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Umpire farce - Getting worse by the minute!

Last Frockers game at home free kick count was 16 to Cats 15
suddenly tonight free kick count at 3qtr time was 16 to Tigers 3
How corrupt can they be?
 
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This is so OBVIOUSLY bad, I've just browsed through most teams forums on BF and they highlighted it.

Benny, please make a call on these low life flogs.
 
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Journos brought the umpiring up in Mini’s press conference.
He said yeah it’s probably a low number but we don’t worry about that.

Coaches are gagged.

He needs to say something like.

Well we laid 156 tackles for the game and only one of them got rewarded with holding the ball so we need to learn how to be better and ask for clarification on that rule so we can improve
 
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Just *smile*. Embarrasing. Inept. That non HTB in the second Q was even worse than Edwards in the North EF 2015. The bakes reversed one was a abomination, a disgrace, if we want to get that tiggy touchwood, its a 50 to Bakes for holding him up for too long. The Graham sling, his reaction said it all, as Jones said, did everything he could possible do. Also very early in the first, Mansell mark, Freo player wasn't just in the protected are, he was in his face, should have been 50, goal. Just some of many examples.
 
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Don’t forget the Pickett shot at goal when ump wrongly called play on and his kick was smothered. Pickett did not move off his line or move off the line of the player on the mark.
 
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Last Frockers game at home free kick count was 16 to Cats 15
suddenly tonight free kick count at 3qtr time was 16 to Tigers 3
How corrupt can they be?
Yep. And what exacerbates it worse is we were in front all night. We just get shafted week in week out.
 
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Don’t forget the Pickett shot at goal when ump wrongly called play on and his kick was smothered. Pickett did not move off his line or move off the line of the player on the mark.
I watched this back coz I thought the same but the umpire was right.
 
And how did the ARC not see the ball deflect off the post!!!!should have needed one replay. Amazing.
They’ve taken away the only piece of kit that worked in the whole system. Where’s snicko gone?
 
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The only time I noticed the umpires was when I saw the free kick tally on the screen.

Our missed frees generally weren't clearcut misses, and Freo's weren't absurdly incorrect. Several were arguable, like in most games, but this was probably on the lower end of games that warrant venting over umpire performance.
 
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The club should make an official complaint.
Tonight was as bad as I’ve seen.
The umpiring department and the rules committee need to be flushed down the toilet.
 
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The nerds need to stop wasting time doing holograms of Ringo Starr singing Wonderwall and build an AI that can replace these cockroaches.
 
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The only time I noticed the umpires was when I saw the free kick tally on the screen.

Our missed frees generally weren't clearcut misses, and Freo's weren't absurdly incorrect. Several were arguable, like in most games, but this was probably on the lower end of games that warrant venting over umpire performance.
You are either joking or legally blind! The absolute worst display against us in the last 6 years!!!
 
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