North Robbed

[Handyandy]

It's funny how you're still crying about that when your team got belted by the Tigers last week and will chalk up their third loss on the trot this weekend.

and its funny how you can predict the future. but surely you should use those powers for good, not simply to mock others on an internet forum.

 

[Rushed_Behind]

Will dermie question someone's courage

 

[Frank Grimes]

If the West coast player kicked the goal from the free kick then it's validity may be worth debating, but he didn't. If it wasn't a free kick then there is a chance that West Coast would have cleared from the throw in. There are too many woulda, coulda and shoulda for this to be worth debating. The West Coast player still had to deliver it into the forward 50 and the Kangaroo defenders had every chance to spoil it or hold it up if they were good enough. They weren't.

 

[Underdog]

Are you kidding? Selwood looks like he's sitting in an imaginary chair. Would he be able to hold this position? No. His motion was to take himself to the ground. This is a blight on our game.

He did not get a free kick for ducking!

 

[Roosurgence]

Can't argue with the Selwood one. 'twas high.

Wasn't paid against Adams. Listen to the ump paid for the second tackle.....what second tackle?!?!? Anyway was no where near the worst decision of the night, that one went to the magically touched ball that Aaron Black marked 30 metres right in front, that was an absolute ripper

 

[chelseagle]

No he didn't pay it late. The umpire clearly says the 2nd high tackle. Which there is not.

Yeah, I'm implying the umpire made it up on the spot.

 

[Kernel Sanders]

 

[Sometimes]

the rule is ducking the head. "learn the rules"

He ducked his head by dropping his knees and throwing himself to the ground. Get it yet?

 

[Black Diamond]

and its funny how you can predict the future. but surely you should use those powers for good, not simply to mock others on an internet forum.

Oh, that's a much better comeback.

 

[Underdog]

Wasn't paid against Adams. Listen to the ump paid for the second tackle.....what second tackle?!?!? Anyway was no where near the worst decision of the night, that one went to the magically touched ball that Aaron Black marked 30 metres right in front, that was an absolute ripper

He didn't say second tackle. He said "second one". That just means the second high contact. Presumably Adams' arm that was loosened from the tackle mid fall and then proceeded to get him high again whilst disputing the ball.

 

[Sometimes]

umpires board/forum. Mods do your job properly.

booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

[Roosurgence]

Bulldogs had more free kicks and got done by nearly 10 goals. Yep we were asleep in the armchair until the last and did what we had to do

 

[Handyandy]

Yeah I can see your idea of Karma. The North fans weren't to worried last week.
However this result doesn't give Port the 4 points.

but it does give me a perverse sense of satisfaction

 

[sedders]

He ducked his head by dropping his knees and throwing himself to the ground. Get it yet?

lol ok if that how you want to interpret it. i guess anyone who's head isnt at it maximum hight is fair game to have it ripped off then. you should be a umpire.

 

[Fat Nyfe]

Fair win. The umpiring decisions towards the end of a game will always come under scrutiny especially in a heated, close encounter but they were technically there. Whether free kicks should be payed at all to those soft sort of incidents is another matter entirely, but it was consistent with what we see in every game.

 

[Roosurgence]

Try and justify it anyway you want? You kicked shit tonight, but managed to eek a win out with some help from your friends. Maybe the umpire should have called the kick from Selwood touched, because I'm sure the man on the mark was at least a few metres away from touching it, which is obviously enough

 

[Kangapirate]

No the ump never mentioned Swallow, it could be Adams 2nd tackle? Maybe...
Anyway no matter where you look there is no 2nd high contact anywhere. I'm pretty sure the ump just pulled a rabbit from his hat here.
I'm bewildered.

Yeh you cant call a "2nd tackle" on Adams as its the same tackle..if it was the same tackle the umpire would have specifically called it "tackle slipped" or something like that, im thinking maybe the angle the ump was on he saw Swallow come in over the top and that was the "2nd one". The whistle blows after Swallow comes in.

 

[blackshadow]

There were three decisions I'm absolutely fuming about.

1. The Ryan Bastinac advantage decision where there was no advantage and a blind man could see that Basti didn't want to play on. That cost a shot on goal.

2. The free kick to Kennedy against Thompson on the wing. Thompson was clearly in front and there was no way he could have infringed. West Coast scored a goal with a mark from that kick.

3. The Black mark that was called touched when it was clearly not touched. Cost North a certain goal and totally shifted the momentum of the game.

 

[Mervyn Beasley]

There were some shit calls but the Shuey and Selwood ones were technically correct, even if they played for them.

'Technically correct' is latin for 'have no feel for the game'.

I'm dying for the day that an ump runs in and I hear "Play on, ya dropped your knees" or "Ball up, thats mine...no no no Mr Selwood* ya gotta expect to be hit in the head if you keep dropping your knees"

*There are a few Selwoods in the game so thought it easy to use this name in my example. Any comparison to real life is purely coincidental

 

[Underdog]

Yeh you cant call a "2nd tackle" on Adams as its the same tackle..if it was the same tackle the umpire would have specifically called it "tackle slipped" or something like that, im thinking maybe the angle the ump was on he saw Swallow come in over the top and that was the "2nd one". The whistle blows after Swallow comes in.

The umpire did NOT call a "second tackle". He called the "second one".

He adjudged the first high contact in the tackle to be legal but the "second one" illegal.

 

[Roosurgence]

So North fans care to remind us how umpiring doesn't impact the game.

Tears. Delicious.

Port being shit is even more delicious I love how you can beat sides when you play terribly. Lucky we played Port a few weeks ago

 

[Eatosk]

Seems like the umps missed the first clearly high tackle on selwood

Fortunately they saw a second dubious one and paid that instead preventing the eagles getting robbed due to an obviously missed free kick

All the best with that analogy. Sounds fair to me. What if it happened to WCE, the umpire missed the first free then.........................never mind.

 

[TheKanga]

Yep ****ing threw the remote when that *** happened.
When are the umpires going to wake up to shuey and selwood.
That free kick on the wing should've been a throw in.

 

[Roosurgence]

We should have won by more, we had more than enough chances.

Yep you had enough chances, but doesn't matter when you have friends to keep you in the game

 

[Kangapirate]

If the West coast player kicked the goal from the free kick then it's validity may be worth debating, but he didn't. If it wasn't a free kick then there is a chance that West Coast would have cleared from the throw in. There are too many woulda, coulda and shoulda for this to be worth debating. The West Coast player still had to deliver it into the forward 50 and the Kangaroo defenders had every chance to spoil it or hold it up if they were good enough. They weren't.

Pretty good point, but you cant compare a stoppage on the wing where you need to come up with the perfect play as opposed to getting the chance to drive it deep 10 metres out knowing a mark wins it.