eddiesmith wrote:BTW if anyone else is going down and sees such shithouse umpiring, please dont be afraid to give em a spray as the exit the ground at half time and after the game, not even the cops could stop lots of us giving them hell
I've not missed many games over the last 5 years or so and the level of umpiring at VFL level is atrocious, to say the least.
And you can count on one hand (whether Williamstown win, lose or draw) the amount of time we have been on the right side of bad umpiring.
I beg people to go to 5 or more consecutive Wiliamstown games and you'll be thinking the treatment Tarrant gets from the umpires is nothing, yes they are just that bad.
I'm usually on the other side of the field to the quarter time and 3 quarter time huddles at most grounds, this gives an opportunity to walk well within hearing distance of the umpires where you don't have to yell, and can casually, without being abusive, let them know that they are need to acknowledge there are two teams on the field.
Though I am guilty 3 or so years ago at a game against Port Melbourne (who are the Carlton of the VFL for me so i'm always heated up for those games) when I swear if our players moved within 5 feet of the opposition we'd get a free against us, they murdered us. So at 3 quarter time I walked into the centre square and threw my Williamstown scarf towards the umpires so they'd be able to recognise that there was a team with different colours to Port also playing. Its from that day I hate Aaron Davies, that little turd was handed everything to him, never earnt one kick all day.
