I agree about Lynch and SOS re footy smarts and that is a skill. The issue is the lack of footy smarts of the umpire in being sucked in all the time. More so Lynch than SOS re getting frees but with both re not giving them away. Unfortunately the umpires are just plain idiots too often. Good luck to players who can play them for the fools the so often are but how you can realistically pay a bloke so many frees when he is behind all the time has me dumbfounded time and again. I always thought SOS was clever enough to fool the umpires and he got away with just short of manslaghter for his whole career. Ditto Lynch but in addition Lynch actually gets frees whenever a hand is in his vicinity - even his hand.Originally posted by noddy
Players such as Lynch & Silvagni have the footy smarts & know/knew when to give a slight push without being caught out as what happened to Bassett on sat night, anyway i don't begrudge a full-forward like Lynch who who knows how to use his body against an opponent & comes up with 7 goals from 8 kicks. ( i should add "as long as it's against any other club but the Crows" )
As for the rest of the Lions Andre, I think they play hard and that is all ok with me.