No Oppo Supporters OPPOSITION OBSERVATION XXXII

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fu** I'm actually melting , teams falling over left right and centre, no team looks like world beaters , if we had been in any but of our 2017-20 form we would of romped the flag home easy ffs

So could be the worst team of players to ever win a premiership...

Only if it's us.
 
hey tiger fans check out the squiggles and odds for the teams fighting for the last three spots in the 8.... the bookies are still very very nervous and keeping us ridiculously safe and at stingy odds compared to other teams in the same boat..... haha enjoy if you can work it all out.
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We are priced like this because although the odds are against us to make the 8, if we do it's likely because we get a bunch of players back from injury and our potential for improvement in form is large. There are also a couple of teams in there that do not have much recent finals experience so anything could happen.
 
The Premiers this year will have an * next to them, only won it because of our injuries 😍 We'd be a shoe in otherwise

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Agreed.

The Ambassador for this year’s Premiership Cup should be Dimma.

Just imagine Dimma in a tuxedo and white gloves on the G pre-on Grand Final day with the Cup on a silver platter. Best.


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Plot twist: The winner keeps the Platter, not the Cup. The Cup is not awarded. Chocolate gold coins for the winner.
 
Not sure if they "hate" us in the overall scheme, but they are definitely punishing us for perceived incendiary comments / behaviour from our club, from CEO down

It is remarkably petty - because in the process they have punished Collingwood (sunday twilight) & Geelong (sunday 1pm?! Grand Final rematch?!)
Aints had 19 players on the field for over 30 seconds and the AFL steward didn’t think it warranted a frre kick to us or an intervention, no the rules are the same for every club
 
Only option is to reverse the result imho

It amazing that the AFL steward felt it required no action, rules are only to apply to certain clubs
 

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The interchange steward noticed it but didn’t notify the umps? How amateurish can the AFL and the umpiring department be!
Directive from Steve Hocking, this fell under his control
 
Imagine if it was the other way around...

"RICHMOND CHEATING TACTIC DISCOVERED! PREMIERSHIP LEGITIMACY IN DOUBT!"

We'd probably be fined $500k and lose all our points this season.
Exactly. If this was reverse your see oppo crying, instead they are laughing and saying the umps are our players anyways. Ffs they'd didn't even tell the umps on field about this. They should.be sacked for it. Seriously how many games have we had effected by shit umpiring. For all the ppl that said umps are a factor this year for us , look at this. Blatant cheating. **** this corrupt comp, ****ing bullshit. Eagles , port and now this game at least should of been games in our favour if it weren't for umps. We should be 10-7 at the very least by now and easily in finals. So ****ing done.
 
If anyone had any doubts that the AFL is the worst run major sporting organisation in the world, this takes the ****ing chocolates.

Let's see what this joke of a league boss does about this.
 
If anyone had any doubts that the AFL is the worst run major sporting organisation in the world, this takes the ******* chocolates.

Let's see what this joke of a league boss does about this.
Nothing will done about it

Amateurs running the competition
 
If anyone had any doubts that the AFL is the worst run major sporting organisation in the world, this takes the ******* chocolates.

Let's see what this joke of a league boss does about this.

What a tin pot competition.

Hocking too busy worrying about STAND rather than minor things like uneven players on the field.
 
St Kilda played with 19 men against Richmond and the AFL did nothing

The AFL has been accused of inaction after an interchange blunder in St Kilda’s round 15 demolition of Richmond.

It was late in the first quarter of the Saints' 9.8 (62) to 2.10 (22) thrashing of the defending premiers that the incident happened with the umpire failing to notice the 19th man on the field.

Three players had come to the bench with four replacing them as Jimmy Webster, Seb Ross, Mason Wood and Rowan Marshall all came onto the field.

Marshall is believed to have been the 19th man as he quickly ran off the field when the Saints bench realised an extra player was on the field.

Marshall was on the field for nearly 30 seconds before he was called off the field.

Foxfooty.com.au reported that the AFL interchange steward had noticed the extra player running onto the field but didn’t advise the umpires because they believed the player didn’t impact the contest.

This is despite the ruckman winning a hit out at a boundary throw-in after running on.

While the punishment at AFL level is a free kick and a 50m penalty, an extra man in local footy can see a team’s score for the quarter wiped.

Even if that had happened, it’s unlikely to have changed the result with Richmond going goalless in the first quarter as the Saints led 3.2 (20) to 0.5 (5) at the end of the first term.

Richmond’s 22 points for the game was its lowest score in 60 years.

The rule states: “In the event of more than 18 players on field, AFL Regulation 12.9.b (iii) shall apply:

“The AFL Interchange Official shall notify an Umpire who will then award a Free Kick and a 50-metre penalty when:

“The replacement Player enters the Playing Surface and who is deemed by the emergency Umpire to be involved in play prior to the Player to be replaced leaving the Playing Surface.”

It’s far from the only time a 19th man has been on the field with biggest storm coming in 2008 when the Sydney Swans had 19 men in the final minutes of a draw with North Melbourne, when Darren Jolly played 30 seconds and played a role in the match-tying point.

The AFL asked the Swans for a “please explain” at the time, but in the latest case the AFL only sent out a memo three days after St Kilda’s breach moving the interchange gate holding area a further metre from the boundary line from round 16.

Fox Footy reported that the AFL insisted the move wasn’t because of the Saints breach.

 
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