cozza15 said:
Ive seen some terrible umpiring around the league this year, really really ordinary! But this story cracked me up: A cohuna bloke got told by the umpire to tuck his drawstrings in. Actually apparently the umpire demanded he tuck them in! Are these umpires for real? Any comments?
Have to agree, the umpiring must be one of the most frustrating parts of the game..
Feel i must highlight a prime example from Saturday's Nyah/Woorinen game.
Late in the 2nd term, while Nyah was on a 6 goal run, Tierney grabbed the ball from the bounce run forward taking on 2 or 3 tacklers, came up from the pack (ball in hand) only to be awarded a free for holding the man?? This led to a goal followed by a doubious send off for pointing out how ordinary this decision was and a further few dubious free kicks really got the Tiges back into it before the 1/2 and really took the wind out of the Dees sails.
Full credit to how Woorinen ran out the game in the final term, but we will never know how good a game this could have been if the teams were both given a fair crack at the ball??