Melbourne +3 v Carlton
Port Adelaide +3 v GWS
0/2, 149/213. Since the computer didn't think there was much in it, I don't feel badly about this.
1. GWS 19.28 (+1)
2. Brisbane 15.24 (-1)
3. Collingwood 13.7
4. (Melbourne 13.15)
5. Carlton 11.74 (+1)
6. (Adelaide 10.32) (-1)
7. (Sydney 7.69)
8...
Essendon v Collingwood +30
Hawthorn +11 v Fremantle
North Melbourne v Gold Coast +24
Brisbane +16 v St Kilda
Geelong +3 v Western Bulldogs
West Coast v Adelaide +39
Port Adelaide +31 v Richmond
Sydney +3 v Melbourne (assuming an umpiring howler that gifts them the win)
Carlton +11 v GWS
4/9...
Having just seen an article doing the sums, apparently Collingwood had the toughest draw, but Adelaide had (by a substantial margin) the toughest draw relative to expectancy. The easiest draws relative to expectancy were Fremantle and Sydney.
"Something they have no control over".
OK, what's missing is the Sydney chairman saying "give the four points to Adelaide. They deserve it." Because Sydney can definitely control that.
Collingwood +9 v Brisbane
Richmond +17 v North Melbourne
Gold Coast v Carlton +10
GWS +24 v Essendon
St Kilda v Geelong +10
Adelaide +17 v Sydney
Western Bulldogs +67 v West Coast
Melbourne +17 v Hawthorn
Fremantle v Port Adelaide +1
5/9, 141/198
1. Carlton 16.49
2. Brisbane 15.59 (+3)
3...
An on-field mistake by the goal umpire should NEVER happen. He has the ability to refer if he isn't 200% sure.
If he's 200% sure but still wrong, he doesn't deserve to appear on the field again.
Frankly, the one thing that's important is to GET IT RIGHT.
I don't care if the match is decided the following Thursday, as long as it's decided correctly.
Goal umpire errors on the field should NEVER happen. NEVER. If they're not 100% they review it. If they think they're 100% and they're...
What we do know is that it makes no sense to award Sydney a win on that assumption. All we know for certain is that Sydney deserved to be behind with 78 seconds to play.
Except, if the goal had been at the death it would have been readjudicated.
What we have is a match that was gifted to the rightfully losing team, because of those 78 seconds in which they didn't score a goal.
If you regard this result as something to celebrate, the rightfully losing team is...
If the goal is correctly given, and a hurricane causes the field to be evacuated, it would just be scored as an Adelaide win.
What we have at the moment is the match has been adjudicated as a win for Sydney on the assumption that a team that hasn’t goaled in about 35 minutes is going to find...
Umpires on the field have to make quick decisions, and the play can progress quickly. Some level of error is inevitable.
However, goal umpires have the ability to refer decisions that they're not sure about. When one team is celebrating a goal and the umpire calls a point without having it...
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