Worst umpired game you've seen?

[Plugger35]

Collingwood intraclub scratch match in early February this year - Pies were crucified!

Thanks Digger.

Saints got a lot of questionable last minute frees in that period.

Winning and then unwinning the Geelong v Saints qualifying final in 2010 still burns. Admittedly though, we were only in that position because we didn't turn up for the first half.

What were all these questionable last minute frees? I don't recall anything like that and the free kick count for that game was even.

As for the Geelong v Saints QF in 2010, Geelong got a great run from the umpires in the 2nd half to get them back into the game so it was a bit rich for their supporters complaining about being robbed due to that last free kick against Mooney which was there anyway,

6 of your 9 goals were from frees that night, but don't let the facts get in the way of a good story. And yep, I'm still very salty about that loss.

As for our choke, what do you call what you blokes did the following week against Geelong - 0 goals in the last qtr is not exactly finding the line now is it, especially for a strong favourite who only lost 2 games by less than a kick all season? Still, we all know you were incredibly lucky to even make the GF, not that you made the most of your good fortune the week after.

Which frees weren't justified? If you're talking about the Riewoldt free kick at the start of the 2nd half, Lake had been warned before half time by the umpires to stop bumping Riewoldt off the ball (he wasn't even Riewoldt's opponent) and if he did it again there would be a free kick against him. Riewoldt ran past Lake at the start of the 2nd half to see if he would take the bait and dopey Lake bumped him again costing his team a free kick and goal.

As underthestars pointed out, the main reason the Dogs lost that game was due to butchering chances in front of goal, the same reason we lost the GF to Geelong the following week. The umpiring was nowhere near one of the worst umpired games I've seen and nowhere near the farcical umpiring in the 2012 prelim between Hawthorn and Adelaide.

 

[underthestars]

6 of your 9 goals were from frees that night, but don't let the facts get in the way of a good story. And yep, I'm still very salty about that loss.

As for our choke, what do you call what you blokes did the following week against Geelong - 0 goals in the last qtr is not exactly finding the line now is it, especially for a strong favourite who only lost 2 games by less than a kick all season? Still, we all know you were incredibly lucky to even make the GF, not that you made the most of your good fortune the week after.

how the memory plays such tricks?

Goals Analysis
St Kilda Goals From Western Bulldogs
4 Mark 4
0 Free Kick 0
0 50m Penalty 0
5 Play 3


and by the by - reiwoldt had a free kick tally of 2-2.

so yes, don't let the facts get in the way of your sob story.
http://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/ft_match_statistics?mid=4958

 

[SuperSteele22]

Collingwood v St Kilda on a wet miserable Saturday afternoon in 2007. The same day Thomas kicked that non goal of the year. We got absolutely reamed by the umps from start to finish that day and still managed to come from behind at 3QT in horrible conditions to win. Never seen a game that was umpired so incompetently.

 

[Jars458]

1993 Prelim Essendon vs Crows - 42 frees to 16 in a two goal game.
2012 Prelim not much better.
Hawks v Ess Prelim was also a shocker, forget which year.

 

[dogs105]

It's quite amusing the amount of history revising going on in this thread.

 

[Inferno]

Yep that's what I thought, they admitted a few mistakes but no apology, I think it was another game that year or the year before where he apologised, but not the prelim game.

apology
noun
1. a regretful acknowledgement of an offence or failure.

Are you disputing those decisions I mentioned?
Every game day thread Hawks get an armchair ride according to 'neutrals', but they conveniently ignore all of the stuff that didn't go our way, including those crucial last quarter decisions I detailed, the umps got right on the Port comeback wagon in that last quarter, but we got the better of the umpiring in the first half

So... Hawthorn is right and everyone else is wrong? Got it

With Hodge - if hold was paid (which you got an incorrect free kick paid to you immediately after anyway) then the final minute of any close game would be endless free kicks. At some point common sense must prevail in a close, physical game in the dying minutes and the umpires need to put the whistle away for anything except obvious free kicks.

