SAAFL Division 2 2013

[lutz]

Great day at the Cattery on Saturday. Big turn out for Past Players and Reunions Day, and the A graders produced a great win for the crowd. No. 9 (I think it was) from Districts was awesome across half back, picked up plenty of touches and was the go to man as they rebounded out of defence. Thanks to the dozen or more District boys who came up to the club after the A grade game and had a beer.

Gepps are finishing off the season strongly. Big game for them against Pt Districts this week to try and seal their finals spot. Although, I think Flinders Park will knock off Kilburn and take 5th spot away from Gepps.

Clay has been a bit of a revelation down back this year after switching from the forward pocket where he has won the goal kicking for the club in previous seasons. Interesting to note that he wasn't in Dizzies best on the w/e.

I wonder if star recruit Nick Westhoff will stay in the 2's for another week. He went walkabout for the second time this season the week before and did not play despite being named in the reserves that week. I wonder if the PD coaching staff will have the cojones to keep him in the 2's for another week.

Decent performance by Districts though despite not having Pocock and McDowell. Some further injury concerns losing Jay Williams, who looks to have ended his season.
Doesn't look like their Norwood recruit (Wilson) is much chop. No goals this week and not in the best after two games.

[lutz]

Good win to Portland on the weekend against Modbury, missing 3 of their better players (Wareing, Prior and Cochiarro) and still having a big win. Modbury no good away from their mud pit.
Sounds like Portland are happy to keep their cards close to their chest this week against SMOSH, their likely opposition in the first week of finals.
Portland have their fair share of injury concerns too by the sounds of things, and will be hoping that they come good withh a week off this week.

[piccachu]

Just wanted to commend the efforts of the Port Districts B grade umpire on the weekend. He was very fair through the whole game and paid free's to both sides when they were there. We don't hear stories of good umpires very often especially in the reserve grades. It is nice for a change to have umpires who simply call the decisions as they see them no matter what side they are for. That is more than I can say for a few of the others floating around the place no mentioning any names . . . . cough cough Modbury cough

Funny you should mention this bloke from modbury, I can honestly say i have never seen an umpire blatently cheat for his club anywere near much as this bloke on the weekend. specially in the last quarter when the game was on the line. picture this decision in your head, Our Ruckman takes a mark directly infort of goal about 25-30m out, because the game was so close and such little time left, our ruckman pushed back quickly trying to take as little time as possible, on his approach to goal a Modbury player has sprinted in from the side attempting to smother the shot at goal, the bloke taking the shot for goal stopped in amazement and looked at the umpire even more to his surprise the umpire decided to yell at our bloke play on, our umpire had to come in and over rule but by the time this decission had been made the siren went and we went down by 2 points, He also walked off the ground with a grin from ear to ear,

[woodublieve12]

Just wanted to commend the efforts of the Port Districts B grade umpire on the weekend. He was very fair through the whole game and paid free's to both sides when they were there. We don't hear stories of good umpires very often especially in the reserve grades. It is nice for a change to have umpires who simply call the decisions as they see them no matter what side they are for. That is more than I can say for a few of the others floating around the place no mentioning any names . . . . cough cough Modbury cough

Funny you should mention this bloke from modbury, I can honestly say i have never seen an umpire blatently cheat for his club anywere near much as this bloke on the weekend. specially in the last quarter when the game was on the line. picture this decision in your head, Our Ruckman takes a mark directly infort of goal about 25-30m out, because the game was so close and such little time left, our ruckman pushed back quickly trying to take as little time as possible, on his approach to goal a Modbury player has sprinted in from the side attempting to smother the shot at goal, the bloke taking the shot for goal stopped in amazement and looked at the umpire even more to his surprise the umpire decided to yell at our bloke play on, our umpire had to come in and over rule but by the time this decission had been made the siren went and we went down by 2 points, He also walked off the ground with a grin from ear to ear,

[Footy Follower]

Just wanted to commend the efforts of the Port Districts B grade umpire on the weekend. He was very fair through the whole game and paid free's to both sides when they were there. We don't hear stories of good umpires very often especially in the reserve grades. It is nice for a change to have umpires who simply call the decisions as they see them no matter what side they are for. That is more than I can say for a few of the others floating around the place no mentioning any names . . . . cough cough Modbury cough

Funny you should mention this bloke from modbury, I can honestly say i have never seen an umpire blatently cheat for his club anywere near much as this bloke on the weekend. specially in the last quarter when the game was on the line. picture this decision in your head, Our Ruckman takes a mark directly infort of goal about 25-30m out, because the game was so close and such little time left, our ruckman pushed back quickly trying to take as little time as possible, on his approach to goal a Modbury player has sprinted in from the side attempting to smother the shot at goal, the bloke taking the shot for goal stopped in amazement and looked at the umpire even more to his surprise the umpire decided to yell at our bloke play on, our umpire had to come in and over rule but by the time this decission had been made the siren went and we went down by 2 points, He also walked off the ground with a grin from ear to ear,

