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Come on look on the bright side, if we had won that qualifying final we would have faced Adelaide in the prelim and given our track record against them at the time, we could have easily lots that game. No Grand Final. No Flag.Leave a comment:
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Re: Worst Umpiring Decision in the History of Football
I'm with Frog on this one. The worst Umpiring decision ever was Chamberlain deciding to pick up a whistle. That decision launched thousands of other poor decisions.
That Freo game was the angriest I've ever been at a game of footy.Last edited by Big Al; 23 January 2013, 05:53 AM.Leave a comment:
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What about final vs west coast 2005 at subi when our man was penalised for (was it) obstructing the kicker when the weagle clearly moved into our man
don't remember the players but it resulted in a 50 and a goal and cost us the game...Leave a comment:
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Those are definitely the two...saved me writing it up :-)......the reason they are worse than the Rohan decision is that there were SOME extenuating circumstances explaining the umpire's mistake.....(1) Thomas go his hands to the ball first and (2) Rohan DID land on his back. Still an absolutely dreadful decision. But with the two above you just have to look at them and go HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE????????? So they are clear winners......just ahead of NOT paying a fifty against Burgoyne(?) in the SCG game right at the end.....especially when we had at least 4 50s costing goals (or shots at goal) that should not have been paid....at least 2 against Mike and one against Sammy.Leave a comment:
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Glad its not just me hanging onto the Solomon one. I suffered through those bombers losses too. Aside from the Kelly kick into the man on the mark Alessio took a mark with 4 seconds on the clock to win that game, then there was the Ricky Mott miss from point blank.
My happy memories of Barry are that he was generally pretty handy against Essendon.Leave a comment:
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The free kick to Puopalo (spelling?) towards the end of the Swans v Hawks match at the SCG was the stinker of the season for me. Should have been HTB against him and ends up being a free to him because O'Keefe's hand swatted a fly away from his face 10 seconds later.
On the Hall thing I tend to agree with more recent posters. The initial free wasn't there and then it all just went mental. Kirk or one of the other leaders should have come in and supported Hall while I've not been a fan of Mitchell since that day - his behaviour was disgraceful.
The Solomon one continues to stagger me and may well be the worst of the lot because it's an error of fact not judgement.Leave a comment:
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I have a very clear recollection of the hall thing - and BBBH was a self-indulgent player at that stage of his career - railing against the appalling delivery that came into the forward line all too often in Melbourne games and complaining incessantly.
But that day at the MCG I was sitting very close to the boundary on the wing (it had rained in the morning so the seats near the wing were free for once) he should have received the free and the second fifty was as a consequence of mitchell getting away with deliberately egging him on - and i dont think it was there either. And as far as i was concerned I wasn't against BBBBH laying one on mitchell by the time the third came around - he had run about 80 metres from the initial offence with mitchell about one metre away from him yelling abuse and carrying on. I still think there was a lack of leadership from players such as kirky to actually tell barry to go back up the other end - or alternatively to have just stood between hall and mitchell.
The antagonism towards hall which came from roos that night was, and still is, unfortunate in the context of the relationship between those two and the club.
Anyway on topic I'd have to go for the solomon one - that was one of the last times we've played the bombers at the mcg, if not the last, and we were really in that game until i think schneider did his hamstring and that decision went against us. in the context of repeated smashings by the bombers at the mcg (was it about a year after lloyd kicked 14-16 against us) and our inability to get anything approaching a win against that mob (see for example kelly kicking into the man on the mark when we should have beaten them in 2001) it was really disappointing.
The stenglein one i just remember being upset about but we moved on pretty well (although there was a shepherd paid against crouch in the semi-final v geelong which i thought was pretty ordinary in the context of that game)Leave a comment:
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