Sheik Yerbouti wrote:Phantom Gossiper wrote:I witnessed two absolutely awful decisions that were in my opinion clearly CHEATING
1. 3rd quarter Ingle Farms George Long as running back towards the goal chasing the ball, about 2 metres in front of his opponent punches the ball through the goal.. Given a goal..
2. 4th quarter when it was tight, Ingle Farms Nathan Stacey crumbs a ball, wheels around and snaps for a goal.. Called touched.. Worse still reasoning "it was touched off himself" :/
Crucial decisions at crucial stages that could well have impacted on the game
As could have the older ump calling holding the ball against IF, the player just picked it up & ran with it, strange one that.
Wouldn't have seen 2 sides dominate over the other in patches, ended out a good spectacle. Browny rang me today saying what an entertaining game it was (patronizing bastard
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Don't remember that one Sheik, although I might just be finding the description vague, haha.
Yeah, the game had a real eb & flow to it, but was a good spectacle & played in great spirits.
Good spirits reminds me of an incident in the last, tense part of the game with only a goal or so in it & at the centre bounce one of the Fitzroy players was on the ground (not being tackled) & pretending to try and handball the ball out. It took a good 5 seconds for someone to tackle him as he just had so much space to handball the ball off! Myself & the Fitzroy ruckman were still laughing as the ball was finally thrown up! Definitely an incident worthy of the player donating some funds to the Fitzroy footy trip!!!