Round 5 - Hawthorn v Adelaide - Friday 22nd April 7:50pm - MCG

[Nige]

Early contender for game of the year. Forget some of the questionable umpiring and appreciate that we saw arguably the best game so far this year from two good teams.

[Ringo]

Theres no neutral unbiased independent advisors when the Hawks are involved  :P

Exactly. It's one of the enjoyable aspects after another Hawks win is seeing everyone try to justify how the umpires won it for us ::)

Then again it's always the same people who whinge about the umpires every week whether it's the Hawks or their own team playing ;)

Now you guys know what it was like to Brisbane supporter after our 3 peat.   ;) ;)  You can not deny however that you were given the rub of the green in the Saints game with those 2 not 15 metres calls causing turnovers and goals despite evidence showing both 15 metres.  This is my point that hawks seem to be on the better end of 50/50 calls - Your last goal for in the back could have been 50/50 as well as he was falling forward. Know I really question decisions against Lions at times but try to be fair when looking at other games. IMO Matthew Nicholls is the most inconsistent umpire in the AFL.

Anyway was a great game and great advertisement as how often do we see both teams topping the ton and reasonably accurate goal kicking.

[GoLions]

Haven't watched it since last night, but my first instinct was that it shouldn't have been HTB.

Free against Tex was unlucky, as was the non-paid mark for Lynch.

And reckon there were at least 5 non-paid free kicks that should've gone to the Hawks in the last 10 minutes.

If Tex wasn't such a shower kick for goal, we wouldn't be having this discussion ;)

[Rusty00]

Theres no neutral unbiased independent advisors when the Hawks are involved  :P

Exactly. It's one of the enjoyable aspects after another Hawks win is seeing everyone try to justify how the umpires won it for us ::)

Then again it's always the same people who whinge about the umpires every week whether it's the Hawks or their own team playing ;)

Because you two present no bias on the issue either  ::)

Decisions and non-decisions have significantly impacted the result of three Hawthorn games in a row, statistically it should go the other way occasionally.

Of course I'm biased, but I don't come on here and whinge about every single umpiring decision that I think goes against the Hawks (or any team I hate) ;)