Match thread v Eagles

[saintsRrising]

Our effort was good enough to win.

But our goalkicking was poor. Particularly in that first half when we were dominating.

We also had way to many errant balls when we were running forward.

We just needed to have been that bit cleaner , and better users of the ball and the game would have been ours.

[Grimfang]

We had momentum continually stripped from us by blatant cheating. How can you explain not paying hands in the back then he goals the umpire was right there. f****** cheating.

Oh, it was better than that. Savage's hands were under the west coast players arms when he maneuvered him out of the way and had the free paid against him for hands in the back.

Then Kennedy just goes with the blatant push and it's a mark.

Corrupt little maggots.

[desertsaint]

Great effort Saints. Ran out of gas in the last and those misses came back to burn us.
Gee Brown did well, pushed out in the one marking contest he lost to Kennedy. Roberton another impressive game, Dunstan should silence the doubters for another week at least, as should Lonie. Very unlucky, we'll get better and be winning those ones soon enough.

[Wayne42]

It was the Saints that kicked 13-19, not the Umpires, that's why we lost.

It's the guys having a shot on goal that can't hit the side of a barn..

[mullet]

Our club will meekly go along with this and say nothing.
We are f****** paupers.
We are like the lowest caste slaves who just get f***ed in the ass and say 'yes thank you master'.

Con what do you think will happen if we say something? Longmire talked about the umpiring in the gf and look what happened to them last night.

the more you whinge the more you get screwed. That is the nature of this contrived corrupt business, it aint sport

[SuperSaint]

Billings another game with zero goals. 44 games. 28 goals. Garbage.

footy is a hard biz, watched the bont on friday night. Had that thought come in shiit he could have been playing for u...

I get canned by CURLY om another thread by making an honest appraisal of Billings' game tonight. Con I agree with you mate. Billings is a soft outside player and tonight he was very poor again.

[shrodes]

Great effort Saints. Ran out of gas in the last and those misses came back to burn us.
Gee Brown did well, pushed out in the one marking contest he lost to Kennedy. Roberton another impressive game, Dunstan should silence the doubters for another week at least, as should Lonie. Very unlucky, we'll get better and be winning those ones soon enough.

Very good call on all mentioned.

[Con Gorozidis]

This has been going on for a long time


https://thearcfooty.com/2016/04/24/whic ... ree-kicks/

http://thearcfooty.com/2016/04/23/freekicksathome/

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/t ... cedb3bd45c

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/e ... 1kht0.html

[mullet]

It was the Saints that kicked 13-19, not the Umpires, that's why we lost.

It's the guys having a shot on goal that can't hit the side of a barn..

Technically we kicked 14-18 but it got reversed. There were a lot of rushed behinds too. If you dont think the umpires impacted on that game then you need glasses. Yep we needed to kick straighter but we fought so hard to get the ball down there we were prob too stuffed to kick straight

[Sainternist]

Something about this game reminded me of our loss to Port last year. Had them by the scruff of neck, but just couldn't slam the door shut on them.

[c0bber]

Why did the umpire give Kenedy a penalty when he got pushed and the saints didn't. F***ing cheaters.

[CURLY]

Billings another game with zero goals. 44 games. 28 goals. Garbage.

footy is a hard biz, watched the bont on friday night. Had that thought come in shiit he could have been playing for u...

I get canned by CURLY om another thread by making an honest appraisal of Billings' game tonight. Con I agree with you mate. Billings is a soft outside player and tonight he was very poor again.

Billings created two goals out of nothing but just continue your rant. He got burnt at least five times in great positions also.

[prwilkinson]

Something about this game reminded me of our loss to Port last year. Had them by the scruff of neck, but just couldn't slam the door shut on them.

Was thinking the same thing.

[desertsaint]

Apparently will be discussing the free kick count on afl central tomorrow - cumulative free kicks in last five eagles - saints games at domain -114-60.

[prwilkinson]

Apparently will be discussing the free kick count on afl central tomorrow - cumulative free kicks in last five eagles - saints games at domain -114-60.

Ahh AFL... such a bazaar little sport with so many biases and inconsistencies.

[Wayne42]

It was the Saints that kicked 13-19, not the Umpires, that's why we lost.

It's the guys having a shot on goal that can't hit the side of a barn..

Technically we kicked 14-18 but it got reversed. There were a lot of rushed behinds too. If you dont think the umpires impacted on that game then you need glasses. Yep we needed to kick straighter but we fought so hard to get the ball down there we were prob too stuffed to kick straight

Forget the insults, if we kicked straight the Umps wouldn't have counted.

[Sainter_Dad]

Our club will meekly go along with this and say nothing.
We are f****** paupers.
We are like the lowest caste slaves who just get f***ed in the ass and say 'yes thank you master'.

Con what do you think will happen if we say something? Longmire talked about the umpiring in the gf and look what happened to them last night.

the more you whinge the more you get screwed. That is the nature of this contrived corrupt business, it aint sport

Can we get anymore screwed than 23-8 in a game that we were in up to our eyeballs? And if we can - does it really matter if we do - the umpires stole this game from us!!!

And before you all scream at me for 13-19, please consider this 0-121 beats 20-0, but does not beat 21-0, so if the umpires 'gift' even 1 goal then they have impacted the game!

[shrodes]

On another note, we all wait with bated breath... WellardSaint, are you microwaving the membership?

[Devilhead]

Gutted

[Wayne42]

On another note, we all wait with bated breath... WellardSaint, are you microwaving the membership?

I'm tipping. NO

[Kate]

Our club will meekly go along with this and say nothing.
We are f****** paupers.
We are like the lowest caste slaves who just get f***ed in the ass and say 'yes thank you master'.

Con what do you think will happen if we say something? Longmire talked about the umpiring in the gf and look what happened to them last night.

the more you whinge the more you get screwed. That is the nature of this contrived corrupt business, it aint sport

We haven't whinged since Grant Thomas's "egos in the locker" comment. It doesn't change. Time to take the bastards on. Get the football world looking. Even North Melbourne get a fairer go than us after Scott's efforts last year.

Sick of it.

[Wayne42]

Our club will meekly go along with this and say nothing.
We are f****** paupers.
We are like the lowest caste slaves who just get f***ed in the ass and say 'yes thank you master'.

Con what do you think will happen if we say something? Longmire talked about the umpiring in the gf and look what happened to them last night.

the more you whinge the more you get screwed. That is the nature of this contrived corrupt business, it aint sport

We haven't whinged since Grant Thomas's "egos in the locker" comment. It doesn't change. Time to take the bastards on. Get the football world looking. Even North Melbourne get a fairer go than us after Scott's efforts last year.

Sick of it.

Maybe we are still paying for Grant's astuteness.

[23Buckets]

It was the Saints that kicked 13-19, not the Umpires, that's why we lost.

It's the guys having a shot on goal that can't hit the side of a barn..

Technically we kicked 14-18 but it got reversed. There were a lot of rushed behinds too. If you dont think the umpires impacted on that game then you need glasses. Yep we needed to kick straighter but we fought so hard to get the ball down there we were prob too stuffed to kick straight

I very biased but I didn't think that it was conclusive enough to overturn the umpires decision. Grainy footage zoomed in and very little movement if any

[Kate]

Everyone is ignoring you Wayne42.

[iwantmeseats]

LOL. What the hell? Come on ,it wasn't the umpires that was the problem. It was the disgraceful
Disposal in the last quarter. Is the board mostly made up of 5 year olds with this
Umpire whinging ?