The Giesh admits what we already know - Baz is not being fairly treated

[NMWBloods]

2) Adam McPhee is a cheat.

This is really a bit silly!

[WASwansFanatic]

This is really a bit silly!

Perhaps but he still is an absolute tosser (if the rumours are correct!)

[Jeffers1984]

This is really a bit silly!

Yeah. There is no bloody way Mcphee would of conceeded that he was out of bounds. Doubt any other player in the league would.

[liz]

Yeah. There is no bloody way Mcphee would of conceeded that he was out of bounds. Doubt any other player in the league would.

McPhee would almost certainly not even realised he was out since he'd have been concentrating on what he was doing.

[NMWBloods]

Perhaps but he still is an absolute tosser (if the rumours are correct!)

Yes, he does look like a tosser, but not a cheat.

[j s]

"McPhee is hiding the ball in front of him and so the boundary umpire is told, as with all umpires, if you can't see something clearly, you don't guess. So he doesn't blow the whistle and they keep playing," Keane said. "Judging on what he can see, no (it is not a mistake). Judging on the video evidence, yes it is."

What a load of b******t! When McPhee's boot was making contact with the ball it would have been clearly visible and the position relative to the boundary line would have also been apparent because McPhee's right foot was on the ground outside the line meaning that his left had to be even further outside.

I've no idea who Patrick Keane is but he obviously has not actually watched that moment from the game - just spouting propaganda from the AFL.

[Eala ?ireann]

I'm only getting my voice back today after screaming my head off all night at the SCG. That was lamentable!

Swans were poor at the start and killed the game themselves most likely, but the umps...give me strength!!!

I said to my missus (who unfortunately is a Bombers supporter) after the game, that I can't help feeling that if big Baz wasn't shy in taking a dive, we would be hard to beat!

Now that's a shocking indictment of the way the game is being refereed if true. Players are being penalised for being competitive.

I have no idea how Baz keeps his composure. I'd have clocked someone (probably in yellow!).

Diabolical!

[goswannie14]

Yes, he does look like a tosser, but not a cheat.

You can tell if he's a cheat just by looking at him?

[NMWBloods]

You can tell if he's a cheat just by looking at him?

No - you can't tell if he's a cheat by just looking!

[NMWBloods]

"[A]s with all umpires, if you can't see something clearly, you don't guess"

What crap - umpires guess all the time, particularly in marking contests when they're out of position.


Does anyone else think that the AFL is resembling the Iraqi Propaganda Minister's office more and more every week!

[Industrial Fan]

You can tell if he's a cheat just by looking at him?

He was in red and black.

Guilty as charged (or uncharged as it were).

[WASwansFanatic]

Hang on a second. Is it not the bloody umpires job to be in the best position to make a decision.

Now for a boundary umpire surely this can not be that bloody hard. If there were exceptional circumstances, like he fell over or a player came crashing over the boundary line and took him out, then I could understand.

But that was just an ordinary bit of play and it was not like it was a line ball decision. BOTH bloody feet were out.

FFS the AFL is killing this game.

Whats the bet the boundary umpire will be umpiring again this week

[goswannie14]

"[A]s with all umpires, if you can't see something clearly, you don't guess"

What crap - umpires guess all the time, particularly in marking contests when they're out of position.


Does anyone else think that the AFL is resembling the Iraqi Propaganda Minister's office more and more every week!

ROFLMAO

"There are no umpiring mstakes in any game of AFL on any weekend anywhere."

[robamiee]

You know what gets me, is that a couple of weeks ago "The Geish" comes out and say we protect players who go in and get the ball....fine i dont have a problem with that, except when Swans do it..Malceski gets ball and just as he grabs it 2 bombers are all over him, no way in hell can he get the ball out..."whistle blows" holding the ball.
Amon Buchannan 3 weeks ago the oppostion basically molests him and almost takes his head off..holding the ball.

The Umpiring against the swans this year has been a joke, the only 2 games where i thought the umpiring was even and consistant was the last 2 weeks and we dominated.
It seems the swaqns are being umpired out of a premiership..(provided they play like they did against the power and dogs.)
if i was the swans board i would say to Roos and the rest of the players say what you want boys and we will pay the fines this week.

[Doctor]

The thing is that we can say "the Swans should have won anyway" but if you give Hall those two goals, and take the last Bomber goal away, and the one from the soft free to Mark Bolton, it gives us a 4 goal win. None of those were from anything we did wrong or from anything against the rules, even with the new interpretations. Not sure I am convinced about this argument myself mind you, but it's something to mull over I guess