aussi rulz wrote:X Runna wrote:The_Warrior wrote:In this day and age of Club umpire bashing, I think Lockley's have some good ones on board. Obviously older blokes who have played the game before. Got a very young squad Lockleys, was very hard to find a guy over 30 in any of their 3 grades. No doubt they'll improve. Look forward to the return leg triple header at their deck.
Good to hear some other clubs have good ones.
As for bad, saw the very worst possible in D6R at Rowe Park yesterday.
Did not quite make the difference between winning and losing, but the Trinity club umpire is a deadset %&@(^!&
CHEAT. To hear that their coach hates him and so does the club as a whole, it amazes me how he can CHEAT so obviously one-sidedly. There would have been at least a dozen frees he paid which went 'the wrong way'.
And then the final straw - in a game which was very tight in the last 1/4 and Ingle Farm on a bit of a roll, Trinity got a quick break from our forward line and raced it down to score a goal. The goalkicker, being a real hero, then ran at, and charged our full back as the ball was on it's way back to the middle. What did the little CHEAT do? - awarded Trinity another shot at goal !!!
To hear from Trinity themselves that other clubs have said the same thing, we have to get rid of this CHEAT.
Report will be lodged with SAAFL tomorrow asking for his removal from the position.
Sounds like sour grapes xrunner, didnt you go down by 10 goals, one free kick wont win you a game. People in glass houses shouldn't be throwing stones mate

Now I didn't see the incident in the last quarter that you are referring to so I can't comment on that but what I can say is that we have not been over pleased with him this season due to the lack of free kicks he gives us. He has had a reputation of favouring the opposition and giving us bugger all because he doesn't want to be seen as biased.
Normally I don't get involved in discussions about umpires but what about in the second quarter when our player was shepherding the ball through our goals and got king hit from behind by your full back, knocked out, stretchered off in front of YOUR umpire and then taken to hospital and not even a free kick was given.
I guess what I'm saying is that there are a lot of umpires at B Grade level that aren't consistent with their decisions which frustrates the hell out of players, coaches and supporters but at most clubs there aren't exactly a lot of people lining up for the job. Unfortunately, in most cases, they are the best people that each club can find and rarely do their poor decisions directly influence the final outcome of a game. In almost all cases, if your team is good enough and play well enough, they will win regardless of how good, bad or indifferent the umpires are. All IMO of course.