With Lake - he used his body and arm to hold off Monfies first and it was in a marking contest where contact like that is almost inevitable. If you think that was too much contact then I suggest taking up netball.

 

[Werewolf]

Of the games I attended, 2006 Bulldogs vs. North. Frees 11-21 and lost by 12 points. At the time I was filthy at the umpires and the rubbish football the Bulldogs played that day. That said, North deserved to win and I'm usually not one to blame umpires for losing.

Funnily enough, a few weeks before that was Geelong vs. West Coast, the great comeback. I was listening on the radio and I swear the Eagles got 6 or 7 goals from free kicks in the 2nd half. Anyone remember? I guess Geelong fans would like to forget that one!

This year, watched Bulldogs vs. Crows at the pub without sound and had no idea where some of our free kicks were plucked from

how the memory plays such tricks?

Riewoldt definitely got one from a free and a couple of other goals were umpire assisted. I was more annoyed at our goal conversion though

 

[blue harvest]

With Lake - he used his body and arm to hold off Monfies first and it was in a marking contest where contact like that is almost inevitable. If you think that was too much contact then I suggest taking up netball.

Inevitable? That is a holding free every day of the week. The umps made a mistake, it happens, to both teams, but neutrals don't always see them for both teams. Anyway, I don't want to derail this thread with individual decisions.

 

[underthestars]

Riewoldt definitely got one from a free and a couple of other goals were umpire assisted. I was more annoyed at our goal conversion though

To be honest i remember that as well - from the lake incident. Not sure why footywire don't have it - maybe i remember wrong?
I think that one incident has coloured the rest of the game for some doggy supporters.
As you say - conversion was the difference - as it was a week later for us.

 

[Knighta21]

The one where Malceski bowled the ump over, right?

Yep, and Hannebery smashed Hurley in the head for no free kick.

 

[Fat Nyfe]

2012 Hawks vs Crows Prelim
2014 Hawks vs Power Prelim
2015 Freo vs Hawks Prelim

Gee the Hawks have had it good

 

[crazywildhorse]

What I've learnt from this thread so far:

Not sure if it's age of posters, or active memory, but as umpires have increased, the standard of umpiring has decreased.

Some teams have gone from being the beneficiary to being reamed. Eg. Adelaide 90s and Adelaide 2010s.

A few games seem to come up a lot (and neutrally so) the Adelaide Fitzroy game 1991, WCE Geelong out of bounds game, 2012 Hawks Adelaide prelim, 'whispers in the sky', 2001 Hawks Essendon PF, 1998 Adelaide North, last years North Eagles PF and 1980 Collingwood Geelong PF are the ones that stand out.

Seems like Preliminary finals are a real low point for the umpires.

Fremantle have had a lot of umpire troubles.

There is some quite a build up of salty going around, even from years back.

It also seems that big footy posters can actually show a good amount of composure when discussing a touchy subject.

 

[Mningasimisonda]

What I've learnt from this thread so far:

Not sure if it's age of posters, or active memory, but as umpires have increased, the standard of umpiring has decreased.

Some teams have gone from being the beneficiary to being reamed. Eg. Adelaide 90s and Adelaide 2010s.

A few games seem to come up a lot (and neutrally so) the Adelaide Fitzroy game 1991, WCE Geelong out of bounds game, 2012 Hawks Adelaide prelim, 'whispers in the sky', 2001 Hawks Essendon PF, 1998 Adelaide North, last years North Eagles PF and 1980 Collingwood Geelong PF are the ones that stand out.

Seems like Preliminary finals are a real low point for the umpires.

Fremantle have had a lot of umpire troubles.

There is some quite a build up of salty going around, even from years back.

It also seems that big footy posters can actually show a good amount of composure when discussing a touchy subject.

WCE v Geelong out of bounds game was ridiculous. They set the standard with a few poor decisions then called everything deliberate. I'm guessing it would still hold the record for most deliberate out of bounds frees in a game.

