Yep. Had one of those dreams last night where I was playing and just went low and hard at him. He of course did his little half fall half turn lead with the head move. My shoulder caught his head front on and the bloke left the field on a stretcher never to play again.
The majority of the dream was about how I responded to the media with “if the cheating ■■■■ wants to duck and it means he can never play the game again… it’s his fault”.
As you may have guessed, Selwood is my most hated player. I think he is a cheat.
It would easy to do (if anybody had the time) a statistical analysis on his free kick count against ess vs other teams. And the data avail would probably give a high confidence level if he was which would prove the theory that these two screw us over.
Maybe not to that extreme, but a few old fashioned coat hangers when they drop at the knees might encourage them to stop. If you are going to concede a free, concede it hard.
Already done.
Refer you to my post of August last year.
Very quickly;
There is a statistical bias against us when Pannell is umpiring.
Not when Fisher is umpiring.
Etc etc.
Until a reporter has the guts to ask the AFL based on stats, I’ll go back to me tin foil hat.
If he is judging Essendon unfairly compared to other teams, I hope, and would expect, that EFC are collecting their own data on Pannell and taking it to the afl. If he is exhibiting a bias against Essendon it should be easy to prove. Wouldn’t that come under the banner of ‘match fixing’?
This is the guy (Pannell) who first came to my attention when he rigged the swans game a few years back and called a free against Stanton in the dying seconds to hand them the game.
He has been unbelievably biased ever since. Someone should do the maths on the free kick discrepancy when he umpires our games.
The issue with criticising the umpiring is, no matter the evidence (overwhelmingly), you are dismissed and labelled a whinger.
If you display the numbers and statistics; their come back is, ‘well the stats are going to be one way or the other’.
If you point to a howler or number of howlers that the umpire made; the excuse is ‘it was just a bad day’, or they make up some bullsh*t about it’s a correct decision… technically.
If you say that the particular umpire is biased against or for a particular club; they just say that every supporter group has conspiracies that their club gets it tough.
You just need to look at West Coast or Fremantle in WA. My mates who are WC supporters reckon that it always called fairly at WA, but they get murdered by umpires when they play in Victoria.
Like I said… If he is that biased it should be easy to put a case to the afl. It is a very serious accusation.
I must admit, I haven’t followed it closely enough to have any idea about the fairness or not of any particular umpire… overall though, umpiring decisions has to be the most frustrating things about watching football.
By the end of last season, I just accepted that we were playing against an opposition and a team of umpires.
TBH we need to just accept it and be better than the opposition by 5-6 goals and we might come away with a 6 point win each week.
I hate Parnell. I don’t think it gets much clearer that his intention is to put us out of our misery. As I said I won’t watch the games he’ll umpire, but for the rest of the umpires we simply need to be better than them and the opposition. We need accept that we will cop the rough end of the stick every match.
The umpiring exhibition yesterday with 71 frees, re-emphasises why the 70’s were a frustrating decade - You could get up to 100 frees, and sometimes in a game in that decade, which made it a stop start game.