The (umpires) elephant in the room.

[richo]

They were terrible tonight, we weren't up to the task....however - from the time Hawkins got that first free kick we were doomed. They do not reward tackling unless it is obvious, there were a couple of times where the cats deliberately put it out of bounds (throw it in), and oh my goodness the hanging on and high tackles that were called play on. The umpires were disgraceful tonight and need to be held to account. Bucks should rip them, I would chip in for the fine. Stevic and donlon are immoral in the way they treat us.

[Dave The Man]

Yep - Especially when you have the Worst Ump in the League in Stevic out there

[piedys]

Stevic and Donlon ate dick augogo tonight as we expected.
And paid their standard all too late evener-uppers late in the game when we were too far behind to make up any ground.
Only paid the obvious ones during the heat of the game.
Ignored every push in the back and head high tackle they could against us.
And all the holds on Crisp to stop him generating any run for us.
Geelong could hatch the ball for as long as they wanted, several 360 degree rotations in the tackle was the norm tonight.
However our tackling was rather effeminate anyhoo.

[Dave The Man]

Dawkins got away with a Push in the Back that everyone saw but the Dickhead Umps did not see it

[Piesnchess]

that stevic is a piece of dogshit in the gutter, period.

[Mossi]

[Donny]

We got the better of the frees count, 17-13.

Imagine how big the margin would've been without these whinge targets.

[John Wren]

donlon wasn't umpiring last night. we had fisher, dalgleish and stevic. i don't much like leigh fisher's umpiring and i'm less annoyed by stevic than most.

they paid nearly half of the free kicks in that last quarter.

[darky the protector]

Third man up ,what a joke ,last night every ball up stanley bearhugged Grundy ,blicavs then becomes ruckman .
Free kick every time to grundy, huge advantage which compensates for Geelong not having a ruckman . Hawthorn do it too
Never change though been going on for 5 years
i counted 14 freekicks to grundy
also 8 holding the balls , 4 hands in back and of course the old cats favorite illegal disposal .
Are the umps , stupid or just Biased
EDDIE where all sick of it

[think positive]

[John Wren]

that sums it up well. i want to have a look at the replay as it might look different from sitting in the stands.

[Collingwood Crackerjack]

It was bad, the holding of Cloke as always, but what about paying holding the ball?

Hawkins 3 marks came from pushes, one 50/50 and the other 2 clearly in the back

[Piethagoras' Theorem]

[matrix10]

Umps were not terrible on the whole last night- yet there seemed to be a different set of rules for each team.

worst decisions of the night for mine were.

*HAwkins bullshit holding free to start- set them up nicely

*another goal to cats in second from a holding the man-forget who-when the player dropped the ball in the tackle- defalted our momentum

*Jamie got legged by Enright right in front of ump- play-on (granted he shouldn't have played on!)

*Varcoe blatantly held after he kicked forward to vacant 50 and it was a foot race

*JAmie held/blocked on the boundary at fwd flank in front of stouthern stand in the last

*Karnesis was hit AFTER he kicked the ball- should've been down field- instead brought back (Cloke then marked and killed all chances of surprise victory.

Donny- you continually use stats as if they are the be all and end all- Many of us find it quite antagonistic and it does show a lack of understanding of the game.

Stats out of context are pointless- please keep this in mind when deriding posters in future.

PS- Stevic is a deadset cheat!

[Dave The Man]