{"id":715664,"date":"2026-06-04T22:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T22:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/715664\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T22:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T22:57:20","slug":"umps-have-to-be-better-wild-smith-moment-under-fire-in-costly-100m-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/715664\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Umps have to be better\u2019: Wild Smith moment under fire in costly \u2018100m penalty\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

A costly 50m penalty against Geelong star Bailey Smith 80 metres off the ball has come under fire in a contentious moment from Thursday night\u2019s one-point loss Adelaide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Smith and Crows opponent James Peatling got tangled up in a fiery exchange during the third quarter after the Cats jet was heavily tackled to the Adelaide Oval turf.<\/p>\n

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Smith got up and went back at Peatling and it turned into a two on two scuffle as Tom Stewart and Darcy Fogarty got involved.<\/p>\n

The blonde-mulleted superstar\u2019s guernsey got torn as the ball went to the other end of the ground. <\/p>\n

Smith then pulled at Peatling\u2019s jumper and dragged him to the ground to the ground, which the umpire called a free kick against, despite live play in Geelong\u2019s forward 50.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s given away a free kick has Smith \u2013 80 metres away!,\u201d Kangaroos great David King said on Fox Footy commentary.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeatling was annoying him and it went forever.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd there he is \u2013 just rips him to the ground.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you pull a player to ground, you run the risk of having the umpire call it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Despite the decision being in favour of his former club, Crows legend Mark Ricciuto couldn\u2019t believe the free kick call.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s nothing in it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cUmpires have got to be better than that. You can\u2019t be giving free kicks for that. That is a huge turnaround.\u201d<\/p>\n

King described it as a \u201c100m penalty,\u201d but said Smith ran the risk with his actions<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you pull a player to ground, you run the risk of having the umpire call it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Ricciuto replied: \u201cDo we want blokes doing that and getting free kicks? I don\u2019t think so.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking after the loss, Geelong coach Chris Scott said he didn\u2019t see the incident, but suggested that and instances with minimal contact didn\u2019t warrant \u201cheavy penalty\u201d free kicks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t seen it. But strangely, it was relayed to me that maybe the commentators thought there were wasn\u2019t enough (in it). It\u2019s a heavy penalty,\u201d Scott said. <\/p>\n

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He added with a laugh: \u201cI tried to have a look at it, but even the behind-the-goals vision couldn\u2019t pick it up, it was too far away.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut that\u2019s sort of the nature of our game, a little bit. <\/p>\n

\u201cLike, for example, that\u2019s (grabs his shirt) holding the man in a ruck contest. Should it be? That\u2019s not enough to impede him. <\/p>\n

\u201cIs the penalty way off the ball too great? Well, the answer is yes. But what\u2019s the proposal to make it more representative of the action? I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

It comes after Geelong\u2019s Ollie Dempsey was last week denied a goal due to an AFL score review system \u201chowler\u201d<\/a> in the loss to Carlton.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a bit like last week. I honestly don\u2019t spend too much timing thinking about it. If I thought I could influence it, I would try,\u201d Scott added.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut they don\u2019t listen to us around that stuff and that\u2019s probably the right approach to take. We\u2019ve got enough on our plate.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Saints champion Leigh Montagna also wasn\u2019t a fan of the free kick against Smith.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is (a big penalty), I don\u2019t necessarily like to see them paid,\u201d Montagna said. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s a need, tell the player, get up, move on and let them go. It doesn\u2019t affect the game. <\/p>\n

\u201cI thought even the 50m penalty early in the game against Brayden Cook, it didn\u2019t affect anything, he tried to run on the outside of the player.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat almost changed the game and gave Geelong an opportunity.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes I just think, I know the AFL say technically they\u2019re all there, but sometimes you\u2019ve just got to umpire in the spirit and feel for the game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A costly 50m penalty against Geelong star Bailey Smith 80 metres off the ball has come under fire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,347253,14393,12923,347252,16682,1818,347254,2522,109038,3465,31708,198206,39209,347255,347111,668,57754,85,12113,172149],"class_list":["post-715664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-behind-the-goals-vision","tag-brayden-cook","tag-chris-scott","tag-contentious-moment","tag-darcy-fogarty","tag-david-king","tag-heavy-penalty","tag-james-peatling","tag-kick-call","tag-leigh-montagna","tag-mark-ricciuto","tag-one-point-loss","tag-patrick-dangerfield","tag-penalty-way","tag-point-victory","tag-press-conference","tag-ruck-contest","tag-sports","tag-tom-stewart","tag-umpire-call"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}