Rob Gill, of Swinburne Uni, has posted a link to a survey he’s running of perceptions of umpires. here’s the post:
Greetings footy fans
I am researching the AFL umpires and our perceptions of their performance.
Would very much appreciate you taking a few minutes to complete this voluntary survey (link below). Rest assured your answers will remain completely anonymous.
http://opinio.online.swin.edu.au/s?s=AFL_Umpires_2010
Please feel free to pass it on to any friends and associates who might like to have their say!
Thanks
Rob Gill
Swinburne University of Technology
AussieRulesBlog has already responded to the survey. We indicated, as best we were able given the questions asked, that ‘problems’ with umpiring, at least at the AFL level, are more to do with direction from the AFL umpiring department and much less to do with individual umpires’ performance. We even included our daily prayer: Release The Giesch!!!! Feel free to pass my response on to The Giesch, Rob!
Anyway, if you’re reading this, be a good little Vegemite and give Rob some data for his research.
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Couldn't agree more. It's been a long downhill slide in the umpiring department since Gieschen took the reins.
This year it has been getting close to high farce at times. I sometimes wonder whether his various "disciples" model themselves on characters out of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas.
Cheers
Rod
Steve McBurney has to be the very model of a modern Major-General, don't you think?
There is also Gieschen, the Mikado in drabber dress, of course.
Ray Chamberlain is a re-incarnation of Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner.
Scott McLaren ? Mmm. Perhaps the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Porter, KCB, First Lord of the Admiralty, from HMS Pinafore whose major qualification for the role was that he had never been to sea?
Hayden Kennedy could probably do a fine job as either poor little Buttercup or one of the "three little maids form school" , Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing.perhaps....?
I guess Corey Bowen must be the new "Frederic, the Pirate Apprentice" ;-)
Very funny, Rod. I'm very much afraid you have my measure, and then some, on G&S!!! The very model of a modern Major-General is about it for me!
Chamberlain (aka Ko Ko - the Lord High executioner in Mikado) sings:
"As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,
I've got a little list — I've got a little list
Of society offenders who might well be underground"
Gieschen (The Mikado) offers "My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time —
To let the punishment fit the crime —
The punishment fit the crime"
McLaren ( First Lord of the Admiralty in HMS Pinafore) "I thought so little they rewarded me, by making me the ruler of the Queen's navy"
Kennedy (as Yum Yum or one of the other little maids in Mikado):
"Three little maids from school are we,
Pert as a school-girl well can be,
Filled to the brim with girlish glee,
Three little maids from school!"
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