The league should do something about these "repeat offenders." There should be some sort of reporting/feedback system in which you can comment on reserve grade (club supplied) umpires. I understand umpires get things wrong or miss frees sometimes, but there has to be something done about these blatent cheats. It creates tension on the field leading to players fighting and it ruins our great game.
IMO if an umpire is regularly regarded to by opposition teams as a cheat or simply terrible, than the league should send an official out to watch at least 2 of his games and witness this for themselves; and then ban umpires who are blatently cheating. Even the club itself should recognise that their umpire is doing this and do something about it. At the end of the day the umpires are neutral in finals where it counts so there is no real benefit to a club trying to help themselves by having their umpire cheat.
I would honestly like to here the opinion from people involved at Modbury about this guy, becasue he has been doing this for at least 3 or 4 years now. What do they think of him?

[piccachu]

The league should do something about these "repeat offenders." There should be some sort of reporting/feedback system in which you can comment on reserve grade (club supplied) umpires. I understand umpires get things wrong or miss frees sometimes, but there has to be something done about these blatent cheats. It creates tension on the field leading to players fighting and it ruins our great game.
IMO if an umpire is regularly regarded to by opposition teams as a cheat or simply terrible, than the league should send an official out to watch at least 2 of his games and witness this for themselves; and then ban umpires who are blatently cheating. Even the club itself should recognise that their umpire is doing this and do something about it. At the end of the day the umpires are neutral in finals where it counts so there is no real benefit to a club trying to help themselves by having their umpire cheat.
I would honestly like to here the opinion from people involved at Modbury about this guy, becasue he has been doing this for at least 3 or 4 years now. What do they think of him?

I would love to hear from someone from Modbury on this sittuation, i think most that witnessed it would be very imbaressed and not have a lot to say on the matter

[Robb_Stark]

The league should do something about these "repeat offenders." There should be some sort of reporting/feedback system in which you can comment on reserve grade (club supplied) umpires. I understand umpires get things wrong or miss frees sometimes, but there has to be something done about these blatent cheats. It creates tension on the field leading to players fighting and it ruins our great game.
IMO if an umpire is regularly regarded to by opposition teams as a cheat or simply terrible, than the league should send an official out to watch at least 2 of his games and witness this for themselves; and then ban umpires who are blatently cheating. Even the club itself should recognise that their umpire is doing this and do something about it. At the end of the day the umpires are neutral in finals where it counts so there is no real benefit to a club trying to help themselves by having their umpire cheat.
I would honestly like to here the opinion from people involved at Modbury about this guy, becasue he has been doing this for at least 3 or 4 years now. What do they think of him?

I would love to hear from someone from Modbury on this sittuation, i think most that witnessed it would be very imbaressed and not have a lot to say on the matter

most clubs in the B grade expect there umpire to be lob sided with free kicks and that

[bird of prey]

Just wanted to commend the efforts of the Port Districts B grade umpire on the weekend. He was very fair through the whole game and paid free's to both sides when they were there. We don't hear stories of good umpires very often especially in the reserve grades. It is nice for a change to have umpires who simply call the decisions as they see them no matter what side they are for. That is more than I can say for a few of the others floating around the place no mentioning any names . . . . cough cough Modbury cough

Funny you should mention this bloke from modbury, I can honestly say i have never seen an umpire blatently cheat for his club anywere near much as this bloke on the weekend. specially in the last quarter when the game was on the line. picture this decision in your head, Our Ruckman takes a mark directly infort of goal about 25-30m out, because the game was so close and such little time left, our ruckman pushed back quickly trying to take as little time as possible, on his approach to goal a Modbury player has sprinted in from the side attempting to smother the shot at goal, the bloke taking the shot for goal stopped in amazement and looked at the umpire even more to his surprise the umpire decided to yell at our bloke play on, our umpire had to come in and over rule but by the time this decission had been made the siren went and we went down by 2 points, He also walked off the ground with a grin from ear to ear,

I have seen the guy umpire once or twice in my time, and I can't help but chuckle to myself when I read this. I can totally see this guy doing something as described above.
I'm surprised nothing has been done sooner about him.

[Fricky]

The league should do something about these "repeat offenders." There should be some sort of reporting/feedback system in which you can comment on reserve grade (club supplied) umpires. I understand umpires get things wrong or miss frees sometimes, but there has to be something done about these blatent cheats. It creates tension on the field leading to players fighting and it ruins our great game. [/quote]

Here you go FF. Fill it out yourself or pass it onto a committee member and get it into the League HQ. http://www.saafl.asn.au/uploads/Pages/p ... report.pdf
Might be a little late in the year for the League Officials to do anything, but maybe something people in Div 3 can do next season when come up against Modbury

[Footy Smart]

Alrighty I will respond but in all seriousness I can’t disagree with much of what has been said about him particularly re Picc post about the non 25m penalty. I have spoken with Satchel about the game on Saturday.

