R12 Swans V Saints @SCG - Live

[Wardy]

Stevic, Matthew Nicholls and for a special encore appearance, Scott McLaren.

You forgot Darren Goldspink!! ????

[Blue Sun]

I am not convinced Razor ray is anti Swans, he just is a bit erratic. I have serious doubts on Stevic, Mollison and Nicholls not being Anti Swans.

Stevic is absolutely anti-Swans. No doubt about that. I’d love to see his career total for frees against and for Sydney. Any way we can find that stat?

[Kafka's Ghost]

I am not convinced Razor ray is anti Swans, he just is a bit erratic. I have serious doubts on Stevic, Mollison and Nicholls not being Anti Swans.

I don’t think Nicholls is anti-Swans, he’s just incredibly officious and pedantic.
Stevic, on the other hand, has made some shocking decisions against us, with 2016 GF his supreme achievement.

[Markwebbos]

Don't wish to be a spoilsport, but could the umpiring please have its own thread?

[Wardy]

I don’t think Nicholls is anti-Swans, he’s just incredibly officious and pedantic.
Stevic, on the other hand, has made some shocking decisions against us, with 2016 GF his supreme achievement.

and to think we all paid $400 per ticket (plus travel expenses, accomodation and our contributions to the Victorian economy)to witness the tripe he delivered.

[Bangalore Swans]

Any chance Gary Lyon will wax lyrical about Max King on On The Couch. He never stopped talking about him.

To be fair Gary Lyon has spoken positively about the Swans on many occasions. He complements our young players and he admires Franklin.

I didn’t know that Lyon was a player that Franklin admired growing up.

[MattW]

Don't wish to be a spoilsport, but could the umpiring please have its own thread?

Good call; in the vein of the sandpit.

[Matty10]

Good call; in the vein of the sandpit.

It would probably be a very popular thread!

People could return to it each week, check the stats of umpires in the lead-up to games, reinforce their suspicions during games and then talk conspiracy theories when we wind up on the wrong side of the free kick ledger at the end.

Who’s going to start it?

[Nico]

To be fair Gary Lyon has spoken positively about the Swans on many occasions. He complements our young players and he admires Franklin.

I didn’t know that Lyon was a player that Franklin admired growing up.

I like Lyon but he was nauseatingly yesterday, and I rarely take notice of the special comments people.

[Mark26]

Does anyone think it’s a huge concern that only 19,000 people came to the SCG yesterday?

It was a great day, Buddy was in form, the team has a winning record and the crowds didn’t turn up.

I'll be a financial member until there's no breath left in me. I love planning our trips to Sydney to watch the Swans (which is a six hour round trip drive).

But this little hiccup called a pandemic is keeping us at home until the situation is much safer.

I suspect we aren't the only ones.

[Ludwig]

Before we send the umpiring thread into exile, I thought I might add a slightly different viewpoint on the so called umpiring problem.

My suspicion is that umpires are feeling underappreciated and denigrated by society and are striking back on the footy field in a search for recognition and desire to become an important part of the community at large.

I have a few ideas that might help things along.

We need a national holiday of love and reconciliation with the umpiring community, to make umpires feel good about themselves.

On that day we can all wear fluoro green or yellow shirts. (Ludwig Fashions LLC already have these on sale on our website):





We can even have an umpire flag:



And maybe we should have a big parade in Sydney to show we care. Let's call it Green And Yellow Pride Day.

Maybe the AFL can have an event where famous footy folks dress up in green and yellow and are pushed down a slide into a big bucket of ice water. It doesn't make sense, but this is the AFL. It doesn't have to make any more sense than the HTB rule.

If we just show we care, I'm sure we will find that many folks in our community that we thought of as bogans will come out as umpires, filling the ranks of the green and yellow community.

Brighter days are just around the corner.

[i'm-uninformed2]

Stevic, Meredith and Jeffrey are the three I’ll never forgive for 2016. Incompetence or cheating, it doesn’t matter.

The AFL made clear afterwards it was sub-standard and cost three or four goals. You screw up a grand final and you should be banished.

Stevic in particular was renowned during the Hawks era as a fanatical 23rd player. Some of his umpiring was truly outrageous, no matter who the Hawks played.

[MattW]

There's the umpiring thread (a sticky); the 2016 Grand Final Injustice Thread; and the Combined Umpiring and Grand Final Mega-Thread, burning an eternal flame.

[mcs]

I don’t think Nicholls is anti-Swans, he’s just incredibly officious and pedantic.
Stevic, on the other hand, has made some shocking decisions against us, with 2016 GF his supreme achievement.

Every time I watch the replaying of the glory of our 2012 GF, I realise just how bad Stevic was that day too - he tried his utmost to stuff us good and proper that day too. We were just good enough on that day to get above it. He is an awful umpire imho - though he may well not have to worry about the jibes of a life membership at the Hawks for a while, given they are seemingly headed well towards irrelevance for a while (hopefully as long as Carlton has been down there if karma has anything to do with it!)

[giant]

In many ways I agree with this. If we had lost it would’ve been unjust. The eye test said we were always he better, more dangerous side but just couldn’t get away mainly due to a few gifts to the Saints. The promising thing with this is that we were really a long way from our best.

Disagree with that. NWS the umpiring, the Saints worked harder, tackled more, ran further etc. We were damn lucky to get away with a win.