Exactly, too busy trying to pull a free kick rather than creating an opening and having a crack. I’m a bombers supporter and yes that was a free kick for holding the ball, end of the day it’s the umpires call whether it’s three seconds to go or one hour to play. Go Bombers
He didn't deserve a free but the key here was he DIDN'T get a free.....as opposed to Adelaide not getting a free at the end when they did deserve one.....but they may have missed anyway.
The umpiring in that game was atrocious from the very start to the very end, both teams copped bad decisions all night. Crows fans should be happy with their percentage as Essendon have been a very accurate goal kicking team this season. 10.18 could have been a 10 goal thumping and all over at 3/4 time, it wasn't so it turned into a great last quarter for neutral viewers. Bombers fans should be worried about Draper playing 50% of every game forward with no ability to kick a drop punt 30m directly in front, the bloke kicks like an Auskicker at halftime. Good four quarter Friday night footy ✅
Couldn't agree more. The umpiring was poor all night but the decision not to award the free at the end was the correct one. The Crows played for it and the ump wasn't fooled.
@@EmbraceThePing 100% right ✅ Walker was caught 35 seconds earlier, with the exact same result, could have been penalised, but wasn't. Unlike the entire match the final minute of umpiring was actually consistent.
For those saying “crows were robbed” you can see it from two angles. From one angle it looks like Walker clearly taps the ball underneath Draper as he falls down, but from another angle it looks like Draper dragged it in. At the end of the day it was the umpires decision to give the free kick or not. And even if it was given the game wasn’t guaranteed for Adelaide to kick that goal
Tex Walker would’ve kick the goal right in front. Draper knew what he was doing. They were denied the chance of winning the game with a penalty. Robbed.
How about langford so called holding the ball near half time? No way known. How about tex staging for a free? Essendon get a decision that goes theyre way and everyone gets salty, usually its essendon who gets the wrong end of the decisions.
Essendon were the better and more composed side for majority of the game last night IMO. At the end Draper probably should have been pinged holding the ball. But then again, the bombers really should have put the crows away earlier in the game as their kicking efficiency at goal wasn't good. P.S, how about that instance when Langford got pinged holding the ball at the end of the 1st half?
Regardless of whether it was holding the ball or not, AFL needs to change their system and review these types of game changing moments. It’s a joke how they spend countless hours on useless goal reviews but when there’s a game on the line and a 50/50 decision has occurred, they couldn’t care less.
RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. Lying on top of the ball like a beached whale is now ok. Unbelievable. The rule states: “Diving on top of the Football - A field Umpire shall award a free kick against a player who dives on top of or drags the football underneath their body, and fails to immediately knock clear or correctly dispose of the football…”. That’s a penalty any other time in the match. We know Adelaide had their chances, but in that moment, it was a free and should have been awarded. Draper’s shenanigans after the match tell you a lot too.
The stricter holding the ball interpretation includes a focus on players ducking into tackles, with clubs warned that "a player who ducks their head prior to being legally tackled" will be penalised more stringently by umpires. So Tex can duck into a tackle should have been a free kick to Essendon
@Virtuluss The crows skill levels were abysmal, inept and downright poor, Essendon were better in most departments. The better team won and Mathew Nicks should start looking for another job.
AFL conceded it should have been a free kick. Yes, Crows made costly errors. Yes, Bombers were wasteful. Yes, Crows might've missed the final kick. But a free kick 25 out with Tex taking it? I'll take those odds.
Was a good game, everyone says that adelaide were robbed, but there were some but essendon copped some poor decisions too. Even if, had the bombers been less wasteful infront of goal it would've been a comfortable win and all this controversy would've been avoided.
Crows always get favouable umpiring at home. This is the first ever decision against them at home ever and they complain. I love seeing Crows supporters crying at home. I wish it was a more obvious free kick denied.
Cry about the final second of the match if you want but the Crows were well beaten everywhere but on the scoreboard. Adelaide didn't deserve to win that game.
