Umpires will get a pat on the back from the afl...
We'll get screwed by them next year too. I swear they are being instructed when they come here not to let the home crowd affect decisions which is causing them to take it to the opposite extreme and giving us nothing but of course when we play over east there is no such instruction and so we get reamed over there too with crowd biased umpiring.
Yeah we seem to have a good week....media arks up like after pies game, minutes after it's finished Ed is bagging the umpiring on fox footy ......then v Essendon we get screwed
Doubt it's deliberate but we get shafted on the road sometimes
I have always felt though it's cultural thing .....Vic's hate west coast ...ever since we took the cup away in 92
I was in melboure. After the grand final in 92 as I have relatives in Melbourne was like funeral ....like someone had died
Fans don't hate us per say but they hate if we get free kicks and the fox footy crew do highlight this
We also don't have any western Australian on any of the commentary teams....Dennis Cometti is from wa ....he doesn't barrack when he calls like Hudson does for Geelong. Cometti is t a west coast or dockers fan.
Brian Taylor ....whole from wa ...played in Victoria and lives there....he's Victorian essentially
We had Peter bell and Glen jackovich for a while but they have gone
Swans have Jude Bolton commentating .......crows have roos .....lions have voss....and Geelong has ling, mooney and so on ...hawks have plenty also ......
Dockers and freo have nothing
I notice when a docker or eagles player get a soft free kick the Vic's howell like 3 year olds ..........like how outrageous is that ? It's replayed 3 times ......and they bang on
Yet if we get shafted in decision ...they say ....geez bit unlucky ....no or replay or maybe one quick one......
The bias in the commentary I suspect does have influence in some quarters......I suspect umps have fox at home and read papers ....to say they are biased ......no .......influenced maybe on 50-50 calls.......no doubt about it