Most overtly biased umpiring I have seen

[TheUnaBomber]

The crowd wasn't booing Lloyd

Are you sure? Seemed like it to me. The jeering quietened prior to his speech, but I could barely even hear what he said, once he'd commenced. Why would you all have not let him speak?

[ScottH]

Are you sure? Seemed like it to me. The jeering quietened prior to his speech, but I could barely even hear what he said, once he'd commenced. Why would you all have not let him speak?

If you read through this thread (or some of the other ones), you'll see a few people mentioned that they booed the umps.

[LeftPointPost]

Come on now, really guys, who are you to bitch about umpiring and rules?

If we want to take a trip down memory lane, how about to the 2005 season? Big Bad Barry decides to belt someone 100 meters off the ball, all this is caught on tape, and for anyone else, it's an automatic suspension. But no, the most important Sydney player gets to play the next week, and you win your first flag in 70 odd years. No one gets favoured by those in charge more then Sydney, after all, you've managed to keep your team in tact after premierships because of the AFL's concessions.

Decisions were bad both ways, how about Bevan's goal from a free kick, because he was holding onto McPhee? Sydney for the night had 2 goals from free kicks, Essendon had 2 goals from free kicks as well.

At the start of the season, Mal Michael looked gone with the new interpretation. What does he do? Starts playing in front and getting to the ball first. Reinvented himself, while the likes of Barry Hall play the same old way and wonder why they get pinged? It's because he breaks the rules. You aren't allowed to touch an oponentns back, irrergadless of whether thats a good or bad rule, he broke them, and paid the price.

So how do the good old Sydney faithful respond to something finally not going there way? Boo the opposition club Captain, who had absolutely nothing to do with it. Disgraceful, but I guess when your two time Brownlow medal winning "champion" has hissy fits and targets the fairest player going around, a bit of the sooky la la's will rub off onto the crowd.

4 points, it's all that matters. You lost, deal with it and stop looking for excuses. Look at your own mistakes, things you can control, like having a point post 10 times thicker then any other in the league.

[Big Al]

Also if you think being a boundary umpire is so easy I suggest you give it a go sometime, because having done it before I know I rather be a field umpire than a boundary umpire its that bloody hard.

I was a bounday Umpire for 2 seasons in the SFL back in the 80's, so I do know of the physical demands. I made these comments a couple of hours after the game when I was still very cranky. I have since softened on the boundary umpire because, as you say, he was caught a fair way behind the play on a fast break. As for the field umpires, I am still bloody cranky.

[TheHood]

Come on now, really guys, who are you to bitch about umpiring and rules?

If we want to take a trip down memory lane, how about to the 2005 season? Big Bad Barry decides to belt someone 100 meters off the ball, all this is caught on tape, and for anyone else, it's an automatic suspension. But no, the most important Sydney player gets to play the next week, and you win your first flag in 70 odd years. No one gets favoured by those in charge more then Sydney, after all, you've managed to keep your team in tact after premierships because of the AFL's concessions.

Decisions were bad both ways, how about Bevan's goal from a free kick, because he was holding onto McPhee? Sydney for the night had 2 goals from free kicks, Essendon had 2 goals from free kicks as well.

At the start of the season, Mal Michael looked gone with the new interpretation. What does he do? Starts playing in front and getting to the ball first. Reinvented himself, while the likes of Barry Hall play the same old way and wonder why they get pinged? It's because he breaks the rules. You aren't allowed to touch an oponentns back, irrergadless of whether thats a good or bad rule, he broke them, and paid the price.

So how do the good old Sydney faithful respond to something finally not going there way? Boo the opposition club Captain, who had absolutely nothing to do with it. Disgraceful, but I guess when your two time Brownlow medal winning "champion" has hissy fits and targets the fairest player going around, a bit of the sooky la la's will rub off onto the crowd.

4 points, it's all that matters. You lost, deal with it and stop looking for excuses. Look at your own mistakes, things you can control, like having a point post 10 times thicker then any other in the league.

We don't see you on here after a 45 point loss do we? You should pop in more consistently.

