State of Umpiring [merged]

[WilliamPowell]

But they did crucify us, umpiring this year has been at it’s all time worst in my time of watching it. I can honestly say I’ve only felt like the umpires have cost us games of football a handful of time over many years watching the tigers .... this year I can nominate 3 or 4 games that have cost us this year alone.

As I said they were crap ...but I do get your point

They get worse every week not disputing that. I reckon they definitely contributed to us losing the WCE game

But Jack missing sitters isn't the fault of the umpires. Mouthing off about how crap they are isn't going to change the result or their decision

I get he was frustrated, we all were but mouthing off like that just gives the media more ammunition to fire at us....

[camboon]

I’m not sure if it’s partly due to the rules but I also think there is a bias against  Richmond. I not sure where it’s coming from.

[Tigeritis™©®]

The reason why we get a lot of frees against us was our pressure and manic style of play that would sometimes cause us to cross the line so to speak. But playing like that has more reward vs risk.

Now we are just giving away those stupid free kicks that loser teams give away like holding or blocking and pushing in the back etc.

It isn’t the same scenario this year as in past years.

[Francois Jackson]

Steve Hocking is leaving his post at the AFL to become Geelong Cats’ new CEO

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/teams/geelong/steve-hocking-is-leaving-his-post-at-the-afl-to-become-geelong-cats-new-ceo/news-story/ea6a73a688dcda4c37355d912832d7f8

you couldnt make it up if you tried what has gone on here.

[WilliamPowell]

Steve Hocking is leaving his post at the AFL to become Geelong Cats’ new CEO

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/teams/geelong/steve-hocking-is-leaving-his-post-at-the-afl-to-become-geelong-cats-new-ceo/news-story/ea6a73a688dcda4c37355d912832d7f8

you couldnt make it up if you tried what has gone on here.

Who cares he is going

Obviously he feels he can't stuff the game any further

[The Machine]

Thank god- the worst administrator the game has seen. Has made the game almost unwatchable.

[Francois Jackson]

Steve Hocking is leaving his post at the AFL to become Geelong Cats’ new CEO

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/teams/geelong/steve-hocking-is-leaving-his-post-at-the-afl-to-become-geelong-cats-new-ceo/news-story/ea6a73a688dcda4c37355d912832d7f8

you couldnt make it up if you tried what has gone on here.

Who cares he is going

Obviously he feels he can't stuff the game any further

Its too late, its stuffed.

His damage has been profound.

Colluding with who knows at his now new employer to change the game that we dominated.

https://twitter.com/KISSMyArt72/status/1370940609754664961/photo/1

[Owl]

Mission accomplished, set his team up quits in time to rejoin them for finals

[camboon]

Disgraceful , there  is no doubt he has been helping Geelong already, with a bias against Richmond
Making the standing on the mark rule because he was incensed at Cotchin moving around on the mark
His own brother dislikes him says a lot

[one-eyed]

https://twitter.com/zerohanger/status/1411867447594991620

[mightytiges]

So HTB only applies to us . 4 clear frees to us not paid which were no different to the one against Bolton.

[Andyy]

Terrible tonight.

They are letting the pies drop everything. Just terrible.

The HTB paid against Jack was absurd.

[one-eyed]

Free kicks:

Tigers  16
Pies     24

[Owl]

and weren't those multiple 50 metres handy and the bs ones in front of goal lol.  The best one was that guy who did a diving hand ball into our player and got a high contact penalty literally dived into him fmd, you can just award yourself one at anytime if that's the rule just push your face into any oppo players arms and you get a shot at goal

[one-eyed]

https://twitter.com/zerohanger/status/1416944353667338242