But a few miss conceptions and nonsense has been spoken about regarding him and the club
1- he is not an MFC local, I believe a family member of someone and has progressively got worse this season even after being spoken to.
2 - efforts have been made to replace him, however finding someone to replace him that can commit to every weekend has been extremely difficult hence the continuation of him umpiring (can’t play without them).
3 - His questionable decisions aren’t supported by the players, etc who cringe sometimes at the calls and as many of you who are involved in the running of clubs, finding volunteers can be extremely difficult.
4 – A few SMOSH people said they overheard a ‘committee member’ supporting his decisions and asking/instructing him to ‘could have done something about that’ etc that is utter garbage and couldn’t be further from the truth – if anything there umpire went out there from the first bounce to ‘even the playing field’ so to speak (a far cry from the first game which was umpired perfectly by the SMOSH B grade umpire) – not deflecting the blame but have to dispel that tripe

Im sure the committee will keep looking for a replacement for next year and fingers crossed (I would strongly suggest) he won’t be umpiring next year.

[woodublieve12]

if he umpires next season in D3R, the modbury vs unley game would be a beauty

[hollywood7477]

if he umpires next season in D3R, the modbury vs unley game would be a beauty

I actually found the Unley umpire not too bad. After reading a few posts about him I expected him to be shocking. Pembrokes on the other hand is a blatant cheat. Even their players said he is an embarrassment and they maybe getting rid of him. We had a similar thing happen. Bloke took a mark was running in to take his shot and get called play on for no reason. Doesn't help when ur own umpire doesn't have clue either...

[Footy Chick]

I was under the impression that Rod wasnt umpiring the B's this year.

Jetters?

[woodublieve12]

if he umpires next season in D3R, the modbury vs unley game would be a beauty

I actually found the Unley umpire not too bad. After reading a few posts about him I expected him to be shocking. Pembrokes on the other hand is a blatant cheat. Even their players said he is an embarrassment and they maybe getting rid of him. We had a similar thing happen. Bloke took a mark was running in to take his shot and get called play on for no reason. Doesn't help when ur own umpire doesn't have clue either...

obviously different ump...

[lutz]

The league should do something about these "repeat offenders." There should be some sort of reporting/feedback system in which you can comment on reserve grade (club supplied) umpires. I understand umpires get things wrong or miss frees sometimes, but there has to be something done about these blatent cheats. It creates tension on the field leading to players fighting and it ruins our great game.
IMO if an umpire is regularly regarded to by opposition teams as a cheat or simply terrible, than the league should send an official out to watch at least 2 of his games and witness this for themselves; and then ban umpires who are blatently cheating. Even the club itself should recognise that their umpire is doing this and do something about it. At the end of the day the umpires are neutral in finals where it counts so there is no real benefit to a club trying to help themselves by having their umpire cheat.
I would honestly like to here the opinion from people involved at Modbury about this guy, becasue he has been doing this for at least 3 or 4 years now. What do they think of him?

I would love to hear from someone from Modbury on this sittuation, i think most that witnessed it would be very imbaressed and not have a lot to say on the matter

most clubs in the B grade expect there umpire to be lob sided with free kicks and that

Robb Stark pls.
I've played a lot of B grade footy and have never expected an umpire to give frees to any side in particular. I expect umpires to call it as they see it. No favouritism either way.

[Robb_Stark]

The league should do something about these "repeat offenders." There should be some sort of reporting/feedback system in which you can comment on reserve grade (club supplied) umpires. I understand umpires get things wrong or miss frees sometimes, but there has to be something done about these blatent cheats. It creates tension on the field leading to players fighting and it ruins our great game.
IMO if an umpire is regularly regarded to by opposition teams as a cheat or simply terrible, than the league should send an official out to watch at least 2 of his games and witness this for themselves; and then ban umpires who are blatently cheating. Even the club itself should recognise that their umpire is doing this and do something about it. At the end of the day the umpires are neutral in finals where it counts so there is no real benefit to a club trying to help themselves by having their umpire cheat.
I would honestly like to here the opinion from people involved at Modbury about this guy, becasue he has been doing this for at least 3 or 4 years now. What do they think of him?

I would love to hear from someone from Modbury on this sittuation, i think most that witnessed it would be very imbaressed and not have a lot to say on the matter

i think we all do but in the real world the umpire you supply normally favours own team or lets lot go resulting in fights and more scuffles thats why all reserves side say the same thing cant wait until finals cause we wont have these clowns

most clubs in the B grade expect there umpire to be lob sided with free kicks and that

Robb Stark pls.
I've played a lot of B grade footy and have never expected an umpire to give frees to any side in particular. I expect umpires to call it as they see it. No favouritism either way.

