I was watching the Hawks v Saints game on Friday night & I thought the umpiring was terrible, especially in the first half. There was a moment there when I thought umpire number 2 had a quid on the Saints. There was some very dodgy decissions in this game especially the Kossi tackle on Mitchell which was unduly rough & very high & yet no free. Maybe Mitchell stole his girlfriend or something! The umps have been ordinary all season & I blame the umpires coach, the umps have been getting progressively worse ever since he has been there. The experiment of ex-player & coach has failed & it is time to return to an umpire based system & the rules committee please gewt rid of the holding the ball rule it stinks!!! For a few years now I have sometimes forgotten I was watching AFL & thought I was watching Ruggers there are so many scrums.