Typical Crows players and fans always looking to put a loss down to one decision. Get over yourselves, Essendon were clearly the better side on the night
Man I love when salty fans try to pick every little detail out of the game and its calls. It’s over, you should just deal with it and look towards the future
Thats now 3 times in about 15 games that the AFL has officially apologised to the Crows for incorrect decisions essentially costing them games of football. It’s pretty clear apologies mean nothing. Actually do something about this reoccurring issue
The fact I can hear the players audio onfield in this, Adelaide crowds are rubbish and if they had been louder and hostile that decision might go there way. stop giving them gather rounds AFL 😡
As a neutral I can honestly say this is one of the worst games I have seen. The crows skill levels were abysmal, inept and downright poor, Essendon were better in most departments. The better team won and Mathew Nicks should start looking for another job.
Adelaide fans crying about the last 30 seconds, But not how rochelle runs under the ball with 5 minutes to go uncontested in the pocket. lmao. Stay mad.
The umpires - who were on the scene when Draper dragged the ball back under him after laying on top of it - choked. It's as simple as that. They didn't want to make the big call so close to the goals, at such a crucial stage in the match. That's where the human element comes into umpiring. I don't care if you get 4 guys umpiring the match, or 40, you won't be able to eradicate human emotions. Hard luck for Adelaide - they deserved a free kick which would have given them the chance to win it......
The stricter holding the ball interpretation includes a focus on players ducking into tackles, with clubs warned that "a player who ducks their head prior to being legally tackled" will be penalised more stringently by umpires. Tex ducked into a tackle before all that happened should have been a free kick to Essendon
@@imalwaysright Yeah, it's understandable. Whatever the person's occupation, whenever he's under pressure, it's sort of natural that he relies on his training to make the decisions for him. They're told to put the whistles away as you said. The umpire didn't want to rely on his judgement.....
Must suck to support Essendone right now, 20 years of no finals wins, and when you do win a home and away game it's by umpiring, with the whole AFL community laughing at you 🤣🤣
Must suck to be a Crows supporter not beating the "hopeless" Bombers since 2017. Hows your team going this year? We are laughing with 4 points in the bank again while you cry about being "robbed". 1-5 and can't beat a lower/mid-tier team at home. Those aren't laughing tears you guys are crying 🤣🤣
No they were not the umpires were on the crows side the whole game and to blame the umpires for losing a game when it actually really came down to how they played is pathetic, essendon played better by far
So sick of the poor umpiring this year. It’s ruining games. Another Adelaide robbery in less than a year. Thought the new AFL administration was going to be better. An apology does nothing. They’ll blow the whistle throughout the match at 50/50 calls or what they _think_ they saw, but not a player sunbaking in front of them. Who cares if a penalty determines the match. AFL obsession with entertainment over fairness/accuracy (and umpires putting their whistles away) needs to stop
The crows skill levels were abysmal, inept and downright poor, Essendon were better in most departments. The better team won and Mathew Nicks should start looking for another job.
The crows skill levels were abysmal, inept and downright poor, Essendon were better in most departments. The better team won and Mathew Nicks should start looking for another job.
No one want to talk about the fact Langford was ping HTB in the worst decision of the night
Essendon finally get a favourable decision and people lose their mind.
Only get one every decade
I really don’t give a $hit. Still 20 years of not winning a final. 😂😂😂 💉 💊
@@cbgg1585 they are still tied for the most flags ever so i dont want to here any slander against them
@@cbgg1585 adelaide crown havent won one for 27 years
Admitting the Crows were robbed lol. Essington got love of all the whistle all night
Essendon fan here - thanks to the Crows fans for the delicious salt!
You haven't won a final in 20 years, thanks for 2 decades of salt 😘😘😘
@@Tantoblade1pd still better then Adelaide though from the looks of the score 😂
@@Tantoblade1pdmad cuz bad
@@Tantoblade1pd Maybe, but we won a premiership more recently than you.
@@ajdynon Umpires saved you this week, but they won't next week.
Enjoy getting belted ya flog
No one talking about Tex pulling a Ginnivan and having a sook when he didnt get a free.
Exactly, too busy trying to pull a free kick rather than creating an opening and having a crack. I’m a bombers supporter and yes that was a free kick for holding the ball, end of the day it’s the umpires call whether it’s three seconds to go or one hour to play. Go Bombers
Essendon were doing it all night
Tex pulls with both hands 🙌
@@imalwaysright didnt do it once mate crows fans really making their own happiness
He didn't deserve a free but the key here was he DIDN'T get a free.....as opposed to Adelaide not getting a free at the end when they did deserve one.....but they may have missed anyway.
