Schulzenfest
TheBrownDog
First off, for the sake of trying to keep this thread on track rather than being accused of being a salty Port flog, I'll start by saying that the Crows played the best game they've played in years today and they did extremely well to have themselves in a position of being ahead of a previously undefeated team with 30 seconds on the clock. Enjoy your win.
Now that's out of the way, this is the third time this year that a game has been decided by an umpire bottling it and making an objectively wrong call to avoid angering the home crowd and consequently costing the away team the game:
1. Geelong at home against Brisbane, Bailey's obvious HTB on Blicavs 10 metres out not called;
2. Sydney at home against Geelong, Jeremy Cameron's mark 10 metres out called 'not 15';
3. Adelaide at home against Melbourne, Nick Murray with the most obvious deliberate out of bounds we've seen all season which should've have resulted in a shot to Melbourne from 5 metres out, no call.
That's three times this year that a team has been robbed of what would have been a near certain win by a gutless umpire. What can the AFL do about this?
Now that's out of the way, this is the third time this year that a game has been decided by an umpire bottling it and making an objectively wrong call to avoid angering the home crowd and consequently costing the away team the game:
1. Geelong at home against Brisbane, Bailey's obvious HTB on Blicavs 10 metres out not called;
2. Sydney at home against Geelong, Jeremy Cameron's mark 10 metres out called 'not 15';
3. Adelaide at home against Melbourne, Nick Murray with the most obvious deliberate out of bounds we've seen all season which should've have resulted in a shot to Melbourne from 5 metres out, no call.
That's three times this year that a team has been robbed of what would have been a near certain win by a gutless umpire. What can the AFL do about this?