 

[Crankyhawk]

I don't really have a worst game, I have a set of games I guess. Hawthorn Geelong games 08-13
Used to have seats where Franklin used to lead 80% of the time, I'm pretty sure you know the spot but the amount of shit defenders used to get away with on him. The holding, the chopping of the arms. If I remember correctly Hawthorn actually sent many 'please explains' to the AFL regarding the bias against him

And now Sydney do the same - certainly their bigfooty supporters seem to see that buddy gets a very rough deal from the umpires.

 

[BurnedScones]

Our game against you in 2008 was worse. Mark Harvey came out in the media the night before the game and said Freo were going to attempt to rough Geelong up the following day. You guys proceeded to do just that, but for some reason the umpires turned a blind eye to it, and were pinging Geelong players for retaliating. Frees in the 1st quarter were something like 20-2 Freo's way. The violence escalated to the point Solomon caved Ling's cheekbone in with an elbow off the ball. Was the only time I'd ever seen the normally placid crowd at Geelong baying for blood.

I don't remember watching that game, let alone the umpiring decisions. That Solomon elbow is still embarrassing though.

 

[paddy18]

What I've learnt from this thread so far:

Seems like Preliminary finals are a real low point for the umpires.

You can add Geelong V North prelim in 1994 to that list.
33-12 free kick tally in favour of Geelong for a game decided after the siren, with a 9-1 count at quarter time (where North led by 18 points)

Actually thought the count was worse than that (thought it was 34-10), so I checked the official stats before I got howled down on here.

Saw that Shane Breuer received 7 frees on the day....he'd be absolutely crucified on Bigfooty these days with those sort of numbers.

 

[crazywildhorse]

You can add Geelong V North prelim in 1994 to that list.
33-12 free kick tally in favour of Geelong for a game decided after the siren, with a 9-1 count at quarter time (where North led by 18 points)

Actually thought the count was worse than that (thought it was 34-10), so I checked the official stats before I got howled down on here.

Saw that Shane Breuer received 7 frees on the day....he'd be absolutely crucified on Bigfooty these days with those sort of numbers.

It seems that in all the dodgy prelims, the team that won that day lost the GF.

 

[Gysberts2Bate]

It was a clear no ball. Get over it

Reminds me of that time my mate took a hattrick in a 13s game and his dad who'd stepped in for about 5 minutes because the regular ump had heat exhaustion called him for overstepping on the hattrick ball.

 

[Gavin Excell]

Reminds me of that time my mate took a hattrick in a 13s game and his dad who'd stepped in for about 5 minutes because the regular ump had heat exhaustion called him for overstepping on the hattrick ball.

My spies who were there that game said it was an emotional moment but was the right call

 

[Gysberts2Bate]

My spies who were there that game said it was an emotional moment but was the right call

My mate was spewing but his dad relished it way too much.

 

[Northworth]

1994 prelim - geelong v north

so many rubbish decisions and a very heavy freekick differential.

I still remember the umpire(!!!! not the club) stopping play and calling for a stretcher for Bairstowe which stopped our momentum at the other end of the ground and he was carried off and ran back on the ground

 

[HoneyBadger35]

Geelong vs West Coast at Subi maybe 2014? Overall game was fine but just will always stick out because they went with 2016 levels of WTF deliberates all day, threw the entire game out of whack.

 

[Gavin Excell]

My mate was spewing but his dad relished it way too much.

Im admire his courage to make the hard call despite the emotion of the moment

 

[PAFC_1870]

The Port North in Hobart was near enough repeat of a game at AAMI maybe 5+ years earlier.

That was the worst I saw in person. But 38-15 far out.

 

[Mitchell Madness]

The Port North in Hobart was near enough repeat of a game at AAMI maybe 5+ years earlier.

That was the worst I saw in person. But 38-15 far out.

The week after north lost by a kick to the Hawks, despite them having a 30-15 count

There was a few games where they got a ride that yr