Max Is FED UP With AFL Umpires!

After their performances over the weekend, Max is DONE with AFL umpires getting so much wrong.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I want to get a little bit mad about the umpiring.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
On the weekend in both of our South Australian Football
teams games. The Crow's lost to Fremantle not because of
the umpiring and lost because they weren't as good, but
the umpiring was atrocious.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
And Port Adelaide played North.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Melbourne on Saturday and I went to this game and
it was the worst umpired game that I've ever seen
in my life.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
This seems to be a pattern of all the games
and everyone complaining that the umpires aren't doing a good job.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
I feel like this year more than ever, no matter
what team you're supporting, you have sat there and you've
watched a game and you've been like, you know.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
What, they are getting worse at this, But is it
because your team's losing.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
No.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
My team won on the weekend and I still thought
it was the most over umpired game of football I've
ever seen in my life.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
What happened?

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Let me get this straight.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Umpiring the AFL, I reckon would be one of the
hardest sports in the world to umpire it. There are
a billion different rules and there's all these different interpretations
to them.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
It's difficult it's stressful. They're also wrong all the time.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
But are they all the time? We shouldn't they have
two people.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Then if they have four people every point, this is
the problem.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
So they have I'm not just talking about goal umpires.
I'm talking about the field umpires. So they used to
have two field umpires, and like amateur football, they've got
two field umpires and they handed over. Then they went
up to three. A couple of years ago they've gone
up to four. So now there's four people out there
watching the football, looking for free kicks, not looking to
call play on and looking for us all to have
a nice little fun time watching the football go from

(01:27):
end to end, looking for someone to be holding the
ball or someone to be pushed in the back. It's
too many umpires. The Crows Free Medal game on the
weekend had forty nine free kicks. The play stops all
the time. The Port game and the North game had
forty six free kicks. North Melbourne kicked four goals directly
from free kicks, two of them directly from fifty million penalties.

(01:50):
I sat there in the crowd. There were people I
swear they were going to jump over the fence satellade over.
They were going to storm, they were going to storm
and port fans, I get it.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
They're a vocal bunch.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah, sometimes we just like to boo, and that's okay
at the football, But on the weekend, the umpires, when
they walked off at halftime, I was on my feet
and I was like, Oh, if I wasn't wearing a
suit at an official Board Adelaide function right now, I
would be booing you.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
How do you think they feel though, when they go
home at night knowing that the whole world hates them
and people like you want to jump out and punch
them in the face.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
I really hope that they've gone home after the weekend
and they've gone you know what, maybe they bowed me
because I didn't do a very good job today, and
not just because they're blindly booing me.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
What do you reckon?

Speaker 1 (02:32):
You could do a better job one hundred percent. There
you go, there's our next thing. There we go. They
were so bad on the weekend. You know what.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
The worst bit is, I really don't like the complaining
about the umpires because often your football team's gonna win
or it's gonna lose, regardless of the umpires. I just
hate the way that in both of those games there
were times that it just completely sucked all of the energy,
all of the momentum. There was a quarter on the
weekend that went for thirty eight and a half minutes.
In the Port Adelaide game, they should go for like
thirty tops. There was just so many decisions and overturning

(03:04):
this and reviewing it sucked.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Can I ask one question? Is this is because I'm
a basketball family. You know that the ref at our
game she was definitely on the other side's team, and
so she was literally whispering things into the player's ears
as they were playing.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Does that happen in AFL? Someone's sisters just stop firing,
get this kick? Here is a free over there. Did
they do that?

Speaker 2 (03:26):
No?

Speaker 1 (03:28):
They've paid one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to be
good at their jobs, and at the moment a lot
of them are not very good at their jobs. There's
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