There is absolutely no way you can put any of this on the umpires, 5 goals or otherwise.
We kicked 2 goals 19 points on a night the weasels kicked 19 goals 8 points. It wasn't the umpires that made us kick so poorly. It wasn't the playing conditions because the weasels played in the same conditions with few problems.
The problems that led to that debacle are the same ones that geniuses have failed to address in years.
The weasels were far better organised than we were. They played to their strengths where we did clever stuff like playing people out of their positions or leave players out of the side who should have been there.
The weasels knew when they went forward what they needed to do whereas we (as usual) bombed it high into the waiting arms of the same intercept defenders that do it every time we play against them.
Failure is feedback is it? That would be a NO from me.
The weasels skill levels were far better than ours, as bloody usual because Roly doesn't train skills.
Its the same failures, game after game, year after year with no changes made to the way we do things even though we all know that it doesn't work.
I have no idea how anybody could be stretching reality with what ifs just to avoid attention being directed at the person completely responsible for our regular poor performances.
What if the umps didn't give the weasels five goals (disputed) and we kicked five goals more (again disputed), would it have changed the result? No not really, we still would have been smashed.
But I'll give you a what if to ponder. What if we had a coach that saw where we were failing and adjusted our methods to fix that? What if we had a coach that could deal with reality instead of a coach that tries to fit reality into his narrow view of how he wants it done? What if people stopped enabling constant failure by demanding that we 'have to support the club' no matter the circumstances but instead demanded improvement?
There are some real world what ifs for you.
