The Lake 'Free' and Other 'Frees'

[bulldogtragic]

Thought there should be one dedicated thread to umpiring and certain decisions to keep it somewhat in check.

Post away.

[mighty_west]

Any bad decisions didn't lose us the game, plain & simple.

[Sedat]

They won't reverse the result. I need another 'character building' moment like a hole in the head.

I love my club. That's all I can say.

[azabob]

One of the questions at Eade's press conferance was about the free kick. And Eade replied do you mean the Reiwoldt free at the start of the 3rd or the Hargrave one in the second quarter.


What frustrates me is ruckman giving away free kicks at boundary throw ins or ball ups.

[1eyedog]

The Hargrave free for holding the ball when he clearly kicked the ball 10 metres away made me irate! Some of the ruck frees for Gardiner against Hudson were very, very questionable.

[bulldogtragic]

Any bad decisions didn't lose us the game, plain & simple.

Couldn't agree more. But i'm sure it will be topical this week so it's better to have one thread than 100. Eade seemed pretty filthy though.

[Happy Days]

Any bad decisions didn't lose us the game, plain & simple.

Bingo!

[AndrewP6]

Yet another disgraceful performance from the overpaid trained monkeys... If Lake's shove of "Custard" Riewoldt was a free, then I'll go he. Any other game, on any other day, that's nothing... and the moron had the gall to say "it wasn't a dive". That and others certainly cost us. BIG TIME.

[Mantis]

They won't reverse the result. I need another 'character building' moment like a hole in the head.

I love my club. That's all I can say.

Bingo.

[AndrewP6]

Any bad decisions didn't lose us the game, plain & simple.

Cost us at least 1 goal, we lost by one and a bit. Cost us the game.

[Remi Moses]

The riewoldt free was a disgrace. Is it me or does he get an absolute armchair ride? Umpires didn't cost us the inability to make the most of our forward entries killed us AGAIN!

[Happy Days]

Cost us at least 1 goal, we lost by one and a bit. Cost us the game.

WRONG.

We lost because:

- we couldn't capitalise on our opportunities in the first quarter

- we had many a non-contributor on the night

- we missed crucial goals in the fourth quarter

- Morris got beaten by Riewoldt

- our deliver into the 50 was suspect at best

ALL of which are more valid reasons than 'we were robbed, the umpires are against us, poor doggies'.

[AndrewP6]

WRONG.

We lost because:

- we couldn't capitalise on our opportunities in the first quarter

- we had many a non-contributor on the night

- we missed crucial goals in the fourth quarter

- Morris got beaten by Riewoldt

- our deliver into the 50 was suspect at best

ALL of which are more valid reasons than 'we were robbed, the umpires are against us, poor doggies'.

You're entitled to your view. For what it's worth, I agree with most of your points. And I never said "poor Doggies" I actually thought Morris did OK on Custard, given he was gifted a goal, and took a long time to get going. I thought the loss was a combination of the factors you mention, and some costly, clearly wrong umpiring decisions, in a tight contest.

I never said umpires are against us, just that their performance was extremely poor at times, and in Custard's case, did actually result in a goal. Aker kicks the ball 60 metres up field, is called for deliberate out of bounds, and the Saints get the rebound. Because of the umps. The AFL might say they need protecting, I disagree.

[AndrewP6]

The riewoldt free was a disgrace. Is it me or does he get an absolute armchair ride? Umpires didn't cost us the inability to make the most of our forward entries killed us AGAIN!

As with most of the league's stars...

[lemmon]

I agree with Andrew, Riewoldts goals were mostly unavoidable and Morris held his own IMO.