Sadly, we are a dumb footy side and cause our own demise with stupidity. That accounts for a number of our frees against. Having said there were 4 howlers that we got screwed on.
1) Miles 40m kick out of defence that was touched by Elton just over the boundary line. Field umpire askes the boundary umpire if the ball was touched before it went out. Boundary ump says no so the field ump pays deliberate. Sorry but 2 milliseconds difference is not deliberate
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2) Dusty gathers the ball in the centre and aims to kick it long forward but kicks it off the side of the boot as a Dog attempts to smother it. The ball skews off 60m and bounces end over end out on bounds on wing. That's not deliberate either.
3) Short near the end of the game just fumbled the ball trying to grab it (the story of our night). It wasn't in our interests either to have the ball go out 5 pts down with seconds to play. The ump was probably behind the play and guessed or fell for the cries of deliberate at the end of the ground where the Bulldogs fans were.
4) The worst one wasn't a deliberate out of bounds. It was the one in our D50 where the field ump one metre from the ball clearly is heard in the mike to say "both holding" and called play on. The muppet 60m away then comes running in flapping his arms to pay a free to the Bulldogs for holding. As he's the central umpire his over-rule stands.
I could add the rushed behind to the Dogs after the siren at half-time and the throw-in call against Rance for playing on after the mark behind the goal/boundary line but apparently they are rules according to Ch 7
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Dimma was most upset post-game with the holding the ball interpretation. The Dogs did get away with a few overhead basketball throws in our tackles. Having said that they didn't fumble badly like we did either which is one of the main reasons that cost us the game.
