Review PF = Sydney 95-94 Collingwood

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It's almost as if it's impossible for any consensus because our sport is riddled with stupid interpretation-based grey areas (almost the entire rulebook!) instead of cut-and-dry rules of the game. Bring back hands in the back!
So if Chamberlain watches it 15 times and then makes a call, how can he be confident that the umpire on the day got it right in an instant? It also shows why it might be better to take rear position so you can push your opponent. If you watch it carefully there are 2 pushes, and the second throws Moore completely off balance.
 
So if Chamberlain watches it 15 times and then makes a call, how can he be confident that the umpire on the day got it right in an instant? It also shows why it might be better to take rear position so you can push your opponent. If you watch it carefully there are 2 pushes, and the second throws Moore completely off balance.
Yep, it's the second action with arms fully extended that should have been the clincher. On balance Chamberlain's explanation of the rules is pretty good. On this occasion, he's tried too hard to justify a colleague's mistake.
 

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I've rewatched the whole game. We still lost. Moments...
Well done. What would hurt so much about watching this game again is how badly we played for the first 3 qtrs, how many mistakes we made and things that didn't go our way and yet we still only lost by a point. I think this loss will haunt me more than any other in my lifetime other than '18.
 
Well done. What would hurt so much about watching this game again is how badly we played for the first 3 qtrs, how many mistakes we made and things that didn't go our way and yet we still only lost by a point. I think this loss will haunt me more than any other in my lifetime other than '18.
in actual fact, we played poorly for about 10 minutes in the 1st and 5 minutes before halftime. That's where we lost it. Many sides would have caved 15 minutes into the 1st. We didn't. We kept counter-punching when all seemed lost.
 
Yep, it's the second action with arms fully extended that should have been the clincher. On balance Chamberlain's explanation of the rules is pretty good. On this occasion, he's tried too hard to justify a colleague's mistake.

beautifully said.... the first part made me want to give a free kick but I might have thought it was too soft.... the second push made me think there is no hands in the back rule...

if we want to keep free kicks to a minimum, why dont they stop giving free kicks for ruck infringements. I dont even bother trying to understand them these days... Another case are those reversal free kicks or when someone pushes someone in the chest ...

if you want to limit the number of free kicks then limit the ones where players are face to face competing on equal terms.
 
Has anyone watched the replay? Will you ever?

Part of me wants to watch the last quarter again but it's still too raw. Maybe I never will.
It hurts, but I feel so proud of the boys too. Knowing Darcy was alone in the square when Mihocek contested that mark after the scrambled kick by Crisp is painful. If he'd been aware and had been able to punch it on it could have been one of the sweetest moments in our history. To be fair, Mills made a great spoil.
 
Watched the reply when the wound was still raw on Monday morning... It hurt but I had to do it to get some closure on the season. If just one of the small moments in the last quarter go our way instead of the Swans, we win that game. Still proud of the club and the players on where they got to this season, ask me same time last year where we'd finish in 2022 and my answer definitely wouldn't have been 'one play away from making a Grand Final'
 
in actual fact, we played poorly for about 10 minutes in the 1st and 5 minutes before halftime. That's where we lost it. Many sides would have caved 15 minutes into the 1st. We didn't. We kept counter-punching when all seemed lost.
I agree with this.We were by far the better side in the third and fourth quarters.In the third quarter we missed several easy chances that should have put us much closer,Easy set shot misses to Elliott and Cameron right in front of goal,Johnson dropping an easy mark on the forward line when he had Elliott on his own in the forward pocket.

The Swans only kicked two goals in the last 45 minutes of the game,one due to a bad kick by Moore that hung in the air too long,and one due to a terrible umpiring mistake that gifted Papley a goal in the last.It’s a bit of a myth to suggest that we only had one good quarter,In reality the Swans dominated the first half and we dominated the second half.
 

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Logan McDonald dropped. I rate Maclean as a player as well.

GW get on the phone as we speak.

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We were poor at the start, but some really frustrating calls made us look worse. Even the first goal was only because everyone stopped for the whistle and they called play on too late. Then 50m penalties that allow them to attack without our defence set up. We really would have been a lot more settled and not looked so bad with just a calmer less interventionist moderator of the match
 

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