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They looked like Demon players and officiated like they were Bulldogs.

I have two dreadful turnovers burned in my brain from tonight, where Melb players gave off quick handballs straight to the umpires (one out of the centre in the last). I'm sure I'm going to have nightmares over them.

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    According to a caller to radio, we complained to the AFL during the week about the umpires' uniform only to be told it was bad luck and had already been decided. Hardly surprising when you have muppets running the joint.

    What a joke. Leave the awareness raising to the clubs, there was no need for those prancing prima-donnas to be put in pink. I'm sure they all already wear pink shirts during the week when they are out and about on commercial rd, surely they could have spent their Friday night in yellow.

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    This one will go down as getting royaly SCREWED over and no "please explain" can do [censored]! I hate the "system" Could you imagine if this happened in a final?

    Could you imagine if it happened to Collingwood?!

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    Complete and utter garbage. I spent the whole game watching those 'extra demons players' being considered by our team as potential targets, and that one in the last with 2-3 minutes to go where it was clearly handballed to the umpire - turnover - bang goal, i apologise to the people around me... i saw RED. That was the problem - so did Bartram!

    Gutted. The boys worked so bloody hard. Very proud of their effort.

    Devils advocate here, but the bloody umpires would have also looked like extra Demons bearing down when the doggies had the ball - so they should have been annoyed as well!

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    Just watch the delayed telecast here in the west. A game we should have won. I wont talk about the umpire overruling goal umpires and shocking decisions for out on the full.

    But I have to ask why did the umpires where red on their tops. More than once we handball directly to them obviously when catching a glimpse of red out of a pack. The club should make an official complaint.

    Aren't they meant to wear their clash jumpers, maybe yellow...

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    Why not dress the umpires in Melbourne jumpers next week... maybe it'll help them pay a decision in our favour for once! :rolleyes:

    Oh honey, I doubt it ;) !!!

    And the umpire colouring didn't make viewing any easier on TV either, especially in the wet.

    And this is something you would think that the AFL in all their self righteous wisdom would take into account.

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    Dennis Cometti picked this up 20 minutes into the first quarter.

    I picked it up at the start of the game, amateur mistake by the AFL.

    Even Mark Robinson mentions it in his article, I hope that people don't go quietly about this because it was a monumental mistake.

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    Someone should be fired for that decision.

    The umpires don't ever wear red in Melbourne games, so why did they wear pink last night?

    Idiots.

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    What a disgraceful headline for that article. If anyone has been left red-faced it is surely the AFL. I encourage Demonland posters to flood footy talkback with complaints and rants this weekend. If nothing it will show the football world that, contrary to popular opinion, we do have lots of passionate fans.

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    Could you imagine if it happened to Collingwood?!

    best thing i have ever read, they would replay the match 200 times till the pies won, they would make it a public holiday and they would send the umpires would be shot.

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    Interesting to hear Gia on gameday say that at times the doggies players thought there was an extra opponent closing or filling space.

    I guess it works both ways.

    Just don't let it happen again.

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