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- May 5, 2016
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Think it’s pretty clear.
Umpiring cannot ever be blamed for a reason you lose.
Sam Mitchell and co have said they’ll bring up to the AFL upon game review if they feel any mistreatment or difference in adjudication to Ginnivan. Which is entirely fair since it’s important to pay frees off merit and what they actually are rather than name, or history.
Hawthorn and Geelong yet another decent game, could have been a closer result but the class of Geelong prevailed.
What was the big notice was how easy Geelong scored in comparison to all the hard work the hawks needed to score, how good the cats kicked despite the level of difficulty in shots.
Lots of green shoots and plenty to take away from both sides and both sides would be optimistic in a way.
Pretty fair comment. There were chunks of time where we struggled to get it out of our half of the ground but like the first two games it felt a bit like we ‘wanted’ the game to be on our terms a bit too much rather than accepting that in those periods it wasn’t, and finding a way through it. Ie. accepting that we couldn’t just waltz the ball forward with ease, and actually take some time out of the game with some short kicking and look for a different method for a little while. Hawthorn did well in those moments to make us uncomfortable