This thread discusses the Content article: Recurring Nightmare

I'm still proud of our boys, you never gave in again and costly bad umpiring decisions once again in the last quarter influenced the result. How about all of our supporters putting in a dollar and Harvs please say something. It would be worth the fine, remember how Hird criticised the umpiring a few years back and Essendon got great treatment from umpires for the rest of the season.

i totally agree jude47.................. so frustrated of late, it's now TIME TO TAKE ACTION!!!!!!!! So angry atm.......... can't contain myself...............

I am so over the biased umpiring. I wasnt able to watch the game live today as I was working a good thing too I didnt have to watch it with my one eyed carlton daughter. I got my hubby to tape it I knew we had lost, I also knew the umpiring was bad because I had loads of text messages from friends who were quite pissed off with the umpiring again.
I have just finished watching the game and the beauty of this is you can pause and re wind, oh my god were we crucified again!
My hubby who I am sure gets sick of my 'bloody umpires routine' was dragged into the room when ever a poor decision was made so basically spent a lot of time watching the game.
ATTENTION MEDIA PEOPLE WHO I KNOW FREQUENT DOCKERLAND HAVE A GOOD LOOK AT THE GAME THE CRAP WE HAVE TO PUT UP WITH WEEK AFTER WEEK - REPORT IT AS YOU SEE IT BAD UMPIRING COSTS US GAMES NOT US CHOKING! crucial decisions that costs us games - crucial decisions that give us a week of pain in the media - surely there is something we can do as a group. I was thinking a mass rally or maybe we can black ban our game and the team not show up, there isnt really much point in showing up because the little maggots can turn a game on its head with their wrong decisions. What can we do as a team. Once upon a time we had 1 umpire for the whole game and yes you could accept if he missed a couple of decisions but now days there are how many and they are still blind.
Now I have got that off my chest I am going to bed and perhaps tomorrow when I wake up it will be saturday and we are playing carlton and this was not a dream?

I reckon its got a lot to do with the 150th of the VFL/AFL ... things had better return to normal (ie only one biased umpire) next year !!

I am getting a tad weary of the disappointment... as for the nightmare...

"The dream police, they live inside of my head.
The dream police, they come to me in my bed.
The dream police, theyre coming to arrest me, oh no.

You know that talk is cheap, and those rumors aint nice.
And when I fall asleep I dont think Ill survive the night, the night.

cause theyre waiting for me.
Theyre looking for me.
Evry single night theyre driving me insane.
Those men inside my brain."

Name the band?

Well, it wasn't Bill Haley and the comets. That narrows it down considerably.

Yeah I wish it was only a Cheap Trick but it's still a recurring nightmare for me as well.

The final straw which brought much abuse directed at the TV was Farmer being tackled having handballed ahead of himself. It may not have changed the course of the game but it summed up the standard of umpiring on the day.