How good does a club song sound when its drowning out the boos. Gold.
Almost enough to make you wave your jacket around ya head. Lol. ;)
When was the last time you heard that song in a final??… 😂😂😂😂
What a jumper from Essendon. Love it
The umpiring in that game was atrocious from the very start to the very end, both teams copped bad decisions all night.
Crows fans should be happy with their percentage as Essendon have been a very accurate goal kicking team this season.
10.18 could have been a 10 goal thumping and all over at 3/4 time, it wasn't so it turned into a great last quarter for neutral viewers.
Bombers fans should be worried about Draper playing 50% of every game forward with no ability to kick a drop punt 30m directly in front, the bloke kicks like an Auskicker at halftime.
Good four quarter Friday night footy ✅
Couldn't agree more. The umpiring was poor all night but the decision not to award the free at the end was the correct one. The Crows played for it and the ump wasn't fooled.
@@EmbraceThePing 100% right ✅ Walker was caught 35 seconds earlier, with the exact same result, could have been penalised, but wasn't.
Unlike the entire match the final minute of umpiring was actually consistent.
@@EmbraceThePing afl literally said the call was wrong wtf r u on abt. The decision was most definetely wrong.
Karma when Draper got a deliberate 50m penalty for the ball rebounding off his shin
legit they got that 50m penalty for no reason
It was more the fact that he didn’t return it and just dropped it
@@Planetrainguy It wasnt thats not how the rule works you dont get 50m for dropping the ball
@@largomeerkat5309 he heard the whistle and knew it was a free to the crows and he dropped it when he should've returned it.
For those saying “crows were robbed” you can see it from two angles. From one angle it looks like Walker clearly taps the ball underneath Draper as he falls down, but from another angle it looks like Draper dragged it in. At the end of the day it was the umpires decision to give the free kick or not. And even if it was given the game wasn’t guaranteed for Adelaide to kick that goal
Crows were robbed.
yeah but let's be real it's right infront of goal
Tex Walker would’ve kick the goal right in front. Draper knew what he was doing. They were denied the chance of winning the game with a penalty. Robbed.
Crows fans are so pathetic always blaming umps
@Virtuluss dons were by far the better team all night, should've probably won by 4 goals. crom just no where near good enough again
How about langford so called holding the ball near half time? No way known. How about tex staging for a free? Essendon get a decision that goes theyre way and everyone gets salty, usually its essendon who gets the wrong end of the decisions.
A bit out of context, but this is now the 4th game in a row that on weekday footy tipping, the away team has come home victorious.
Harrison jones looks like he drives a 06 falcon and does skids on the weekend
Guessing you go for Adelaide?
@@vtaq6811 and crows fans still mad bro
@@Skylar_isbetter1 I know its funny as 😂 blaming the umps when they had every chance to win
Harrison Jones looks like the proud owner of the Adelaide Crows Football Club
What a game!
CROWS WERE ROBBED
RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME
RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME
Essendon were the better and more composed side for majority of the game last night IMO. At the end Draper probably should have been pinged holding the ball. But then again, the bombers really should have put the crows away earlier in the game as their kicking efficiency at goal wasn't good. P.S, how about that instance when Langford got pinged holding the ball at the end of the 1st half?
Regardless of whether it was holding the ball or not, AFL needs to change their system and review these types of game changing moments. It’s a joke how they spend countless hours on useless goal reviews but when there’s a game on the line and a 50/50 decision has occurred, they couldn’t care less.
I was on the edge of my seat just hoping the bombers could put enough pressure on to close the game
RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. Lying on top of the ball like a beached whale is now ok. Unbelievable. The rule states: “Diving on top of the Football - A field Umpire shall award a free kick against a player who dives on top of or drags the football underneath their body, and fails to immediately knock clear or correctly dispose of the football…”. That’s a penalty any other time in the match. We know Adelaide had their chances, but in that moment, it was a free and should have been awarded. Draper’s shenanigans after the match tell you a lot too.
