Deesprate

Didn’t realise Pendlebury was umpiring. 22 is a shocker

If you kick the ball how can it be incorrect disposal

Oliver and Trac need to just play some basic footy. Weed let just get Brown in and leave him there. There is absolutely no physical presence. Zero

The defence there was appalling the player was on his own for minutes. Dreadful

The umpire is clearly blind

Let keep perspective we were terrible and only 16 points behind

Totally agree. Blighty always bang on about this. Inexplicable.

That effort by Weed and Gawn pathetic

There was no buzz in that quarter but you have to expect Pies to bring some intensity

This game is an arm wrestle. Pies are bringing us down to their level.

That better. Trac goal assist

Why was that not deliberate

When someone is outside 50 metres and takes 30 second to take a shot with no chance of kicking it with a minute to go it a mockery. Totally kills the game.

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Just reading the game day thread. Wow some posters should have a read of the pre half time posts. Anyone would have thought we were losing by 10 goals. I understand different views but some of the bile towards Melksham; Hunt, Bullen, Spargo etc is gutter sniping. I can only conclude these posters are fickle or infiltrated Pies supporters taking the [censored]. To play so poorly and only be 20 points down was a positive. This team has gears and is never out of it. Glad I invested in guaranteed granny tickets.

I saw it on fox with SCG next to our game. Just pleased game can be played. Agree with a no politics it is so refreshing to just focus on footy and shut out the worlds problems.

SCG just reported

Tigers can’t be counted out got to hope they don’t make top 4

How did we lose to the Crows their getting pasted

Why the hell is that play on

Melk terrible kick

Your joking right

Weid no confidence but at least getting to the spot. Needs to clunk one

No your not I guess the difference is there is some subjectivity to a push in the back when you handball directly out of bounce it deliberate. The second decisions so bad it removes any element of grey. Ha the AFL it was generally well umpired misses the blinding obvious that in the masters you can hit a lot of great shots but it the clutch putt on the last that will be remembered. You choke at the pivotal moment who cares about the rest

For all the people conflating our performance and the appalling umpiring decision are missing the point they are two separate issues. Using that logic and we played the best game in history and were dudded then the decision matters. There is only one issue and it not cheating umpires but why are they repeatedly so scared to make a decision in critical moments in front of parochial home crowds. Just saying because we played badly it doesn’t matter just does not make sense. Tell that to Clayton Oliver who busted his gut. The decision matters because the same issue has cost three different sides wins. It smack of poor umpiring leadership where they are so micro managed they are fearful a wrong decision will see them punished. There is clearly a systemic issue here and gutless umpiring is at the heart of it.