Newsflash - Afl Reverses Stenglein Decision!

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In late breaking news, AFL head honcho Andy Demetriou emerged from emergency talks at AFL House late this evening to announce the AFL was going to reverse the Stenglein decision and would re-schedule the last 10 minutes of the game to be replayed.

Said Demetriou, "At first we thought is was the typical sore loser Swans fans who were bleating about the umpire's decision and who were otherwise not complaining about the 300 other mistakes made by their players which contributed more to the loss than even their pathetic flooding style of footy."

"However, the bigfooty mods advised us it wasnt just Swans fans that were bleating but non Swans fans as well on the bigfooty forums. When we heard that we hastily convened a meeting because THAT makes it all different doesn't it, after all, they weren't hoping for the Eagles to lose were they?"

"One decision appears to have cost the Swans the game and not the 100 other minutes of footy that was played. Make sense to me." said Demetriou as he announced that the last 10 minutes would be played at the SCG with Paul Roos as umpire and Diego as his chum so to speak "so we get more unbiased decision making in the game", he said.

Meanwhile John Worsfold was now considering appealing the goal umpiring decision made in the 1990 QF awarding Peter Sumich a point to draw the game. Worsfold said Sumich in fact scored a goal and further, he also claimed "the majority of footy fans at the time concurred making it true." He said that would make a difference as well.

The AFL will be treating that appeal with the same seriousness it should attach to the Sydney bleating.

-AAP
 

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ColdDish said:
In late breaking news, AFL head honcho Andy Demetriou emerged from emergency talks at AFL House late this evening to announce the AFL was going to reverse the Stenglein decision and would re-schedule the last 10 minutes of the game to be replayed.

Said Demetriou, "At first we thought is was the typical sore loser Swans fans who were bleating about the umpire's decision and who were otherwise not complaining about the 300 other mistakes made by their players which contributed more to the loss than even their pathetic flooding style of footy."

"However, the bigfooty mods advised us it wasnt just Swans fans that were bleating but non Swans fans as well on the bigfooty forums. When we heard that we hastily convened a meeting because THAT makes it all different doesn't it, after all, they weren't hoping for the Eagles to lose were they?"

"One decision appears to have cost the Swans the game and not the 100 other minutes of footy that was played. Make sense to me." said Demetriou as he announced that the last 10 minutes would be played at the SCG with Paul Roos as umpire and Diego as his chum so to speak "so we get more unbiased decision making in the game", he said.

Meanwhile John Worsfold was now considering appealing the goal umpiring decision made in the 1990 QF awardingPeter Sumich a point to draw the game. Worsfold said Sumich in fact scored a goal and further, he also claimed "the majority of footy fans at the time concurred making it true." He said that would make a difference as well.

The AFL will be treating that appeal with the saem seriousness it should attach to the Sydney bleating.

-AAP
bahaha

gee ur pathetic

what a waste of time, complaining about people complaining

still hiding behind the scorpions????
 

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ColdDish said:
In late breaking news, AFL head honcho Andy Demetriou emerged from emergency talks at AFL House late this evening to announce the AFL was going to reverse the Stenglein decision and would re-schedule the last 10 minutes of the game to be replayed.

Said Demetriou, "At first we thought is was the typical sore loser Swans fans who were bleating about the umpire's decision and who were otherwise not complaining about the 300 other mistakes made by their players which contributed more to the loss than even their pathetic flooding style of footy."

"However, the bigfooty mods advised us it wasnt just Swans fans that were bleating but non Swans fans as well on the bigfooty forums. When we heard that we hastily convened a meeting because THAT makes it all different doesn't it, after all, they weren't hoping for the Eagles to lose were they?"

"One decision appears to have cost the Swans the game and not the 100 other minutes of footy that was played. Make sense to me." said Demetriou as he announced that the last 10 minutes would be played at the SCG with Paul Roos as umpire and Diego as his chum so to speak "so we get more unbiased decision making in the game", he said.

Meanwhile John Worsfold was now considering appealing the goal umpiring decision made in the 1990 QF awardingPeter Sumich a point to draw the game. Worsfold said Sumich in fact scored a goal and further, he also claimed "the majority of footy fans at the time concurred making it true." He said that would make a difference as well.

The AFL will be treating that appeal with the saem seriousness it should attach to the Sydney bleating.

-AAP
:D
 

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It must hurt to come away with what you'd like to believe was a great victory in the club's history... and then discover that noone is taking you seriously.

But it can't possibly hurt as bad as it does to be on the receiving end.

Carry on.
 

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CharlieG said:
It must hurt to come away with what you'd like to believe was a great victory in the club's history... and then discover that noone is taking you seriously.

But it can't possibly hurt as bad as it does to be on the receiving end.

Carry on.
Yeah, qualifying for a home PF REALLY hurts! :thumbsu: :D
 

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It must hurt to come away with what you'd like to believe was a great victory in the club's history... and then discover that noone is taking you seriously.

But it can't possibly hurt as bad as it does to be on the receiving end.

Carry on.
Oh COME on.

We've had to put up with three straight years of straight sets finals exits.

It's our time to stick it to the man, it's our turn so step aside!!!
 

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Oh COME on.

We've had to put up with three straight years of straight sets finals exits.

It's our time to stick it to the man, it's our turn so step aside!!!
What's that got to do with me?

You cannot honestly tell me that you don't believe the umpires determined the result of tonight's match. I refuse to believe that anyone could be that blinkered.
 

