“It reflects poorly on you”: Gerard Healy’s good, bad and ugly from the Semi Finals

Let's begin with the good and there was no one better than Big Joe and his two goals to win the Lions the game.

It was as good as clutch goal kicking gets.

Port Adelaide's pressure also as good as it gets and it's not a one off, so beware Port Adelaide next week. They've done it seven out of eight weeks in a row.

Jordon Sweet, well, he was superb in the ruck with seven score involvements and held his own against Lloyd Meek.

In fact, I correct myself, he took the points.

Lachie Jones perhaps played his best game, so too did Esava Ratugolea who was on a different mental plane than his average over the season.

Ken Hinkley's coaching was very good.

Chris Fagan also superb. Never seen him chew the gum faster, but again, his men are in a prelim final.

He gets criticism for not moving the magnets, but right now he's got a smile on his face.

He never gets a rap for the same reason, but it will be interesting to see if his reputation heads north if he beats Chris Scott and the Cats on Saturday.

I want to do the bad as an audio letter and I'll begin with:

‘To Andrew Dillon, Laura Kane, Steve McBurney and umpires coach Michael Jennings,

‘Collectively, you had the responsibility to maintain the integrity of the game on the field and I'm pleading with you all for action on a fundamental pillar that you have blatantly ignored.

‘The push in the back has to be the easiest rule in the book to umpire and given the positioning of the umpires in full view of many of the incidents on the weekend that weren't paid you can only interpret their inaction as - a poor understanding of the rule, poor coaching and training of that rule or just poor umpiring frozen in the moment across the two games - or I guess you can simply consider that you've disregarded it.

‘There are a number of push in the backs paid but there were five obvious ones that weren’t, four of them resulted in goals and impacted dramatically on the result.

‘It seems if a goal is going to be kicked, you simply accept the decision. It reflects poorly on you collectively as custodians of the game.

‘For the record, the five were:

1. Georgiades clearly pushed Scrimshaw straight in the back. He kicked the match winning goal, a shocking miss from the umpire who was parallel.

2. The Big O pushes Briggs straight in the back and a ruck contest and then kicks what was a terrific goal. But it was a free kick.

3. Quarter three again with a minute of play remaining, Hogan just shoves Payne straight in the back. No reaction from the umpire, he goes back and kicks a goal. A shocking decision.

4. Quarter four, big Joe shoves Sam Taylor straight in the back before the deliberate out of bounds. He kicks a magnificent goal while the poor old umpire, number 29, looks on ignoring the blatantly obvious.

5. It didn't matter on the result but Dayne Zorko was nearly pushed into the grandstand. Again, no free kick.

‘Yes, it's a serious blight in the game and has been for a number of years, but a blight that none of Dylan, Kane, McBurney and co. give a flying fig about.

‘I hope it doesn't decide the grand final and hope one day next summer, you might reflect on how poorly it's being umpired.’

So we move to the ugly and the ugly starts with the Giants' collapse.

The flag was theirs and it was theirs for the taking. The replay of the last quarter will be a very ugly watch.

Brent Daniels’ soccer tactics very ugly.

Hawthorn's late miss is also in the same boat and the AFL’s overreaction to Ken Hinkley, also in my view, ugly.

He got a $20,000 fine, the same as Jason McCartney. Now, we were led to believe last week that Jason McCartney was playing and I railed against the excessive nature of the fine.

Now, it seems that the club are paying Ken Hinkley's and Jason McCartney's fines. So if that's the case, it matters little, it's just window dressing, but I'd love the AFL to clarify exactly who's paying it.