Hoops

Haines, Filmer, Hunt

Be good if we had tech foul for excessive elbow-swinging and for fouling from behind, here.

( although it might confuse these three 'refs' )

Hawks Fan: "Big marty your quite clearly mistaken , your anger should be towards Darnell Mee whose brain implosion cost you that game".

No, I'm fairly sure a terrible call by the ref was to blame. The multiple replays from different angles and the comments from Andrew Gaze and Steve Carfino pointing out the foul was a "terrible call" also spelt it out.

There isn't any anger behind my statement. What I'm trying to convey is that if you thought the latest Hawks game wasn't called right; then clearly you're overexaggerating.

Hawks Fan,
"Build a bridge, get over it"

Who you going for next NBL season?

If there was one bad coaching call on Sat. night it was that Wini was on the bench. I reckon a couple of minutes on the court early could have helped with the physical presence.

The sooner HWR returns to he 'Gong the better!

H.W.R, we'll make you a deal.

As the Hawks lost because of bad calls, you can have the win. In return, we ask that you rewind time and give us Game 3 of the 2000 Semi Finals (as it should have been).

You'll find all the crap calls in Saturday's game balance out with the Darnell Mee "ghost foul".

My take on all this is that HWR comes to Adelaide to watch an Adelaide/Hawks game and has picked up on the crappy refs we put up with here every game. Bad calls and non calls affected both sides last night but for a visitor who is not used to the standard of umpiring here in Adelaide was amazed at how poorly the refs performed. When you focus on your own team, you seem to see the bad calls against your own team more clearly than those against the opposition.

I don't think a Hawks fan can ever complain about NBL refs as their only championship was given to them by one.

As I said, they let wrestling and elbows etc go. Then called one now and again. Everyone was frustrated. Not pleasant to watch.

Someone mentioned about Ray Hunt calling early to assert that he was #1 ref. on court. Do we know how many fouls he called last night? You would expect around 33% (1/3), so if he was calling over 40% I would tend to agree on the balance of probabilities he was calling things he probably shouldn't.

Haines and Filmer also appear to get themselves in poor position. Reffing is all about getting into a reliable position each time. If you are not in a good position you can't see what actually happens.

With any sport, you won't get 100% accuracy

King James,

http://linky.com.au/d6gfe

Don't you know Saville Road was just helping Mahersy out by doing an breast examination?

HWR,
As we say on this forum, "Build a bridge, get over it"

Have a nice trip back to Cringila.

HWR, I'll humour you too.

The Hawks had to play a dirty game to overcome Adelaide's superior skills. When you reach in for the steal, you'll give away the foul every time. It's something any U12 knows and learns.

I loved how Saville Road played. His constant pushing, shoving and niggling meant that he attracted fouls for STUPID things. What a champion he was for giving away a tech foul - you must be very proud of him in your team.

Larry "the lounge lizard" was just as dirty. His wrestling and manhandling of Luke was something you would expect in a massage palour. Like Boti said during the week, "last time someone had that much attention, sexual asault charges were laid". He had about 10 fouls NOT awarded.

Dusty "the snowman" wins the award for best haircut. I liked his moving screens in defence and loved his moving right elbow while Adelaide players were moving though the key. "The chicken wing" is what I'll call it as whenever a sixer went past, he looked like a chicken spreading his wings trying to clip a sixer in the head.

Petrie "dish" is also worth a mention. I noticed a couple of "accidental" smacks to the head (Ballinger, Holmes) that were not called. When you rely on having to intimidate your opponents through stuff like that, well that just reflects poorly on your game plan, or lack of.

Tragardh was about the only Squark who played without relying on dirty stuff.

So, HWR, if you're complaining that the fouls were 29 to 18, then put your hand on your heart and ask yourself, "Maybe the Squarks just fouled more?"

I thought they were a disgrace too.
But, clearly the hawks had no hope guarding Hodge, ballinger, schenscher legally.

Sour Grapes? Sixers fans have had to put up with poor umpiring for the last few weeks. It was nice too get a few calls our way. Although i dont think the umpires were the difference in the game.