As best AussieRulesBlog can ascertain, Corey Bowen, the first-time AFL umpire at the centre of the controversy over five first-half 50-metre penalties resulting in goals to Melbourne in Round 15, did not get an AFL game in round 16.
This despite AFL umpiring boss Jeff Gieschen's assurances, on Monday night on One Week at a Time on OneHD, that all these decisions were correct.
It's not too big a stretch of the imagination to suspect that Bowen has been sent back to lower grades, but is it a punishment?
Were Gieschen's assurances worth the air expelled in uttering them, surely Bowen would have been assigned to another game, if nothing else, to dissuade those of us who might assume otherwise.
We also note that most of the decisions paid by Bowen in round 15 have not been copied by umpires in round 16. Funny that, but of course, according to Gieschen, there can be no question of the umpires deviating from the DVD interpretations distributed at the commencement of the season.
More utter nonsense from the AFL's king of spin! Gieschen must go!
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Bowen absence raises questions
This despite AFL umpiring boss Jeff Gieschen's assurances, on Monday night on One Week at a Time on OneHD, that all these decisions were correct.
It's not too big a stretch of the imagination to suspect that Bowen has been sent back to lower grades, but is it a punishment?
Were Gieschen's assurances worth the air expelled in uttering them, surely Bowen would have been assigned to another game, if nothing else, to dissuade those of us who might assume otherwise.
We also note that most of the decisions paid by Bowen in round 15 have not been copied by umpires in round 16. Funny that, but of course, according to Gieschen, there can be no question of the umpires deviating from the DVD interpretations distributed at the commencement of the season.
More utter nonsense from the AFL's king of spin! Gieschen must go!
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