Essendon coach Brad Scott has urged the AFL umpiring department to give clubs a heads-up if they plan to crack down on a particular rule.
Last week, umpires were particularly stringent on requiring the ball to travel 15 metres for a mark, and red-hot on calling play-on.Scott’s brother, Geelong coach Chris Scott, said it was “clear” umpires had a focus on that rule in their game against Collingwood, but it hadn’t been communicated ahead of time.
“Because generally, what you coach is what you get. All games of footy across the weekend, when the ball was kicked 14 metres, it was called play on – the week before that wasn’t happening. He noted umpiring was being scrutinised due to the closeness of the competition, with just eight points between second and 13th.But Scott wasn’t overreacting – believing their issues lay in execution, not effort.“Our effort’s been there, we’ve been in games. Are we perfect? Are we where we want to be? Not quite. But this is the nature of the competition.
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