Freo Farce

[buzzydog112]

I just realised conolly kind of looks like an older ballentyne

[ThatsRight5012]

It should have been 0 seconds left with the ball up then after the ball up the siren goes, no time for a point!

[videogamecrazydude90]

you can hear the siren at 0:02 but its hard to hear. very hard to hear

[MultiBuzz9]

HAHAHAHAHAH

[akeliz22]

I was there :)

[ministando]

Wtf actually ended up happening :S

[rubber4532]

they declared fremantle the winners

[Lowlifer1]

Actually Sagnowski, because Saints scored after the siren they can change the result because Saints did not score during play.

In the end the umpires fucked up and they all got punished i believe because they also gave a free kick after play had finished.

They changed the result to the correct one thst should have initially been put in place.

They have replaced the sirens in that particular oval to save any further controversy.

In the end the right result came out the winner

[sagnowski]

In the end it is the umpire that calls time. The ump cocked up. Just like the gf and just like the dogs-saints pf. Why don't the afl change the result as if bad umpiring did not occur. Rubbish call by a rubbish mob.

[redhead3199]

@sagnowski Waht about the timekeppers.

It is in the rules that they must keep blowing the siren until one of the umpires heard it.

They didn't do it.

[sagnowski]

@redhead3199 bad umpiring call. If you want to go on that you have to reverse the result of just about every game!

[mcllamalam]

@Lowlifer1 actually the umpires didnt get in trouble because it was the shithouse siren that was the problem...

[sagnowski]

this was bullshit, you can't change the result of the game thanks to poor umpiring, if that was the case about every game would have the result reversed.

[mcllamalam]

@sagnowski its not poor umpiring its a crappy siren.

[mhull14]

@mcllamalam the timekeepers duties is to keep blowin the siren untill acknowledged by either 1 of the 3 field or emergency umpires by extendin their arm above their head, all the original talk bout sackin the umpires should never have been bought up coz the timekeeper would have known bout it the hole time.

After this incident, all field umpires r hooked up with their microphines with the timekeepers

[mcllamalam]

@mhull14 yeah im not saying thats not the case. but before this happened it had never been an issue. also you saying that doesnt change anything that i said about the siren being shit, coz it was, and how it wasnt an umpiring mistake, coz it wasnt.

[buzzydog112]

@sagnowski The game was ended. siren was blown and one of the umpires heard it and called time. Are you saying that you should be able to kick points after time had been called?

[sagnowski]

@buzzydog112 Evidently the time wasn't called. Hence the point kicked after the siren. Games are decided on the error of officials often but the result stays the same and that is the case across almost every sporting code.

[mhull14]

The field umpire who heard the siren should of called time immediatley to save all that confusion.

[CptFoley25]

Yay, go the umpires. They are the most interesting team by far. ^_^

[YummyEnise]

I was at that game i didnt hear it.the crowd was so loud.btw Collingwood and Ports Game was 1 point so was Bombers and hawks on the scoreboard.

[CURTARSE1]

lol thornton heard it at 0:10 btw this was fuckin bullshit umps are fuckheads

[ktms4lifemx4life]

i remeber that it was bullshit dockers should have won the game the match was fkn over for crost sake

[millertas]

They did you dick. The AFL reversed the decision.

[ptegeordie]

this rule has now been amended and any field umpire that hears the siren can call time off, including the emergancy umpire as of last year 2008.

[MTJH101]

How'd the match end?

[AFLrules101]

the game was called a freo win a couple of days later

[mhull13]

I ment, how'd the umpires know when it was full time?

[wormy570]

I guess they eventually took the players word for it, or the emergency umpire came out and told one of them.

[redhead3199]

@wormy570 No what happern is the siren was blown again and a non offician umpire heard it at that was the end of game.

[PeterGoDeees]

I watched this a couple of times and I could only just hear the siren staright away after the ball up

[CityRuler1]

Im a dockers fan, im a member, we won that game fair and square, finished in draw, later that week they said they are taking 2 points of ST KILDA and giving us the full 4 points. They should have finished straight after that ball up.

[yewwwwww]

they should of just stoped playin

[roowrc]

Turns out the timekeeper blew the siren, but didn't realise that the umpires hadn't heard. When the siren was blown again, StK had already scored. The siren has since been replaced, but even when I was umpiring local footy a week or so before the infamous match, the siren was hard to hear, even with less than 500 people in the stands.

[allowah6]

Wow it took the time keeper a long time to realise the siren didn't blow. Are you sure the time keeper isn't a St Kilda supporter. It sound all very suspicious to me - Even the AFL was covering some crap here!

[shamimus]

just glad common sense prevailed a couple of days later. i dont see any cover up as the siren just wasnt heard by most of the umpires. gooo freo.

[marks10000]

that game was the most controversy in the history of the afl

[forceninja]

well .. who cares dockers owns

[zedblaco]

but then again that rule was turned aside because the game should have already ended.

[supersideways]

no, it is the rules, during play, when more than 22 of each team are on the field, the score of that team is reset back to 0.

[NNestles]

Supersideways -

No, this doesnt mean scores reset. What it means is that people should use their commonsense, which was used in the end. Freo got the points they earned. - Go the Power.

[iloveericbana]

cwl. i support the saints

[supersideways]

i heard the siren all day to be honest. It was fine, we were in the Gunns Stand (and we could hear it and their isn't a siren in the gunns stand. I didn't hear the siren at the end.

Is a coach or other players allowed on the field during the game. Technically no, while the free kick was taken, both teams were on the ground. Does this actuallymean that by under the rules, both teams get their score reset to zero?

[AFLalex23]

i herd the siren and wen the didnt stop i was lyk...WTF??

[kyle332]

and did u see sandilands (#31) at the goals next to the goal umpire after baker his second shot at goal, hes hell tall compared to the umpire, go the dockers!

[kyle332]

yeh im heaps glad freo won that, its true the siren was faint all day but u could see schammer (#3) celebrating and telling the others the siren went before the umpire did a ball up.

[jefferson6134]

When you see the long blonde haired Thornton celebrating in the foreground, I think thats the best indicator. You can just hear the OHHHH from the crowd (in response to the stoppage) change pitch slightly from the sirens influence.

[stakemyheart13]

u dont know that the crowd were probably going OHHH because baker missed.

[Yongsterrr]

Did anyone actually hear the siren?

[recherche]

i am so glad freo got the points.

they won the game and thats all there is to it

[dockersfan]

and glad they won this thriller after the sirengate match

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v­=gV38D7B6cfk