Match Thread. Swans v Hawthorn

[Blood Fever]

I hope Longmire has a go in the press conference - he wont as he is too classy, but that was seriously the worst umpiring I've seen since that black stain in history that was the fairypuppies, especially in the first half.

When Wayne Carey openly whines about umpiring in the commentary box, you know its been pretty ordinary (While I have zero time for him as a person, he is far better than any of those other donkeys in the channel 7 commentary box - bar Jude down on the sideline of course)

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There were huge signs we were struggling for energy last week, but that was really poor tonight.

Just think how the @@@@s and pees turned it around in a fortnight after the break, hopefully we can do the same. Will need to be 100x better than that to be any hope against Port in Adelaide, where we can probably expect just as ordinary officiating too.

We were running out of gas against Saints and were lucky to win. Need a rest and I'm sure we'll regroup. 8-5 way beyond our expectations at start of year. Will be interesting to see how we go..

[waswan]

I didnt get to watch but umpiring aside (not that a game has ever been 7 goals from umps) that is a stain on the season,disgraceful
Please explain how amarteys 8 poss 1 goal game is life changing

[MattW]

God afl is such a @@@@ sport where any free kick can be anything you want it to be. Yeah we deserved to lose but the last 3 weeks have shown that umpiring interpretations of normal rules.can swing so drastically in favour of whoever you want it to favour

Yeah we were amazing in the first few weeks but you look at the free kick count then too.
We won the free kicks in easily cause we were the underdog and we were the romantic team to go for

Until umpiring is made a legit career this sport will always be rigged

Yes I think we deserved to lose tonight but god was the umpiring awful. @@@@ing fix it or what's the point

Yeah, don't generally go for the umpiring bit and agree we were well beaten, but that was like running fingernails down a brick.

[Kafka's Ghost]

We were flat as tacks and deserved to lose, but the umpiring was execrable.

[Blood Fever]

God afl is such a @@@@ sport where any free kick can be anything you want it to be. Yeah we deserved to lose but the last 3 weeks have shown that umpiring interpretations of normal rules.can swing so drastically in favour of whoever you want it to favour

Yeah we were amazing in the first few weeks but you look at the free kick count then too.
We won the free kicks in easily cause we were the underdog and we were the romantic team to go for

Until umpiring is made a legit career this sport will always be rigged

Yes I think we deserved to lose tonight but god was the umpiring awful. @@@@ing fix it or what's the point

Chamberlain should be dropped for not paying that deliberate out of bounds. Did it to attract attention to himself. Thinks he's on a par with players. Unprofessional.

[MattW]

I don't turn it off often, but have now. Just horrendous.

Muted in the first quarter. Never a great sign.

[aardvark]

I'll store that one away with the 2014 GF. Someone needs to explain to the players that if you mouth off to Razor you don't get a call your way for the rest of the game.

[MattW]

Chamberlain should be dropped for not paying that deliberate out of bounds. Did it to attract attention to himself. Thinks he's on a par with players. Unprofessional.

I don't think Chamberlain has an entrenched bias in any direction, but reckon he subconsciously embraces the boos.

[Merdo5555]

Team was poor, umpiring was poor and commentating was poor.

To Hawthorn's credit they were good enough to pick off a very poor team tonight.

This performance has been coming we were a but lucky to win the last two games, we need to rejig are game style at the SCG as its too easy to block off the corridor.

[aardvark]

Please explain how amarteys 8 poss 1 goal game is life changing

Didn't he kick 2? He actually looks like a reasonable prospect, Needs to put on a bit of muscle.

[mcs]

I didnt get to watch but umpiring aside (not that a game has ever been 7 goals from umps) that is a stain on the season,disgraceful
Please explain how amarteys 8 poss 1 goal game is life changing

It was 12 disposals and 2 goals.

He presented well, competed okay in the ruck, did everything reasonable on a night the team played like a bunch of dog poo lol.

Worth perservering with, and offered more around the ground then Sinclair has when he has played, while not being any worse in the ruck.

[longmile]

Thanks everyone for the good times but that's it for me. Not watching the AFL until umpiring becomes a full time career

[Kafka's Ghost]

Didn't he kick 2?

Indeed he did.

[Agent 86]

BT very impressed with Rowbottom’s lockdown role on Mitchell.

Nepotism?

[Roadrunner]

The less said about that the better.

Guys, this was an absolute shocker. We looked tired, listless and without composure. On top of that, we copped seriously woeful umpiring, which understandably demoralised the team.

We are better than this- let’s see if we can recover after the bye. Fair to say that our selection was wrong as Brand should have been in for Fox- however I don’t think Horse was outcoached. We didn’t have a single winner tonight and credit to Hawthorn, they played much better for 4 quarters. We hardly gave a yelp and the players need to have a good hard look as they didn’t earn their pay tonight. Tough for us to take but unfortunately it was bound to happen; though I wish it wasn’t against this mob!