UMPIRES
QUIZ 2010Weekly Quest
Each week an umpiring challenge will be
posted on the web site.
You need to post your answer by the end of the day
into the tub hanging from the notice
board in the shelter at Bellbird Park. It
is labelled “Quiz Entries”.
Only one entry per person is
allowed. Be sure to put your full name, which club you play for and your
age group.
This year we have four prizes each week for the first
four correct entries drawn .
Winners will be posted on the web. At the end of the season
there may be a major prize
for the most correct entries.
Your club umpire conveners this year are:
Aztecs: Ben Peters
Drouids: Ron Cann
Gulls: Ken Kemp
Warriors: Tracey New
And for the West Gippsland Association: Deb Wiglesworth
Build you knowledge and understanding of the rules and have a go at umpiring.
Your club’s convener will assist you and give you support as you get started.
Good Luck, Deb Wiglesworth
Umpires
Quiz Question Week 1 2010
MAY A
FREE HIT AWARDED TO THE DEFENDERS IN THE CIRCLE BE TAKEN FORM ANYWHERE IN THE
CIRCLE?
IF NOT, WHERE MUST IT BE TAKEN ?
Winner: Andrew Gaylard. (Cinema Voucher)
Second: Evan Tyson. McDonald's Voucher)
Umpires
Quiz Question Week 2, 2010
THE BALL STRIKES THE UMPIRE AND DEFLECTS INTO THE CIRCLE ONTO THE STICK OF AN ATTACKING PLAYER GOES ON TO SCORE.
Answer: Goal. Umpire is considered part of the field of play therefore play on.
Winner: Mikayla McDonald
Umpires Quiz Question Week 3 2010
A full back is standing in front of the goal next to the goalkeeper. An attacker's shot at goal is accurate but is stopped from entering the goals by an unintentional stop by the full backs feet.
Answer: Penalty Stroke. - it is an unintentional breach that prevented a certain goal.
Winners: First - Luke Taylor (Cinema Voucher)
Second - Michael Finger & Brendan Noye (McDonald's Voucher)
Third - Kate Rinehart, Prue Grant & Sam Cumming (Baker's Delight Voucher)
Umpires Quiz Question Week 4 2010
Two defending players attempt to simultaneously take the ball off an opposition player.
Answer: Play on. No breach has occurred unless they stick obstruct or obstruct.
There is no rule that states two players cannot tackle one opponent.
However it increases the chances of a breach occurring, eg obstruction.
Winners: Ben Peters (Cinema Voucher
Carly Mattson (McDonalds Voucher)
Umpires Quiz Question Week 5 2010
During a penalty stroke, the shooter takes 2 steps before playing the ball.
Let play continue, no breach has occurred.
Winner: Fletcher Boreham (Cinema Voucher)
Umpires Quiz Question Week 6 2010
You give a green card to a player for a sloppy tackle that involves heavy body contact. Later in the match this same player offends in a similar manner.
Yellow Card
Winners: Courtney McDonald (Cinema Voucher)
Carly Mattson (McDonalds Voucher)
Nathan Kemp (McDonalds Voucher)
Bakers Delight Vouchers: Joel Claxton
James Bedford
Ryan Claxton.
Umpires Quiz Question Week 7 2010
A lofted ball, flicked safely on the way up, is going to land between two opposing players.
Free hit against the player who lofted the ball, taken where the two players are. (i.e. where the danger occurred)
Winners: 1. Kate Rinehart
2. Sam Cummings
3. Courtney McDonald
Umpires Quiz Question Week 8 2010
You are umpiring a West Gippsland match. The scores are locked at 2 all and a penalty corner is awarded. The final siren sounds. It's the last round and the result will determine which team finishes in the final 4?
Answer: penalty corner is played out.
Winners: Adam Smetana, Aztecs
H. Knersh, Warriors
Courtney McDonald Drouids
Umpires Quiz Question Round 10, 2010.
The ball is played over the backline by the attacker?
Answer: 16 yard hit to the Defenders.
There were a large
number of entries. Unfortunately four players had entered more than one answer and so
they were disqualified.
1. Leigh Boreham
2. Jack Rinehart
3. Sam Cumming
Umpires Quiz Question Round 11, 2010.
There is a simultaneous breach of the rules by both teams OR time has been stopped for an injury and there has been no offence.
Answer: A bully to restart play.
Gemma Rinehart.
Alec Bedford
Sam Tyson
Umpires Quiz Question Round 12, 2010.
On a penalty corner the attacking team receives the ball outside of the circle. The shot at goal from inside the circle is travelling along the ground until it is deflected into the top corner of the goal off an attackers stick. What would be the decision if it was deflected off a defender's stick.
Answer: "goal awarded"
1. Chris Cooper
2. Nathan Kemp
3. Adam Smetana
The ball is played intentionally over the back line by a defender.
Answer:
Penalty corner:
The first 3 correct entries drawn, response
1. Sara Fleming
2. Conna N
3. Sam Gilbert
Carly Matson went a
little further and differentiated between whether it was hit out from the goal
circle or outside it.
Umpires Quiz Question Round 14, 2010.
You "blow" a penalty corner and moments later the ball goes into the goals from the stick of an attacker, hit from inside the circle. You realise you should have played "advantage"
Answer: Penalty Corner.
Winners:
1.Jack Rinehart.
2.Leigh Boreham.
3. Prue Grant.
Umpires Quiz Question Round 1, 2010.
An attacking player shoots at goal whilst the ball is on the line of circle, it then hits a defenders stick and goes into the goals?
Answer: Goal awarded.
1. James Bedford
2. Evan Tyson
3. Emily Horsburgh