There should be an inquiry into the umpiring today

[Yze_Magic 3]

Worst I have ever seen in the history of the game.

THEY HANDED COLLINGWOOD THE WIN.

We are absolutely crucified. We had kids outting their heads over the ball, and time and time again we were not rewarded.

So many errors made by the disgusting pricks that I cant even list them right now.

And I am not one that has ever blamed losses on the maggots.

This was appalling, and Bailey and co. need to take this to AFL house and have this result overturned. Mebourne should be awarded the win.

[Bang Bang Bang 5,839]

Yep, have to agree here. I very rarely if ever blame the maggots for losing a game of footy, it's usually just a couple of [censored] decisions here and there that give me the sads.

But today they cost us the 4 points. No doubt about it.

Worst display I've seen since Rd 4 1997 against Footscray (anyone remember that? One of the umps in question had a mental breakdown or something and retired). Actually it was probably worse!!!

[71 Molloy 266]

Loved the strauss holding the ball when the whistle was blown as he picked up the ball before his handball.

[furious d 472]

I thought they were consistent all day. If you tackle or are tackled it's a free kick to the bloke in Black and white all day. Someone needs to explain to the umps that $1.05 isn't long enough odds to pay for the end of season trip.

[red&blue&true 0]

[censored] disgraceful, how brad green didnt get that holding the ball on shaw is absoloutely ridicolous considering everytime collingwood tackled us they would blow the whistle as soon we were touched

[don cordner 204]

yup.. we should of been awareded two free kicks in our forward fifty in the dying stages of the last quarter.

was a joke all day .. LOL

[Carn dees 108]

Absulute joke some decisions, and Harry O' standing right next to the man on the mark.

[P-man 13,366]

There was a holding the ball call on the wing against Melbourne (can't remember which player) which was one of the most ridiculous I've ever seen. Not even half a second prior.

[Milesh 26]

I'm not the outlandish type who rags on the umpires every week, but today they were visibly awful.

We can't hang our hats on their incompetence as the reason for our loss, no way, but they definitely contributed.

[praha 11,253]

They were pretty bad. I can handle consistently bad, but to be as one-sided as they were was pretty disgraceful. The 3AW team thought the umps were pretty bad today, too. Shaw dropping the ball in the last moments should have been a free kick based on the other holding the ball frees given out throughout the day.

[The Big Ticket 94]

Speechless really. Don't even get me started on the Strauss one.

[titan_uranus 25,176]

Anger and passion are going to influence everyone's opionions, but this was appalling, close to the worst I've ever seen.

It wasn't biased towards Collingwood (and obviously not us), but it was consistently bad.

The umpire blew his whistle with the Strauss one before he'd handpassed it. Horrible.

Shaw clearly did not dispose of it. Should have been holding the ball. The umpires were afraid to pay decisions in that pocket/flank due to the Collingwood supporters there.

Rubbish, rubbish umpiring. It didn't cost us the game, but it made what would have been a great spectacle a bit worse.

[Hellaintabadplacetobe 4,297]

[censored] disgraceful, how brad green didnt get that holding the ball on shaw is absoloutely ridicolous considering everytime collingwood tackled us they would blow the whistle as soon we were touched

Among many clangers, this was the standout. Took about 5 or 6 steps, took the player on, dropped the ball like a hot spud without even remotely getting close to hand or foot. However, the umps, as bad as they were did not cost us, just our inexperience. We had plenty of opportunities to win this game.

[don cordner 204]

umm.. yes it did cost us the game. lol

[Gorgoroth 13,184]

I think the Bennell tackled without the ball and then legged was the worst, we were 11 up with what 5 mins to go, if we hit 17 we win, if he misses and it's 12 well..... how much we lose by?

[gOLLy 401]

I'm speechless otherwise i'd say bad things

[Demonic_Inferno 17]

I was at the game today and my GOD, there were some STANDOUT terrible decisions made especially in that final quarter. No doubt we should have won this match, and the umpires definately kept the pies in it. I do not usually comment much on umpiring decisions as the reason for a loss but today they lost the game for us, no doubt. I agree those who made 2 or 3 critical decisions (or rather, didn't make them) in that final quarter need to be tied to a chair and forced to watch their errors over and over again. Because they were undoubtably errors and were in a position on the ground that would have likely resulted in easy goals for us.

Pick up your game and next time, don't ruin the game.

[do it 4 robbie 1]

Not only did they miss plenty of ours but the frees handed to them in front of goal were disgracefull.

When the margin is only 1 point i think you can safely say they cost us the game.

[deanox 10,045]

for me the biggest ump issues were where they paid the free kicks (ie how many did collingwood get in their forward line?) and when did they pay them? how many times did they not pay the first free, and would pay the second or third. missed some obvious ones today.

[Ned 156]

Yeah, I don't think the umps were particularly pro-Collingwood, just particularly useless. No consistency.

[Eth 4]

Don't even get me started. First one that comes to mind was actually when the umpire pointed the wrong way for a free kick.

Oh wait, he actually did it TWICE.

But then again, Melbourne are hated by the umpires IMO. Seems like there's always a lot of games where there's free kicks paid against us for absolutely nothing.

Also, Strauss' one was bulls--t, and I remember late in the last quarter Davey went for a mark and got bumped in the shoulder (I think) and there was no free paid. And I strongly believe that Petterd was tripped in the last contest about two seconds before the siren.

[jayceebee31 768]

Worst I have ever seen in the history of the game.

THEY HANDED COLLINGWOOD THE WIN.

We are absolutely crucified. We had kids outting their heads over the ball, and time and time again we were not rewarded.

So many errors made by the disgusting pricks that I cant even list them right now.

And I am not one that has ever blamed losses on the maggots.

This was appalling, and Bailey and co. need to take this to AFL house and have this result overturned. Mebourne should be awarded the win.

Magic- support your point totally- worse display of black and white poisoning I have ever had. One eyed umpiring t it's best- BLOODY DISGRACEFUL.ACTUALLY FERREL

[P-man 13,366]

Brownlow votes:

3. Stuart Wenn

2. Scott Jeffery

1. Sam Hay

[John Crow Batty 8,880]

The missed free on the rugby tackle on Bennell most likely cost us the game. Hoist the umpires by their pettard.

[titan_uranus 25,176]

Oh wait, he actually did it TWICE.

That alone should be enough for an umpire to be suspended. I mean, come on, pointing your arm isn't very hard.