Dogs_R_Us
Space Traveller
Even that’s not enough for some deranged supporters. We get frees that other teams don’t get. Umpires pay frees that are not there and ignore others. The frees we get whether we win the count or not, or win the game or not, are not deserved but some sort of payoff. We are CHEATS!It’s just always amusing to me.
Football supporters thinking that free kicks are some sort of charity to be distributed evenly.
Apparently umpires should be out there thinking along the lines of this,
”That was a clear high tackle against Buddy Franklin. Sydney have made a few errant tackles today, we’ve had to pay a few against them for it. But Sydney have only received 5 free kicks so far and the opposition have 13 free kicks, so I’ll let this one against Franklin go and hopefully Sydney can earn a few later this quarter so it evens up a bit.
Even if say they make another 5 blatantly high tackles, that will make the free kick count 18-5 against them, and that’s way too much, so we won’t pay them.”
Completely laughable.
I watched the game today. Essendon got more free kicks and the umpiring was completely fine. Collingwood weren’t robbed, there was no conspiracy, the umpires weren‘t secretly barracking for Essendon to win, just over the course of the game, they won more free kicks.
The sooner people shit up about the amount of free kicks paid and realise that in any game, one side can infringe more than the other, the better.