I just got home from the game, and I feel like I've had my heart ripped out! :'(
Just what was going on out there today? For 2 and a half quarters the tigers just didnt look like they were even trying. The only ones who could hold their heads up in the first half were Cambo and Leon. I'd almost resigned myself to a loss, when they must have thought - hang on a minute, our season's on the line here - because it was a complete turnaround. Thanks mainly to cogs & co. in the centre, we started getting the clearances & applying pressure to Geelong.
Then, what happens? A couple of stupid umpiring mistakes.
1) Tivendale is running backwards to take a certain mark, and an umpire completely cuts him off & the ball spills to Geelongs advantage and they goal. (Probably would have been a goal to us if Tivva had marked, cos we had the momentum - so really that was a 2 goal turnaround).
2) The so-called very iffy last goal to Chapman in the dying minutes to put them back in front. They replayed it twice on the big screen, and it's questionable if- a)the ball was over the line, or b) he even got a boot to it.
However, regardless of whether we were robbed of the game by poor umpiring or not, you cant expect to win a game when you only put in the effort for about 40 mins out of a 100mins. I hate to think what will happen against Collingwood. It's just too depressing. Now, where are those razor blades.........