Down the Hill wrote:It was worse yesterday but in about the fifth minute of today's game i heard a Dad to another Dad after a free to Brighton say "typical, the umps love Brighton". I mean if people really think and believe this type of crud and presumably share those thoughts with their kids then what hope do we have for preventing some of the abuse of umpires and other incidents in junior footy.
Maybe the Brighton lads get a good ride with the umpires DTH because generally they don't back chat as much as some. I was watching the U/14 Brighton v Aldinga game on Saturday and Brighton got a great ride with the umpires because the Aldinga lads just seemed to want to abuse the umpires. Some of parents weren't much better......it is the first time I have seen a 25m penalty given by an umpire because a parent/supporter has given the umpire some lip.