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Boosh wrote:In both the reserves and the 1's Kenilworth were much bigger than havens in height and strength but they just couldn't run with them.

Kenilworth B Grade umpire never fails to disappoint.

Are you serious? Every B grade umpire is not up to scratch and we all just have to deal with it. Your guy on Saturday was no good either!

number2 wrote:

Boosh wrote:In both the reserves and the 1's Kenilworth were much bigger than havens in height and strength but they just couldn't run with them.

Kenilworth B Grade umpire never fails to disappoint.

Are you serious? Every B grade umpire is not up to scratch and we all just have to deal with it. Your guy on Saturday was no good either!

Deadly serious mate, he's a flat out cheat.

I hope that clears up any misunderstanding going forward.

Boosh wrote:

number2 wrote:

Boosh wrote:In both the reserves and the 1's Kenilworth were much bigger than havens in height and strength but they just couldn't run with them.

Kenilworth B Grade umpire never fails to disappoint.

Are you serious? Every B grade umpire is not up to scratch and we all just have to deal with it. Your guy on Saturday was no good either!

Deadly serious mate, he's a flat out cheat.

I hope that clears up any misunderstanding going forward.

oh, no you didn'tttt.

C'mon Boosh I've seen umpires around the grades and he's not a flat out cheat, you get frustrated with umpires that are not properly trained but you get that in mid-lower grade reserves grade footy.

A good measurement if an umpire is a "flat out cheat" is teams completely shitting them selves come finals time when you get decent umpires. I wouldn't say we have been guilty of that during his time umpiring over the last 10 years.

Just to quickly add I speak from experience being on the end of some pretty baffling decisions over the years and I'm very confident that it's not his intention to flat out cheat.

LaughingKookaburra wrote:Just to quickly add I speak from experience being on the end of some pretty baffling decisions over the years and I'm very confident that it's not his intention to flat out cheat.

I rekon the worst one I ever saw was the Glenunga B grade umpire a few years back. I like to think the same as you LK in that it's not people intentions to cheat but some of the decisions he made over that year it would've been hard to mount a case for his defence!

Kenilworth umpire is either a cheat .....but 99 percent of B grade umpires are one eyed

hence why the league needs to take control, every club must supply an umpire and the league distribute those umpires to different divisions, not hard really

There is no doubt some cases. As I said those teams come finals time usually get opened up.

Remember a classic case not too long ago where we lost the minor premiership on our ground during the last minor round game and the opposition let us know about it too. I knew we'd cut them up with a decent umpire and we did by 8 goals 2 weeks later. They didn't make the GF from there. I was pretty happy with that

Maybe when my team and I make less bad decisions than an umpire in a game of reserves grade of footy I'll pipe up and slam them. Until then I'll get initially frustrated and then get over it

Robb_Stark wrote:Kenilworth umpire is either a cheat .....but 99 percent of B grade umpires are one eyed

99% of those criticising umpires are one eyed.

Boosh should know what he's talking about. Being a biased umpire is in his DNA.

Footy Chick wrote:

2 times in 300 + games I have identified a league umpire has been bias and on both occasions was correct and we had written acknowledgment from the league.

B Grade is a different beast and maybe this is guy just just very poor toward one particular side which just so happens to be the opposition. But if he wants to not be viewed as a cheat he would need to change the way he behaves and speaks when on the field.

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It was a general comment, not specifically aimed at you because i knew it would start off a whole annual umpire bashing conversation

Footy Chick wrote:It was a general comment, not specifically aimed at you because i knew it would start off a whole annual umpire bashing conversation

How are North Havens lights this year?

woodublieve12 wrote:

Footy Chick wrote:It was a general comment, not specifically aimed at you because i knew it would start off a whole annual umpire bashing conversation

How are North Havens lights this year?

They're great but sadly the globes tend to fade around the time HV get there.

I don't think he'll lose sleep Boosh over being called a cheat. Just don't think you're being hard done by, as I said I've been on the end of a few decisions over the years. I think overall however he does an ok job.

In my 15 years of playing senior footy no matter the grade I've never heard an umpire mouth off first to a player either no matter how poor the umpire was.