I understand every supporter is passionate and as a general rule sees the game from a one eyed perspective. I have paid particular attention to umpire stats over the past few years and found one indisputable fact - the umpires pay soft free kicks in the last quarter of games to balance up the one sided free kick counts. Although I thought the umpiring was very good Perth V West Perth game, it was very clear they made up the number late in the game and the same with the Perth V East Perth game. I did not see the Tigers v Demons game today and can only base my judgement on the radio commentators who were very amused at numerous mistakes made by the so called unbiased adjudicators. All funny enough of the comments were to the detriment of the Perth team. The count at one stage of the game was 22 to 3 in favour of the Tigers and the umpires managed to bring that back in the last quarter to 27 to 15.
With this in mind I ask the following 2 questions:
1. Have others noticed this imbalance and equalizing after 3 quarter time and if so in which games?
2. Was the umpiring early in the Tigers v Demons game today bad as the radio commentary and stats made out, or was it just Perth lacking in discipline?
