Men in Green

The Man from Bomberland · Sat Jun 09, 2007 5:49 pm

The umpiring was rubbish. The Jones decision late in the game must rank up there as one of the worst ever. Had it cost Essendon the game Sheedy probably could have gotten away with giving them a spray.

Madden · Post by **Madden** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 5:51 pm

Were equally crap for both teams.

We were stiff quite a few times, but watch the replay - we were SOOOOOOOOOO lucky not to give a free kick away when McVeigh put his arms around Judd's waist when he was trying to lead out of the goal square at about the 25 minute mark.

No complaints here.

jimmyc1985 · Post by **jimmyc1985** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 6:10 pm

Staggy wrote:Were equally crap for both teams.

We were stiff quite a few times, but watch the replay - we were SOOOOOOOOOO lucky not to give a free kick away when McVeigh put his arms around Judd's waist when he was trying to lead out of the goal square at about the 25 minute mark.

No complaints here.

......Or when Fletcher partially chopped Hunter's arms, then 2 seconds later got into the back of Kerr, or in the final contest when Fletcher had his arm over someone's shoulder, or when JJ put his hands in someone's back from a kick-out to take a crucial mark

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We got the rub i reckon. Have done 3 weeks in a row.

Maybe all the lads have been repairing mirrors? Reasoning by analogy, that should give us 7 years of good luck

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bueller · Post by **bueller** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 6:17 pm

I wouldn't call early in the game "rub of the green". We were on the end of some terrible decisions in the first half.
The second half there were still a few but we seemed to get away with a couple in that last quarter i agree.
Judd can't complain about free kicks - he got a soft one in front of goal and seemed to get away with a couple of holding the ball decisions again.
Umpiring 4/10 last night.

Madden · Post by **Madden** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 6:18 pm

jimmyc1985 wrote:
Staggy wrote:Were equally crap for both teams.

We were stiff quite a few times, but watch the replay - we were SOOOOOOOOOO lucky not to give a free kick away when McVeigh put his arms around Judd's waist when he was trying to lead out of the goal square at about the 25 minute mark.

No complaints here.
......Or when Fletcher partially chopped Hunter's arms, then 2 seconds later got into the back of Kerr, or in the final contest when Fletcher had his arm over someone's shoulder, or when JJ put his hands in someone's back from a kick-out to take a crucial mark .

We got the rub i reckon. Have done 3 weeks in a row.

Maybe all the lads have been repairing mirrors? Reasoning by analogy, that should give us 7 years of good luck .

Yep. Can't believe how people on here could be whinging.

Bomber_Fan · Post by **Bomber_Fan** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 7:11 pm

MH_Bomber wrote:But one that I couldnt not work out was "in the back" against Bolton who apparently rolled on a Weagle back but came up with the Ball.

Technically it was there but I think umpire's should sometimes be allowed to exercise some judgement/initiative on occasions such as this. Both players had eyes only for the football and like you said Bolton ended up with the ball. I'm curious to see what other members here thought about that free kick too.

bombers_rock · Post by **bombers_rock** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 7:12 pm

pear wrote:Ended up 25-23 against us

Yeah, not without giving the Eagles a handy early jump start. I would've gone mental about the maggots on here had we not won. They were appalling early for the majority of the match. Sure the Eagles are good, but do the maggots really have to assist them so much? We barely got a sniff of the ball in the first quarter.