Umpires Troy Pannell and Justin Schmitt retiring at end of year.

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4 minutes ago, —coach— said:

Umpires Troy Pannell and Justin Schmitt retiring at end of year.

Engrave the 2019 Premiership Cup and get your 2019 Demon premiership tattoos now!

Discuss what we will do without the opposition being gifted 3 goals from frees every game.

I reckon Pannell is a distant relative linked in some way to the Norm Smith curse. This is good news. 

Wish Nichols would go

What about Nicholls? Any chance he retires any chance soon? I really don’t want to have to go rogue and smash anymore kneecaps...

No surprise as he has been battling injury all year. The umps are an ageing lot and a few week ago as many as 20% of the group were injured. They certainly don't like the bounce.

Nicholls is worse.

Personally, I think we should be more respectful of the umpires, particularly when they're announcing their retirements. I get frustrated, too, with the decisions at times, but I don't think for one minute they're biased in any way. And it must be an almost impossible game to umpire.

So, good luck to Troy and Justin and thanks for your service.

The ABC interviewed an umpire last Friday night who was that weekend umpiring his 350th. His account made me appreciate the increasing difficulty of their job 

19 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Personally, I think we should be more respectful of the umpires, particularly when they're announcing their retirements. I get frustrated, too, with the decisions at times, but I don't think for one minute they're biased in any way. And it must be an almost impossible game to umpire.

So, good luck to Troy and Justin and thanks for your service.

I agree that it's become increasingly difficult to umpire our game due to so many stupid rules changes, and the different interpretations they then allow for.

Nicholls however is either a deadset cheat or he's blind. There is no way to interpret someone taking possession of the ball, then being barrelled into from behind and then having their head belted as anything but a free kick... not holding the ball! He's not an umpires *sshole that useless c*nt. Get rid of him!

The higher-ups need to leave the rules alone and stop trying to shape the game into what they think tv audiences want. The game is fine, and the more it's tinkered with the worse it becomes.

Edited August 17, 20186 yr by Lord Travis

1 hour ago, Older demon said:

No surprise as he has been battling injury all year. The umps are an ageing lot and a few week ago as many as 20% of the group were injured. They certainly don't like the bounce.

Can definitely agree with you on that. Umpire Andrew Mitchell is family friend of ours and he’s had all sorts or injury troubles. Been umpiring hurt all year as they are short of people to do the job.

1 hour ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Personally, I think we should be more respectful of the umpires, particularly when they're announcing their retirements. I get frustrated, too, with the decisions at times, but I don't think for one minute they're biased in any way. And it must be an almost impossible game to umpire.

So, good luck to Troy and Justin and thanks for your service.

Agree it’s a tough job, particularly with the subjective nature of the rules as they currently stand. What I can tell you is that most umps do barrack/follow a team and as such it must be very difficult to umpire games involving thier favoured team. Indesputable is the home crowd advantage that some clubs enjoy (which we most certainly do not benefit from) which could very easily be viewed as bias.

Hear what your saying, but when you watch games with people who don’t follow the dees, and they regularly say we are getting the s h I t end of the stick then one can’t help speculate that their is some kind of bias present.

Edited August 17, 20186 yr by —coach—

2 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Personally, I think we should be more respectful of the umpires, particularly when they're announcing their retirements. I get frustrated, too, with the decisions at times, but I don't think for one minute they're biased in any way. And it must be an almost impossible game to umpire.

So, good luck to Troy and Justin and thanks for your service.

I agree...except for Nicholls. He completely mugged us down in Tassie against North a year or two back, and everytime I get frustrated at a decision, I look up to see his bald melon responsible for it.

Edited August 17, 20186 yr by Forest Demon

3 hours ago, —coach— said:

Umpires Troy Pannell and Justin Schmitt retiring at end of year.

Engrave the 2019 Premiership Cup and get your 2019 Demon premiership tattoos now!

Discuss what we will do without the opposition being gifted 3 goals from frees every game.

WHO GIVES A FLYING FUUUURG!

Troy Parnell without a doubt one of, if not the worst umpire ever and l mean ever. However every time l saw that  number 28 we were half way to a loss. Just hated us. No feel for the game and almost wanting to be centre of attention. Thought he knew it but knew F A about the game. Must have picked up most of his tips from Razor Ray. Better off without him.

1 hour ago, picket fence said:

WHO GIVES A FLYING FUUUURG!

My apologies that I didn’t pass this through your old man care-o-meter. Will be sure to check with you next time. Perhaps this photo will be more your cup of tea.

Did us no favours at all umpiring the Saints game. I thought he’d already hung up his whistle during that game and was just having a weekend jog.

5 hours ago, —coach— said:

Umpires Troy Pannell and Justin Schmitt retiring at end of year.

Engrave the 2019 Premiership Cup and get your 2019 Demon premiership tattoos now!

Discuss what we will do without the opposition being gifted 3 goals from frees every game.

There are still Chamberpot and Nicholls to contend with

[censored] me this is great news cant stand the bald [censored] 

Couldn’t give a rats arse about some umpire retiring. Can probably only name 3 of them. 

14 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Personally, I think we should be more respectful of the umpires, particularly when they're announcing their retirements. I get frustrated, too, with the decisions at times, but I don't think for one minute they're biased in any way. And it must be an almost impossible game to umpire

The umpires are doing a job. Mostly they're doing a job on the dees. The AFL brook no criticism of umpires, not to protect themselves per se, but so that no connection is made between AFL manipulation of games and the performance of umpires. I accept that no umpire is perfect and it's a tough job, but there can be no explanation for some decisions or non decisions in games except intentional manipulation of results.( To the detriment of teams like Melbourne)

I still think each team should be able to nominate three umpires they don’t wont to officiate at their games.

Nicholls would be my #1

Parnell #2

& open for other input for #3.