Jason,
You are correct when you make comments about the umpiring affecting the game and club failing to address this. I disagree with Morgan, completely. The bias shown by the umpires can be explained away in a single game as being overawed by the situation, it cannot be explained away when its the same umpires behaving the same way in every game they umpire. Morgan can pretend all all he likes but facts won't change just because they aren't palatable to some.
Stevic, Rosebury and Dalgliesh have significant previous form and the performance last night was in line with their history. It wasn't a one off.
Another wise man once said that if you ignore the past you will be condemned to repeat it. Well the club has ignored repeated problems in the past and now we are paying for that failure again. When our players get singled out for frees, reports etc we sit back and cop a plea. Other clubs, like the slime, fight it out. They threaten legal action. They attack the AFL head on. Do you see any come back against the slime? Richmond? Collingwood? I guess the burden of all those soft free kicks must be hard to deal with....somehow.
I'm also learning from the past, albeit slowly. Each year I invest several thousand dollars in the AFL and club with my memberships, Foxtel subscription, buying stuff from the club shop. I've decided that I won't put any more money into what I see is a corrupt organisation (AFL) and an organisation that singularly fails in its responsibilities to its members by enabling that conduct.
I clearly acknowledge that neither the AFL nor Freo will be affected or care but that decision will proceed anyway. They can both continue to fail their responsibilities but someone else can be paying for that.
