Congrats Melbourne and Nick.
Unfortunately didn't get the time to watch the game due to exams, glad I didn't in a way haha. Good to see us competing in every single match though, hopefully we make finals this year.
A friend who did go to the game called me afterwards and he was really upset with the umpiring. From a Melbourne point of view, honestly what do you think? He said that he had never ever seen a game so badly umpired, apparently everything went Melbourne's way.
Ahh just saw the stats we were leading by like 30!!!
Cheers - and condolences.
Umpiring: thought we clearly had the better end of it. There were a few 50/50 calls that went our way, which then weren't paid to Collingwood in equivalent situations. Like, a few times in the last 5-10 minutes we'd drop it in a tackle, and I'd think "ahh, shit" - only for it to be called play on.
Definitely seen games worse umpired lol, and the Collingwood crowd was getting ridiculous at times. Like, a very clear high tackle paid correctly would get a huge reaction for some reason. I assume they were feeling hard done by, so decided to boo every single free kick we received hah. But yeah, definitely think we had the better end of it. (Will consider further on watching the replay, though.)