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But was the umpiring in the 3rd quarter yesterday easily the worst quarter of umpiring you have ever seen? Im deff not saying that is why we had such a bad quarter or anything like that but by golly it was bad.

the worst one for me was when Kennedy got the free 10m out against garland for holding, yet garland was one who got thrown around by kennedy.

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Yep, that one was quite strange! Should've been Garland's free.

But - made little difference in the end, Kennedy is a very good player and football smart!

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But was the umpiring in the 3rd quarter yesterday easily the worst quarter of umpiring you have ever seen? Im deff not saying that is why we had such a bad quarter or anything like that but by golly it was bad.

the worst one for me was when Kennedy got the free 10m out against garland for holding, yet garland was one who got thrown around by kennedy.

It was definitely inconsistent. Clark was manhandled on a couple of occasions in marking contests with no free, yet Kennedy and Darling each got frees for the same thing. I really didn't like the high tackle calls for Ashton Hams; he ducked on every occasion and threw his head back before contact was made. There were also several passages of play where holding the ball should have been called but it wasn't and it ultimately led to a West Coast goal. Even if the umpiring was fair though, we were dominated and it wouldn't have made a difference.

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Holding off the ball and in the marking contest is a point of focus in everygame I see. so players need to adjust. BTW Garland had the free paid against him because he was looking at the player and not the ball. Annoying but correct.

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Absolutely the umpiring was crook in that quarter. What was most worrying was that it helped WC get off to a flying start in the second half and our blokes quickly dropped their heads.

Annoyingly, the incompetent who paid that free to Kennedy after he threw Garland aside, was the same drongo who refused to reward Clark when he was mauled.

I know it did not change the four points, but it changed the extent of the loss for us, and hurt us when confidence was being built.

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But was the umpiring in the 3rd quarter yesterday easily the worst quarter of umpiring you have ever seen? Im deff not saying that is why we had such a bad quarter or anything like that but by golly it was bad.

the worst one for me was when Kennedy got the free 10m out against garland for holding, yet garland was one who got thrown around by kennedy.

it wasnt you. they were atrocious.

the freo ess game was bizarre. in the first half they were great but the second pathetic. amazing

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When you're second to the ball you're going to get calls against, good or bad.

This team gets a lot of calls against it, many bad, because it plays lazy, reckless football.

The Eagles were always going to run away.

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That Hams one in the forward pocket was ridiculous! He stopped for a moment then made a conscious decision to drop his knees as he went through the tackle. And the one earlier in the game, he actually threw his arm up which forced the tacklers arm up to his head

All within the rules, adjust to it. Have our players not been having specialised tackling training all preseason. Go low, get the shoulder in, drive with the legs through there hips? Lets get to a game and forget all of that and just hang the arm out.

Every player in the comp would be told to prepare for Hams chitty, cheap drop the knees, raise the arms technique.. And to prepare for it if the players can't adjust who's fault is that?

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All within the rules, adjust to it. Have our players not been having specialised tackling training all preseason. Go low, get the shoulder in, drive with the legs through there hips? Lets get to a game and forget all of that and just hang the arm out.

Every player in the comp would be told to prepare for Hams chitty, cheap drop the knees, raise the arms technique.. And to prepare for it if the players can't adjust who's fault is that?

Yes it's within the rules to do it, but if you duck and are taken high, it's meant to be play on.

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All within the rules, adjust to it. Have our players not been having specialised tackling training all preseason. Go low, get the shoulder in, drive with the legs through there hips? Lets get to a game and forget all of that and just hang the arm out.

Every player in the comp would be told to prepare for Hams chitty, cheap drop the knees, raise the arms technique.. And to prepare for it if the players can't adjust who's fault is that?

Also, wasn't there discussion about suspending players who staged for free kicks?

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How about when they didn't pay the one where Clark was held on and thrown to side yet the pay the one where garland apparently manhandled Kennedy!

And we had a former AFL player umpiring too..

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There are plenty of rules that umpires are red hot on early in the season then go cold on. I saw a Freo player dive at the feet of an Essendon player and get a free for high contact. I thought the rules were brought in so that it should have been the other way round. There were a lot of frees the umpires missed yesterday. Sure it wouldn't have made much difference to the result, but they should be given on merit. They are still inconsistent as ever, with contact up one end resulting in frees given to West Coast, but ignored dow the other end. Very frustrating.

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