UP YOURS, AFL OFFICIALS!

[Sainternist]

Sucked in, you total dogs!!!

"NO SOUP FOR YOU!"



Justice prevails. GO SAINTS!!!

[kp83]

Well said. Bloody pen pushing mongrels!!

GO SAINTS, stuck it right up them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AlpineStars]

I swear the umpires and officials know the AFL want North to be succesful on the Gold Coast so they do everything they can to F@*k us.

[Hurricane]

Its like the big wigs sat there and decided to come up with a rule that would make fans totally pissed off and switch off from the game

Well done you pack of over officious bunch of scum

BANG BANG

[Enrico_Misso]

Bureaucratic wankers.

How can you justify
- paying a free kick AND a one hundred metre penalty
- so we went from being in a strong attacking position to having a certain goal paid against us

for a ONE SECOND interchange error.

Another example of the AFL over-reacting.
Making it up as they go.

F#ck off Anderson
F#ck of Demetriou
Go back to your greasy cess-pit and leave the bloody game alone !

[bethb7]

That was total crap Ball was outside the white line for literally 2 seconds, it's once again the AFL trying to single handly ruin the game. If we lost that I would have blamed the AFL for it and losing our place in the top 8. Thank god it didnt lose us the game

[Bernard Shakey]

Why was Anderson's replacement Jill Lindsay sitting next to the interchange steward?

Give a woman a man's job and she has to make a statement.

[gooner]

That was total crap Ball was outside the white line for literally 2 seconds, it's once again the AFL trying to single handly ruin the game. If we lost that I would have blamed the AFL for it and losing our place in the top 8. Thank god it didnt lose us the game

It is the rules and all the clubs know it. Our mistake take it on the chin.

Having said that it is incredible how the AFL have come up with yet another way to make an official the centre of attention again. Maybe they should be spotlit and have their own theme music when they come on.
I know I'd rather pay to see an over officious beauraucrat with a Napolean complex prance around in yellow than a game of footy.

[Enrico_Misso]

If that had cost us the match and it had happened at Moorabbin there would have been a full scale riot.

[bethb7]

gooner- Yeah I know it was the saints own fault with the inter-change I just find it really annoying that an AFL official can decide the fate of a game it shouldn't be that way. I'm just glad we got over the line anyway

[gooner]

gooner- Yeah I know it was the saints own fault with the inter-change I just find it really annoying that an AFL official can decide the fate of a game it shouldn't be that way. I'm just glad we got over the line anyway

Have you not been watching this season? The AFL officials have been deciding the fate of games for some time.

[bethb7]

Have you not been watching this season? The AFL officials have been deciding the fate of games for some time.

I realise that & I hate it, thats the point i'm trying to make

[stinger]

Why was Anderson's replacement Jill Lindsay sitting next to the interchange steward?

Give a woman a man's job and she has to make a statement.

truest post ever made on here.....

[Enrico_Misso]

Simple principle - make the penalty proportional to the crime !

Crap 50 metre penalties ruin the game.

The 50 metre against Roo for holding the jumper for an instant was ridiculous.
As was the 50m we received when the ball was thrown back too slowly.

And a one second interchange error led to a free kick PLUS a 150m penalty.

Solution ?
Bring back a 15m penalty for trivial infringements.
And for a minor interchange error, just pay a free.

Simple principle - make the penalty proportional to the crime !

[TimeToShineFellas]

I don't know what some of you people are whingeing and bleating about. It was our mistake. Everyone knows that the League has cracked down on this since the farce between North and the Swans (which incidentally if the AFL wanted to make a stand they should have given the points to North that day)

Doesn't matter if it's 2 seconds or 1 seconds or 10....... if there's more than 18 on the field during the game, it's a penalty.

If we're too dumb to monitor it then we get penalised.

No such "Them against us" rubbish.

It's always someone stiffing the Saints hey

[goodie]

I'm not usually big on conspiracy theories, unless St Kilda's involved.

But add it up

• It was paid against the AFL's whipping boy (us)
  It was paid to the team that was on the wrong end of starting this mess
  It happened up on the Gold Coast, where there was no vision of the actual incident
  The timing resulted in the absolute maximum penalty being inflicted

[Enrico_Misso]

I don't know what some of you people are whingeing and bleating about. It was our mistake. Everyone knows that the League has cracked down on this since the farce between North and the Swans (which incidentally if the AFL wanted to make a stand they should have given the points to North that day)

Doesn't matter if it's 2 seconds or 1 seconds or 10....... if there's more than 18 on the field during the game, it's a penalty.

If we're too dumb to monitor it then we get penalised.

No such "Them against us" rubbish.

It's always someone stiffing the Saints hey

No comparison.
In the Sydney game the extra player
- was on for a significant period of time.
- participated in a key piece of play that impacted the result.

Tonight it was
- a trivial offence
- had no impact on the result.

But the penalty was
- out of all proportion to the offence.
- and could have unfairly impacted the result of the match

Or are you suggesting that for a 1 second error we deserved to lose it ??

