Now I am aware that a few of my Saintsational brethren have been critical from time to time of the abilities and even the motivations of umpires, but surely you must admit tonight that they did a good job. Very few questionable decisions , and had the guts to pay the frees to us that were there. We won the free kick count, and kicked 4 from frees and another from a free that we got at half forward and pumped into the goal square- all of them correct decisions. They were not influenced by the noise of affirmation.
I know that is their job, to get decisions right, but given they get called out when they fail, I acknowledge that tonight they were good. Even the video umpire was on the mark !
The umpires tonight
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Re: The umpires tonight
Much better performance from them tonightGeorge27 wrote: ↑Sat 25 Jul 2020 11:30pm Now I am aware that a few of my Saintsational brethren have been critical from time to time of the abilities and even the motivations of umpires, but surely you must admit tonight that they did a good job. Very few questionable decisions , and had the guts to pay the frees to us that were there. We won the free kick count, and kicked 4 from frees and another from a free that we got at half forward and pumped into the goal square- all of them correct decisions. They were not influenced by the noise of affirmation.
I know that is their job, to get decisions right, but given they get called out when they fail, I acknowledge that tonight they were good. Even the video umpire was on the mark !
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Re: The umpires tonight
Don’t love the new interpretation of the holding the ball and deliberate rules but they were at least consistent tonight
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Re: The umpires tonight
Generally speaking good, not nearly as overly officious as last week which is no small miracle given the feral crowd. If anything I think we got a fairer go, surprisingly. Guess that apology during the week rubbed off.
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Re: The umpires tonight
The fact that you could concentrate on the play with no distractions means the did a pretty good job. Didn't see any dummy spits from the players, that says plenty.
Well done umps.
Well done umps.
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That is all we ask!
“Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.”
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That is all we ask!
“Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.”
― Aristophanes
If you have a Bee in your Bonnet - I can assist you with that - but it WILL involve some smacking upside the head!
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If you have a Bee in your Bonnet - I can assist you with that - but it WILL involve some smacking upside the head!
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Re: The umpires tonight
The Port fans were furious that the umpires did not cheat a win for them.
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When I was a young child, I knew that I knew so much about so much.
Now that I am old and know so much more, I know that I know so much about so little, and so little about so much.
When I was a young child, I knew that I knew so much about so much.
Now that I am old and know so much more, I know that I know so much about so little, and so little about so much.
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Re: The umpires tonight
They gave us a fair run tonight. Probably still feeling guilty for the disgraceful performance last week.
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Re: The umpires tonight
Consistent which was a welcome change.
Massive turn around to the blatant garbage over the last three weeks.
Massive turn around to the blatant garbage over the last three weeks.
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No I don’t. It’s amazing that in a week we’ve learnt to tackle, contest the ruck and spoil correctly.
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Re: The umpires tonight
Yeah so why has it taken a f****** pandemic for them to be level and measured at these grounds.
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Re: The umpires tonight
The Port ferals are calling for a royal
Commission into Cheating Umpires. Never seen such filthy tweets.
Commission into Cheating Umpires. Never seen such filthy tweets.
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Re: The umpires tonight
One decent run in 8 games. Freo game Adelaide game horrendous
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I get it - those clever buggers, this one was just to throw everybody off the scent so that the grand plan is not exposed. Nice.
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Re: The umpires tonight
We get a game where it’s actually umpired pretty well perhaps even a bit our way doesn’t make up for the biased rubbish from the likes of Margetts Foote.
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Why are there so many people out on remand in Adelaide?SemperFidelis wrote: ↑Sun 26 Jul 2020 12:07am The Port ferals are calling for a royal
Commission into Cheating Umpires. Never seen such filthy tweets.
The rest of Australia can wander mask-free, socialise, eat out, no curfews, no zoning, no police rings of steel, no illogical inconsistent rules.
They can even WATCH LIVE FOOTY!
They can even WATCH LIVE FOOTY!
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Don't worry about him. Suburban solicitor doesn't understand statistical analysis and can't read a graph.
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I came into the smoko room in the last qtr to check the score to see the slo mo review of the Membrey goal. Didn’t know the circumstances of it but I watched and said that’s a goal and a second later it was given. It clearly goes from hand to foot then goal