Ray Chamberlin is a ******* ****** who agrees?

[Dosser]

Dosser -

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... there are more, just search on "Ray Chamberlain".

Thanks Yuri - I see that you feature prominently! lol

[Cardinal]

Deep breath everyone - no need to be too personal or slander minorities but I as a fellow student of the rules of the game I do understand your concern

[Xie Shan]

I thought we were beaten by a better team today, but geez they were not that much better (as the final margin showed). It wasn't so much that Freo were favoured by the umpiring, but it was more that we were blatantly NOT favoured. The weather, the umpiring, the second and third quarter fades... what a crap day at the footy. There's always next week!!

Oh and it's been said before, but I think we can say decisively that the dingo took the wrong Chamberlain.

[SwansFan1972]

Deep breath everyone - no need to be too personal or slander minorities but I as a fellow student of the rules of the game I do understand your concern

Not sure goblins are offered any protections from slander or persecution. And Ray does nothing to advance their cause ...

[SwansFan1972]

And one other thing ... sick to death of the crap weather we've had in many home games this year.

Some have the mistaken belief we are a good wet weather team - we haven't been that good in the wet since back when the 'Syyyyydneeeyyyyy' chant was first uttered in West Coast swimming pool game many moons ago.

We lost the game today when the rains came in the third. Got the settings a bit closer to right in the downpour in the last, but was too late then.

[Rob-bloods]

Gieschen will review the game and say the umpires were correct in their decisions. He will not mention the 50 or so throws that were not penalised beacuse the one 20 mtrs out in front of goal in the last minutes of a one goal game may well have been there. He will not say the 80 metres was too long or that the kick was soft ayway. He will not mention the time Ballantyne was beautifully tackled dropped the ball and it was play on. The holding the ball decison in front of goal was pretty harsh and again there were countless similar or worse examples let go.

Analyse Gieschen, the AFL take pity on poor ex coaches, who are hopeless at their craft, get the ass from their club job, and give them a pension job at the umpies club (remember Schwab, now wih the VFL or something ANOTHER pension job) and every week they come out and give the umpies a clean bill of health...well woopy do. McBurney, McInerney and Chamberlain are/were regarded as leading umpires and that my friends says it all.

[schwattasboots]

ray is a trible umpire the free against mummy should not been one


tadgh was just running the ball to the dockers player

[Nich]

AFL Umpires Association ---> FIFA

[Hartijon]

The Umpires were one sided and unfair that was obvious to even my American friends. However why did Tadgh not throw the ball straight back to the Fremantle player when failure to do that had already resulted in one 50 metre penalty. That led to the 80 metre penalty and eventual soft free kick in front of their goal. It was a terrible piece of play by Kenelly and cost us any chance of winning.

[Nich]

Ray and the boys copping a spray.

[Nolie]

This.

As much as I want to, I'm not going to attack the umpires personally. Professionally however they were absolutely abysmal today. I'm a passionate but objective supporter and if the free kicks are there I'll admit it (like Mummy's stupid elbow that led to the opening goal) but that was THE most one-sided umpiring performance against the Swans that I have ever attended. There is absolutely no doubt that it cost us the game. What makes matters worse though is that it clearly encourages grubs like Ballantyne to continue with playing the way they do. Do we want kids growing up learning to act like that in order to win games? He was validated by wretched umpiring.

Totally agree. The WA media will snigger and say what a "colourful character" Ballantyne is but his sort needs to be rubbed out. Cannot believe how umpires get sucked in by his antics.

[Lucky Knickers]

Gerard Whately on ATB just commented that the umpiring will be the most talked about point out of the game. I hope so!

[Aaron]

I have never been so angry about Umpiring. Just can't stand Chamberlin... Will writing to OPSM more effective than AFL?

[Kirkari]

Can't believe Ritchie isn't rating a mention. Clearly he was in need for a Whistle-rectomy to extract it from his clacker.
Poor Sammy was touched up by McPharlin more than the Sunday Altar Boy (sorry for poor joke - am mad)

Shocking umpiring all round. Immediate investigation into any and all betting by any and all friends (ha ha ha -like they have any) and relatives of the umpires required. B-L-I-N-D and DELUSIONAL. Un be eff in leave a ball.

[Bob Neil]

A wonderful display of obscure interpretation of the rules.
Unfortunately, it made me much less likely to take my kids to more games for a while.