bays10 wrote:being from a different association we had the week off, I ventured out to watch a mate play for scotch agaisnt fitzroy, was good to catch up with a few blokes but the game was a shocker and very scrappy. Scotch won easy but geeze i though my association umpires were bad, these umpires were a joke, half the time they were that old they were standing next to each other at one end of the ground and were 80 metres off the play with no idea what to blow. I watched fitzroy players punch and scrag players off the ball all day and one bloke (number 1) for fitzroy throw probably atleast four or five punches during the game. In the end I think he got a yellow but hardly worth the umpires trouble as the damage had already been done. I asked one of the blokes from scotch if it is normally like this in div 4 and he said yeah unfortunatly some teams play like this each week? is it normally like this what are other peoples thoughts? Dont get me wrong I love hard footy and often given away my fair share of free kicks but blatant king hits behind play etc I thought were pretty much stamped out these days?
U failed to mention the Scotch blokes (like number 29) going around sniping the 16-18years kids behind play...
Number 5 for Scotch is good to watch up forward as that blokes airial skills are pretty impressive & he is very sharp in front of the big sticks.
As for the umpiring in Div 4 your right about that this year as have been very questionable decisions with no real conistantcy & performances have been worse than this most of the year.
Scotch are a very good side though, them & Salisbury are the teams to beat & both of them wont be in Div 4 for too long.
