Umpiring North v Carlton Good Friday Game Umpiring ‘Discussion’

[Kreuuuzeurns]

Lol at all the Carlton supporters with their impartial and reasoned takes on what a reasonable job the umpires did.

Why would an angry Northf supporter who just lost their grand final be any more reasonable than a Carlton supporter?

 

[Kreuuuzeurns]

Worst umpiring Eva

Jack Newnes call from a couple of years ago, way worse.

 

[Foucault1989]

Give North the 4 points. And another priority pick.

 

[Engimal v3]

Give North the 4 points. And another priority pick.

Thank you

 

[roos_fanatic08]

Far too often the umpires are causing huge momentum shifts in games of footy, umpires will always have an impact but they shouldn’t be having that much of an impact imo.

While the free kick count doesn’t look like north coped a raw deal, it was the timing and momentum sapping nature of the calls (or non calls) which have so many north fans (and neutrals) pissed off.

The incorrect Stephenson call happened when we had momentum, and it completely changed the course of the game.

 

[RonnieRaven]

Jack Newnes call from a couple of years ago, way worse.

Yeah I wasn’t even upset with the north one I’ve been conditioned for the late curve ball.
If Ben stokes bowls under arm in the next World Cup it won’t even register on Ronnie’s foul play radar!

 

[Kernafides]

The cunnington free was awful...all other f50 ones were because North defenders were pooing themselves

 

[Liam Boy]

Obviously a lot of decisions in our game are hard to call one way or the other, and sometimes a team can just suffer a string of bad luck that isn't a result of anyone's fault or intention. I think for the most part, that's what happened tonight. We can make jokes about Carlton's mafia money or the AFL trying to armchair ride them into the finals but that's not realistic.

But the one that you absolutely can't make an argument for is the Stevenson "ran too far" decision. The only thing I can possibly conclude is that the umpire either looked away or zoned out, thought to themselves "huh, he's come a long way hasn't he" and then just showed up to make a ruling, hoping no one would notice their absentmindedness. Objectively, badly wrong, and this is a rule where that's quite measurable. He did not run too far, he had run nowhere near as far as a player is allowed to run without bouncing the ball. This isn't like insufficient intent or holding the ball where umpires are expected to make judgement calls about player intention.

There really should be a mechanism in place for someone to pull an umpire up when they make a bad mistake like this and at least mitigate the damage that a call like that can make, which in this case was swinging the momentum when the game was still very much in the balance. The worst part to me is that Jaidyn isn't even allowed to make a bemused gesture without giving away 50.

 

[north_lad]

Well done to the North players for not going ape shit tbh

 

[Oscarman]

Stephenson bounced twice and still didn't run as far as Cripps did last year without bouncing, yet he's the one getting pinged.

 

[Elroo]

Not as bad as the 1994 PF against Geelong.

What was that again, Geelong 32 frees to North 13?

Geelong 6 goals from frees, North 0.

Geelong win by a kick after the siren!

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

The far better team on the day won fair and square.

Charlie Curnow

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Charlie Curnow

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27

Ht

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Wt

94kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

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Last 5

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13.3

3star

K

9.7

4star

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3.6

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5.3

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2.2

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1.3

5star

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6.4

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4.4

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3.2

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1.6

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0.8

4star

has now evolved as a superstar that he gets calls like Lebron James, Mbappe and other international sporting icons (which is how it should be)

 

[gandaal]

 

[Cripps 'n' Blue Bloods]

Where's the poll option for 'best umpired game I've ever seen'?
Honestly surprised that this is even a thing. Watched the game with my North supporting dad and a couple of neutrals and none of us noticed the umpiring.
A couple of obviously poor calls against North, but Zurhaar should've had a few more high fend off calls against him too.
Might watch it again to see what all the fuss is about.

 

[Outtatym]

There was a few stinkers but it's not like it changed the result. Carlton were too good.

 

[HairyO]

Clarko's regular morning call to Gil is to ask for 4 more field umpires because 4 just isnt enough to catch things like coathangers and players bouncing the ball while running.

Each side will nominate the umpires to ensure balanced calls.

Though even with 8 umpires they still wont see the 10 or 12 throws Cripps does each game.

 

[ferball]

Corr on CC is pretty soft. Its the sort that gets payed by an ump looking to pay free kicks. And CC is clearly playing for the frees, along with Hollands, Motlop (I think, awesome dive by whoever but unfortunately for him no obe was close enough for the ump to get away with playing it,) and others.

But the real questions most North people have is wtf is this:





Why was this a free at the most crucial moment in the third?



There are more but the games over. Its done now. Even with our most important KPDs out and the umps playing for the other side it was still really our terrible kicking for goal that cost us the game against the ladder leaders. Considering where we were last year that's a great sign for the future.

 

[HairyO]

Corr on CC is pretty soft. Its the sort that gets payed by an ump looking to pay free kicks. And CC is clearly playing for the frees, along with Hollands, Motlop (I think, awesome dive by whoever but unfortunately for him no obe was close enough for the ump to get away with playing it,) and others.

But the real questions most North people have is wtf is this:





Why was this a free at the most crucial moment in the third?



There are more but the games over. Its done now. Even with our most important KPDs out and the umps playing for the other side it was still really our terrible kicking for goal that cost us the game against the ladder leaders. Considering where we were last year that's a great sign for the future.

See I thought it was 11 steps so clearly thats just not allowed.

A few years ago Burgoyne got pinged after taking 8 steps.

The test will be whether these umpires are in the VFL next week or umpiring Carlton again.

 

[Forever North]

Even the Carlton players looked stunned and were laughing at the Zurhaar 'free'.

 

[Kreuuuzeurns]

Even the Carlton players looked stunned and were laughing at the Zurhaar 'free'.

The high fend off that wasn’t paid, that directly resulted in a goal?

 

[HairyO]

Even the Carlton players looked stunned and were laughing at the Zurhaar 'free'.

Weitering laughed and pointed at the umpire. Would love to know what he said.

 

[ferball]

The high fend off that wasn’t paid, that directly resulted in a goal?

If you watch carefully most fends could be paid as high free kicks.

Funniest thing about that decision was how pissed off the umpire was that he couldn't pay a free for dissent.

 

[rye]

carlton is going to get the charmed run all year. softest fixture, armchair ride from the umps, mro immunity. the scripts been written already

 

[Kreuuuzeurns]

carlton is going to get the charmed run all year. softest fixture, armchair ride from the umps, mro immunity. the scripts been written already

They gave us Richmond and Geelong to start the year ffs.

Didn’t see Acres suspension last week? Shocker.

Loving the conspiracy theories.

 

[Engimal v3]

Are Carlton supporters seriously in here defending last night's umpiring?