Game Day Crows v Essendon. Friday Night Footy at AO

[MsTopG]

Teams are so evenly matched these days that umpires have a much bigger influence on matches these days than ever before.
And we seem to cop more than our fair share of bad/incompetent/cheating decisions and nondecisions that cost us games (and finals).

Must take the result out of the umps hands.

 

[El Doederino]

Looking forward to another AFL apology of how we were screwed over again

 

[MsTopG]

Looking forward to another AFL apology of how we were screwed over again

Won't happen.

 

[ssj3Pretz]

Draper showing his team mates what he did and they were having a laugh about it.

 

[MsTopG]

Laird is bloody putrid

Yep. Said about 3 years ago we should trade him. Didn't go down well with some but it was the right call.

 

[Gtowncrow]

Rachelle and Rankine......Why do the media keep pumping them up.
This sums them up.....OVERRATED.

Disagree about Rankine.
Rachelle though has a career trendline which is becoming a worry. There's very little growth in his game from when he started. Maybe it's still all in front of him but he's just another average player ATM.

 

[OccamsRazorRay]

Lots of comments online, easy to see from being at the game that we had far too many players not at the drop of the ball. Essendon just piled players inside the contest and for some reason we just had a lot of players outside waiting for something to happen, or 10m off the ball.


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[jenny61_99]

No issue with him missing that one. The two dropped marks out in space killed us.

Kids are going to take mistakes though. If we want the kids played, we have to accept that mistakes will be made.

 

[Kenny Dee]

The club set the bar low at playing finals, not winning flags. We are so far off playing finals it ain't funny. Atleast our season is definitely done now and we're not living in hope until round 23 again.

 

[MsTopG]

The club set the bar low at playing finals, not winning flags. We are so far off playing finals it ain't funny. Atleast our season is definitely done now and we're not living in hope until round 23 again.

Thats gonna cost the club a lot of $$$$. Thats the only thing they care about.

 

[Beejay Crow]

Welcome, nice to have new supporters to the game.

In the AFL the coach is responsible for selecting the footballers, in our case Nicks (our coach) continues to select the same stupid and dumb footballers.

The End.

Been supporting the game forever and I think Nick's is an average coach but the crap they played in the last qtr is not on him, the players need to take responsibility for this.

 

[MsTopG]

Is O'Brien the worst marking ruckman we've ever had?

Its a close call between Trent Ormond Allen and ROB. ROB takes the honours of worst ruck in the club's history.

 

[King Of Money]

It’s an external excuse, we should be better thru out the game

It doesn't matter how good or how bad we play in a game, if a decision is there that gives us a chance to win a game in the final moments it should be paid!!! Simple as that.

 

[cleanhands]

It doesn't matter how good or how bad we play in a game, if a decision is there that gives us a chance to win a game in the final moments it should be paid!!! Simple as that.

It may have given us the chance to win the game………… but it’s not why we lost

 

[King Of Money]

Must take the result out of the umps hands.

Bullshi!t. Sometimes teams are very evenly matched like tonight. If a decision is there to be made, the umpires should make it.

 

[Faaarrk]

Not excusing the errors and mistakes but even taking that into account, that was a result 100% decided by the umpires.

Craigy was once asked about the umpiring after a pretty one sided umpiring game.
He asked if we made any errors, when the journo said of course Craig replied “ when we play a perfect game and still lose then we’ll look at the umpiring” or close to those words anyway.
Our fearless leader lost us the game before the bounce.

 

[King Of Money]

It may have given us the chance to win the game………… but it’s not why we lost

With the ball in Tex's hands I'll take my chances.

 

[King Of Money]

Not excusing the errors and mistakes but even taking that into account, that was a result 100% decided by the umpires.

Exactly.

 

[cleanhands]

With the ball in Tex's hands I'll take my chances.

As I said it’s not the reason we lost

 

[MsTopG]

Bullshi!t. Sometimes teams are very evenly matched like tonight. If a decision is there to be made, the umpires should make it.

Thats the point, they wont make it as they don't give a shit about us. They know they can **** us over and the club won't even complain about it. If the club was run well we would have knocked essendon off easily as powaa did. We have plenty to fix at the club before worrying about non calls. The more games we loose the quicker we get Nicks out.

 

[CrowToon]

Draper has guaranteed the AFL will concede it was an error.

I wonder if the club will finally stand up to the AFL? I know they won't but geez they love to bend over. Happened last year and will so again this week.

Did last week with Crouch as well.

 

[Rank]

What? Picking spuds week in week out hasn't led to these kind of results?

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The thing is what spuds are there left to elevate?

 

[King Of Money]

We don’t even know who’d have been given the kick or if they’d have converted

Were you not watching the game?!!!
Tex was laying on top of him.

 

[PCORF]

Season officially dusted.

Bravo Nicks, bravo

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Even if we stole this game, it would have still been very difficult to get back.

We'll probably beat North but Port, Brisbane, Collingwood to follow. It would have still been 3-7, now it will be 2-8.

 

[King Of Money]

As I said it’s not the reason we lost

With the ball in Tex's hands I'd say it was.