Swans chat Damian Barrett

[Sandridge]

This is not the first time Damian Barrett has referenced the 2016 Grand Final in his Sliding Door piece on the AFL website. And every time he does, it's very clear he understands what happened that day.

(You need to scroll down to the Western Bulldogs comment.)

[imuninformedtwo]

It's not the first time, and he's right.

It's interesting listening to Swans peeps once they have left the system and are free to speak their minds. I heard interviews with both Hanners and Steve Taubert (the former ruck coach) in the past year where they both made clear their views. Taubert in particular - and wish I could find it - went right off, describing the umpiring as an effing joke, among other descriptions.

[mcs]

There is a lot that Barrett dribbles on about, but happy for him to keep reminding the world of that #crimeagainstcygnets.

He gets it - a few others around the place get it. Hence I enjoyed getting out a tiny, tiny violin when the Bulldogs whined incessantly after being bent over by the umpires the other week. May it happen to them many more times in the future... the umpiring that day in 2016 was horrendous.

How many times since has a team gone almost 3 quarters without conceding a free kick.....

[Sandridge]

It's not the first time, and he's right.

It's interesting listening to Swans peeps once they have left the system and are free to speak their minds. I heard interviews with both Hanners and Steve Taubert (the former ruck coach) in the past year where they both made clear their views. Taubert in particular - and wish I could find it - went right off, describing the umpiring as an effing joke, among other descriptions.

Would love to hear/see both interviews. We were all shafted on that day but Hanners was never the same after that game and has even more reason to be aggrieved.

[crackedactor 01]

This is not the first time Damian Barrett has referenced the 2016 Grand Final in his Sliding Door piece on the AFL website. And every time he does, it's very clear he understands what happened that day.

(You need to scroll down to the Western Bulldogs comment.)

Glad they still brig it to the attention. What hurt me the most is that I took my wife and myself to the match at a $1000 per head. I never dreamed a GF would be subjected to that type of umpiring. After that debacle I have never gone to another Swans match again.

[stellation]

I was chatting to a colleague who is a keen Collingwood fan this week and out of nowhere they brought up 2016, and mentioned how they clearly remember watching as a neutral and thinking the Swans had been swindled by the umpires.

[Sandridge]

Glad they still brig it to the attention. What hurt me the most is that I took my wife and myself to the match at a $1000 per head. I never dreamed a GF would be subjected to that type of umpiring. After that debacle I have never gone to another Swans match again.

If we'd been beaten fair and square, you'd probably say, "Well, that's how it goes." But for all Swans like you who paid big money to go to the game, only to see the club get well and truly shafted - it was horrendous!

[Sandridge]

I was chatting to a colleague who is a keen Collingwood fan this week and out of nowhere they brought up 2016, and mentioned how they clearly remember watching as a neutral and thinking the Swans had been swindled by the umpires.

And we weren't the only club to be swindled. The umpires got the Poodles over the line in the Preliminary Final against GWS. We shouldn't have had to play the Poodles - it should've been an all-Sydney Grand Final.

[mcs]

And we weren't the only club to be swindled. The umpires got the Poodles over the line in the Preliminary Final against GWS. We shouldn't have had to play the Poodles - it should've been an all-Sydney Grand Final.

We got royally shafted, but (mind the language haha) - the Giants got bent over and impaled without anything form of lubrication in that last quarter of that prelim. Some utterly appalling decisions in the last few minutes in particular to get the fairypuppies over the line. #Neverforget #Neverforgive lol!

[Sandridge]

We got royally shafted, but (mind the language haha) - the Giants got bent over and impaled without anything form of lubrication in that last quarter of that prelim. Some utterly appalling decisions in the last few minutes in particular to get the fairypuppies over the line. #Neverforget #Neverforgive lol!

Love your description of what happened to the Giants!

The Poodles played 4 finals in 2016. Here are the free kick stats for those 4 games.

Poodles 17 West Coast 13
Poodles 19 Hawthorn 14
Poodles 23 GWS 13
Poodles 20 Mighty Swans 8

They won the free kick count in all 4 finals and, the further they advanced, the more they won the count by. The 2016 premiership was a gift from the AFL to the Poodles.

[Blood Fever]

At one stage in the 2016 GF, it was 20-4. Astonishing.

[imuninformedtwo]

Legend has it that Andrew Ireland - who let’s face it, has seen everything in AFL and is as cool as a cucumber - who took the call from the AFL to acknowledge the umpiring wasn’t up to the standard, with up to five blatant calls going against us (four of which led to Dogs goals), then took two days to compose himself and summons the courage to tell Horse. He wasn’t sure whether it was too cruel to do, or Horse would kill him.

[Kafka's Ghost]

The Dogs players slid into the Swans guys legs multiple times that day. The Hannebery incident was right in front of us. As we all know, nada. Dan was never the same player afterwards, and it robbed the team of an important player with about 20 min to go, when the scores were less than a goal difference. It was a crucial moment on so many levels.

[Kafka's Ghost]

The Dogs players slid into the Swans guys legs multiple times that day. The Hannebery incident was right in front of us. As we all know, nada. Dan was never the same player afterwards, and it robbed the team of an important player with about 20 min to go, when the scores were less than a goal difference. It was a crucial moment on so many levels.

And I can’t hear the immortal phrase “Matt Stevic, one of the best in the business” without wanting to throw something at the TV or swearing loudly.

[KSAS]

Almost a decade later and the anger ? still burns ? just as fiercely. It all started in the first min when Kieran Jack was not awarded a 50m penalty after being bowled over after taking a mark inside just 50m arc. His long range shot missed instead from the goal square.

Whenever we started taking the ascendency, the Bulldogs kept receiving blocks of inexplicable free kicks & 50m penalties which continuously changed the momentum of the game against us. Also add in they were allowed to dispose of the ball by any means, as they were immune to being penalised.

I was sitting in a Swans section behind the city end goals and agonisingly watch the replay when I got home, to see if the umpiring was that bad as i had witnessed. IT WAS WORSE!!!

Caught seeing myself in a crowd shot standing up and giving Toby McLean an "up yours" after he missed an easy set shot from a Joel Selwood type deliberate high contact free, instead of an obvious holding the ball.