Oppo Camp Non-Essendon Football Thread XVI

[BrunoV]

Watching the commitment at the ball from Port/Pies shows how far we have to go. Do we even look for that when we recruit?

 

[bombadeer]

Mike's stupid/random question of the week: why is it a free if you accidentally hit someone high with a hand while attempting a tackle, but if you accidentally hit them high with your head it's not?

Surely accidental high contact is high contact regardless of body part

Surely both players should get a free? 2 head high contacts, one incident.

Would obviously require an additional football, but imagine the spectacle.

 

[Falcon27]

Will Ashcroft has done his ACL.

Hope he makes a full recovery.

 

[eth-dog]

Will Ashcroft has done his ACL.

Hope he makes a full recovery.

Horrible news. Kid's a future star. Question is has he done enough to win the RS?

 

[MiguelM]

Will Ashcroft has done his ACL.

Hope he makes a full recovery.

You could tell it was bad when it happened. Post game they already knew going by body language. Club doctors know how the test and are rarely wrong well before scans.

Terrible luck, such a talent. Already looks like a 200 game veteran.

Worst time of the year for it to happen too, pretty much rules him out for next season.

 

[ghostdog]

Go the Boners!

 

[jannissary]

rioli got 2 weeks for whacking murphy, i think that’s fair

 

[Nicholas61]

Terrible luck, such a talent. Already looks like a 200 game veteran.

What struck me from the little I have seen was no matter how much pressure he was under his kicks go to the advantage of his teammate.

 

[Squeaky]

Croms getting reamed with the free kicks here...

 

[citizen-erased]

Gotta love the never say die attitude of the crows.

 

[citizen-erased]

Rankine

 

[jannissary]

Rankine

so unlucky, fought result, crows played well

 

[MiguelM]

Dees home

 

[The Prosecutor]

Good result for us. With Rankine done for the year it will be extremely hard for Adelaide to make finals. Could almost put a line through them given the still Have Port and Brisbane at the Gabba.

If North can hold on you'd almost put a line through St Kilda too.

At this point I think we may scrape in with 12 wins.

 

[mike14]

Surely both players should get a free? 2 head high contacts, one incident.

Would obviously require an additional football, but imagine the spectacle.

That would be great.
I know it sounds stupid, but watching the Dangerfield play with a head clash yesterday, once he elected to tackle the onus shifts to him (rather than both players when going for a ball in dispute) to tackle legally. If his head hits the player with the ball high then he hasn't tackled within the rules and it should be a free kick.
I'm assuming (always dangerous) that there's not actually anything in the Laws of the Game about this, and so it's a rule (or lack of one) based on 'commonsense'.

 

[Dudoro]

How anyone thinks Ross Lyon is a good coach I’ll never know

 

[Rabbit of Caerbannog]

At this point I think we may scrape in with 12 wins.

What's the point? We've seen a preview of what an EF would look like in the last two weeks. We won't get to 12 wins anyway because Sydney and GWS are playing much better than us. Avoiding humiliation against North and West Coast is our main objective now.

 

[DERO]

poor Norf

 

[The Prosecutor]

What's the point? We've seen a preview of what an EF would look like in the last two weeks. We won't get to 12 wins anyway because Sydney and GWS are playing much better than us. Avoiding humiliation against North and West Coast is our main objective now.

Not wanting to play finals is just a loser mentality.

**** that.

 

[Dudoro]

Not wanting to play finals is just a loser mentality.

* that.

No the club doing everything they can to aim to scrape into the 8 at whatever cost is loser mentality.

 

[DERO]

Not wanting to play finals is just a loser mentality.

* that.

**** yeah.

 

[The Prosecutor]

* yeah.

Get it done Dodo

 

[fairbump_playon]

Good to see the tanking spirit is alive at both Norf and Hawthorne.

Run the oppo for three quarters and then fade hard.

 

[yodellinhank]

Not wanting to play finals is just a loser mentality.

* that.

Exactly. It's a bloody weird feeling finishing up the season with dead rubbers, and if it isn't you should probably give it a way.

 

[Beerfish]

How anyone thinks Ross Lyon is a good coach I’ll never know

He got to 3 grand finals.

I've always thought it's bullshit though because it's really 2. You were already there.