Hird the fairest player in the league you say? The bribe to McLaren suggests otherwise, however hats off, it worked a treat. Bet you're glad to get Goldie back on the payroll too for 2007.

As for taking pride in Mal reinventing himself as a diving dog, that is quite consistent with your current captain and former captain, all legends of the knee buckle.

Enjoy the week, I am sure it will only be a week, unless you get Goldie and MacLaren to do a tag team in your ring.

[TheUnaBomber]

Come on now, really guys, who are you to bitch about umpiring and rules?

If we want to take a trip down memory lane, how about to the 2005 season? Big Bad Barry decides to belt someone 100 meters off the ball, all this is caught on tape, and for anyone else, it's an automatic suspension. But no, the most important Sydney player gets to play the next week, and you win your first flag in 70 odd years. No one gets favoured by those in charge more then Sydney, after all, you've managed to keep your team in tact after premierships because of the AFL's concessions.

Decisions were bad both ways, how about Bevan's goal from a free kick, because he was holding onto McPhee? Sydney for the night had 2 goals from free kicks, Essendon had 2 goals from free kicks as well.

At the start of the season, Mal Michael looked gone with the new interpretation. What does he do? Starts playing in front and getting to the ball first. Reinvented himself, while the likes of Barry Hall play the same old way and wonder why they get pinged? It's because he breaks the rules. You aren't allowed to touch an oponentns back, irrergadless of whether thats a good or bad rule, he broke them, and paid the price.

So how do the good old Sydney faithful respond to something finally not going there way? Boo the opposition club Captain, who had absolutely nothing to do with it. Disgraceful, but I guess when your two time Brownlow medal winning "champion" has hissy fits and targets the fairest player going around, a bit of the sooky la la's will rub off onto the crowd.

4 points, it's all that matters. You lost, deal with it and stop looking for excuses. Look at your own mistakes, things you can control, like having a point post 10 times thicker then any other in the league.

Well said. I think it was Jude Bolton, on the news tonight, that basically admitted the Swans were off their game from the outset, allowed Essendon to take too much control of the game. There were bad calls all night, even a few I would admit that went against Baz, where he clearly was not at fault. Big woopee. It happens all the time. Goodes will be cited for his hit on Hird, or there is no justice. McPhee was a country mile OOB, no call, but whose to say Davey, mcVeigh, Lucas or any of 15 other players would not have snapped a goal? How about the point that should have been the winning goal, but for "too tall" post padding.
It happens to everyone. Get on with next week, you'll have your hands full with Hawthorn...

[ScottH]

Maybe you guys should read more of the threads before you start posting, not every thought Sydney were hard done by. Yes there were decisions that went against us, but we also recognise that some went with us. We also recognise that you guys played much better than us. We played like crap, except for a few small bursts.

Crowds like to take their frustration out on opposition players, umpires, and sometimes the coaches as well. It's part of the game. Happens everywhere.

[ScottH]

Well said. I think it was Jude Bolton, on the news tonight, that basically admitted the Swans were off their game from the outset, allowed Essendon to take too much control of the game. There were bad calls all night, even a few I would admit that went against Baz, where he clearly was not at fault. Big woopee. It happens all the time. Goodes will be cited for his hit on Hird, or there is no justice. McPhee was a country mile OOB, no call, but whose to say Davey, mcVeigh, Lucas or any of 15 other players would not have snapped a goal? How about the point that should have been the winning goal, but for "too tall" post padding.
It happens to everyone. Get on with next week, you'll have your hands full with Hawthorn...

What are we supposed to do about the padding. Surely that is an SCG/AFL issue.

[TheUnaBomber]

Enjoy the week, I am sure it will only be a week, unless you get Goldie and MacLaren to do a tag team in your ring.

Hang on, we hate them too! They've done so many wrongs by us it aint funny! LOL!!

[NMWBloods]

One would be to do away with umpire's
altogether

Which umpire and do away with his what? His brain? Too late.

it has totally overshadowed a great,
deserving-of-a-win, performance from our boy's.

Which boy? And the performance of his what?

when clearly one of your boy's had him by the arm??

One of our boy's what? Dogs? Cats? Arms? Gorillas? And which boy?

