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Eagles have been doing it for 2 years now. It is normally the same guys, when are the opposition going to realise. I am not a fan of ducking but it wont be umpired out. I dont think it would be too difficult to try to grab the shirt instead. The duckers take themselves to ground, just meatheads continually come in high.

I wouldnt think drawing a free kick is staging.

Ballantyne, Thomas and the Selwoods would never play a game if there was penalties for staging

no use telling the umpires, they are the ones giving these stagers a kick in the 1st place.
video review panel needs to start suspending the likes of Ballantyne, Thomas and the Selwoods and get them to change their habits..
the game is supposed ot be played by men, not girls who want to act like its a school play

true that

mikeh wrote: Yeah, totally agree. I actually thought that Selwood had been pinged for holding the ball in that last one. Anyone who says that the umpires are not affected by home crowds didn't see that game tonight

Thats exactly what I thought,,,

30plusyeardrought wrote: Hey Unk im surprised you havent commented on your own game where in all the same play in the last term Krakouer firstly clearly took the ball through for a point...play on,secondly he then got tackled and imo holding the ball....no to high thirdly in the same incident way beyond his mark umpire allowed him to play on...Goal!!
You lose by a kick!!!
Guess the game wasnt at Subi and didnt involve the Eagles so not worth commenting on!

Didnt agree with that decison.. BUT we had 22 to 12 frees in OUR favour, so i can hardly complain... Eags ALWAYS win the free kick count here, therein is the diff

UNKA2 wrote:

30plusyeardrought wrote: Hey Unk im surprised you havent commented on your own game where in all the same play in the last term Krakouer firstly clearly took the ball through for a point...play on,secondly he then got tackled and imo holding the ball....no to high thirdly in the same incident way beyond his mark umpire allowed him to play on...Goal!!
You lose by a kick!!!
Guess the game wasnt at Subi and didnt involve the Eagles so not worth commenting on!

Didnt agree with that decison.. BUT we had 22 to 12 frees in OUR favour, so i can hardly complain... Eags ALWAYS win the free kick count here, therein is the diff

Mate you lost the game by a kick that free kick cost you....free kick count irrelevant!
There may be an inbalance of frees but what the stats dont tell you is how many are there and how many are not....to both teams!!
So what turns out to be 10 different,8 may have been spot on with only 2 on the nose.Who knows??who keeps those sort of stats???

So let's be balanced in our appraisals. From now on, if you "umpire knockers" want to keep any sort of credibility, then it's only fair that you highlight umpiring inconsistency and one sided free kick counts from EVERY game EVERY week. If you're not interested in doing this, then you fall into the perennial whinger category and hold the credibility status of the Barras, Whatelys and Darcys of the footy world.
Or is it more fun just to highlight the Subi games?

58shark wrote: So let's be balanced in our appraisals. From now on, if you "umpire knockers" want to keep any sort of credibility, then it's only fair that you highlight umpiring inconsistency and one sided free kick counts from EVERY game EVERY week. If you're not interested in doing this, then you fall into the perennial whinger category and hold the credibility status of the Barras, Whatelys and Darcys of the footy world.
Or is it more fun just to highlight the Subi games?

Huh??.... lets focus on how many free kick counts at Subi the eags have "lost over 2 and a half years. I would think over what 28 matches they would have not lost one, that is an amazing stat,doubtful it would be matched ANY ground in the AFL on such an over whelming basis. Umpires and free kick counts will ALWAYS be be inconsistant....why isnt this the case at the eagles at subi then 58? I dont "blame" the eags, io blame the umps who obvioulsy get intimidated by the crowd at Subi