Umpiring Umpiring in the Bulldogs/Bombers Final 2021

[Wosh]

Bring your umpiring discussions here rather than clogging up the whole MB match thread. Blatant trolls will be thread banned from both.

 

[TP86]

Friday's umpiring was worse. Today was fine.

 

[Great8]

Andrew Stephens is his name and should never get another game. Dogs supporting corrupt cheat.
The pile on for him on social media should be fabulous, hopefully he is ran out of the game
The club needs to show some spine and ask questions aswell

 

[Bald]

If you are waiting for an Essendon victory, you're going to have to weight, man.

 

[jdz101]

My predictions for this thread include:

• Plugger melts
• Swans fan off-season melts
• Danster Melts
• Classless essendon fan sore loser melts
• My entertainment

 

[Ambrosia]

I didn’t agree with any of the decisions for the Weightman goals but I don’t see how Essendon fans can complain too much when we didn’t kick a goal in the second half.

 

[SnusCG]

While some of the decisions were pretty average, it’s hard to blame a 50 point loss on umpiring. You can’t expect to win a game if you don’t kick a goal for a half of football.

Port got demolished by the umpires on Friday night and still managed to show they were the better team.

 

[adogsfan5]

4 frees. 1 awful, Draper one stiff as and 2 of them there.
Then we kicked 8 straight in a second half we played much better in.
Dons are on the right path.
End of thread.

 

[Ambrosia]

4 frees. 1 awful, Draper one stiff as and 2 of them there.
Then we kicked 8 straight in a second half we played much better in.
Dons are on the right path.
End of thread.

Don’t think any of them were there but agree with the sentiment.

 

[Dogs till i die]

Dogs have won over 900 games in their VFL / AFL history and can confirm, according to the BF experts, we haven't deserved any.

 

[adogsfan5]

Cognitive dissonance... while you won convincingly. However, Weightman was gifted 4 absolute shockers.

2. You can’t sit there and tell us the holding the man one and too high one were “shockers” we see them every week. If it happened in another game, you wouldn’t be saying a word.

 

[Inspecta Gadget]

I would say Bombers fans level of refusal to believe we wouldn't have won today regardless of the umpiring is up there with Dogs fans level of refusal to believe they get some of the greatest silver service from the umpiring fraternity on a weekly basis.

They're both deluded.

 

[adogsfan5]

I would say Bombers fans level of refusal to believe we wouldn't have won today regardless of the umpiring is up there with Dogs fans level of refusal to believe they get some of the greatest silver service from the umpiring fraternity on a weekly basis.

They're both deluded.

Dogs get favoured by umpires.

No, there isn’t any corruption in the game.

No, all umpires don’t barrack for the dogs.

Kinda running outta reasons for umpires to purposely favour us.

Find us a good reason behind it or please kindly shut up.

 

[Ambrosia]

2. You can’t sit there and tell us the holding the man one and too high one were “shockers” we see them every week. If it happened in another game, you wouldn’t be saying a word.

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A couple frames before that Weightman is over the ball and he ducks grabs Laverde’s arm to his neck. It’s not a free kick any football fan wants paid.

That being said thinking that’s a free is far less crazy than believing there is some AFL conspiracy to favour the dogs.

 

[adogsfan5]

A couple frames before that Weightman is over the ball and he ducks grabs Laverde’s arm to his neck. It’s not a free kick any football fan wants paid.

That being said thinking that’s a free is far less crazy than believing there is some AFL conspiracy to favour the dogs.

I hate the flopping. It’s a bad look for the game and Cody gets lucky a lot. The whole conspiracy thing by the AFL is driving me mad.

 

[Seb78]

Umpires didn't effect the result. Dogs are seasoned team and were always going to come good sooner or later.
Our second half was horrid, arguably the worst we've played all year. End of story.
Only positive for us was Parish. Pretty much the only thing I can take out of that.

 

[Ambrosia]

I hate the flopping. It’s a bad look for the game and Cody gets lucky a lot. The whole conspiracy thing by the AFL is driving me mad.

Agreed the first one was the only one that could have been considered engineered from flopping/embellishing contact all the others were just weird decisions.

 

[adogsfan5]

Lol, shows a poorly contextualized freeze frame of the easiest to sell of the 4 shockers. But, omits the other 3 without justification? How were the other two "there"? Draper was "stiff"? I am interested to hear you try and legitmise these?

Ok, you did watch the video of tackle right? The tackle was perfectly fine and went above the shoulder after, He dropped his weight to try and duck the tackle. Just playing for a free kicks..... as is the bulldog way.

Omits the other 3? I said one was awful and Draper was stiff. Meaning it shouldn’t have been a free. the other two occur almost every game and yet you’re another poster with their dogs vision on and only choose to post about our free kicks.

you’re another poster who believes there’s some sort of corruption in the game haha. It’s pathetic.

Selwood is a diver and I hated it, yet I never even post about it because it does nothing to change anything. The afl don’t have an “agreement” with Selwood and if we’re good enough on the day, we beat the cats.

2016 still firmly living in your brain sadly.

 

[Dogs till i die]

Cognitive dissonance... while you won convincingly. However, Weightman was gifted 4 absolute shockers.

I get it you've had a bad weekend but those 4 weren't shockers. The Merrett push was soft but the others were there every day. Unlucky with the Draper one but a hit on the head is always a free, accidental or not.

 

[adogsfan5]

What difference does it make what the reason is?

It doesn't change the fact that the Bulldogs have consistently been favoured by the umpires for years and that's backed up by the free kick stats.

Haha there has to be some motive for all umpires to “purposely favour us”. again, the hard questions come and can’t be answered
So you’re either claiming there’s corruption in the competition, all umpires are purposely trolling us, or there’s umpire match fixing. Which is it?

 

[Ambrosia]

CTE isn’t to be wished upon anyone, I’ve seen its effects up close.

Don’t know why Weightman copping so much hate was he supposed to do.

-He dove at Draper while he was trying to soccer the ball off the ground.

- He got paid a dubious free in a marking contest because Gleeson fell over

- He got paid a free for a push after handballing it.

What do the people who hate him think he should of done? Missed the goals intentionally because they were incorrect decisions?

 

[BarryMorgan]

Don’t know why Weightman copping so much hate was he supposed to do.

-He dove at Draper while he was trying to soccer the ball off the ground.

- He got paid a dubious free in a marking contest because Gleeson fell over

- He got paid a free for a push after handballing it.

What do the people who hate him think he should of done? Missed the goals intentionally because they were incorrect decisions?

Hand the ball back to Essendon as a show of good faith.

 

[Ambrosia]

Hand the ball back to Essendon as a show of good faith.

Having a punchable head is a crime these days apparently

 

[adogsfan5]

Don’t know why Weightman copping so much hate was he supposed to do.

-He dove at Draper while he was trying to soccer the ball off the ground.

- He got paid a dubious free in a marking contest because Gleeson fell over

- He got paid a free for a push after handballing it.

What do the people who hate him think he should of done? Missed the goals intentionally because they were incorrect decisions?

Well said mate.

 

[BarryMorgan]

Having a punchable head is a crime these days apparently

He does have that.