Umpiring rants ~ receive our scorn
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There were two to Draper that I still don’t (and I’m sure no one) knows what they were for - in marking contests - the umpires just guessed and wanted to pay Essendon frees. He wasn’t touched in either of them, in one he didn’t even go for the contest!
I think it was 5 - 2 our way at quarter time (from memory) and we got a couple of cheap ones, then the emerg umpire came out to talk to one of the field Umpires and all of a sudden it was 15 - 9 their way at three quarter time, including some absolute mind boggling make it up cause they never happened frees.
Essendon got an armchair ride for 2 quarters but in reality they didn’t really need it, their midfield was on top by miles, our backline just kept repelling and they kept missing shots! I reckon half their shots in goal were from
Free kicks and half of those were make believe.
As I said in another post, Essendon fans started leaving when we got a free (grundys 50 I think) in the last - when the umpires stopped cheating for them they knew it was hopeless!
- Ben
I think it was 5 - 2 our way at quarter time (from memory) and we got a couple of cheap ones, then the emerg umpire came out to talk to one of the field Umpires and all of a sudden it was 15 - 9 their way at three quarter time, including some absolute mind boggling make it up cause they never happened frees.
Essendon got an armchair ride for 2 quarters but in reality they didn’t really need it, their midfield was on top by miles, our backline just kept repelling and they kept missing shots! I reckon half their shots in goal were from
Free kicks and half of those were make believe.
As I said in another post, Essendon fans started leaving when we got a free (grundys 50 I think) in the last - when the umpires stopped cheating for them they knew it was hopeless!
- Ben
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I noticed they did that last week too; are they doing that for every game or just bastardising ours?Mr Miyagi wrote:I’m more annoyed at the umps putting the whistle away and allowing Richmond an eternity to dispose of the ball when tackled. I don’t think we got one free from tackles today and there were a few that were blatant.
Was their some easing up on allowable disposal time that we weren't informed of? I for one, missed that memo...
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