Reminiscing - and not in a good way

[Blood Fever]

Don't watch the full match whatever you do. They were constantly throwing the ball, even to the extent of doing it over their heads and between their legs and they NEVER got pinged for it.

I'm waiting for the day when we be the beneficiaries of bad umpiring but I'll be dead by the time that happens.

Have faith SS, our time will come soon. Hopefully in a GF. It will turn.

[Blue Sun]

Just watched it, I feel sick. The AFL is rigged. Could you imagine if a Victorian side was short-changed like that?

[Doctor]

I was able to watch the clip, and more objectively than I suspected I would be. I think the "in the back" non-frees had our guys dropping their knees for the most part and I can live with them. Similarly for the "below the knees" frees, with the clear exception of the one on Hanners. The rest are almost universally dreadful decisions. Throws, non-calls, taking players out of marking contests etc. It was a poorly officiated game and one that we may well have won had it been fairly umpired. Note that by fairly I don't meant that would have benefited from every call, just that it was consistent and even.

[Steve]

It was so telling when the AFL came out and said the officiating was sub-par. In their language that was the equivalent of them admitting it was shameful, bordering on corrupt.

Although watching that actually softens my view about the ones we weren't paid - the majority I would be quite happy to be called play-on in a GF. Even a couple of the sliding / taking the legs ones I think were borderline at best - with Papley and Hewett's the contact seemed on or just above the knee.

The totally inexplicable thing is that the whole 'put the whistle away' approach only went one way. Rampe's HTB was a disgrace, literally the ump created a non-existent reason to pay that. But then you look at all the other cases where Bulldogs players were actually tackled without disposing of it effectively, without penalty.

I remember clearly Hunter's throw over his head (to Picken for his snap goal) which was about twice as obvious as the one Parker was pinged for last Friday night.

[stevoswan]

Brilliant video.!!! Thanks for having the courage to compile this. You also missed Liberatore's throwing the ball, which happened about three times. Can someone tell me how the Best AFL umpires in Australia can be accused of Mis Management??? It is either incompetence or Corruption, take your pick. As Long and Gil M and his wife cheating brigands rule the AFL, you will never see a Swans side win the Premiership. I know people will not what to hear this but it is true. Pay Back time for signing Buddy!

Exactly....our papers were stamped as soon as we signed the Bud. I hope we're wrong but I fear the worst. The evidence keeps accumulating as each year passes......it's depressing. This thread is depressing me, it's still too raw.....I'm off.

[sprite]

Ha - I'm annoyed with the 1996 GF, where Craig O'Brien wasn't paid a free for too high just before half time.

He would have kicked the goal to put us 8 goals up, but North took it down the ground to kick a goal and reduce the margin.

We know what happened from there...

It's been a bloody conspiracy against us since 1945.. the famous Blood Bath....

[KTigers]

As annoying as it is that the umps are so easily influenced by the flavour of the day, the footy media scrum are such sycophantic boosters, and the AFL
hierarchy an old boys club, it's kinda hard to buy into the whole conspiracy thing.
As that implies a level of organisation and intelligence from a bunch of people that probably aren't really the sharpest tools in the shed.

[S.S. Bleeder]

Ha - I'm annoyed with the 1996 GF, where Craig O'Brien wasn't paid a free for too high just before half time.

He would have kicked the goal to put us 8 goals up, but North took it down the ground to kick a goal and reduce the margin.

We know what happened from there...

It's been a bloody conspiracy against us since 1945.. the famous Blood Bath....

I was seated right above that incident. King kneed him in the head and he was out for the match. Ripped off!!!

[Blood Fever]

I was seated right above that incident. King kneed him in the head and he was out for the match. Ripped off!!!

Would get at least 4 weeks for incident these days. Broke his nose and fractured his cheekbone. Play on in 1996!

[mcs]

I can see how when two teams who play a contested style play each other then one team may give away 20 frees in a game, what I don't
understand is how the other team can only give away 8 frees in the entire game.

I wont be watching the video tonight after a @@@@ty day at work, but this nails my feelings on it completely KTigers, and its a point a lot of supporters of other teams simply don't seem to get for whatever reason.

It was a hugely tight, very congested, contested style of football all day. Poor individual umpiring decisions are always galling, especially when a group of them happen in the same game - but the clear differential between the two teams was what I can not understand, and no one has been able to mount a reasonable defence in response to. Such a differential suggests we were vastly more ill disciplined/breaking the rules than the Dogs. My general recollection of the day suggested nothing of the sort.

A free kick count that more closely reflected the nature of the vast majority of the game (Especially as a few of our frees came very late in the game) and one can only wonder what the result might have been.

[crackedactor]

For what its worth, I still remember Dunkley getting kicked in the face by Carey. Not paying a free kick at least (Should have been reported) was again beyond belief.