played the brand we think wins finals last night and we're priming ourselves for September, unlike last year when we were broken and couldn't score. This match will be a good entree but not the main course. Don't forget that Collingwood failed in last year's finals too. Their method is not a proven finals product.

Agree we absolutely killed them everywhere except conversion. Yes McKay got the better of Tommo but that enabled May to murder Curnow and Lever to intercept. Joel Smith enabled JVR and Max to get clear up forward. All around it was a dominant performance. 27 shots from 59 i50s vs 16 from 39. That's a kill.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-01/afl-what-makes-a-good-kick-in-2023/102420562