The aim of the system should be to strike a balance between ensuring accurate decision-making and preserving the natural rhythm of the game.
The aim of the system should be to strike a balance between ensuring accurate decision-making and preserving the natural rhythm of the game.
The AFL's AFL Review Centre (ARC), crucial in the league's commitment to fair play, has faced intense scrutiny in recent years. The pressing question…
Go with the whistle! Perhaps the greatest lesson in Australian sport has long been that one must accept the umpire’s decision. We are taught…
AFL news, in the lead-up to Round 22.
I am so sick of watching deplorably umpired games. The footballing fraternity has always qualified umpiring as such a hard job, that a few…
Geez, umpire dissent is just about the stupidest penalty that the AFL has ever brought in. Just about. There have been so many kneejerk…
The siren sounds to end the fourth quarter at Marvel Stadium on Saturday night. The Eagles' players raise their arms in celebration, but the…
St Kilda coach Brett Ratten has expressed his frustration at a lack of holding-the-ball free kicks, cheekily suggesting the Saints might as well give…
A young boy stands in any other year than this one. He’s barely nine, and he’s cold. It’s a crisp Sunday morning, and the…
AFL news, as it happens.
AFL news, as it happens.
AFL news, as it happens.
While watching the St Kilda versus Port game on Saturday, I wondered what exactly has happened to footy. There was no flow, no rhythm…
While watching the St Kilda versus Port game on Saturday, I wondered what exactly has happened to footy. There was no flow, no rhythm…
While watching the St Kilda versus Port game on Saturday, I wondered what exactly has happened to footy. There was no flow, no rhythm…
AFL is one of the hardest sports in the world to umpire. Not many other sports in the world require their umpires to cover…
AFL umpires will take a minimum 50 per cent pay cut during the shutdown period under a new agreement struck with league headquarters. The…
The AFL could look at recruiting senior club figures as part of a push to shift public perception around umpiring. While AFL football operations…
The current umpire contact confusion consuming the AFL is the biggest non-story of this season. Prior to the two suspensions handed out to Tom…
Former Hawthorn head coach Peter Schwab has been dumped as head of the AFL umpiring department after less than a year in the position.…
Here we are, approaching the halfway point of the season: brace yourself for the declarations that thanks to the AFL's rule changes football this…
It's a job that when done to perfection goes completely unnoticed, but when sub-par, in even the thinnest of slivers, is the reason for…
When it comes to the laws of the game, footy fans don't ask for much. So long as umpires are consistent, fans aren't too…
Free kicks would help disperse congestion. It's that simple. Instead of scoffing, think this through to its logical conclusion: a player picks up the…
Free kicks would help disperse congestion. It's that simple. Instead of scoffing, think this through to its logical conclusion: a player picks up the…
Free kicks would help disperse congestion. It's that simple. Instead of scoffing, think this through to its logical conclusion: a player picks up the…
The aim of the system should be to strike a balance between ensuring accurate decision-making and preserving the natural rhythm of the game.
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What people are narky about is the constant frivolous reviews, not the extremely rare case where a review or lack of has…(more)