I actually watched a couple of games this week end , some pretty good footy played
Yep, they actually had a couple of games where they scored more than 5 goals
but wtf is it with the umpires , 4 boundary runners and they can't keep up, and the field umpires is there 2 or 4 they were all over the place
Welcome to last week. 4 is the normal
Its so it can be more confusing with 4 differing interpretations of every call and nobody can know what the **** is going on.
but where they should have been and they throw the ball up, wtf happened to bouncing the ball,
Been a LONG time since you watch AFL eh?
if it goes straight up or goes off at an angle, that's part of the game.
Not for the TV station overlords it isnt.. AFL doesnt run the game anymore. It has to be appealing to the all important TV audience..
When I was running upwards of 50 games a season there was no way you would throw the ball up unless the ground was just so muddy it was an impossibility Even on the AFL reserve panel we were told to never throw it up if we had half a chance of getting a good bounce.
they actually ran out of umpires due to bad backs earlier this year, and had to bring in a bunch of numpties and chick ump's!
Today these umpires are getting too precious, I might hurt my back, I might strain my willy but I'll take the couple of $k fee for a game.
Yep.. they'd be ****ed going back to the days when there was 1 umpire...
It has to be something to do with the construction of the ball that causes the Shit bounces.
And people wonder why I'm not very interested in Aussie rules football
They are only interest in the "new" generation.. They arent clubs anymore -= they are "Markets...."
same as NRL, RU etc.... **** the core fans, the overlords just hope they will hang around.