Roast Preliminary Final Umpiring Thread

[longlivenmfc]

This is one week I can't defend the umps. We got reamed.

Must be odd having someone other than Brad to blame?

 

[Roosurgence]

The fact that the Journo's have even brought this up shows how poor the umpiring was tonight.

Ralph is a moron, but as he said, how can a team that was dominating the game be 15-8 down in the free kick count?

 

[bailz66]

Margett's sister works at the West Coast Eagles, and their entire family are Eagles fans.

Just an FYI to further get your blood boiling.

Pointless thread

 

[Tiger08]

Bit rich coming from a hawks supporter.Umpiring tonight was poor but the umpiring was far worse last night in the freo hawks match...

Lol. Not even close.

Umpires brought you back in the game and pushed it out to a 2 or 3 goal lead . After that you were never going to lose.

You'll get completely pantsed next week but at least you are there.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Margett's sister works at the West Coast Eagles, and their entire family are Eagles fans.

Just an FYI to further get your blood boiling.

How do you know?

 

[flojo]

We lost by 25 points. Isolate the Shuey goal against Dal, the "hold" against Taz and the Jacobs non-trip.. **** me if it wasn't the difference.

And that 2nd quarter mark Waite they didn't pay because of ... Well I don't know, went straight back into their forward line for goal. When we were hot .

 

[Klang]

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Thx for your input now **** off.

 

[GremlinCRHF]

The biggest thing about the umpiring was the timing of the decisions, overall it was beyond subpar, but just the timing, Dal's 'high', Jacob's getting tripped, I mean these are momentum swinging decisions. Who knows what would have happened if they'd payed the frees correctly but I just wish we'd had the chance to find out. It's just disappointing to end a game and be so upset at decisions like that.

 

[asanque]

Ray and Margetts are terrible umpires

 

[Chadwiko]

How do you know?

It's not uncommon knowledge in WA. Margetts is WA born and bred, so not hugely unusual for him/his family to barrack for a WA team.

Shouldn't have been umpiring tonight.

 

[PapaJ]

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You have NFI if you think that the umpiring didn't impact the result. It's not the only thing that matters of course, and I think the better team won FWIW, but some of those calls at critical moments in such a tight game (at the time) - they absolutely matter and Nth were royally screwed.

 

[Mav]

Must be odd having someone other than Brad to blame?

I don't blame the umps. They were bad but we were worse.

 

[Mr Reliable]

The umpires were flogs (and the Eagles kicked poorly), but I can't get some of our missed opportunities out of my head. Waite, Drew, Higgins, Ben 10 should have goaled. Ben Brown has been getting tips on marking from Dan Currie. We could have won the ****ing game, despite the ****ing umpires.

 

[muttley45]

I have a contribution for Margetts and Razor

 

[Thewlis Dish]

How do you know?

He was a groomsman at Dean Cox's wedding too (or so the legend goes).

 

[PapaJ]

The biggest thing about the umpiring was the timing of the decisions, overall it was beyond subpar, but just the timing, Dal's 'high', Jacob's getting tripped, I mean these are momentum swinging decisions. Who knows what would have happened if they'd payed the frees correctly but I just wish we'd had the chance to find out. It's just disappointing to end a game and be so upset at decisions like that.

And that's the thing ... we're left say "what if" and we shouldn't have to say that. You and the rest of Nth fraternity should be able to say, we gave it our all but we were beaten fair and square by the better team, but those incompetent moments just take that one saving grace in a loss away. Those calls at key moments, they are killers to fans experience. Commiserations guys, I do feel for you.

 

[Only Forwards]

We played two Prelims in two years.

Richmond wishes they could get close to thatthat.

 

[Roosurgence]

They showed the footage of the Jacobs trip and you could plainly see that Margetts had a great view of it and didn't even look like paying it.

Cheating campaigner, enough said!

 

[Joshen]

Umpiring was atrocious but lets not post anything we'd regret when cooled down. Some of the stuff wished against Ray and Margetts is crossing the line a bit in my opinion.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

I'm still laughing at Swallow being accosted whilst on the mark.

 

[Roosurgence]

How can you investigate a result you engineered?

The fact that the AFL even picked Margetts to umpire an Eagles game shows their intention.

 

[Roosurgence]

I'm still laughing at Swallow being accosted whilst on the mark.

Dean Margetts special

 

[Gasometer]

Ray believes he is part of the game. ..a personality. ..the key hype machine is BT...

Umpires should be unknowns.

I knew number 6 was crap Rd 23.

Now I know his name.

I should not know either of them. ...

 

[ferball]

That umpiring was a frigging disgrace. The eagles might have been good enough to win on their own tonight but the truth is we'll never know.

And yes, we should have won anyway because we butchered plenty of opportunities and fumbled far too much. So we can't just blame the umpiring.

But it was disgraceful. As bad as last night.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

WHo is the one with Brunswick hipster haircut? What an absolute spanner.