What they're saying up at Surfer's Paradise

[Queanbeyan Demon 6,942]

• If we can’t beat Melbourne then the season doesn’t look promising. 
• Lol May. He's absolutely melting under pressure.
• Pretty good considering we gave them 8 goals from awful use out of def 50.
• Should've beaten those muppets.
• Played against Melbourne and the umpires tonight.
• Another reality check, still a bottom 4 side.
• Gawn just tapped it to Melbourne mids at will out of the middle.
• Forini is comfortably worst on ground. Lazy and [censored] weak.
• Gawn is an awesome player, but seriously Witts is ******** aweful.
• Melbourne playing like a team that has had the media riding and questioning them all week.
• This mob has it all over us. 
• Credit to Dees, we were trying to scratch it out but Dees pressure was awesome. Their effort was great.
• They just kept kicking out to Gawn and he kept marking it. Need to at least contest better.
• Dude (Max) is a weapon.
• This is looking like 2019 all over again.
   

[Bitter but optimistic 22,289]

They're correct about Max !

[Little Richard 6,265]

Gold Coast have enough supporters to write that?

[whatwhat say what 23,484]

oh please, as if they say anything!

[buck_nekkid 6,068]

1 minute ago, Luther said:

Gold Coast have enough supporters to write that?

One man, many personalities....

[Diamond_Jim 12,693]

Close the Border !!!!

[deanox 10,046]

1 minute ago, Luther said:

Gold Coast have enough supporters to write that?

Its just a one man monologue.

[Little Richard 6,265]

1 minute ago, buck_nekkid said:

One man, many personalities....

'That wasn't me, that was Patricia'.

[RalphiusMaximus 6,105]

10 minutes ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

• Played against Melbourne and the umpires tonight.

Seriously?  The Umps were searching for frees to pay to GC all night.  That free to Rankine on the boundary...  WTF?  And the two dodgy frees to give Ellis his second goal.  Then there were all of the HTB decisions they paid to GC that they refused to pay to us...  The umps were a disgrace all night. 

[Queanbeyan Demon 6,942]

4 minutes ago, RalphiusMaximus said:

Seriously?  The Umps were searching for frees to pay to GC all night.  That free to Rankine on the boundary...  WTF?  And the two dodgy frees to give Ellis his second goal.  Then there were all of the HTB decisions they paid to GC that they refused to pay to us...  The umps were a disgrace all night. 

Seriously right? Over on their FB page, they are ropeable about the umpiring. 

[Mazer Rackham 14,971]

14 minutes ago, Luther said:

Gold Coast have enough supporters to write that?

That was from lipreading the coaches in the box

[Rab D Nesbitt 8,784]

It's probably just a business that's paid to set up a site to look like a fan forum. Also known as astroturfing. 

[Sir Why You Little 37,322]

The IP address for the GC website would be AFL House definitely.

They were right about Max

Thanks Gill

[Radar Detector 1,347]

56 minutes ago, Luther said:

Gold Coast have enough supporters to write that?

This is like a teenager picking on the primary school kid. Collingwood or Hawks supporters would [censored] their pants laughing if they saw this. Let’s become relevant first...

[Purple77 1,006]

The constant theme in these oppo threads is Max Gawn.

Makes you appreciate how lucky we are to have him. 

[Kiss of Death 766]

Wonder if GC fans know any other MFC player names besides Gawn...

[Nasher 33,617]

You’ve got to love it when both sets of supporters think they got the rough end of the pineapple with the umpiring. It’s why I don’t bother - I know I’m too one-eyed to judge objectively. Everyone who is invested in a team is.

Our game is hard to umpire, made harder by ever-changing rules and interpretations, and weird and wonderful calls will get made sometimes. I reckon the culture of moaning about all the time is one of the uglier aspects of our game.

[Copuchas 763]

3 hours ago, Nasher said:

You’ve got to love it when both sets of supporters think they got the rough end of the pineapple with the umpiring. It’s why I don’t bother - I know I’m too one-eyed to judge objectively. Everyone who is invested in a team is.

Our game is hard to umpire, made harder by ever-changing rules and interpretations, and weird and wonderful calls will get made sometimes. I reckon the culture of moaning about all the time is one of the uglier aspects of our game.

Whilst I'm completely aligned with the thrust of your thread Nasher, I'm really surprised not to have read any analysis on the near elimination of biased umpiring performances during the Covid crisis and the obvious conclusion that the "noise of affirmation" phenomena is an irrefutable reality.

[Demon_spurs 1,924]

3 hours ago, Nasher said:

You’ve got to love it when both sets of supporters think they got the rough end of the pineapple with the umpiring. It’s why I don’t bother - I know I’m too one-eyed to judge objectively. Everyone who is invested in a team is.

Our game is hard to umpire, made harder by ever-changing rules and interpretations, and weird and wonderful calls will get made sometimes. I reckon the culture of moaning about all the time is one of the uglier aspects of our game.

Good point Nasher, maybe this topic should have it's own thread, but I think with the game slowing down due to the u/12 type tactics of teams these days, do we really need 3 (and sometimes 4 umpires),? Each has their own interpretation of the rules, which only fuels the inconsistency argument.  Most umpires are guessers, that is why habitual actors like Danger and Duckwood get frees paid to them constantly.

I think the game needs just 2 umpires, lets face it for most of the game they are stuck one half or the other, I'm a great believer in human frailties being part of the game, get rid of the goal line technology, cut down to two umpires (one at each end) and let them make mistakes like everyone else  Shrug and get on with the game (win some lose some)

[rolling fog 1,208]

Are they serious about the umps (or refs, as they'd call them)?

Some of the HTB calls alone last night were atrocious!