A whopping free-kick imbalance within the AFL win over St Kilda has deepened the concerns of Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley about how they’re being umpired.
Port beat the Saints by seven factors – 12.11 (83) to 11.10 (76) – in a riveting duel on Friday, however the free kicks went in opposition to them 28-14.
Hinkley has been nervous about their frequency of making a gift of frees for holding the person.
“It would be nice to get some clarity from the umpires back to us,” he stated.
“If we’re that poor at some of the things we’re doing, I’d just love to get that direction coming back our way, because I don’t want to go searching for it.”
Hinkley added Port had given up greater than 20 frees forward of different groups for holding the person
“That’s a big, big number – that gives up 300, 400m in a game,” he stated.
“We’re aware of it, we work at it, but we seem to keep on doing it. So we must have something wrong with the umpiring.”
Saints coach Ross Lyon additionally desires clarification after defender Callum Wilkie was known as to play on for deviating from his line as he took a set kick.
That led on to a purpose at a vital second within the closing time period.
“We need some clarity, because it feels like it’s been really tightened up … that hurt us,” Lyon stated.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
