Darren Goldspink

[ScottH]

Originally posted by BonBon
Some awful decisions from him. The whole pub made a racket.

Pubs usually do. I have to turn my aid up.

[Nico]

Originally posted by liz
The Goodes' 50m was reasonable in my eye. Goodes was barely in the marking contest and then fell on the back of the Roos defender after he had cleanly taken the mark. I'd have been cheesed off if colours had been reversed and we hadn't got one.

Bevan and Schneider are interesting cases. To a slight degree they can be excused by inexperience - ie you'll cut them a little more slack than you would a senior player.

But one of the downsides of having so many players running around in the twos pressing for selection is that the younger players in the senior team are likely to try to hard to impress to ensure that they are the ones not to make way. They'll be aware than once they are out of the team it will be hard to get back in.

That probably contributes to their poor judgement at times - ie they're trying to do too much.


The last 3 paragraphs - What a load of bulldust.

The situation needs careful coaching. It needs to be impressed upon them that they won't lose their place if they do the basic, team things, even if it mean they miss out on the highlights reel.

[Mike_B]

I tend to agree with Liz about Goldsphincter....he wasn't too bad. And the 50m against Goodes was there....it wasn't accidental that his elbow ended up in the middle of the Roos player's back - his falling was an accident yes, but the way he broke his fall look pretty bad to me.

Thought the other umps were worse today, but generally speaking, nothing too bad - we've definitely copped worse, and will definitely cop worse through the rest of the season.

[Nico]

Originally posted by liz
The Goodes' 50m was reasonable in my eye. Goodes was barely in the marking contest and then fell on the back of the Roos defender after he had cleanly taken the mark. I'd have been cheesed off if colours had been reversed and we hadn't got one.

Bevan and Schneider are interesting cases. To a slight degree they can be excused by inexperience - ie you'll cut them a little more slack than you would a senior player.

But one of the downsides of having so many players running around in the twos pressing for selection is that the younger players in the senior team are likely to try to hard to impress to ensure that they are the ones not to make way. They'll be aware than once they are out of the team it will be hard to get back in.

That probably contributes to their poor judgement at times - ie they're trying to do too much.

The situation needs careful coaching. It needs to be impressed upon them that they won't lose their place if they do the basic, team things, even if it mean they miss out on the highlights reel.

The last 4 paragraphs - What a load of bulldust.

[ugg]

The umpires are the least of our worries at the moment. I thought they were okay today, we got a few dodgy ones against us and a few for us so I can't really complain. Save the whinging for a worse day.

[BonBon]

Originally posted by ugg
Save the whinging for a worse day.

I hope this is the only bad day we have. Glad it's at the start of the season, and not later!

[Nico]

Only the replay Goodes clearly dived on his back, and late. Get the esky out Goodesy cause you may have a couple of weeks off.

By the way one of the things that really stood out today was a big slice of lack of discipline.

Then again I suspect they were P155'd off with the game plan by games end.

[Charlie]

Originally posted by Nico
Only the replay Goodes clearly dived on his back, and late. Get the esky out Goodesy cause you may have a couple of weeks off.

It was clumsy, no doubt about it, but it wasn't intentional and didn't injure the player.

[BonBon]

Nick Davis is playing really hard that he might end up having 1 week off because he'll be all bruised.

[Slick Swans]

Did anyone else notice this just as the roos started getting away?

RED ALERT
LAST 6 FREE KICKS
KANGAROOS

[cruiser]

24 frees to 10 is a disgrace. If all 24 were justified, then Sydney needs to go back to some basics in their training.

[Sanecow]

I am a bit pissed off at the lop-sided free kick count but I can't say that any more of the decisions seemed totally wrong than usual. But I was stunned by the clangers and poor kicking so I might not have noticed. Plus some weren't shown on the telly - like the one paid downfield when the roos were playing kick to kick and the Swans were flooding.

[timthefish]

Originally posted by Charlie
It was clumsy, no doubt about it, but it wasn't intentional and didn't injure the player.

i reckon he crooked his elbow and got him nicely in the lower back. if it wasn't deliberate, it was incredibly reckless, clumsy and late.

[timthefish]

regarding umpiring, there are actually a couple of things people can try if they think the standard is low.

learn to umpire and put him out of a job or campaign for full-time umpires with continual training.

[floppinab]

Originally posted by cruiser
24 frees to 10 is a disgrace. If all 24 were justified, then Sydney needs to go back to some basics in their training.

Amen to that brother.

Can't believe some of the comments in this thread. Were we 2 and half odd times more indisciplined than they were. I don't think so.

We've been getting a **** run for quite a while.

I remember the Crows getting a similar run in their first 4 or 5 years in the AFL. Regular free differentials of 40 or 50% year on year. It was no coincidence their premiership years occured when this finally changed.