"Saints fans should be furious." | First Thoughts - Sydney vs St Kilda (08.06.26)
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What controversial moment occurred in the St Kilda vs Sydney game?
All right, you want to speak about a controversial moment that happened in that St Kilda-Sydney game late?
Yes. Now, I just showed you on our little replay machine over here, courtesy of Fox Footy, Darcy Wilson breaks through 50, just top of 50, and kicks the ball to goal. Now, it is touched on the line. Goal umpire in a perfect spot. So if this is what we're going to do, I have no problem with it. We're not going to review. It's planned. There's two minutes 47 on the clock. The game is an absolute lock. It's an arm wrestle. I can't believe we're not reviewing these ones because this is just a game changer. Now, I don't know if it is reviewed upstairs and potentially called back, but we went away from that.
You can only do that before the ball comes in, really. So it's a quick review.
So they grabbed the ball and went.
And I haven't seen the other angle. I don't know if there even is a replay. I haven't seen any other angles.
I don't think they showed another angle.
The arc would have had to have moved quickly. Look, I think the right decision was made. How do you know? Because of one shot, have you seen it once? The umpire was like half a meter away and it looks to me like it was touched. And I'm backing in the umpire because he was so confident. They are in awful form. You're going to back him in. They are. But yeah, I'm happy for him to check it, yes. I think we should have had a look at that.
Probably to be safe.
Yeah.
But then they get criticized for checking everything. When the game's on the line, I think it's a fraction.
Why are Saints fans upset about the umpire's decision?
What about the kick to Windhager? The non-15. Definitely 15. Definitely 15. Yeah.
So I went back and had a look at this. Did you lab it? I didn't lab it, but I used my- Can you lab it? We can, yeah. Not at quarter to seven in the morning or quarter past seven in the morning. On a public holiday? On a public holiday. We get the lab rate in there a triple time.
Don't they get up early? My God. Don't they get up early? A triple time. Do you see their rates? I want you to lab that on Wednesday. Okay.
No, if you have a look at the screen up there, that's where it is right now, the lawn markings, the mowings. What are they, nine metres? No, no, no. There is five stripes between the goal line and the centre square. Okay. Not the 50, the centre square, which means to me they're about 11 metres each. Okay. That kick goes exactly from the marker of the line to three calls away the next. So it's over 15 for me. And then you're running 30 seconds off the clock with a static section.
Well, you're doing the Harry Mackay and you're having a shot and you're milking 30. Yeah, and you might kick it and then it's your game over. You might have another one, yeah. It's a big call. This has definitely been an instruction. Like the non-15 calls, it's actually got out of. It's got out of hand. Eye test tells you that's 15 metres. He's marked it. Everyone knew that he had marked it. Probably game over. Saints fans should rightly be furious about that one because for some reason the umpires are now obsessed. We saw it last week and it changes mid-year of calling play on. Did you see mark of the year? Yes. He was so good yesterday. How good was he? What about Annie? He's tackling his hunt. He's great for the game.
The Michael Jackson celebration was all time as well.
I love the Windhager, Heaney, Stoush all day. Heaney was unbelievable. And Windhager, to his credit, was pretty good too.
That was as good a battle as you're going to see all year. And those players that just refused to be beaten despite being heavily tagged, I love.
What was the significance of the non-15 meter call in the game?
There's only a handful of those who you cannot get in their head when they are being tagged. Bontempele is one of them. Nick Dacos is absolutely. Butters is getting to that. level now and heaney's there other than that there's a lot of players that don't love being tagged pick and stick jk pick and stick best player in the competition right now heaney or bontempelli Heaney, for me, is more of a forward threat. It's fireball, mate. No, I'm just giving you the reason, because there'll be some Western Bulldogs fans driving off the road right now.
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