Umpire farce - Getting worse by the minute!

[DavidSSS]

Ok, time to take a sober look at the stats, now that the home and away season is over what actually happened?

Well, we got screwed, and not for the first time.

The lowest frees for per game:



Amongst the highest frees against but a few in our region:



As for the differential, it is stark:



You can also see this in a scatter diagram:



This is an ongoing shafting:





That's 8 years of data and we are a total outlier - least frees for and most frees against.

If this isn't bias then what the hell is it?

Not like Gold Coast suddenly got less frees for after our coach went there, quite the opposite, most frees for per game in 2024.

DS

Note: the differential is per game.

 

[tigertim]

Ok, time to take a sober look at the stats, now that the home and away season is over what actually happened?

Well, we got screwed, and not for the first time.

The lowest frees for per game:

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Amongst the highest frees against but a few in our region:

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As for the differential, it is stark:

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You can also see this in a scatter diagram:

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This is an ongoing shafting:

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That's 8 years of data and we are a total outlier - least frees for and most frees against.

If this isn't bias then what the hell is it?

Not like Gold Coast suddenly got less frees for after our coach went there, quite the opposite, most frees for per game in 2024.

DS

Note: the differential is per game.

All the arguments of why we got shafted over the years have gone ie Hardwick, the game plan/style, the players! The only things that remain are we are Richmond and we get shafted.

 

[Brodders17]

All the arguments of why we got shafted over the years have gone ie Hardwick, the game plan/style, the players! The only things that remain are we are Richmond and we get shafted.

I'll give the umps credit for 1 thing. They got the crowd involved on Saturday.
1st half was like watching a team who didnt want to win playing a team no cared if they won. No atmosphere.
But once the umps started doing us over the crowd got hyped. Much more engaging game.

 

[RoarEmotion]

I'll give the umps credit for 1 thing. They got the crowd involved on Saturday.
1st half was like watching a team who didnt want to win playing a team no cared if they won. No atmosphere.
But once the umps started doing us over the crowd got hyped. Much more engaging game.

Robbo if calling would have said the crowd was chanting 'boring'

 

[tigersnake]

Watched OTC last night. Lyon arguing that all teams have to start coaching small fwds to duck like Ginnivan and Watson and the other guy or they will be disadvantaged. Specifically mentioned Stengle and Close could get a few more goals doing it, which is interesting for the side that gave us the Walter Raleigh of Ducking. Very matter-of-fact, acknowledged that the fans hate it, but presented it as cold hard fact, get used to it kind of thing.

This is where we're at