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Was the win against West Coast rigged?


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I’ve watched the replay 3 times and still can’t comprehend how we were awarded frees, or at least not penalized for many blatant errors, despite the howls of abuse throughout the game from an overwhelmingly anti Melbourne crowd.

The non payment of a free kick against O.Mac ,when he took on the tackler by dropping his head into an oncoming chest, was just one of  many mind boggling decisions surprisingly in our favour.

In my conspiracy theory, the AFL contrived a feel good story ending

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Decisions have to be made in a ‘spit second’. I wouldn’t think it possible.

Prefer to think that as the the season moves into the real result defining period, the umpires only play the really blatant ones.

Hope so anyway, as winning the contest ball is one of our strengths.

Letting the game go a bit suits us.

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5 minutes ago, Nasher said:

I just don’t understand why a Melbourne supporter would go so far out of their way to attempt to rain on our own parade with this first level rubbish.

Have you woken up in a bad mood?

Pretty stupid response by you

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Rigged? omg, how embarrassing.

 

I've seen the replay a few times also, and I must admit I think we were given an incredibly soft run from the umps also. Many free kicks that should have been paid against us, that were not.

I would not expect the same umpiring if we play them again during finals.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, joeboy said:

Which part do you deem as nonsense?

The word "rigged" in the header.

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I watched the entire last quarter and a half with the sound down because the booing influence on the umpires was making me so angry, and still got angry at the free kicks we weren’t given. There might be a bit of attention-seeking in this thread. 

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I guess the umpire who gifted the free against Vanders for competing for the ball forgot which team he was meant to be rigging the game for...

The final free kick count was 18-14 to the Eagles btw.

Many bitter Eagles fans would agree with you OP.  At least you’ve got that going for you.

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lol. It actually crossed my mind too! Usually when you go to perth you expect to get mauled by the umpires and not only did we break even we got the better end of the bargain. Except for the vandenberg decision which was a direct goal. Nonetheless, I don't care. The umpiring in the Port game was an absolute disgrace and cost us 4 points so we deserve all the bad decisions going our way.

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It just showed to me that umpires DO have a major influence over tight games. We just happened to not get paid one or two against us inside 50 in the last quarter. It made a difference. It shouldnt.

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Apart from the OMAC non-HTB decision, if you mute the volume and watch without hearing the crowd booing to influence your theory, it was umpired quite fairly, they left it alone and let the 44 play. Plus the free kick count was 18-14 in WCE favour so wasn't totally rigged!

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Rigged! Really, what a load of rubbish. Do you really think that the AFL are well enough organised to rig anything?

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34 minutes ago, joeboy said:

I’ve watched the replay 3 times and still can’t comprehend how we were awarded frees, or at least not penalized for many blatant errors, despite the howls of abuse throughout the game from an overwhelmingly anti Melbourne crowd.

The non payment of a free kick against O.Mac ,when he took on the tackler by dropping his head into an oncoming chest, was just one of  many mind boggling decisions surprisingly in our favour.

In my conspiracy theory, the AFL contrived a feel good story ending

Did you watch the next ball up after the Oscar McDonald non decision. West Coast player does exactly the same thing. Ducks his head and is then tackled. No free. That bloke Cripps or whatever his name is, drove into a tackle with his head and got a free kick for too high...the rule was that if you drive with a head its no free. We all saw the bulldust free paid against Vanders for spoiling the ball. Get ya tinfoil hat off and go away. 

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28 minutes ago, joeboy said:

Have you woken up in a bad mood?

Pretty stupid response by you

Occam’s razor says our game is hard to umpire, our umpires are non-pro and of low quality, and this game was no different to any others where poor decisions got made (none worse than the one paid against vanders to gift Cripps a goal, I might add).

But by all means, go the conspiracy route instead and take all the credit away from our gutsy win and say it was the AFL’s doing.

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I think the way to umpire in WA is to undercall both sides which is what the umpires did on Sunday then you don’t get sucked in to home town frees. Sure they missed some to them and to us as well. The call against VDB was a bad call but understandable depending on the angle it may have been seen from.  I thought the umpires did a good job on the weekend and probably will do so in a final series.

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29 minutes ago, joeboy said:

I’ve watched the replay 3 times and still can’t comprehend how we were awarded frees, or at least not penalized for many blatant errors, despite the howls of abuse throughout the game from an overwhelmingly anti Melbourne crowd.

The non payment of a free kick against O.Mac ,when he took on the tackler by dropping his head into an oncoming chest, was just one of  many mind boggling decisions surprisingly in our favour.

In my conspiracy theory, the AFL contrived a feel good story ending

From an overall perspective,  we've never actually been disadvantaged by umpires anyway.  Most would disagree but most have been brainwashed into believing that the umpires have got a set against us.  Ditto for every other club and their supporters.

The sport can't be umpired correctly and it is daylight to the next hardest sport in terms of the adjudication.

So it stands to reason that the umpires are going to make a stack of errors and an equal proportion of those incorrect decisions are going to be awarded against all the teams.  Over time.

So comes to terms with it all, lose the persecution complex and stop playing victim.  That attitude is all based on a mistruth anyway.

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4 minutes ago, Macca said:

From an overall perspective,  we've never actually been disadvantaged by umpires anyway.  Most would disagree but most have been brainwashed into believing that the umpires have got a set against us.  Ditto for every other club and their supporters.

The sport can't be umpired correctly and it is daylight to the next hardest sport in terms of the adjudication.

So it stands to reason that the umpires are going to make a stack of errors and an equal proportion of those incorrect decisions are going to be awarded against all the teams.  Over time.

So comes to terms with it all, lose the persecution complex and stop playing victim.  That attitude is all based on a mistruth anyway.

Agree 'Macca'...but you're making too much sense.

I prefer the narrative that Nichols has it in for us, it's much easier to yell at the tele.

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