Essendon* players outcomes from the punchecs that connected:

Ramanauskas took a reprimand and 45 points for striking Eddie Betts and McVeigh accepted a reprimand and 74.38 points for striking Brendan Fevola.

How he thought he could see that and pay the decision from where he was astounds me. We were on the members wing middle tier and Fev was between us and the umpire in the FP. He was clearly blind-sided and would have had to guess what to pay.

Luckily common sense prevailed and rather than we have a murder on our hands, the other ump stepped in.

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And there in lies the rub.

They don't get into position because their too busy watching everything but the game [no doubt watching the big screen to see how fat their arses look], so they make an assumation, which flowers us.

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“It is a state of mind, a system of belief, a way of seeing the world, a deep faith that, because you are Carlton, you belong to something great.” - Mike Fitzpatrick articulating what Out of the Blue means.

But DUC, I heard the Geish say on radio today that they "will not guess" If they are blind-sided.

This was quite funny to hear from the boos of the faggots, i mean maggots.

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I wish for once, when the moron is on radio, that someone with cajones actually asks the flower a hard question.

FFS, Fev marked the ball and the pig that was closet to the action, didn't see it!

A Fev mark, is a flowering goal.

And what really shites me the most, is that the umpires refuse to look at the replay on the big screen to see how flowered they really are.

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“It is a state of mind, a system of belief, a way of seeing the world, a deep faith that, because you are Carlton, you belong to something great.” - Mike Fitzpatrick articulating what Out of the Blue means.

How about when fev used his body to mark the ball and got pinged for hand in the back. But what put a smile to my face is the fact that he didn't complain and just handed the ball back...maturity maybe? Plus the way he shared the ball, chased defenders and didn't put down defenders that got rid of the ball. Has this Booze ban created a star out of Fev

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One that topped them all occurred at the start of the Bullants' game on Sunday when Ackland went to contest the opening bounce.

His Coburg opponent jumped early and high and contacted Ackland's head with the lower part of his leading leg, thereby preventing Ackland from even leaving the ground.

The whistle blew and everyone moved as though Ackland was going to receive a free kick for high contact or possibly for being prevented from contesting the ruck. Guess what? Free kick to Coburg because Ackland contacted his opponent below the knee.

The guys at Preston on Sunday made the Saturday night crew look outstanding.

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Hey Rocky; there are too many rabbits ... in China.

Sounds like a Gieshen project. He'll be doing the AFL Grand Final in 2 years.

At least the VFL guy is developing. The bozo's on Sat night are meant to be elite umpires at the top of their craft.

Another one that was bad was JR's handball over the head that was called for a throw!!!

But the worst was the hip in the back one against fev. I think the AFL are thinking of introducing the contact rule from netball, and applying it to the backs...touch a back, its a free.

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Yeah! What was that about?
Essendons first three goals were the result of free kicks.

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Mine was the Fev alleged push in the back in the 3rd quarter.
I hope people werent looking at my reaction because it could not have been very attractive.

Simmo chases down the football, grabs it, takes two steps and is tackled from behind and ridden to the ground with no chance of releasing the ball.
"Holding the ball", according to the yellow maggotts.

Oddly enough, mine was a non-decision. Opening 20 seconds of the second half. Carlton wins the clearance. As Stevens is getting his kick away Lovett plants two hands in the middle of his back and shoves him.

Now Steven's kick found Murphy. Murphy hit Fev on the lead who kicked the goal. So this non-decision didn't change anything. But it was one of the most blatant pushes in the back I've ever seen and the maggots were happy to let it go.

the one were jordan russell was called for throwing when he handpassed it over his head...that happens at least once a game and is never called. the betts one was a joke also.
also does anybody know why the afl decided to ditch the dropping the ball rule ?

yea that was bs...for some reason i was actually watching the two before the game...it was very soft..just a bit of bumping before the game...if they paid that every time...nathan carroll would concede 10 a game!

goldfink said on radio tonight that although he hasn't seen the betts incident it would've been paid for marking interference. making blind calls must be part of their training!

ox agreed with the decision and explained that a player who takes his eye off the ball is going to be penalised every time.

so there you have it folks ... case closed.

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Hasn't been paid for years.

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You'll all be happy to know that 2 of the 3 umpires (kamolins and Nicholls) have been dropped and won't be doing afl next week. A week too late I say.

The Eddie Betts decision.

The desperation in the umps voice when he said "tunneling" was pure stars in the eyes material.....WANKER!

I can't wait till we improve cause then the umps won't be able to do anything about our form....Just like they can't influence a game that Geelong is in.

Until we improve we will only have ourselves to blame.........

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I think it would be a difficult job to officiate matches, but what gets up my goat is that if there are 10 bad decisions per match you hope for 50/50 outcome or therabouts in who those bad decisions go against.



You hate to see matches where 10 bad decisions are made and every single one of them disadvantages your team (carlton) and at least half a dozen of those bad decisions directly result in goals....and on top of that the opposition win by under 4 goals.


Adding all that up it becomes frustrating.


I, for one, have never taken much notice of umpires, and have never posted on the umpiring before, but from now on I will be interested to see if K Nicholls and his two mates officiate in future Carlton matches.


I don't care if they officiate in other matches, they can take as many North Melbourne, St Kilda, Port Adelaide matches they like - I just don't want to see them at Carlton matches.