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    Umpires do the best they can in tough conditions. I recall most people here had it in for Darren Goldspink , yet we won each game in the 2005 finals series when he was on the field - and lost one when he wasn't. This umpire-knocking is culturally analagous to the stereotype of the British moaning about the weather. And just as tedious.

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    I like Razor Ray for his theatrics and most of his umpiring decisions.
    Can't understand all the complaining from the commentators about him talking to the players.

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    Quote Originally Posted by YvonneH View Post
    I like Razor Ray for his theatrics and most of his umpiring decisions.
    Can't understand all the complaining from the commentators about him talking to the players.
    He's a good ump but he's there to umpire not lecture or buddy up to the players.

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    Quote Originally Posted by YvonneH View Post
    I like Razor Ray for his theatrics and most of his umpiring decisions.
    Can't understand all the complaining from the commentators about him talking to the players.
    He's a good ump but he's there to umpire not lecture or buddy up to the players.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blood Fever View Post
    He's a good ump but he's there to umpire not lecture or buddy up to the players.
    I agree he's there to umpire first and foremost, but we don't want to take the players personality away from them and have robots as players and Ray has a very strong personality which sometimes comes to the forefront of his umpiring.

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    Quote Originally Posted by crackedactor View Post
    Stevic kicks into action when we play a Victorian side, so I would not worry too much!


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    Stevic won't know which team to punish on Saturday....
    "You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swansinger View Post
    Umpires do the best they can in tough conditions. I recall most people here had it in for Darren Goldspink , yet we won each game in the 2005 finals series when he was on the field - and lost one when he wasn't. This umpire-knocking is culturally analagous to the stereotype of the British moaning about the weather. And just as tedious.
    I get your point Swansinger - but for mine Stevic is an exception. Time and time again we have been utterly stuffed over when he has umpired us - he tried his best to do a hatchet job in the 2012 Grand Final, contributed to the successful hatchet job in 2016, and has made some utterly baffling calls many a time when umpiring his beloved Hawks.... it hasn't been just us that has suffered at the hands of the #1 ticket holder.

    I'm not worried about Saturday as it is a game that doesn't involve Hawthorn or another Melbourne team. But he is a very poor umpire imho.
    "You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."

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    Quote Originally Posted by crackedactor View Post
    Stevic kicks into action when we play a Victorian side, so I would not worry too much!


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    +1

    Umpires don't like GWS either.

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