Umpiring Umpiring Crows v Demons Round 10
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My guess is the umpire saw the Adelaide player nearby and that's what saved him.
Not anywhere near as egregious as the 2 Geelong results.
Not anywhere near as egregious as the 2 Geelong results.
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The problem is there were two. Keays should have been pinged HTB at the other end less than a minute earlier- and they had been paying incorrect disposal all night on those. Gutless gutless umpiring.
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Absolutely ****ed
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First off, for the sake of trying to keep this thread on track rather than being accused of being a salty Port flog, I'll start by saying that the Crows played the best game they've played in years today and they did extremely well to have themselves in a position of being ahead of a previously undefeated team with 30 seconds on the clock. Enjoy your win.
Now that's out of the way, this is the third time this year that a game has been decided by an umpire bottling it and making an objectively wrong call to avoid angering the home crowd and consequently costing the away team the game:
1. Geelong at home against Brisbane, Bailey's obvious HTB on Blicavs 10 metres out not called;
2. Sydney at home against Geelong, Jeremy Cameron's mark 10 metres out called 'not 15';
3. Adelaide at home against Melbourne, Nick Murray with the most obvious deliberate out of bounds we've seen all season which should've have resulted in a shot to Melbourne from 5 metres out, no call.
That's three times this year that a team has been robbed of what would have been a near certain win by a gutless umpire. What can the AFL do about this?
Now that's out of the way, this is the third time this year that a game has been decided by an umpire bottling it and making an objectively wrong call to avoid angering the home crowd and consequently costing the away team the game:
1. Geelong at home against Brisbane, Bailey's obvious HTB on Blicavs 10 metres out not called;
2. Sydney at home against Geelong, Jeremy Cameron's mark 10 metres out called 'not 15';
3. Adelaide at home against Melbourne, Nick Murray with the most obvious deliberate out of bounds we've seen all season which should've have resulted in a shot to Melbourne from 5 metres out, no call.
That's three times this year that a team has been robbed of what would have been a near certain win by a gutless umpire. What can the AFL do about this?
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TheBrownDog
Oi, whichever mod merged this post into this thread, the thread I made was not just about the Crows vs Melbourne game, it was about a wider issue that's affected multiple games this season.
I'm starting my thread again. Leave it up.
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TheBrownDog
Yes, because I would've looked like a bit of a dickhead if I made a thread about a pattern of umpires bottling calls in front of the home crowd in multiple games before they'd done it in multiple games, wouldn't have I? How was I supposed to make a thread about a pattern of umpiring errors before that pattern has been established?
Do you think the deliberate call was correct or not? Regardless of team affliction
So the first two examples don't count as "multiple" games. It's funny how you only defined it as a "pattern" when it happened in a Crows game. lol.
Mods saw right through your bullshit which is why they merged your thread.
Yep deliberate.
But plenty of bad calls through the night.
Plenty in most games. The umpiring standard across the league is poor.
Us supporters cherry pick the bad calls that affect our teams. But the reality is every team is hard done by as the overall standard is shite.
Umpires need better training. Like players need to be full tim professionals.
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TheBrownDog
I was being polite about it before, but since you've taken it upon yourself to be a dick for no reason, fingers crossed that tonight's unjust and ultimately meaningless win costs you a good draft pick.
Obvious poor decision making by umpires.
Crows fans claiming:
- Spargo touched the handball from Murray; or
- The handball from Murray was a "skill error" to Doedee
are just trying to wind up Demons supporters.
Anyway, the result is in the book, it was a blatant robbery but we move on. This game will not make a difference in the grand scheme of things. If this game is the difference between Dees top 4 and not then they probably have bigger problems on hand.
Crows fans claiming:
- Spargo touched the handball from Murray; or
- The handball from Murray was a "skill error" to Doedee
are just trying to wind up Demons supporters.
Anyway, the result is in the book, it was a blatant robbery but we move on. This game will not make a difference in the grand scheme of things. If this game is the difference between Dees top 4 and not then they probably have bigger problems on hand.
Deliberate but it was obvious the umpire couldn't see it clearly. Besides the Demons shouldn't have let it get to that point in the first place. They had plenty of opportunity to shut the game down but they couldn't close down Adelaide's kicking through the corridor fast enough.
Would the noise cancelling headphones help the umps pick up all the ducking and throwing your boys were doing? If so I'm all for it.
Bose is a shit brand but the Quiet Comfort series work well for blocking out sound.
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Shit calls are never going to stop, and us supporters are never going to stop complaining about them, so I think the simplest fix for this would be to give each team captain one challenge each game for a review.
A few softies went both ways mate, I just want consistency. You blokes had 3 deliberate calls go your way that were less obvious than the one in the last 30 secs, consistency means it should've been paid
