Mega Thread The "everything sucks" thread.

[Minz]

I already saw that. with officiating, I know that you can get ump howlers at any game. After all, people make mistakes. What shits me about this is I don't trust the league to give my team a fair go. Are we really a -52 team that deserved to be punished for stupid mistakes? And I know it's not just about the count, but it's what's also not paid and where it's paid that counts, but the number is the most objective measure.

Is it a skills thing? Maybe. Are we that dirty a team? I don't accept that. Why are we copping it the most, then? Is it because they're trying to encourage a full attacking game plan, and we're a team that shows defense is equally effective? It's hard not to think that it's because we're not part of the AFL agenda. And there's no one standing for us in the media because it's all backed by the AFL machine and that just wouldn't sell the story, being a "small," low-drawing (in Victoria) interstate club. No power, not fashionable - not worth a voice.

I felt exactly the same after the 2013 GF - had the screaming sh**s for weeks. Yesterday was just another day of that, with the umpires giving frees to Hawthorn for... incidental contact? Glancing contact? Not-even-there contact? Those 2 free kicks in the 1st quarter were marginal at best, and there were others later. Yet if the Hawthorn player dived into the back of a Freo player, or bowled over the Freo player off the ball, or blatantly stepped over the mark (looking at you Puopulo) it was "play on!", or nothing even said. And why the f is Hodges gold plated given his long history of dirty acts? Quite bizarre.

On another note, the commentators using nicknames gives me the screaming s**ts. Use their surnames like every other commentator in the history of the world, and at least try to sound like professionals, gents.

 

[Black Saab]

Not as bad as when the Richmond supporter spat on Frawley when he was your coach. Crowd around him did nothing either. All these incidents are bad but why turn it into a WA witch hunt. I hope they are pubically named and shamed as well.

Don't read into what i wrote as parochial state vs state crap. I was appalled at the behavior and aren't saying the behavior is representative of WA.

That behaviour is rubbish anywhere.