Sorry but it really annoys me when people blame umpires for a loss. My view is that if a team is good enough to win a game of football, they should be able to do that without the help of the umpires. Teams are presented with chances in a game to kick a winning score, and on the other hand should be able to defend successfully to prevent a winning score being kicked agains them. Yes some things with the umpires didn't go our way, and goals were kicked against us. But is not the reason for our loss. Once again we were inept in the first half and that was the ultimate reason for our loss.
In my mind blaming an umpire for a loss is [censored] weak excuse, and merely shifts the responsibility away from our team.