You're not very clear...

[NMWBloods]

If we want to take a trip down memory lane, how about to the 2005 season? Big Bad Barry decides to belt someone 100 meters off the ball, all this is caught on tape, and for anyone else, it's an automatic suspension. But no, the most important Sydney player gets to play the next week, and you win your first flag in 70 odd years. No one gets favoured by those in charge more then Sydney, after all, you've managed to keep your team in tact after premierships because of the AFL's concessions.

If you're going to troll, don't be so pathetic about it and at least get your facts vaguely right. It was called 'in-play' because that is precisely how the AFL had already defined it pre-season. The tribunal had no other choice.

[LeftPointPost]

We don't see you on here after a 45 point loss do we? You should pop in more consistently.

Hird the fairest player in the league you say? The bribe to McLaren suggests otherwise, however hats off, it worked a treat. Bet you're glad to get Goldie back on the payroll too for 2007.

As for taking pride in Mal reinventing himself as a diving dog, that is quite consistent with your current captain and former captain, all legends of the knee buckle.

Enjoy the week, I am sure it will only be a week, unless you get Goldie and MacLaren to do a tag team in your ring.

All cheap shots, nothing about the match, and more importantly - Nothing about the mistakes Sydney made which cost them the game. After all, we all know sydney rely on the powers that be to actually win games, even Premierships.

You don't see me in here after a 45 point loss because I didn't know this site existed, nothing personal I don't dislike you, put the razor away. Heard there was 13 pages bitching about umpires, and thought I'd come for a laugh. Good laugh too, but I promise you next time you beat us (Whenever that is) I'll come back.

Bribe to McLaren? Distorted memory, but after reading through 13 pages, I found that to be a prerequisit for being a Sydney fan. Hird complained about McLaren's umpiring in a lot of matches, never said it cost us the game, but said he was being treated unfairly. Bribe are what you do when your state hates football, to the AFL, to win premierships. Hird played perhaps the greatest game of football by a modern day player and single handedly won us the match, yet didn't recieve A Brownlow vote. Bribe money ran out a week after.

Want to bitch about Hird? Maybe you should bitch about Goodes, who gave away multiple free kicks simply because he's not a big enough man to cop the hiding he was recieving from Bolton. He sooked, and he cried, and he got a touch of the Barry Hall's, which cost you free kicks. Soft ones, but ones he knew would be paid. Certainly after the first one was, anyway.

Diving dog? Not really, more as a smart player. He realises if he plays in front, and backs back on opponents, most won't be smart enough to play within the rules. Barry Hall had more then one chance to get it right, yet he continued to break the rules and cry like a baby when it was his own doing.

Actually this is the third week in a row, but I will enjoy this one, maybe next time you guys get a win you'll be able to back it up the following week? Afterall, we don't want fickle bandwagoning Sydney fans hopping off after all that success...

[ScottH]

Come on now, really guys, who are you to bitch about umpiring and rules?

If we want to take a trip down memory lane, how about to the 2005 season? Big Bad Barry decides to belt someone 100 meters off the ball, all this is caught on tape, and for anyone else, it's an automatic suspension. But no, the most important Sydney player gets to play the next week, and you win your first flag in 70 odd years. No one gets favoured by those in charge more then Sydney, after all, you've managed to keep your team in tact after premierships because of the AFL's concessions.

My trip down memory lane, says that Halls charge was downgraded, and was lucky to get off. He also had very little impact on the GF, which we won.

[LeftPointPost]

Maybe you guys should read more of the threads before you start posting, not every thought Sydney were hard done by. Yes there were decisions that went against us, but we also recognise that some went with us. We also recognise that you guys played much better than us. We played like crap, except for a few small bursts.

Crowds like to take their frustration out on opposition players, umpires, and sometimes the coaches as well. It's part of the game. Happens everywhere.

I know mate, wasn't having a go at everyone. But really, blaming the umpires when you were actually lucky to be within a point is stupid.

They made bad calls all night, for both teams (McPhee's deliberate OOB??). You focus on what you can control. Like your frustration, Goodesy.

[ScottH]

blah blah blah blah.

Yawn.