Mega Thread Port Forum 'General AFL Talk' Thread Part 18

[gbear]

Looking forward to seeing how Coleman Medal favourite Tex Walker goes at the SCG today......

Buddy will triple his output

 

[Brian McGee]

The Rohan Neale incident is an interesting one. But Scott in his presser stated that he had a good look at it and is comfortable with it. Tom Browne didn’t even press him on what he meant by that. How in this day and age can a coach say that he is comfortable with one of his players swinging a full round arm punch at another players chest, neck, shoulder, head region, 100m off the ball? The afl should come down hard on that surely. If that is in your comfort zone as a coach you should be doing something different as a job.

 

[OneGreatClub]

The Rohan Neale incident is an interesting one. But Scott in his presser stated that he had a good look at it and is comfortable with it. Tom Browne didn’t even press him on what he meant by that. How in this day and age can a coach say that he is comfortable with one of his players swinging a full round arm punch at another players chest, neck, shoulder, head region, 100m off the ball? The afl should come down hard on that surely. If that is in your comfort zone as a coach you should be doing something different as a job.

Yep, funny how Scott’s vision was clear in that incident but he had selective blindness in any umpiring decisions that unfairly favoured the Cats.

 

[OneGreatClub]

Looking forward to seeing how Coleman Medal favourite Tex Walker goes at the SCG today......

Or Star of the AFL, Butts, who has singlehandedly destroyed any oppo forward he has been put on.

 

[snozulu]

There should be fines in place for coaches who get caught up in players of the opposition during the game.

 

[Duck Farmer]

It’s never just one moment down there either.

Whether it’s the crowd, or the conditions, or the home team’s reputation, when they get the rub they really get the rub.

If the AFL invents technology that allows games to be played simultaneously at two home grounds, I'd cancel my wedding to watch Geelong versus West Coast in the opening round.

 

[1954]

The level of home town decisions favouring geebung, particularly in tight games against non Victorian clubs has to be approaching epidemic proportions.
It has happened too often at that venue to be a coincidence, and it's obvious the scumps are intimidated by the home crowd, but nothing will change until commentators are allowed to call what they see instead of pussy footing around blatant errors.
I doubt there is any other major sport in any other country where officials are as protected from criticism as in the AFL.

 

[PA88]

That non-decision about incorrect disposal (holding the ball) with Blicavs in the dying seconds of the Cats-Lions game has been typical throughout 2020. I'm convinced that the afl panicked about the low scoring matches we saw happen in the first three rounds of the 2020 season and influenced the umpires association to alter the interpretation of the incorrect disposal to encourage keeping the game flowing and resulting in more scoring shots yet this time it back-fired and stopped a Lion's shot on goal. Watching the aflw games where most times such incorrect disposals are ignored solidifies my belief that the afl has created yet another stuff-up.

Anyway, I'd rather the Lions lose games as we seem to struggle against them.

 

[PAFC04]

I said to my son at the time where Brisbane where 3 points up with 4 mins left to play with possession of the ball, if Brisbane are any good, they would start chipping the ball around for 4 mins. Instead, they kick it long to the forward 50 and hope, perhaps in this situation maybe the safest play for the footy to be, BUT, you give up the possession ball offering Geelong an opportunity to win it back. Which they gave to them.

Its not the free they didn't give that lost them the game. They know that, and Geelong know they got lucky.

By now we should know better than to call them cheats, how the UMPS make a decisions and how each ump interpretation the contest does leave me baffled, but it didn't surprise me to start calling ump cheats....

 

[Marmozet]

I learnt two things last night:

1) It’s a long way back to Top 2 etc. for Brisbane from here
2) Geelong are going to struggle big time this year

 

[Schulzenfest]

fu**heads on Fox said if it happened in the first five minutes no one would be talking about it.

Okay. But it didn't. What's their point?

 

[Stewart2Austin Reborn]

Remember when the umpires openly admitted to not paying legitimate frees to Gray because of apparent staging?

 

[finbarr]

Yep, funny how Scott’s vision was clear in that incident but he had selective blindness in any umpiring decisions that unfairly favoured the Cats.



View attachment 1086960

I really hate Chris Scott. The man is a blight on the game.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Buddy will triple his output

So he'll kick 0.3?

 

[240volt]

Watching the game both teams look like making up the numbers sides at the best.
You want to see some real home town umpires just wait till we play West Coast in Perth over Easter.

 

[NoddyHolder]

I think the expectations for a bloke who hasn't taken the field for about 3 years to dominate are a bit unrealistic, no matter how good he once was.
I expect Buddy to struggle to get a kick

 

[Duck Farmer]

You want to see some real home town umpires just wait till we play West Coast in Perth over Easter.

TBH I'm more worried about the anti "noise of affirmation" reaming we'll cop tonight.

 

[TeeKray]

I wish the media would stop making it about umpiring errors, rules and interpretations, etc. Just call it for what it is. The umpire knew it was a free kick and didn't want to pay it because it would've cost Geelong the game against Brisbane at Kardinia Park and that is not what we want to happen. Reverse the situation with Brisbane up by 2 points and Rohan tackling Andrews in the same manner in the Geelong goal square, it gets paid 100 times out of 100 - and everyone knows it.

 

[edgie]

Yep exactly this.

And it's a lottery where late in the final quarter your odds drop dramatically.

Unless hawthorn

Sent from my Nokia 7.2 using Tapatalk

 

[Powertron]

The no crowds season in the NBA has given an insight into how much influence the home crowds have not on the actual performance of players but on the refereeing performance. It’s the single largest variable change.

From what we’ve seen here in AFL I expect that this is consistent across codes/cultures, hence last nights debacle...

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Unless hawthorn

Sent from my Nokia 7.2 using Tapatalk

Or wet toast when playing port in an elimination final i guess.

 

[edgie]

Danniher had the ball 55m out, and instead of having either a shot or putting it to the top of the goal square, he done some awkward kick to a none existent lead to the pocket.

Unpires sucked but you also need better from a star recruit.

Sent from my Nokia 7.2 using Tapatalk

 

[AdamMarrett]

Danniher had the ball 55m out, and instead of having either a shot or putting it to the top of the goal square, he done some awkward kick to a none existent lead to the pocket.

Unpires sucked but you also need better from a star recruit.

Sent from my Nokia 7.2 using Tapatalk

Plus the misses from relatively simple shots from him and Hipwood through out the game. They kick them they win, it's that simple.

I'm not sold on Brisbane contending cause of the lack of reliability from Daniher & Hipwood in front of goal. They're to hit and miss, potentially both very good players but that's always going to be a factor with those two.

 

[drcollossimo]

That wasn’t even the worst non decision. 3rd quarter the Geelong player did a complete 360 while tackled and then palmed the ball to his team mate who kicked the goal. Absolutely robbed.

That was Guthrie disgusting as bad as you will see and literally you could tell they allowed it because it was Duckwood the filthy cheat that kicked the goal

 

[Macca19]

I actually thought Brisbane got the better ride from the umps until the last non decision