Peter Johnston

It cost Essendon the game.

There was a number of decisions that were absolutely disgusting.

And Andrew Walsh, the president of the club, to write a letter into the AFL today basically protesting about the standard.

We've copped a lot this year in a lot of ways and we're not going to cop it anymore with the pathetic umpiring and the way it was described last night.

I was at the game and there was a number of decisions which weren't called, were called, were all incorrect.

And I just think it just ruined our chances of the game.

And I can cite a number of occasions.

Mackay getting scragged when he was going for the mark around the neck and play on.

The guy was pushed over the fence and got a free kick.

That guy's about 6'4".

and he was like a two-footer.

He skewed into that fence.

I barracked for Essendon.

Oh, okay.

And you're talking about Carlton, how wonderful they are, or a dark horse.

They bet a bottom side like Essendon, and the game was pretty scrappy, I admit.

Said they're a contender to be in the finals, basically.

Good.

Very quickly, I think, you know, maybe I might be a little bit biased, but I think it's time everybody sort of got off the Ross line, off his back a little bit, because...

When you look at how well our side has played this year, admittedly, we haven't won a lot of games, but we've been in every single game bar one.