Wickzki
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- Oct 1, 2010
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There's probably nothing new here but I thought I would share regardless.
Third-Party Thoughts
I'm usually very quick to let a loss go. Emotional to the extreme in the moment but pretty relaxed afterward. I'm finally learning that it's not healthy to hold onto things like that.
However, it doesn't help that my partner's Dad is both a Richmond member and a retired QAFL umpire of 20+ seasons who still works as an umpire coach part-time while continuing to referee netball games all weekend.
He loves nothing more than to rub in a Richmond victory over us in our interaction. I ****ing hate it as until round 1 it's been years of him rubbing it in.
However, for the first time ever instead of rubbing it in he messages me "Good game but the umpiring really killed you. Worst umpiring this year in a game that I've watched live. You'll bounce back!"
So I ask him what he's talking about and ask for specific examples.
We lost by 15 points. A lifelong Richmond supporter paid to train and educate umpires at the state level (with the hope of them getting to AFL level) can point to 4 goals that he thought were easy to make as game-decisive errors irk me.
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Personal Thoughts
I still argue - as I did with him - that we played dumb wet weather football for far too much of the game.
Although we've had some really strong starts this year it's not the first time that we've let a team get the jump on us. This one hurt significantly more than others.
I believe that we had enough opportunity to win the game in the second half and missed far too many gettable opportunities.
These three things cost us the game more than the umpiring did in my uneducated opinion. It just stings to hear it from an umpire educator who typically loves to rub in their wins.
The goal at the end of the first half really hurt us going into the break. We had all the momentum and it shifted it to them going into the half. Ouch.
I hate Prestia though admittedly he is a gun player. However, what he did to Cripps at the end of the third quarter and initiating that melee really galvanized Richmond more than it did for us. There are significant lessons here that we must learn from. We're still a young team but we can't be the team that is easy to bully. We need to develop a steely resolve and put it into action on the field. I thought we were quick to retaliate and respond to it (ensuring the melee) but we didn't know how to utilize it to our strength while Richmond - who are the experts at it - clearly did.
On a similar note, I believe that we struggle mightily against teams who employ hard-tackling, contested, games. We lost tonight and Collingwood smashed us for much of the game by playing similarly. We have a team of midfield bulls. What can we do so that this changes? We will not win a finals game which are highly contested, drag it out affairs, until we learn to play against this style of play.
Finally, the injuries are starting to take their toll. Fingers crossed for Durdin.
Let this, mostly, incredible ride continue.
Third-Party Thoughts
I'm usually very quick to let a loss go. Emotional to the extreme in the moment but pretty relaxed afterward. I'm finally learning that it's not healthy to hold onto things like that.
However, it doesn't help that my partner's Dad is both a Richmond member and a retired QAFL umpire of 20+ seasons who still works as an umpire coach part-time while continuing to referee netball games all weekend.
He loves nothing more than to rub in a Richmond victory over us in our interaction. I ****ing hate it as until round 1 it's been years of him rubbing it in.
However, for the first time ever instead of rubbing it in he messages me "Good game but the umpiring really killed you. Worst umpiring this year in a game that I've watched live. You'll bounce back!"
So I ask him what he's talking about and ask for specific examples.
- The Adam SaadPLAYERCARDSTART42Adam Saad
- Age
- 30
- Ht
- 178cm
- Wt
- 79kg
- Pos.
- Def
CareerSeasonLast 5- D
- 17.5
- 4star
- K
- 10.0
- 4star
- HB
- 7.5
- 5star
- M
- 3.0
- 3star
- T
- 2.7
- 4star
- MG
- 349.1
- 5star
- D
- 20.7
- 5star
- K
- 12.0
- 5star
- HB
- 8.7
- 4star
- M
- 3.3
- 3star
- T
- 2.4
- 3star
- MG
- 388.3
- 5star
- D
- 17.6
- 5star
- K
- 10.4
- 4star
- HB
- 7.2
- 5star
- M
- 4.2
- 4star
- T
- 1.2
- 3star
PLAYERCARDEND
- There is no way for the umpire to determine that Broad touched the ball on Newnes' goal. The footage isn't decisive enough. The fingers don't move simultaneously with the ball as they're already moving and don't change direction after the ball supposedly hits the hand. Richmond got an ensuing goal (-5 points to Carlton, +6 to Richmond)
- Lewis Young was held by Tom Lynch preventing him from contesting Shai BoltonPLAYERCARDSTART29Shai Bolton
- Age
- 25
- Ht
- 176cm
- Wt
- 77kg
- Pos.
- M/F
CareerSeasonLast 5- D
- 12.3
- 3star
- K
- 6.9
- 3star
- HB
- 5.4
- 4star
- M
- 2.8
- 3star
- T
- 2.9
- 4star
- CL
- 1.4
- 4star
- D
- 12.7
- 3star
- K
- 9.2
- 4star
- HB
- 3.5
- 2star
- M
- 3.0
- 3star
- T
- 2.7
- 4star
- CL
- 1.8
- 4star
- D
- 9.2
- 3star
- K
- 4.6
- 2star
- HB
- 4.6
- 4star
- M
- 2.0
- 3star
- T
- 2.6
- 4star
- CL
- 0.0
- 1star
PLAYERCARDEND
We lost by 15 points. A lifelong Richmond supporter paid to train and educate umpires at the state level (with the hope of them getting to AFL level) can point to 4 goals that he thought were easy to make as game-decisive errors irk me.
--
Personal Thoughts
I still argue - as I did with him - that we played dumb wet weather football for far too much of the game.
Although we've had some really strong starts this year it's not the first time that we've let a team get the jump on us. This one hurt significantly more than others.
I believe that we had enough opportunity to win the game in the second half and missed far too many gettable opportunities.
These three things cost us the game more than the umpiring did in my uneducated opinion. It just stings to hear it from an umpire educator who typically loves to rub in their wins.
The goal at the end of the first half really hurt us going into the break. We had all the momentum and it shifted it to them going into the half. Ouch.
I hate Prestia though admittedly he is a gun player. However, what he did to Cripps at the end of the third quarter and initiating that melee really galvanized Richmond more than it did for us. There are significant lessons here that we must learn from. We're still a young team but we can't be the team that is easy to bully. We need to develop a steely resolve and put it into action on the field. I thought we were quick to retaliate and respond to it (ensuring the melee) but we didn't know how to utilize it to our strength while Richmond - who are the experts at it - clearly did.
On a similar note, I believe that we struggle mightily against teams who employ hard-tackling, contested, games. We lost tonight and Collingwood smashed us for much of the game by playing similarly. We have a team of midfield bulls. What can we do so that this changes? We will not win a finals game which are highly contested, drag it out affairs, until we learn to play against this style of play.
Finally, the injuries are starting to take their toll. Fingers crossed for Durdin.
Let this, mostly, incredible ride continue.