It's not fun to watch at all. Not a good week across the games for the umps. For us I'm not sure it's ump incompetence as we'd see some come our way (Cats game 2 weeks ago was the only in recent memory for me where I walked away saying thanks umps). It must be a subconcious bias or cheating. The one that made me lose it was in the 3rd on the wing. Ralphsmith being held as he was sprinting for the loose ball. The ump was right there running alongside. There was no way he could miss it. Play on and Port cleared it with a boot fwd. We had players free up the ground.What I saw at the ground today in the last qrtr was an out and out farce - at best extreme incompetence; at worst its bordering on cheating.
I had a feeling that with the game in the balance these idiots would influence the outcome of the game......and right on cue, they did.
This sh!t is turning me (and plenty of others) away from the game.
If the AFL spent as much time and energy sorting this week in/week out rubbish out as they do championing the latest woketard /Govt *smile* they'd get a lot more people at games.
Right now from a business point of view - it's nothing but gross incompetence and there HAS to be consequences because of it.