AFL/VFL legend Leigh Matthews - at odds with the umpires. Source: Herald Sun
LEIGH Matthews on Easter Monday proved how the AFL's Laws of the Game committee and the league's umpires are not always on the same page.
Matthews is a member of the Laws of the Game committee.
He is part of the panel that wrote the contentious "slide-in" rule during the off-season.
Matthews is also part of the Channel 7 A-team commentary panel.
In the third term of the Geelong-Hawthorn classic at the MCG on Monday, Matthews took issue with an umpire paying a free kick as a Geelong player threw himself to ground for the ball and made contact with the lower legs of an opponent.
The umpire awarded the Hawthorn player a free kick and the Seven microphones picked up his call of "contact below the knees".
The game's official legend later declared the umpire was wrong. This is quite damning, not because of Matthews' standing as a football great, but because of his place on the Laws of the Game committee.
As Matthews rightly noted, the new rule is to punish "forceful" contact below the knees, not all contact below the knees. In the example that irritated Matthews, contact was anything but forceful.
The call should have been play on.
The umpires have over-reacted, as they usually do when a new rule is introduced in the AFL.
Round 1 ends - after 11 days for nine games - with telling notes, such as:
THERE is criticism of the video review on scores. While the AFL refuses to pay for goal-line technology, video review is doomed.
But the real issue is how goal umpires are being let off from any criticism, in particular the one who was supposedly so well positioned to see Port Adelaide key forward Jay Schulz's leap at the MCG on Sunday that produced a "mark" behind the goal-line.
FORMER premier Jeff Kennett is clearly not going to live up to his promise of not being heard after leaving the Hawthorn presidency. His repeated call for Hawks coach Alastair Clarkson to be sacked at the end of this season would make many in the Hawthorn administration wish Kennett would live up to his vow of disappearing into the sunset.
MELBOURNE may not be tanking any more, but the Demons' opening-round performance against Port Adelaide brings into question more than ever before how the game's oldest football club is being managed.
THE curse of the NAB Cup pre-season series is back.
The Cup grand finalists, Brisbane and Carlton, both lost in the opening round of the premiership season.
Cup winner Brisbane's loss to the poorly rated Western Bulldogs probably makes the Lions - who want to play in the finals this year rather than just challenge for a top-eight finish - the biggest losers of the round.
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