umpiring

[matthew smith]

there were again some decisions that cost the game, the one against leo barry in the last quarter was ridlicious, jarad McVeigh was tripped, no free kick, what we have we done to deserve this, why has it always got to be the swans, look at the first two games where the free kick count was high.

[Casey36]

I agree. Sydney gets pulled up for some of the most ridiculous things. But what can you do?

[liz]

We really can't blame the umpires every week.

There were some mistakes out there by the men in white, but they went both ways. The footballers made more mistakes.

I did feel for Rivers(?) when he gave away that HTB free that led to Schneider's second goal. It was probably a correct decision and you could almost see it unravel before it happened. It was also very smart play (not to mention reward for a hard chase) by Schneider.

But you have to wonder what footballerrs are meant to do sometimes when they get to the ball first.

[ROK Lobster]

I thought that Schneider's 50 was not a fifty. I thought that the free kick that preceeded it was ridiculous. Yes, I agree that we often get the rough end of the stick but that it did not cost us this game.

[NMWBloods]

Umpiring did not cost us the game. The call against Barry was poor but had no real impact. The missed trip against McVeigh was disappointing, but it was one of a number decisions both ways incorrect (eg: the mark taken off Robbo when Yze incorrectly called as shepherding).

[woo]

what about the free against leo barry after his great tackle..unbelieveable..I am stilll dumfounded by that call

[ugg]

Yeah there were iffy decisions but for both sides.

However, umpire #31's bounces were truly appalling. Worse than the ex-player-turned-umpire (I forgot his name) who copped so much flak for it.

[Glenn]

#31 was Troy Pannell

[stellation]

I believe Troy was the one who gave the free kick to Robbo against Leo for interfering in the marking contest, then ran down the other end of the ground to get Rivers for HTB and give the 50.

[swannieserin]

Honestly? There's no point making a fuss about umpiring. Ultimately a good team wins no matter what - and we proved it last year with the premiership.

Getting aggrevated by something out of your control - and out of the players control - is fruitless.

[midaro]

Year............FF...........FA...........Diff.... ...%FF/FA
2000............383..........382............1..... ...100
2001............393..........396...........-3........99
2002............295..........322..........-27........92
2003............361..........354............7..... ...102
2004............382..........364...........18..... ...105
2005 Rnds 1-5...101..........101............0........100

On April 30, 2005, (just prior to our Round 6 match) Andrew Demetriou made his infamous remarks.

Year............FF...........FA...........Diff.... ...%FF/FA
2005 Rnds 6-GF..321..........413..........-92........78
2006 Rnds 1-3....48..........65...........-17........74

So in summary:
................FF...........FA...........Diff.... ...%FF/FA
Before AD.......1915.........1919...........-4.......100
After AD.........369..........478.........-109........77

[punter257]

very interesting

we seem to give away lots of dumb frees (*cough jolly cough*) but never seem to receive some obvious ones

[Schneiderman]

To me its always the ones we DONT get that piss me off. And there were plenty of stupid ones missed by the umps yesterday.

I dont think the umpiring cost us anymore than our poor kicking for goal did. But it still riles me how we seem to be so good at conceding a free within the first minute of every game and gift them a goal with it too.

[BarneyG]

Originally posted by punter257
very interesting

we seem to give away lots of dumb frees (*cough jolly cough*) but never seem to receive some obvious ones

2 off Jollys frees resulted directly in goals for Melbourne.... needs discipline that boy.

[giant]

Originally posted by BarneyG
2 off Jollys frees resulted directly in goals for Melbourne.... needs discipline that boy.

To be fair, they were both extremely soft frees - & god knows what the 50m with the first one was about.

But we got plenty of help from the umpires yesterday - that 50m penalty vs Rivers was disgraceful. If that had happened vs the Swans I would've stormed out of the stadium. I can only assume it was pay back for missing that blatantly obvious trip on McV.