Get a Don up ya
Who cares there was heaps of times in Essendon fwd line where it should have been holding the ball and they didn’t call it
The stricter holding the ball interpretation includes a focus on players ducking into tackles, with clubs warned that "a player who ducks their head prior to being legally tackled" will be penalised more stringently by umpires. So Tex can duck into a tackle should have been a free kick to Essendon
@@Reactiverse22name one lol
@@imalwaysrighthinds run down tackle
Go bombers ❤️🖤❤️🖤
@Virtuluss The crows skill levels were abysmal, inept and downright poor, Essendon were better in most departments. The better team won and Mathew Nicks should start looking for another job.
@Virtulusseasy dons win
@Virtuluss 78-75 big Sammy Draper😍
@Virtuluss yeah he clowned on you guys so hard😂😂😂 easy win for the dons
well done bombers❤🖤
A change in fortunes for the Crows this week .Good away win for the Bombers.
I heard the river Torrens broke it's banks last night from the tears of the crows supporters 😅😅😅😅
Goddammit Adelaide
You know you can slow it down on youtube videos right. If you watch it the time is 0:00 is gone as ball is under Draper with no prior. But cry harder.
AFL conceded it should have been a free kick. Yes, Crows made costly errors. Yes, Bombers were wasteful. Yes, Crows might've missed the final kick. But a free kick 25 out with Tex taking it? I'll take those odds.
CROM ROBBED
Was a good game, everyone says that adelaide were robbed, but there were some but essendon copped some poor decisions too. Even if, had the bombers been less wasteful infront of goal it would've been a comfortable win and all this controversy would've been avoided.
Haha😂 that was holding the ball 110%. Will just plank on the ball with 10 seconds left. 4 field umpires 😂😂😂. What is going on with our great game.
5:47 why were Adelaide appalling for free kick.
Essendon player lied on the ball to prevent it getting out to cause a stoppage and waste time
@@Planetrainguy
Thanks
Keep going Bombers
Lol walker might get a please explain from the afl over his verbal outburst lol. so funny to watch
you could read his mouth, I think he said "what a joke" or something
I go crazy when the Crows get in front when I dont tip them
Crows always get favouable umpiring at home. This is the first ever decision against them at home ever and they complain. I love seeing Crows supporters crying at home. I wish it was a more obvious free kick denied.
All these people thinking adel were robbed your team is clearly sht 😂😂 up the dons
FR
And dons are much better do you know it's been 7000+ days since been in a final 🤣🤣
It doesn't make any difference if they're sh!t (which they are), but they were clearly robbed
@@chriscoyne4827are you sure about that dopey
@@chriscoyne4827 They were in a final in 2021, 2017 and many other years and they have won 16 premierhsips and your measely team has 2
If bombers kicked the ball straight we woulda won by heaps
Bombers are flogs
@@UltimateRessie13 average magpie fan
@@advnt5856 that is possibly the worst insult i’ve ever heard
@@UltimateRessie13 was that supposed to be an insult
@@advnt5856 you tell me you hero
See the Ump fly up up to rig the football game
Cry about the final second of the match if you want but the Crows were well beaten everywhere but on the scoreboard. Adelaide didn't deserve to win that game.
My tip was Esssendon by 15
Essendonaretherealdeal
winning by 3 points against a side that's going 1-4 ain't making you win finals bro
Typical Crows players and fans always looking to put a loss down to one decision. Get over yourselves, Essendon were clearly the better side on the night
Wow, yet another non-Victorian team getting screwed by Victorian umpires against a Victorian team. The A(V)FL never lets down the heartland.
Oh rubbish you usually get favored by the umps because of your feral one eyed crowd when it in adelaide.
Adelaide Fans arguing over being robbed but say they weren’t robbed last week😂😂😂😂😂
Man I love when salty fans try to pick every little detail out of the game and its calls. It’s over, you should just deal with it and look towards the future
Crows are looking for their 6 win but the bombers win
Thats now 3 times in about 15 games that the AFL has officially apologised to the Crows for incorrect decisions essentially costing them games of football. It’s pretty clear apologies mean nothing. Actually do something about this reoccurring issue
Disgrace from Sam Draper as you can see what he did at post game
Crows had the umpires all night , then get upset when 1 goes the other way. Boo ho
The fact I can hear the players audio onfield in this, Adelaide crowds are rubbish and if they had been louder and hostile that decision might go there way. stop giving them gather rounds AFL 😡
As a neutral I can honestly say this is one of the worst games I have seen. The crows skill levels were abysmal, inept and downright poor, Essendon were better in most departments. The better team won and Mathew Nicks should start looking for another job.