My point is ... again ...

Simple principle - make the penalty proportional to the crime !

[Sainternist]

I don't know what some of you people are whingeing and bleating about. It was our mistake. Everyone knows that the League has cracked down on this since the farce between North and the Swans (which incidentally if the AFL wanted to make a stand they should have given the points to North that day)

Doesn't matter if it's 2 seconds or 1 seconds or 10....... if there's more than 18 on the field during the game, it's a penalty.

If we're too dumb to monitor it then we get penalised.

No such "Them against us" rubbish.

It's always someone stiffing the Saints hey

A couple of valid points made, but they got 150 metres and a goal out of it. The AFL is hacking the game into pieces. That's my real concern.

If we lost as a result, would you be as accepting of it? "I don't think so, Tim"

[TimeToShineFellas]

I don't know what some of you people are whingeing and bleating about. It was our mistake. Everyone knows that the League has cracked down on this since the farce between North and the Swans (which incidentally if the AFL wanted to make a stand they should have given the points to North that day)

Doesn't matter if it's 2 seconds or 1 seconds or 10....... if there's more than 18 on the field during the game, it's a penalty.

If we're too dumb to monitor it then we get penalised.

No such "Them against us" rubbish.

It's always someone stiffing the Saints hey

A couple of valid points made, but they 150 metres and a goal out of it.

If we lost as a result, would you be as accepting of it? I think not

I think the rule is that if there is a "19th man" on the field the umpire awards a free kick in the centre square plus a 50 metre penalty, regardless of where the ball is at the time of the indiscretion.

No, I probably would not have been accepting of the decision, but as previously said rules are rules. I could tell Quarters and his commentary team were keen to jump on the controvery, just to spice up the night.

[benengel14]

Why was Anderson's replacement Jill Lindsay sitting next to the interchange steward?

Give a woman a man's job and she has to make a statement.

truest post ever made on here.....

No it wasn't, it was a bloody disgusting post. Worthy of derision/condemnation not congratulation.

AFL want North to be succesful on the Gold Coast so they do everything they can to F@*k us.

I don't think that's the case at all. The AFL actively sought to make life harder for North Melbourne after they rejected the move, and took GC games away from them - forced their shareholders to relinquish rights they had. And we're not shy in making public comments about the merit of North's decision.

[saintsrus]

I don't know what some of you people are whingeing and bleating about. It was our mistake. Everyone knows that the League has cracked down on this since the farce between North and the Swans (which incidentally if the AFL wanted to make a stand they should have given the points to North that day)

Doesn't matter if it's 2 seconds or 1 seconds or 10....... if there's more than 18 on the field during the game, it's a penalty.

If we're too dumb to monitor it then we get penalised.

No such "Them against us" rubbish.

It's always someone stiffing the Saints hey

Agreed here, we broke the rule and got penalised according to the rules.

[joffaboy]

Let me first state that we broke the rules and were duely penalised. We know the rule is in place and transgressed so it was our fault.

However the issue is bigger than this.

The rule itself is a joke and a typical kneejerk reaction to protect the AFL lovechild Sydney.

Sydney cheated North out of 2 competition. They cheated and got no penalty.

Instead the AFL, you know the mob that never changes rules mid season, hobbles together some pathetic hopeless compromised rule to try and show how even handed they are

The AFL changed the result of a game in 2006 and took two competition points off a team that had nothing more than play to the umpires whistle. They did nothing wrong.

Fast forward to 2008. The recognised AFL favourite team Sydney, cheates by putting 19 men on the field and "wins" two competition points. Are they penalised for cheating? No the rest of the competition has to take the rap so the AFL can once again favour their Northern market "franchise".

So the upshot last night. Yes we make the mistake, but as usual another team was almost the scapegoat with a penalty of effectively 150 metres and a goal because Sydney cheated.

The corruption of the integrity of the AFl is complete by Demented and the incompetent monkey Anderson. It is hopelessly compromised and pathetically in favour of clubs like Sydney because Demented wants to "grow the market" at the expense of the competitions values and integrity.

May as well have Vikki Guerro doing Andersons job the way rules are made up on the spot to protect their favourites.

/rant.

[ozrulestrace]

Has anyone not got the irony that it was the Swans (love child of Dimwit & Co) who got away with it in the first instance-yet another example of how the rules are changed for interstete teams. They'll sneak through with the two points from that game, and everybody else will pay for it dearly one day probably during a tight Grand Final.

[bergsone]

With so many OFFicials around nowdays surely its their job to stand there in the interchange area ,and MAKE SURE no player enters the ground incorrectly,this should be an AFL offical not a club offical that way if a error occurs then its a afl error not a club error

[Animal Enclosure]

Had nothing to do with Jill Lindsay... in fact if she'd been given Anderson's job (which she should have) we'd have a much better run competition.

She's a very good operator, the complete opposite of that tool Anderson.