Brave umpiring & the Lachie Neale suspension - The Debate | The Means Test with Adam Simpson! (21.09.26)
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What were the key umpiring controversies in the Hawthorn vs Brisbane preliminary final?
So let's have our debates for the cricket sale. Don't miss the million-dollar cricket warehouse sale in Moorabbin and online at the cricketsale.com.au. The pub debates out of this game is – so it will not only last as a spectacle and how glorious Aussie rules can be, but the pub debates that spin in the aftermath. So to the umpiring at the end, the three – so insufficient intent, high, holding the ball. Okay. Well,
they're all free kicks. Yeah. Zorko, you could debate that, but there was a little clip there. Wasn't there? His head moved. He got clipped in the head by something.
Empire's standing three metres from it. Clearly sees it.
I thought it was a free kick in the forward 50 for Brisbane. So actually, I was relieved for Hawthorne that the free kick was way back there. So there was that one. They're out of bounds, deliberate. I think that's a – I'm not shocked by that decision at all. So that debate for me, it's a debatable one, but I'm not surprised. And then the Impey one, that's 100% no-brainer call. I think everyone now understands – that that was the reason why, that was a free kick. And I didn't understand that rule though, start of the year. So, and I've been coaching for a while. So yeah, to be explained properly, that if you've got one arm free, your prior opportunity is gone. So whether you hold it, that's up to you, but you don't have prior.
So that's as simple as that. And there was some free kicks throughout the game, like the Gunston push in the back. They really don't, the Lewis Mark, You know, you can't help but pay the mark, but he's pushed two players directly in the back. There was a poor decision that went against Hawthorne early, where it was the arm chop that wasn't there. Remember that one in the first quarter? Should have been a 50 given to Brisbane somewhere with Ginnivan knocking
the
ball. Ginnivan
ripped the ball out of Bailey's hands. Mate, that was a crazy decision. I think we
live in swings and roundabouts in my eyes, but the last, the three late calls, I I don't think we can be too critical of those three late calls. Just the magnitude of the calls was huge. And then the water bottles on the ground, I think that wasn't because of the Zorko free kick. So I think it was from that last free kick, which they all got wrong. People were enraged at that moment. Yeah. So we can condemn those particular acts. But those decision-making, but then the ability to kick that goal. Like, do you really want that kick?
So the bit that was interesting is there was this suggestion that you've got to take your time and soak the clock. McClugger's just saying, I've just got to get this through. Do whatever you have to do to get that through. When did he have the yips? A couple of years ago? Two years ago, I reckon. So he's a 50-50, he's 100, coming into that game, he's 144 goals, 144 behinds. He's a 50-50 goal kicker. What's good?
Yeah.
Well, for that kick, you want to be a bit higher than that. He's had that kick three times in the game and hit them all. Well, he missed one early. Yep. He had the same kick right forward pocket three times.
And one of them was, I think, Ashcroft, probably his second or third one. He peeled it over to him. And I'm going, why did he do that? He doesn't want that ball, McCluggage.
Yeah, yeah.
And he's kicked the goal and then obviously that goal late where he didn't, it's interesting about, they're all smart footballers. I'm not saying he's not smart. We'll go, hang on, I need to soak the clock up here and just put it all on the line. But I think he just went back. I just need to kick this goal.
How did the free‑kick decisions affect the momentum of the game?
My routine, I don't muck around with it too much. I'm just going to go back and kick it. So not many people want that kick, Joe. We said this last week. You know, I'm faking a calf injury. Absolutely. And the people out there think, no, I'll take that kick. So it's the man in the arena stuff. So well done to him. And then don't forget that last centre ball up. There's still 20 seconds left. So the ability to... What was decisive for the whole game was the centre ball ups.
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