Jb needs to retire from commenting
Karma
Up the dons.
Adelaide fans crying about the last 30 seconds, But not how rochelle runs under the ball with 5 minutes to go uncontested in the pocket. lmao. Stay mad.
Rachele and his stupid haircut lost the match
Poor crom
Don’t you mean “crows”
@@SiuRonaldoSiu-v7p crom is a nickname for crows
@@SiuRonaldoSiu-v7p go crom
The umpires - who were on the scene when Draper dragged the ball back under him after laying on top of it - choked. It's as simple as that. They didn't want to make the big call so close to the goals, at such a crucial stage in the match. That's where the human element comes into umpiring. I don't care if you get 4 guys umpiring the match, or 40, you won't be able to eradicate human emotions. Hard luck for Adelaide - they deserved a free kick which would have given them the chance to win it......
Must be told to put the whistle away. Happens every game. It’s frustrating and ruins games. Draper’s act so much worse than line-ball moments
The stricter holding the ball interpretation includes a focus on players ducking into tackles, with clubs warned that "a player who ducks their head prior to being legally tackled" will be penalised more stringently by umpires. Tex ducked into a tackle before all that happened should have been a free kick to Essendon
@@Reactiverse22that interpretation does not exist lmao.
@@imalwaysright Yeah, it's understandable. Whatever the person's occupation, whenever he's under pressure, it's sort of natural that he relies on his training to make the decisions for him. They're told to put the whistles away as you said. The umpire didn't want to rely on his judgement.....
The ball was under him as the clock was at 0:00 lmao - its like people dont know how to watch videos
The crows were robbed right in front of me, right in front of me.
Must suck to support Essendone right now, 20 years of no finals wins, and when you do win a home and away game it's by umpiring, with the whole AFL community laughing at you 🤣🤣
Yeah Crows were robbed
Must suck to be a Crows supporter not beating the "hopeless" Bombers since 2017. Hows your team going this year? We are laughing with 4 points in the bank again while you cry about being "robbed". 1-5 and can't beat a lower/mid-tier team at home. Those aren't laughing tears you guys are crying 🤣🤣
Remember when your old coach got absolutely bodied by his son and then crom lost the granny😂
@@CatFunt-w7x What is wrong with some people? Why do you have to turn banter about football into something nasty. Pull your head in! 🤡
Marred an otherwise excellent game
umps always with essendon pathetic
Go bommers
waa waa waa keep crying crows fans gonna about missign finals last year too?
You haven’t won a final 20 years you cannot be talking 😂
@@Planetrainguy still got 16 flags buddy
@@froggoontop you have 2 since 1990, so you equal with the crows
AS A CARLTON FAN THE CROWS WERE ROBBED INFRONT OF ME SAC THE UMPIRES
No they were not the umpires were on the crows side the whole game and to blame the umpires for losing a game when it actually really came down to how they played is pathetic, essendon played better by far
So sick of the poor umpiring this year. It’s ruining games. Another Adelaide robbery in less than a year. Thought the new AFL administration was going to be better. An apology does nothing. They’ll blow the whistle throughout the match at 50/50 calls or what they _think_ they saw, but not a player sunbaking in front of them. Who cares if a penalty determines the match. AFL obsession with entertainment over fairness/accuracy (and umpires putting their whistles away) needs to stop
Not robbery what you yapping on about
@@toxicpoison-j8thighway robbery
The crows skill levels were abysmal, inept and downright poor, Essendon were better in most departments. The better team won and Mathew Nicks should start looking for another job.
I was there
@@advnt5856all that can be true, and they were still robbed
Robbed again
They weren’t robbed raschelle has got to learn to mark the ball
The crows skill levels were abysmal, inept and downright poor, Essendon were better in most departments. The better team won and Mathew Nicks should start looking for another job.
@@welovesport12 haha true lol he dropped some sitters
@@welovesport12afl admitted it today 💀
@@advnt5856look at ur head
Port fan, Crows were robbed
No they were not
@@advnt5856 the afl literally said that the umps call was wrong.