What did you think of the umpires in the Hawthorn vs Geelong match?

Question

What did you think of the umpires in the Hawthorn vs Geelong match?

Answer 1

I reakon they were preety bad

Who was in number 3? i think it was mcburney, he was a schocker.

hopefully their will be better umpires today at the G

Answer 2

I think the umpires, for the whole season so far, have been fairly below par.

They have been making some shockers in todays games as well.

Their main problem is, never having played the game themselves, have no idea of the situation out there. Players get heated up & maybe mumble a word or two of discontent re a decision - the ump takes extreme umbrage & penalizes 50 meteres & sometimes a further 50 for piddly transgressions.

If they had played the game & were aware what it was like to play a physical game they would therefore cut a bit of slack.

Answer 3

Yeah, have to agree with Sodz, but then again, the umpires hardly ever perform well :)

Answer 4

The umpires have been bad all year and it seems that when one team gets a good run in the first half , the umpires look at this at half time and then make up for it in the second half to try and even up the frees.

Answer 5

I reckon there were some pretty strange decisions both ways.  But before we criticise too much, that was obviously the hardest fastest game of the year, a lot of bodies getting thrown in pretty hard.  (And credit to both sides - hard and fair ... no solomon's here!)

On occasions I thought we (the Cats) had some tough ones against us but on a few other occasions, probably more, we had some soft frees and a couple against that we got away with.  But the important thing is - I don't think there were any decisions that changed the game.

Answer 6

**I don't think the umpiring was any better/worse than most other games.  Being at the game I was getting very frustrated with some of the decisions but there seemed to be ordinary decisions made against both teams - not just one.**

Answer 7

ABSOLUTELY SHOCKING!!!!

hawthorn must have paid them or something!

even though cats ended up with more frees than the hawks...

it was the quality..

all of hawks' frees were soft and cats didnt get frees when they were obvious!

go lions 4 2nite...

Answer 8

no 3 steve mcburney

very ordinary!

Answer 9

Some of the calls were absoulutely shocking but the explanations were pretty funny lol.

Answer 10

They were pretty bad they gave way too many free kicks away for no reason there were around 53 free kicks given throughout the match which resulted in loss of flow with the ball for both teams! The umps need too be more consistent with the frees they give it is a real problem nowadays!

Answer 11

When have he umpires ever had a GOOD game that everyone was happy with?

NEVER

its part of AFL to bag the umpires when your team is behind

Answer 12

Even as a devoted Geelong supporter, I had to leave and follow the footy scores on the computer because of the umpires in the Hawthorn v. Geelong match. What was up with the incident with Mooney aparently hawling abuse with a mouth gaurd in? Every week, umpires make the wrong choices. I'm becoming quite sick of it...