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Professor said:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1662604627882446848
View: https://twitter.com/hasumpstuffedup/status/1662604627882446848
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I just can't square with that rule, If NOT in the marking contest it's up to the player to determine the point of the mark?
I'm sorry but what are the umpires there for then?
Take for instance their incidence that players have 1 foot on the boundary line when there's an out on the full?
They weren't involved in the kick, their teammate was! Why the total control and not interpret the above incident in the same way?
Or a shot on goal from a set shot?
Let the player decide the angle then, see how far that goes to being straight in front :p

For mine, the GC player jumped over by half a metre or so, but he was coming from the same direction as the ball, not entirely impossible to say with any clarity that the mark was there, or there, or even there! But not once did the umpire call him back, who had the perfect side on view of it all!
 
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HAWTHORN skipper James Sicily and his former Hawks teammate Jaeger O'Meara have both been handed one-match bans for rough conduct.

Sicily has been cited for his bump on St Kilda's Anthony Caminiti in Hawthorn's upset win over St Kilda at Marvel Stadium, with the incident assessed as careless, high contact and medium impact.
 
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Professor said:
HAWTHORN skipper James Sicily and his former Hawks teammate Jaeger O'Meara have both been handed one-match bans for rough conduct.

Sicily has been cited for his bump on St Kilda's Anthony Caminiti in Hawthorn's upset win over St Kilda at Marvel Stadium, with the incident assessed as careless, high contact and medium impact.
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Had to be a bye week didn't it James??
 
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dlanod said:
The part I find a joke is that it's exactly what's done half a dozen times in a game - a player comes from the other side of the mark, stands short, and plays ignorant about where the actual mark is, and every other time an umpire will call out for the player to move back - except this time.

It's the same reason people thought the "dissent" call in the GWS v Blues game a joke. They let this go over and over and over, game after game, round after round, and all of a sudden pay one, often at a critical point. Yes by the letter of the law they're right but if that's the case by the letter of the law they're also wrong the other 90% of the time so the umpiring is empirically worse!

If you're going to crack down on random thing X, do it from the first bounce of the ball, pay it every time, and you'll find the players stop doing it a hell of a lot sooner than some arbitrary late game instance where you just end up looking like you've eithered up once ored up a dozen times.
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".....plays ignorant about where the actual mark is, and every other time an umpire will call out for the player to move back - except this time....."

Yep, that what surprised me, why didn't the umpire just call him back a couple of meters, like they normally do.
 
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