Ray Bullock

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Joined June 2017

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Forget Summer autumn winter + spring There is only two season a year FOOTBALL and CRICKET

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GIVE THEM A BREAK ?
Oh the poor things. AFL umpiring is nearly at rock bottom. I agree that they are having a bad time managing the stack of extra responsibilities . They have trouble handling the basics. Their 3 umpire system is catastrophic.. Here we have perhaps the worlds biggest playing arena and we have umpires running out of bounds ,next to the fence umpiring the game. Let’s not even entertain 4 of them running around. Good grief. Talk about the” Keystone Kops”
The ruck ruling is simple . Have one player from each player go for the ruck. Running around trying to confirm who is rucking is ridiculous. You must have a good feel for the spirit of the game to umpire it. This is what is called common sense. Sadly lacking. The language used at players sounds like a school headmaster and a bad one at that chastising naughty boys. Apart from a list as long as your arm for decision blunders ,the official footwear of an umpire is a WHITE coloured shoe. Not white with black laces , grey with no white at all . Surely as nit picking it is ,it’s not to hard to wear white shoe laces. This is basics. I have seen incidents over the last couple of years ( standing there with hands on hips ,a complete no no) that are taught when umpiring juniors,that those umpires wouldn’t do. By the way I have umpired 300+ games myself. The whole umpiring system needs a complete over haul with a new strategy from new coaches. This current lot have blown their brains out .

Blame the rules, not the umpies

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2017