Sure we had our chances.

But full credit to us battling against a top team with umpires well below AFL standard.

They should all be dropped to country footy until they can learn their trade.

Probably the worse display of umpiring I've ever seen.

****house

It is driving me away from the sport.

Nothing ever changes

Killing the sport

It’s not like they’re consistently inept

It’s obvious favouritism

I mean, I know calling holding the ball against someone who has been tackled and then sat on happens sometimes, but normally they at least check that the player being pinged is actually the one holding it, instead of literally having the opponent pressing it with both hands against their kidney.

Just now, The Cult of Disco Turner said:

It is driving me away from the sport.

Deeply true.

Only commitment to club keeps me anywhere near Australian football now.

At quarter time it was 11 to four.

What infuriates me is when we see a display like that and then it’s not a story in any media outlets afterwards.

Everyone just goes back to pretending like the umpiring is acceptable and it didn’t have a massive impact on the outcome. Or they cite free kick count as if the where and when of the free kicks isn’t the most essential part

It's corrupt. The same 3 or 4 teams looked after every week. The ladder largely reflects the favoured teams.

The free kick differential was not mentioned once on Foxtel coverage

It's merely a financial investment, AFL house know that Collingwood winning means boatloads of cash for them.

They simply would rather compromise the fairness of the game for the financial return.

Smaller clubs just have to cop it, the doggies got shafted against Collingwood earlier in the year too.

They're not even trying to disguise the Collingwood bias anymore.

7 minutes ago, The Cult of Disco Turner said:

What infuriates me is when we see a display like that and then it’s not a story in any media outlets afterwards.

Everyone just goes back to pretending like the umpiring is acceptable and it didn’t have a massive impact on the outcome. Or they cite free kick count as if the where and when of the free kicks isn’t the most essential part

100%, but it’s only going to be swept under the carpet more with the umpires considering legal action for the 7 pundits comments on the Schulz situation.

There has to be a spokesperson who can be questioned and provide adequate commentary on some of the calls made and not made. The spokesperson can then in their spare time rewrite the rules to remove all grey areas - no more rule of the week, or changing interpretations in the last 5 mins.

The free kick against Melksham for being pushed in the back resulting in a tunnel was by far the worst one.

18 minutes ago, The Cult of Disco Turner said:

It is driving me away from the sport.

I read that as driving you away from the airport. Was having a hard time drawing the dots.

Someone here should start a free Wordpress blog and start highlighting every single instance and crowd source them

All the egregious ones

Especially the game turners

AFL audit themselves. Revenue is king.. so today was a great result for all involved.

4 minutes ago, Tom Dyson said:

It's merely a financial investment, AFL house know that Collingwood winning means boatloads of cash for them.

They simply would rather compromise the fairness of the game for the financial return.

Smaller clubs just have to cop it, the doggies got shafted against Collingwood earlier in the year too.

They're not even trying to disguise the Collingwood bias anymore.

And boatloads of cash to pay AFL Executives millions of dollars!

Very easy to fall back on 'umpiring'

But my God... where ever you looked.

AFL will look away.

Media will just pretend all was well...

Pies will be smirking...

Many will just call us whingers.

Well I'm bloody whinging... that was totally reprehensible

12 minutes ago, Tom Dyson said:

It's merely a financial investment, AFL house know that Collingwood winning means boatloads of cash for them.

They simply would rather compromise the fairness of the game for the financial return.

Smaller clubs just have to cop it, the doggies got shafted against Collingwood earlier in the year too.

They're not even trying to disguise the Collingwood bias anymore.

That is exactly right. Financial. All comes down to $$$$$.

It's beyond a [censored] joke.

Another bloody game where instead of just enjoying the contest I'm livid at the standard of the umpiring.

What's the bloody deal with umpires 50 metres away from a contest overruling an umpire who is 15 meters from the contest with an unimpeded view (eg the Howes marking contest free) - happens every week.

Made worse when they DON'T overuse blatant howlers or missed decisions, which i thought was the only time a non-controlling umpire was supposed to pay a free (the bizarre decision to pay a block against Melk in one on two contest when he was clearly shoved in the back)

What's the deal with the ridiculous inconsistency (eg sparrow insufficient attempt and then no free against daicos, tracc holding the ball with zero time to dispose of it then pies players with more time and no free)?

What's the deal with ruck lotto decisions?

What's the deal with non-decisions for blatant free kicks

One of the things that infuriates me is all the AFL accredited journalists give the idea of making them full time professionals is ALWAYS rejected out of hand by almost every single one of them.

I mean it's the only logical thing to do.

And the media's halfhearted criticism of the standard of umpiring as if fans are just making it up how poor the standard of umpiring is, how much it is ruining the game for fans.

Can't bite the hand that feeds.

And to be clear i don't blame the umpires. I blame the [censored] AFL.

And i truly believe they don't make meaningful efforts to improve the standards of umpiring because all of the angst and controversy is such great content.

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Mother frs on the take, especially that umpire 17.

Worst for a long while

We simply don’t have enough AFL standard umpires. And increasing field umpires to four has only made that worse.

Making them professional and paying them a decent wage would help with retention. How many good umpires have given it away because it’s too much to work full time and work a second part time job as an umpire.

on top of that the AFL keep messing with not only the rules, but messing with how they are interpreted. The umpires are on a hiding to nothing and there are times I think the AFL don’t mind that as it takes some of the direct focus off the AFL. To a degree the public view the umpires as a seperate entity to the AFL and that perception suits the AFL

18 minutes ago, Nasher said:

The free kick against Melksham for being pushed in the back resulting in a tunnel was by far the worst one.

Yep that was the worst, Moore tripped Melksham which caused him to stumble into the back of Howe.

The umpires these days have no feel for the game

I then shook my head and took the dog for a walk

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1 hour ago, The Cult of Disco Turner said:

What infuriates me is when we see a display like that and then it’s not a story in any media outlets afterwards.

Everyone just goes back to pretending like the umpiring is acceptable and it didn’t have a massive impact on the outcome. Or they cite free kick count as if the where and when of the free kicks isn’t the most essential part

If it was Collingwood on the receiving end, trust me there’d be lots of noise.

1 hour ago, joeboy said:

The free kick differential was not mentioned once on Foxtel coverage

That's true Joe boy, but at least they were voicing bemusement at a number of decisions. This doesn't normally happen much so it show how bad it was today.

And for what it's worth, my pet hate was Collingwood players leading with the head and getting frees, or if you are Sidebottom, forget to lead with your head but still throw it back like you had been shot. How many high frees did we get?