Head maggot admits McInerney is a moron

[Sanecow]

"It's an incorrect free kick, an incorrect reversal to Stenglein (who had moved into the path of Barry) ... However, Gieschen said the Swans' loss could not be blamed solely on McInerney's decision." Source

Well maybe not solely on that decision if you include the unpaid free to Goodes as well.

[bloodboy]

AFL Admits Error

Somebody may have already posted this so, if so, I apologise - but I just read a very interesting article on the AFL website!

Go to the INTERESTING story

[anniswan]

OK, then lets go back and replay the last part of the game.

I AM STILL ANGRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Swannette]

Well the only fair thing for the AFL to do now is order the game be re-played since the margin was less than the amount of the wrongly awarded benefit to the Eagles.

That is the only action which adequately addresses their stuff up. Yea its never happened, but precedents have to start somewhere.

[Sanecow]

Re: AFL Admits Error

Originally posted by bloodboy
Somebody may have already posted this

See:

Head maggot admits McInerney is a moron

[Charlie]

It can't happen.

We are the losers out of this. That is not going to change.

What MUST change, however, is the procedures relating to errors such as this. Gieschen gets on the radio and admits there's been a mistake. But what does he EVER do about it? Jack ****.

Not good enough. He must be sacked. Several umpires must be put on probation - any more errors, and they should be sacked. The entire department needs an overhaul... this happens far too often, and now it's happened in a final.

[robbieando]

Originally posted by Charlie
We are the losers out of this. That is not going to change.

True. No matter how much it effected the outcome of the match, the AFL has no rules in place to replay a game at "any" stage of the season except for the Grand Final. We were robbed last night and thats how it will forever go down.

What MUST change, however, is the procedures relating to errors such as this.

Problem is you can't do anything about it mid game and you can only go over the rules and tell the umpiring group how to apply them so many times.

Gieschen gets on the radio and admits there's been a mistake. But what does he EVER do about it? Jack ****.

Not good enough. He must be sacked.

An umpire last night made a mistake and his coach admitted it was wrong, but to call for the sacking of Gieschen because of it is going a little bit overboard. I don't hear anyone calling for Roosy to be sacked for the mistake LRT made last night.

Several umpires must be put on probation - any more errors, and they should be sacked. The entire department needs an overhaul... this happens far too often, and now it's happened in a final.

and regardless of what you do it will continue to happen for many years to come.

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by robbieando
I don't hear anyone calling for Roosy to be sacked for the mistake LRT made last night.

Don't you realise - LRT's mistake meant nothing though...

[Dave]

Originally posted by NMWBloods
Don't you realise - LRT's mistake meant nothing though...

In the scheme of things probably not.

The thing that further annoys me is that he said the Leo incident proabaly didn't even have an adverse effect on the game!
WTF?
Another thing - what about Goodes' legging at the end of the match? I didn't hear him reply to that.

[Newbie]

Originally posted by NMWBloods
Don't you realise - LRT's mistake meant nothing though...

It is easier to pick out a mistake from our players than from the umpires . I dont know how can one ask the team to win against the opposition + the three extra men in white, yet still consider him or herself as a supporter. A follower of the team yes, but a supporter of the team, definitely NO.

[ROK Lobster]

Originally posted by Newbie
It is easier to pick out a mistake from our players than from the umpires . I dont know how can one ask the team to win against the opposition + the three extra men in white, yet still consider him or herself as a supporter. A follower of the team yes, but a supporter of the team, definitely NO.

Bollocks. West Coast were a better side. LRT's cough up was a heart breaker which gave the WC some momentum. The misses by Kennelly and Goodes were just as bad. Swans had their chances and did not take them. LRT's decision to kick across the ground was just as bad as the umpy's - and I know who gets paid more.

[liz]

Originally posted by ROK Lobster
Bollocks. West Coast were a better side. LRT's cough up was a heart breaker which gave the WC some momentum. The misses by Kennelly and Goodes were just as bad. Swans had their chances and did not take them. LRT's decision to kick across the ground was just as bad as the umpy's - and I know who gets paid more.

I'm with ROK - maybe not that WC were the better team (I don't think there was much to choose between them) but certainly that the team's mistakes were as costly as the umpires.

All this blaming of the result on the umpires is, IMHO, detracting from what our boys nearly achieved last night. Beating WC over there in a final is about as tough a gig as they come, and despite the errors made and wasted chances, they damn well nearly pulled it off.

I'm disappointed, frustrated and a little sad, but I'm also pretty proud of their efforts.

More to the point, I'm confident that they'll put it all behind them, move onto next week and win. I also reckon they'll - at worst - give a very good account of themselves the following week in either Adelaide or Melbourne.

The season ain't over yet.

[BonBon]

It's amazing what one Umpire can do. And if the outcome is positive or negative. How long till the old poo retires? Or better yet, get's sacked? Or long-term injured?

[Newbie]

Originally posted by ROK Lobster
Bollocks. West Coast were a better side. LRT's cough up was a heart breaker which gave the WC some momentum. The misses by Kennelly and Goodes were just as bad. Swans had their chances and did not take them. LRT's decision to kick across the ground was just as bad as the umpy's - and I know who gets paid more.

The argument that if we were playing perfectly, we would have won is all bullcrap. A player could make a mistake but he makes up with contributions at other times (to the cause of winning the game). An umpire is entitled to make a mistake as long as they make up for that (to the cause of fair umpiring). There was no evidence in the whole game that the umpires were sticking to their cause (i.e., fair umpiring).

Once, I see Glass arm pitching gone unpenalized, I know Hall was in for a long night. The first incident is only setting the tone for the remainder of the game and from that incident I know what the tone was.

They crucified us so bad that they did not even give us any junk-time penalties to even things up. Their agenda was definitely not on fair umpiring.

[cruiser]

Sorry Liz and ROK, on this matter I dont agree with you. Those dodgey 4th quarter unpiring decisions cost us the game. We deserved to win. We outplayed WC.

Bring on Geelong!