Comments on: What Does Prelim Week Have in Store? http://www.aflonline.com.au/opinion/2009/09/17/what-does-preliminary-final-week-have-in-store/ Football is Everything Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:05:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ron Harrison http://www.aflonline.com.au/opinion/2009/09/17/what-does-preliminary-final-week-have-in-store/comment-page-1/#comment-1090 ron Harrison Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:30:05 +0000 http://www.aflonline.com.au/?p=2179#comment-1090 Hi, Once again we see umpirers tthinking they are the key personal not the players or the game itself. How can a free kick be given to ST Kilda in front of goal because a player abuses or argues with a Goal umpire. The goal umpire is not part of the ST Kilda football team he is not even on the ground. If the abuse was bad enough he should have been reported and that is it. It is an absolute disgrace what ocurred and if that fee kick cost Geelong the game the fall out would have been horendous. I go to watch players play the game not umpires and once again umpires could have ruined it. The standard of umpiring in some cases is poor I realise it is hard and I know mistakes are made but a game should never be decided because a player abuses an umpire. Ron Hi,
Once again we see umpirers tthinking they are the key personal not the players or the game itself.

How can a free kick be given to ST Kilda in front of goal because a player abuses or argues with a Goal umpire.

The goal umpire is not part of the ST Kilda football team he is not even on the ground.

If the abuse was bad enough he should have been reported and that is it.

It is an absolute disgrace what ocurred and if that fee kick cost Geelong the game the fall out would have been horendous.

I go to watch players play the game not umpires and once again umpires could have ruined it.

The standard of umpiring in some cases is poor I realise it is hard and I know mistakes are made but a game should never be decided because a player abuses an umpire.

Ron

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