Rd 15 - Port Melbourne v Northern Bullants

Submitted by NorthPort on
A good tight tussle in the first quarter, which quickly was blown wide-open by a very good Bullants side. The talls in Adrian Deluca and Digby Morell who both have spent time at the Borough were out-marking the smaller Borough defenders. Matt Smith spent most of his time up forward, with the absence of David Pitt, who watched the game on crutches. The second half was played in constant rain, but the Bullants continued to kick away, running out big winners in the wet conditions. The umpiring was disturbingly one-sided once again, taking until time-on in the third quarter before Port Melbourne received their 4th free kick of the day. Considering the Bullants kicked three of their first 4 goals from free kicks inside 50m, the Borough faithful were furious with the perceived bias throughout the game. Port Melbourne 2.1 4.2 4.5 6.8 (44) Northern Bullants 2.6 12.11 16.13 18.17 (125) BEST: Port Melbourne: McMahon Lawrence Evans Obst Langford Pinwill Northern Bullants: Morrell Young Teague Smith Lappin Deluca GOALS: Port Melbourne: Langford 2 Smith 2 Bloomfield Cotchett Northern Bullants: Morrell 6 Deluca 4 Teague 2 Houlihan 2 Chambers Crow Davies McLaren
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Dolphin Sun, 23 Jul 2006 - 22:21
onslaught wrote:The umpiring was disturbingly one-sided once again, taking until time-on in the third quarter before Port Melbourne received their 4th free kick of the day. Considering the Bullants kicked three of their first 4 goals from free kicks inside 50m, the Borough faithful were furious with the perceived bias throughout the game.
Just out of interest, who were the umpires? Its interesting that they don't seem to ever be recorded anywhere, unlike the AFL who nominate them with the team selections days before the game.
bcarbonaro Sun, 23 Jul 2006 - 23:38
With regards to the umpires, just go to the results and statistics double page spread in the record where umpire's uniform numbers are listed. Using that list, you should be able to work out who each field umpires is although it's a little hard when you have an AFL umpire officiating because they wear numbers 25-27 and 31-35. I'm pretty sure the AFL umpires are just given one of these names, not specifically allocated one for when they are dropped.
Dolphin Mon, 24 Jul 2006 - 09:15
bcarbonaro wrote:With regards to the umpires, just go to the results and statistics double page spread in the recrd where umpire's uniform numbers are listed. Using that list, you should be able to work out who each field umpires is although it's a little hard when you have an AFL umpire officiating because they wear numbers 25-27 and 31-35. I'm pretty sure the AFL umpires are just given one of these names, not specifically allocated one for when they are dropped.
Was talking about finding who umpires are if you were not at the game! The list won't help in that case.
lum Mon, 24 Jul 2006 - 11:06

Unfortunately Ons was dead right. Port's 4th free came just after time on in the third quarter. (Trust me, I'm an accountant!) Almost unbeleivable, given that the conditions ensured that there was a lot of scragging and tackling mistakes etc. In the old days the Borough Faithful would have left the umpires in fear of their lives!
NorthPort Topic starter Mon, 24 Jul 2006 - 18:04
Dolphin wrote:Just out of interest, who were the umpires?
Sorry Dolphin I can't remember. Should have written them down.
booga Mon, 24 Jul 2006 - 18:12
onslaught wrote:with the absence of David Pitt, who watched the game on crutches.
What's wrong with Pitt? Is he out for long?
zebraman Mon, 24 Jul 2006 - 18:20
lum wrote:Unfortunately Ons was dead right. Port's 4th free came just after time on in the third quarter. (Trust me, I'm an accountant!) Almost unbeleivable, given that the conditions ensured that there was a lot of scragging and tackling mistakes etc. In the old days the Borough Faithful would have left the umpires in fear of their lives!
In the old days, Fred Cook would have had 4 free kicks by 1/4 time...
NorthPort Topic starter Tue, 25 Jul 2006 - 13:46
booga wrote:[quote:955ee2cc33="onslaught"]with the absence of David Pitt, who watched the game on crutches.
What's wrong with Pitt? Is he out for long?[/quote] Rolled his ankle at training.. :( So probably out for 3 weeks.
zebraman Tue, 25 Jul 2006 - 18:15
lum wrote:But Zebraman, he'd have earned everyone of 'em!![/img]
[/quote] now Lum...you know that isn't true!!...he's very lucky there was only one umpire back then....so many free kicks from staging....the only opposition he had for staging was big Bob Johnson from Oakleigh