Member 7167 wrote:thompsoc wrote:So Mooretreloar fancy blaming the umps for such a loss.
Only the riff raff would do that.
We got beaten because we weren't strong enough or fast enough on the break.
Simple as that.
According to my brother we have lost 7 games by under 20 points.
This must be a record.
We lost the game in the third quarter. No doubt that if we had held our own in the third quarter we should have been able to defend the lead in the fourth.
Our ball use and decision making at times was atrocious and at times we allowed Melbourne to hold the ball in out back 50 for far too long until they scored.
Thompsoc, you promote yourself as being a person with a good insight into football. To serve you agenda of anti Buckley and anti ????? Collingwood bias you will do anything to put the blame back onto the coach and the players so as to cast them in the worst possible position. As a tool you put down Mooretreloar by suggesting that only riff raff would blame the umpires.
As stated above there were many factors that contributed to the loss but the umpires certainly played a major role in our loss as they applied two sets of rules, gifted Melbourne numerous goals, stole our momentum by giving frees against us at crucial times and corrupted the who game by eventually dictating the result.
If only riff raff hold a similar viewpoint then you will have to include the vast majority of TRUE Collingwood supporters in this list. Obviously you are not part of this group and you contribution to this forum should be assessed accordingly.
The booing at the end of the game directed at the umpires was the loudest I have heard for many years. When considering the majority of the crowd was Melbourne and there were only 70k at the game it is obvious that the 20-30k of Collingwood riff raff supporters shared my viewpoint.
I had to log out to see what thompsoc posted, as I have him on ignore. It makes the experience on this site much more pleasant when you don't have to read his inane ramblings, which prove his lack of understanding of the game of football and where Collingwood is at.
I read this site for a few months before joining and starting to post and in this period of around 12 months, it is clear as the nose on your face that his sole purpose for being on this site is to try and upset genuine Collingwood supporters. He gets his kicks out of it, so my suggestion is that everyone put him on ignore or just don't respond to him, so he doesn't get what he wants.
As an aside, I am unsure why the moderators a) allow him to get away with it and 2) don't just revoke his posting privileges. He adds nothing of value to the site and in fact just causes fight after fight, so the intelligent thing to do would be to remove him from the site. Everyone would be better off, but I expect I will receive a private message to tell me not to backdoor moderate, rather than actually address the issue at hand.
In relation to his post in question, I did not blame the result on the umpires. I indicated that the reasons for the loss were three fold, 1) our skill errors, 2) our poor decision making and 3) the umpiring decisions.
