CURLY wrote: ↑Sat 27 Apr 2024 1:18pm Media haven’t held back in the umpiring this morning.

One expert said he found a lot of interpretations that went Ports way more than a little odd.

The main thing I saw was Hinkley whinging about the holding the man calls against them. You’ve got to admire his chutzpah.

Winning football games is not about whether or not you “deserve” it, or whether or not your opponents were unlucky with injuries, or moved the ball better than us. We have received half a dozen simply dreadful umpiring decisions against us that either gifted them goals or denied them to us. Without ...

B.M wrote: ↑Fri 26 Apr 2024 11:18pm The youth today

Phillipou 2 kicks
Garcia 7 possessions- as a mid
Caminiti 6 possessions
Sharman 6 possessions

Hastie impacted 8 in a quarter

Hastie did some good stuff, but he looks a little slow.

The Fireman wrote: ↑Fri 26 Apr 2024 11:14pm Blaming the umpiring is a weak as piss cop out.

some teams win the close ones unfortunately for us, we lose the close ones.

Teams are always going to lose close ones with the home town umpiring we saw tonight.

The Hawthorn team of the 1980s would have struggled to overcome it.

We probably will say something. And we'll get a response along the lines of "sorry, the umpires made some mistakes. We'll try to make sure it doesn't happen next time." It's happened before: I remember a game against Port in 2006 where the AFL admitted to 10 umpiring mistakes against us af...

Winmore wrote: ↑Fri 26 Apr 2024 10:52pm Howard, spud.

He didn't do anything there.

Even I'm starting to believe the umpires are corrupt.

The blonde guy is just a poor umpire: makes his decisions based on crowd noise rather than on what he sees.

We've been screwed by the umps. But Port are running out of players. So we're still an outside chance.

I'm about as far away from being a fan of Byrnes as you could possibly get, but I reckon he put in a pretty decent effort in that first half.

Sharman was dreadful. Membrey did a couple of ok things but was mostly dreadful. Garcia was almost invisible.

B.M wrote: ↑Fri 26 Apr 2024 9:55pm Cooper Sharman’s body language is fkn terrible

Gives up and stops trying

Needs a fkn rocket!!!

He's been pretty dreadful all season. Surely he comes out next week when we have more players back.

magnifisaint wrote: ↑Fri 26 Apr 2024 9:54pm

meher baba wrote: ↑Fri 26 Apr 2024 9:53pm You're all so critical. But 10 points down at half time is far better than I had envisaged at the start of the game.

PA have missed 4 easy ones in front of goal.

We've missed a couple as well.

You're all so critical. But 10 points down at half time is far better than I had envisaged at the start of the game.

We're playing much better though.

We haven't had a very good deal from the umpys tonight.

WTF Howard?

SaintDippa wrote: ↑Fri 26 Apr 2024 9:12pm Bris leading GWS 21-14 Q/T.

And Bulldogs were 43-6 against us at QT. I like this week better.

Well you can all whinge as much as you want. I simply loved that quarter.

BTW, for anyone following this thread and unable to see the game, Marshall is back on the field.

Philllipou! Eat that, all of you knockers!

I couldn't have imagined that there'd be a team worse at set shots than us. But Port is that!

FFS, Marshall looking pretty crook.

What's the point of all of this? We had a great ANZAC Day ceremony before the Pies vs the Bombers yesterday.

ANZAC day is over. If AFL were played over Xmas-New Year, would Santa show up before the game on Boxing Day?

So the players have been out on the field for more than 5 minutes, and it's still 10 minutes until the scheduled kick-off time So should I assume we've got a whole lot of ANZAC day stuff to get through?

WellardSaint: "Byrnes will be back to his best. Trust me"

And how will we be able to distinguish that from his worst?