Mega Thread Port Forum General AFL Thread Part 25

[Grave Danger]

I've heard the Crows missing finals results in hundreds of thousands of dollars lost in revenue.

Does anyone have the source of this or the prize pool for the finals series?

I saw something about the AFLW having the same prize pool as the AFL for their next season and I think the amount was $1.1m, but to be split among their top 8, whereas the men's is split among the top 4 only - so the Camries would have to make a prelim to get any of that.

 

[simba_]

The Crows really remind me of Liverpool.

Man Utd reminds me of a miserable funeral service

 

[pstew2dstew]

This will be the end result (if other resutls fall such that the Crows would have made finals(. The AFL will give them the $$ they would have gotten if they got bundled out week 1 of finals.

The shadenfreude if WCE beat the Crows this weekend though

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While there are many interesting games to happen this weekend which will shape the finals,

The biggest is WCE v Crom to answer the what if?

 

[Alberton Proud]

 

[Janey]

The umpire is a Crows fan; that should be the first issue. How the feck can the AFL justify putting fans of a team in that situation as an umpire.

Let's not even start with Eleni.

This is going back a few years so my memory may not be quite right, but I recall that in one of our games against Carlton where we got shafted (may have been the Hamish Hartlett incident game) the umpire in that had previously played for Carlton.

 

[Poo Eckert]

This is going back a few years so my memory may not be quite right, but I recall that in one of our games against Carlton where we got shafted (may have been the Hamish Hartlett incident game) the umpire in that had previously played for Carlton.

Yes Fisher

 

[tribey]

Yes Fisher

Leigh Fisher: St Kilda
Jordan Bannister: Essendon/Carlton

 

[tribey]

The umpire is a Crows fan; that should be the first issue. How the feck can the AFL justify putting fans of a team in that situation as an umpire.

Let's not even start with Eleni.

It’s one of those unavoidable realities.

The AFL goal umpire community are usually sourced from the state they live in, unsurprisingly, this results in a high percentage of Crows and Port fans (either former or present) umpiring Crows and Port games.

That’s not to say they let whatever bias they have interfere with their decision-making processes either, as the weekend’s calamity shows.

 

[chiwigi]

It’s one of those unavoidable realities.

The AFL goal umpire community are usually sourced from the state they live in, unsurprisingly, this results in a high percentage of Crows and Port fans (either former or present) umpiring Crows and Port games.

That’s not to say they let whatever bias they have interfere with their decision-making processes either, as the weekend’s calamity shows.

It’s far from unavoidable, it’s amateur nonsense.

 

[StrappingTape]

All this uproar when it clearly hit the post. The umpire was right there, just sore losers.

 

[tribey]

It’s far from unavoidable, it’s amateur nonsense.

What do you do, fly them to neutral contests? Force them to relocate to different states?

How do you rule out secondary accusations of a Port fan making a marginal soft-call between Brisbane-Collingwood that may cause a result that favours Port?

They’re lifelong football people, not blank slates created in a lab.

 

[Wargreymon90]

All this uproar when it clearly hit the post. The umpire was right there, just sore losers.

Yeah nah. They were robbed. Plain and simple. Even swans fans know it was a goal. Still hilarious though

 

[pstew2dstew]

Here's the thing I don't get,

They say every goal is automatically reviewed so this cannot be the goal umpires fault.

 

[Alberton Proud]

 

[tribey]

Here's the thing I don't get,

They say every goal is automatically reviewed so this cannot be the goal umpires fault.

This was a behind, which the Swans immediately played on from. Had it been called a goal, they review it in the gap between the decision and the subsequent centre bounce.

 

[pstew2dstew]

This was a behind, which the Swans immediately played on from. Had it been called a goal, they review it in the gap between the decision and the subsequent centre bounce.

Interesting, I thought it's held up if there is doubt though?

 

[backtozero]

So he says. His angle is basically, “I’m just trying to evade the tackler”.

So close to being honest.

 

[simba_]

crows fans are lucky, if they get sick of their team they can just go back to the SANFL club they abandoned, not many clubs supporters can do the same

 

[PowerBaz]

They do seem to cop the last round WA trip a lot

Thought i'd look it up, since 2015 to 2021 there is only 1 time in the last round they have played West.

They have played West Coast more than once though, but at AO too so maybe that confuses people.

 

[tribey]

Interesting, I thought it's held up if there is doubt though?

That was where the onus was on the goalie to call for a review if he wasn’t sure, but he was confident/adamant.

Has definitely exposed a flaw in the overall idea of the system.

 

[Alberton Proud]

 

[manureid]

That was where the onus was on the goalie to call for a review if he wasn’t sure, but he was confident/adamant.

Has definitely exposed a flaw in the overall idea of the system.

Well done to that guy for bringing to light a flaw in the system. What a hero.

 

[chiwigi]

What do you do, fly them to neutral contests? Force them to relocate to different states?

How do you rule out secondary accusations of a Port fan making a marginal soft-call between Brisbane-Collingwood that may cause a result that favours Port?

They’re lifelong football people, not blank slates created in a lab.

Yes, once a week the AFL can bring neutral umpires.

It’s not hard. They are 50 people from each team already flying.

Each Umpire nominates a conflict of interest team, and you ensure they don’t umpire their games.

In a multi billion dollar industry to do otherwise is ****ing absurd.

 

[pstew2dstew]

That was where the onus was on the goalie to call for a review if he wasn’t sure, but he was confident/adamant.

Has definitely exposed a flaw in the overall idea of the system.

I see, thanks for the clarification

 

[OneGreatClub]

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Gotta say, screaming he was going to lynch someone at the AFL was going a tad far