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Opinion An Urgent Enquiry is Required into the Umpiring of Certain Matches Mid-Season 2023
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Which team is Richmond again? The ones with the blue stripes?
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I'm expecting Barrett to raise the issue now he's gotten the story from here.
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Gold Coast are actually first with a differential of +51. Seems that they don’t hate Hardwick - just us
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That's not relevant to my post
Agree though, awful comments by McRae, 0/10
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I, for one, wholeheartedly support the establishment's trolling of the RFC. Long may it reign.
For years we heard that Richmond's free kick differential was because of the way they played.
Since then, everything has changed (new coach, new gamestyle, massive list overhaul), and yet the umpiring result is the same. When all variables change but the result doesn't, the only conclusion is that the umpires are biased.
This is even more clear when you look at Gold Coast 2024 under Dimma. They're top of the free kick differential ladder.
Since then, everything has changed (new coach, new gamestyle, massive list overhaul), and yet the umpiring result is the same. When all variables change but the result doesn't, the only conclusion is that the umpires are biased.
This is even more clear when you look at Gold Coast 2024 under Dimma. They're top of the free kick differential ladder.
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The most successful team of the last ten years.
The team they had to make multiple rule changes to stop.
The team that every other team plays their most disciplined football against.
The team that has traumatised you so badly, you've got Post Traumatic Amnesia.
To answer your question: Yellow and Black
How could the AFL let this team win the free kick count, not once, but twice in the past 28 games? Incompetence or corruption? Either way, heads must role.
It always amazes supporters of the other 17 clubs that Richmond supporters would rally around and dig their own club out of a terrible mire. After all, why stand on your own two feet when you can angrily demand that others carry you and compensate you for your self inflicted injuries?
Whilst that might be fine for the other 17 clubs, Richmond can't rely on charity from the AFL. Except winning the free kick count in 2 of the last 28 games. Outrageous pro Richmond bias.
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No it doesn’t. Every supporter would expect it.
Richmond supporters seem like they have this big chip and the more they complain maybe someone will care.
Fact is no-one really gives a shiit about Richmond and their constant whining.
Lol. That must be why you're here making angry posts.No it doesn’t. Every supporter would expect it.
Richmond supporters seem like they have this big chip and the more they complain maybe someone will care.
Fact is no-one really gives a shiit about Richmond and their constant whining.
Collingwood has spent the last several years desperately trying to copy Richmond's culture, with some success.
In Richmond culture, standing by your club in its hour of greatest need is something to be proud of. For your club, it's apparently something to be ashamed of.
Perhaps that's part of the reason my club has been so much more successful than yours in your lifetime.
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Can you add another column to the table titled “How did Richmond play”.
And then populate all the rows with “shithouse”.
No point putting stuff into a table unless its a complete data set.
Nice the see Carlton supporters up and about 
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If you think that is relevant then maybe list other teams who played shithouse and their free kick counts, and then we can see if it is relevant.
Probably explains why you didn't give away more. You have a guy who is giving away two free kicks a game this year. Any game where he plays you, on average are -2, before the game starts.
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That's quite a display of inattention!No it doesn’t. Every supporter would expect it.
Richmond supporters seem like they have this big chip and the more they complain maybe someone will care.
Fact is no-one really gives a shiit about Richmond and their constant whining.
We were shit in 2021, 2023, and now 2024. Same umpiring result regardless of ladder position as this goes back to 2017.
Richmond are instructed to intentionally infringe on defence on the basis that the Umpires won't call every free kick because there would be too many. Surely as a Richmond supporter you have learned this over time. This is why they always lose the free kick count. Because they intentionally infringe.
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I think that most casual observers of AFL lean towards the belief and feelings of corruption in the ranks, as is normal for such a large corporation that doesn't pay taxes, but don't believe that the same corruption extends to the results of actual AFL matches which is silly and naive.
Glad that this is being discussed. Regardless of allegiance, this sort of topic should be common place.
Umpiring has been as bad as I can remember this season in most matches.
* Edit. The umpires should be paid professional wages. Would help the situation.
Glad that this is being discussed. Regardless of allegiance, this sort of topic should be common place.
Umpiring has been as bad as I can remember this season in most matches.
* Edit. The umpires should be paid professional wages. Would help the situation.
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I suppose the problem with this view is it is pure speculation supported by zero solid evidence to indicate the Richmond players intentionally infringe to any greater extent than any other team.
When watching as a Richmond supporter that is not the way it appears. It appears more or less Richmond and their opponents infringe at a similar rate and Richmond is penalised at a higher rate.
The other problem with your theory of course is that it does not explain why Richmond have received the least free kicks in 3 of the last 4 seasons and the second least in the other season.
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Pickett has a -59 free kick count in 89 matches. So assuming he was replaced by a player with an average free kick differential for a Richmond player, Pickett would add around -0.4 free kick differential at most per game.
So that wouldn't explain much of the deficit.
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