Jacob Mollison has umpired for 14 years, 260 games. In that time he has umpired just 4 finals.
Says it all, really.
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So this wanker did the Essendon V Collingwood game in 2019 as well? The worst officiated game I have seen in history? Well, my post about not making it personal is revoked. That was absolute cheating, this swans game was just rubbish.
Alex is right with making them just umpires, stop making them part of the spectacle. Also with the furnace.
The fact that the bias extends from media to umpires is clear even tonight with GWS V Collingwood. Constant reminders how the pies are hard done by V GWS. Yet not a whimper for our games. So yeah ■■■■ you afl, and your dogshit umpires, and kayo please let me turn the commentary off. Please.
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I’m re watching the game and Fark me the umpires seem to hate Guelfi.
3rd Qtr has a holding the ball against him where he had no prior, but apparently the second tackle got him…WTF? Kick resulted in a mark and goal to Swans
Couple of minutes later, free against him for holding Papley. I re watched it 5 times and I couldn’t see the free. If it was there, it was soft. Papley kicks the goal.
Then 2 min later Guelfi punches the ball 40m over his head and it’s called deliberate. Only a point that time.
The players were clearly feeling the umpires bias, with Smith at one point saying you got sucked in again to the umpire after Swans received another free kick.
Also with seconds to go, Tippa’s opponent has both arms wrapped around him, but no free!
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Umpire during the Goldcoast/FC game tonight:
“If he lets the ball go and it hits the ground, that’s holding the ball”
Two things:
a) This seems wildly inconsistent with how HTB has been adjudicated lately.
b) Where the ■■■■ was this guy on Thursday???
Edited for accuracy.
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I think he means it’s an incorrect disposal. It’s no wonder people (players, coaches, fans, umpires, and the media) get confused and subsequently frustrated about the rules when they’re apparently self-contradictory.
I once asked a senior AFL umpire why a drop kick, which would win a grand final if kicked through the goals by a player who was not being tackled when kicking, was deemed incorrect disposal if the player IS being tackled. He said that it was legal and should not be called as incorrect disposal. The rules seem silent. So Given the call last night, I’m confused.
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Is it a conspiracy? Or, is it a co-incidence?
Like you said, don’t care who they are, make them earn it. Essendon used to play that way until we didn’t and then perhaps, we could again in the future.
It’s the same old story, until the rules are black and white then we will continue to be baffled by a number of decisions.
The inconsistency (not just within the match, but from match to match) is what annoys people, they expect us to look at each free individually without remembering past occurrences from the same match or occurrences in past matches.
Literally 95% of frees can be “ticked off” - even the Francis one - the ball had bounced and therefore it wasn’t a spoil, and unfortunately the front on view shows him looking boundary side and aiming his punch boundary - I 100% think it was a mistake to call it, but there’s enough there for them to “tick it off” if they need to.
The inconsistencies I remember when not looking at them individually - our dangerous tackle which was paid against us (which was probably there as he planted his feet and slung) (and yes I realise if the play hadn’t have been let go on for as long he would t have needed to, but regardless, his actions still constitute a free) - but then the one against us which was basically the exact same tackle, not paid.
At one point I think it was Gulden kicked the ball well after it had gone out of bounds - easy to say it’s 50/50 looking at it individually, but compared to the one that was paid against Belly a couple years back when he spoiled a kick that was only about a metre over the line and still in the air, it was way worse and should have been paid.
The holding the ball / dropping the ball / prior / fell out in the tackle is just a farce. I seen at least a few in last night’s Coll / GWS game paid that should have fully fell into the “knocked out in tackle” category but they were paid - if that’s the case then there should have been about 20 more paid in our match.
Even high tackles now have too much interpretation - it used to be easy, if you tackled above the shoulder it’s a free, then they stopped paying them when someone “ducked” - now it’s evolved further and it’s not paid when “you contributed to it” - it’s way too ■■■■■■■ grey, so many are paid that shouldn’t be and so many aren’t paid that should be.
Regardless of anything else that’s happening in the game, the total amateurish rules / interpretation / umpires are easily the worst thing about the game - no chance of it improving until they have full time umpires and take it seriously / have accountability.
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So with the high tackle and the player ‘contributing to it’, does that mean Selwood has had 0 frees this season?
I don’t understand the AFL’s attitude on having full time umpires. This is a fully professional sport with full scrutiny from fans, media etc. yet the umpires are not.
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It will not matter a rat’s if the chooks are full time. If the AWFUL wanted the game to be fairly umpired it would be.
How easy to have someone looking at the matches and stats and pulling umpires up on their bias if they wanted to. Maybe the gaming squad needs to look into some of these results because some games are not allowed to progress on their merits. Imagine if it was a horse race and half the field was hobbled.
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Was that the goal Papley kicked from 50 near the boundary… when he kicks NEXT to the man on the mark but 5m to his left. Yet the umpire calls play on AFTER he kicks it.
No way he had the range for that kick otherwise.
EFC players were called to play on for blinking all night ffs.
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Yep, that’s the one!
I just want to know…If this Sydney game was a grand final and the umpires put on such a display…what would happen?
Jesus already has too many televisions, remotes, coffee tables and closest person sitting next to the bomber’s supporter at the time.
Yes they changed it on Thursday.
EFA
re-watch the 2016 GF. Sydney was gloriously shafted that day as the AFL were still P1ssed about them going off script & stealing Buddy. Most biased umpiring in a GF I can recall but again it was the Swans who are otherwise gifted everything & the AFL had their underdog story to sell so nobody gave a fark.
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Check out how many dubious frees the maggots gave to Germie Dermie in the 85 GF.
Then just imagine what the record winning margin would have been if they hadn’t intervened like that.
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Its disgusting and scary at the same time.
I tend to agree with you there HLB. It may be highly unlikely that such a huge conspiracy is occurring without someone leaking the details out and uncovering a scandal.
I tend to agree with you there HLB. It may be highly unlikely that such a huge conspiracy is occurring without someone leaking the details out and uncovering a scandal.
I think it is more the fact that some umpires are biased on a personal level for one reason or another and find themselves too deep in a hole that they have dug and unfortunately just keep digging as there is no way back to save face. That coupled with a nice percentage of incompetence in their decision making and you have an umpire that’s a nice bloke in day to day life yet a total moron on game day. It is not entirely their fault as the AFL have a lot to answer for regarding their training, the constant changing of rules and the failure to justify and fairly assess bad decisions made during games in order to improve the umpiring. In short HLB, Mollison did not have a bad day, he did what he thought was right and as it shows he was very very wrong. Whichever way you look at it, it spells incompetence. Does he ever look back at his games and admit his mistakes to try and better himself…It appears not. Perhaps he prefers to stay incompetent.
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