[Cash 123]

Alrighty I will respond but in all seriousness I can’t disagree with much of what has been said about him particularly re Picc post about the non 25m penalty. I have spoken with Satchel about the game on Saturday.

But a few miss conceptions and nonsense has been spoken about regarding him and the club
1- he is not an MFC local, I believe a family member of someone and has progressively got worse this season even after being spoken to.
2 - efforts have been made to replace him, however finding someone to replace him that can commit to every weekend has been extremely difficult hence the continuation of him umpiring (can’t play without them).
3 - His questionable decisions aren’t supported by the players, etc who cringe sometimes at the calls and as many of you who are involved in the running of clubs, finding volunteers can be extremely difficult.
4 – A few SMOSH people said they overheard a ‘committee member’ supporting his decisions and asking/instructing him to ‘could have done something about that’ etc that is utter garbage and couldn’t be further from the truth – if anything there umpire went out there from the first bounce to ‘even the playing field’ so to speak (a far cry from the first game which was umpired perfectly by the SMOSH B grade umpire) – not deflecting the blame but have to dispel that tripe

Im sure the committee will keep looking for a replacement for next year and fingers crossed (I would strongly suggest) he won’t be umpiring next year.

No excuse at all for this clown.

He should be banned for life and the Modbury football club should be fined or some sort of penalty for allowing this to happen.

A disgrace on both him and the club

[lutz]

Alrighty I will respond but in all seriousness I can’t disagree with much of what has been said about him particularly re Picc post about the non 25m penalty. I have spoken with Satchel about the game on Saturday.

But a few miss conceptions and nonsense has been spoken about regarding him and the club
1- he is not an MFC local, I believe a family member of someone and has progressively got worse this season even after being spoken to.
2 - efforts have been made to replace him, however finding someone to replace him that can commit to every weekend has been extremely difficult hence the continuation of him umpiring (can’t play without them).
3 - His questionable decisions aren’t supported by the players, etc who cringe sometimes at the calls and as many of you who are involved in the running of clubs, finding volunteers can be extremely difficult.
4 – A few SMOSH people said they overheard a ‘committee member’ supporting his decisions and asking/instructing him to ‘could have done something about that’ etc that is utter garbage and couldn’t be further from the truth – if anything there umpire went out there from the first bounce to ‘even the playing field’ so to speak (a far cry from the first game which was umpired perfectly by the SMOSH B grade umpire) – not deflecting the blame but have to dispel that tripe

Im sure the committee will keep looking for a replacement for next year and fingers crossed (I would strongly suggest) he won’t be umpiring next year.

No excuse at all for this clown.

He should be banned for life and the Modbury football club should be fined or some sort of penalty for allowing this to happen.

A disgrace on both him and the club

Important to remember that he is getting paid quite well for his services; $100 iirc.

[Cash 123]

Alrighty I will respond but in all seriousness I can’t disagree with much of what has been said about him particularly re Picc post about the non 25m penalty. I have spoken with Satchel about the game on Saturday.

But a few miss conceptions and nonsense has been spoken about regarding him and the club
1- he is not an MFC local, I believe a family member of someone and has progressively got worse this season even after being spoken to.
2 - efforts have been made to replace him, however finding someone to replace him that can commit to every weekend has been extremely difficult hence the continuation of him umpiring (can’t play without them).
3 - His questionable decisions aren’t supported by the players, etc who cringe sometimes at the calls and as many of you who are involved in the running of clubs, finding volunteers can be extremely difficult.
4 – A few SMOSH people said they overheard a ‘committee member’ supporting his decisions and asking/instructing him to ‘could have done something about that’ etc that is utter garbage and couldn’t be further from the truth – if anything there umpire went out there from the first bounce to ‘even the playing field’ so to speak (a far cry from the first game which was umpired perfectly by the SMOSH B grade umpire) – not deflecting the blame but have to dispel that tripe

Im sure the committee will keep looking for a replacement for next year and fingers crossed (I would strongly suggest) he won’t be umpiring next year.

No excuse at all for this clown.

He should be banned for life and the Modbury football club should be fined or some sort of penalty for allowing this to happen.

A disgrace on both him and the club

Important to remember that he is getting paid quite well for his services; $100 iirc.

Are you suggesting he is umpiring with a dil?o up his anus lutz?

[NO-MERCY]

most clubs in the B grade expect there umpire to be lob sided with free kicks and that

What a load of bullshit Robb_Stark, what are you on

Can't believe the Amateur League havn't investigated this bloke years ago, they should of had someone out there watching his CHEATING antics.
Very poor form by this Cheat & the League.