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CharlieG said:
It must hurt to come away with what you'd like to believe was a great victory in the club's history... and then discover that noone is taking you seriously.

But it can't possibly hurt as bad as it does to be on the receiving end.

Carry on.
Seriously, I patted a few Swannies blokes on the back and wished them luck for next week on my way out tonight.

But to you sir - suck it up, sore loser.

They had their chances.
 

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Seriously, I patted a few Swannies blokes on the back and wished them luck for next week on my way out tonight.

But to you sir - suck it up, sore loser.

They had their chances.

Black JuJu, the more they squeal the more enjoyable the victory is.
 

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Seriously, I patted a few Swannies blokes on the back and wished them luck for next week on my way out tonight.

But to you sir - suck it up, sore loser.

They had their chances.
Mate, as I've said, I don't blame West Coast fans for being happy with the win, no matter how it came. I certainly would be.

The post you quoted is aimed fairly and squarely at the (few) Eagles fans who actually think that gloating is fair game tonight. Going by this post, that doesn't include you.

Just on the last sentence - the problem with this argument is that both teams squandered plenty of chances and made plenty of mistakes. In the end, a game that had no clearly better team was decided not by the cruel hand of fate, but by the cruel hand of umpires. That's happened to us many times before, and it's happened to every other team. No doubt about that. But in finals? It's just not good enough.
 

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Mate, as I've said, I don't blame West Coast fans for being happy with the win, no matter how it came. I certainly would be.

The post you quoted is aimed fairly and squarely at the (few) Eagles fans who actually think that gloating is fair game tonight. Going by this post, that doesn't include you.

Just on the last sentence - the problem with this argument is that both teams squandered plenty of chances and made plenty of mistakes. In the end, a game that had no clearly better team was decided not by the cruel hand of fate, but by the cruel hand of umpires. That's happened to us many times before, and it's happened to every other team. No doubt about that. But in finals? It's just not good enough.
You'd say you earned the victory and were clearly better if Dean Cox hadn't pulled down those 2 marks when Sydney couldn't find a forward in the final moments, what if one of your forwards had managed to stand up at that point? What if Roberts-Thompson hadn't picked off Hunter with that excellent pass?...Plenty of factors in the loss and plenty of opportunities that the Swans couldn't capitalise on.

Focusing on a decision that happened 50m from goal with 10 minutes+ remaining in the game and wasn't even a lead changer is pretty weak in my book. I'm assuming this is what you are blaming the loss on? Or was it the debatable Goodes-Wirra incident?
 

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You'd say you earned the victory and were clearly better if Dean Cox hadn't pulled down those 2 marks when Sydney couldn't find a forward in the final moments, what if one of your forwards had managed to stand up at that point? What if Roberts-Thompson hadn't picked off Hunter with that excellent pass?...Plenty of factors in the loss and plenty of opportunities that the Swans couldn't capitalise on.
No, I'd say we won an incredibly good game, and overcame (again) ********ty umpiring.

But there's no way that I could have taken a 'clearly better' stance from that game. It simply wouldn't be true.

Focusing on a decision that happened 50m from goal with 10 minutes+ remaining in the game and wasn't even a lead changer is pretty weak in my book. I'm assuming this is what you are blaming the loss on? Or was it the debatable Goodes-Wirra incident?
Both. Both were clearly the wrong decision, and cost one certain and another probable goal. That changed the result of the match.

I'm not asking you to feel guilty about it. You got the lucky end... good for you. But... surely, you understand where we're coming from.
 

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No, I'd say we won an incredibly good game, and overcame (again) ********ty umpiring.

But there's no way that I could have taken a 'clearly better' stance from that game. It simply wouldn't be true.



Both. Both were clearly the wrong decision, and cost one certain and another probable goal. That changed the result of the match.

I'm not asking you to feel guilty about it. You got the lucky end... good for you. But... surely, you understand where we're coming from.
I can understand you're feeling you're stiff here, but struggle to get my head around the focus on the Stenglein one, so far from the end with so many other opportunities to get the win. They were still leading. Didn't O'Loughlin spray a sitter? (I know Wirra and Embley did!) and that Roberts-Thompson one was after the Stenglein one wasn't it?

I would describe the Wirra one as debatable, so did the commentators I saw on the replay (hardly an iron clad opinion I know but an outside opinion all the same).

The Stenglein call was poor but there was so much time left.
 

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I agree Juju, there was so much time left that I think it's silly to say the game was lost through the one incident. I saw free kicks which weren't paid to both teams but it's unfortunate that we had to have one soft one that pretty much turned the game around. It's sad that people on here can't be humble in defeat, I actually praised several Sydney supporters on the train for being humble. You Sydney boys lost the game, if you REALLY deserved to win then you would have won. I personally think the game could have gone either way and I am just glad we won it.
 

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I agree Juju, there was so much time left that I think it's silly to say the game was lost through the one incident. I saw free kicks which weren't paid to both teams but it's unfortunate that we had to have one soft one that pretty much turned the game around. It's sad that people on here can't be humble in defeat, I actually praised several Sydney supporters on the train for being humble. You Sydney boys lost the game, if you REALLY deserved to win then you would have won. I personally think the game could have gone either way and I am just glad we won it.
Didn't Sydney even score the next goal after the Stenglein goal anyway?
 

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Gieschen's comments that the decision was wrong even more strongly suggests the Stenglein decision was correct.

What a doppleganger!
 
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