Riverland Football Chatter

[Baron Greenback]

Tips for this week in the Independents?

Lyrup and Cobby should be a good game.
Be interesting to see if BSR can give East Murray a run at Blanchetown.

moorook oval was very heavy after over 2 inches of rain during the week, inch on friday night/saturday morn. lyrup had so much more run than we did in the 2nd half. be interesting to see how they pull up this week. might put cobby in a good spot.

Given the condition of the Ovals around the place - were there any issues over the weekend with Team managers etc signing off the ground condition report?? - Renmark oval had water over the whole centre square. Oval all signed off OK i believe. My opinion is that it is a winter sport etc however some people take different views given that these days litigation is out there

Played at Paruna on Saturday and oval was in the best condition I've seen it for years.
They had big trouble a few years back with the oval, but they've done well to get it back to a decent standard.

[andrew_veniamin]

Apparently the boundry umpire from the berri barmera game walked off the field early in the last quarter after some terrible decisions he didnt want to be apart of it.

[DARK KNIGHT]

Apparently the boundry umpire from the berri barmera game walked off the field early in the last quarter after some terrible decisions he didnt want to be apart of it.

what do you mean ? who was making the terrible decisions benji ?

[andrew_veniamin]

Field umpires

[AKA]

Is phil O'loughlan playing at Renmark and if so hows he been playing.

has had 1 good game but still serving a 4 match band for headbutting against Berri

Sounds like phil . Hopefully he plays some quality games for Renmark. Can be a real match winner on his day.

[Ripdschitlaz]

Field umpires

One in particular.
There were two holding the ball decisions that resulted in goals in the last quarter that looked to be very dodgy.

[Johnny Bowla]

Taking nothing away from Berri, they deserved to win the game but, yeh, was a game that seemed to be taken over by umpires.

[sizeable lad]

At the Proud Cup, a goal umpire copped so much abuse from one bloke over a couple of decisions, that the spectator left.
The fella just couldn't hack it. The wind was swinging the ball, making it pretty tough for the goal umps.

Interesting to note that the Loxton North v Loxton B grade match had three central umpires.
Despite three of them, they took too long to blow the whistle when players jumped on it.
Made tempers flare.

[Baron Greenback]

At the Proud Cup, a goal umpire copped so much abuse from one bloke over a couple of decisions, that the spectator left.
The fella just couldn't hack it. The wind was swinging the ball, making it pretty tough for the goal umps.

Interesting to note that the Loxton North v Loxton B grade match had three central umpires.
Despite three of them, they took too long to blow the whistle when players jumped on it.
Made tempers flare.

We had one 'orange' umpire and one 'green' umpire on the weekend.
IMO the green umpire was far better than the orange, who liked to put his stamp on the game with ridiculous calls.
The green umpire let the game flow and made the calls that were there.
Both teams grew increasingly frustrated as the orange umpire's decisions became more bewildering as the game wore on.
I'm sure you've all had this umpire at some stage.

[sizeable lad]

Didn't see Darrel Tillbrook's name on the goal scoring sheet at the weekend for Cobby.
Has anyone heard why he is out?

[Young Tom]

Apparently the boundry umpire from the berri barmera game walked off the field early in the last quarter after some terrible decisions he didnt want to be apart of it.

what do you mean ? who was making the terrible decisions benji ?

the only terrible decisions that were being made on the field, were undisciplined ones from two Barmera players in particular. Perhaps vacating back to the Baseball Diamond would prove a wise 'decision' by one of them. The other player's decision resulted in a free-kick at the top of the square following a Berri Goal, that also resulted in a Yellow Card.

Field Umpires are there to blow the whistle for/against both teams, which they did.

[SomeOleFart]

Apparently the boundry umpire from the berri barmera game walked off the field early in the last quarter after some terrible decisions he didnt want to be apart of it.

what do you mean ? who was making the terrible decisions benji ?

the only terrible decisions that were being made on the field, were undisciplined ones from two Barmera players in particular. Perhaps vacating back to the Baseball Diamond would prove a wise 'decision' by one of them. The other player's decision resulted in a free-kick at the top of the square following a Berri Goal, that also resulted in a Yellow Card.

Field Umpires are there to blow the whistle for/against both teams, which they did.

The yellow card was very ordinary. Perry is the most unlikely player to ever warrant a yellow card. his on field actions have always been top class. to those who know him as a player and person are shocked by this. However, as I tried to tell the umjpire, if he had seen what #7 did to start the incident you may change your mind. i don't think you could blame any one for reacting the way perry did after what happened to him. The Berri player is a very good footballer and he should be humble rather than a c**ck head and act the way he did

[Young Tom]

Apparently the boundry umpire from the berri barmera game walked off the field early in the last quarter after some terrible decisions he didnt want to be apart of it.

what do you mean ? who was making the terrible decisions benji ?

the only terrible decisions that were being made on the field, were undisciplined ones from two Barmera players in particular. Perhaps vacating back to the Baseball Diamond would prove a wise 'decision' by one of them. The other player's decision resulted in a free-kick at the top of the square following a Berri Goal, that also resulted in a Yellow Card.

Field Umpires are there to blow the whistle for/against both teams, which they did.

The yellow card was very ordinary. Perry is the most unlikely player to ever warrant a yellow card. his on field actions have always been top class. to those who know him as a player and person are shocked by this. However, as I tried to tell the umjpire, if he had seen what #7 did to start the incident you may change your mind. i don't think you could blame any one for reacting the way perry did after what happened to him. The Berri player is a very good footballer and he should be humble rather than a c**ck head and act the way he did

I never said the yellow card wasn't ordinary. Perry would have to be Barmera's best player, but as i saw it, he was yellow carded for the exact same reason #25 from Berri was. Retaliation! at least they were consistant with the sending off of both players. but i still stand that one player in particular from Barmera awarded Berri two first quarter goals from late contact and disputing....while the same player also gave two 50m penalties in the final quarter. even if these decision were ordinary, there is a bit of a pattern there. One berri player also commented on team-mates being frustrated with the player, and therefore this frustration also lead to other free-kicks.

[sizeable lad]

Check out the Armchair Expert's previews for all the football action across the Riverland and Mallee.
The word in the Independents is that Lyrup will have a traveling ruckman in the coming weeks, who
coach Sam Lloyd believes will dominate.

http://www.riverlandweekly.com.au/Threa ... ?tid=32867

[Counter Punching]

Check out the Armchair Expert's previews for all the football action across the Riverland and Mallee.
The word in the Independents is that Lyrup will have a traveling ruckman in the coming weeks, who
coach Sam Lloyd believes will dominate.

http://www.riverlandweekly.com.au/Threa ... ?tid=32867

Wonder if the Willmott brothers will team up again?

[Dogwatcher]

That was my first thought too CP.

[Baron Greenback]

That was my first thought too CP.

Mine too!
I'm pretty sure Heath is coming back.
Don't know if he'll dominate the competition though as Sam has said.
There are some pretty handy ruckmen getting around in the Independents.
Great to see Lyrup back up there this year though.

[Baron Greenback]

Ashley Boatswain joining his bro at Ramco.
Is he any good DW?

[Dogwatcher]

He'll go ok in Indys.

[Baron Greenback]

Ramco's improvement has made it a tough year for Indy clubs.
Seven teams all capable of squeezing into the top 4.
Great for the competition.