Review Round 17, 2024 - Brisbane Lions vs. Adelaide

[beardancer]

Terrible comparison. The situations are not even remotely similar.

if you run about the football field and you're unaware who's around you you'll get body checked. Rankines body check was a charge and a head high one at that. he should get weeks for that. that's good. in comparison did we ever see Simon Black unaware of his surroundings.......Josh Drummond etc.
Starce has been bumped like this plenty of times before. It's tells me he's a ball watcher.....not a great attribute for a defender.

 

[beardancer]

I walk around cupping my genitals all day in the off chance someone kicks me in the groin unexpectedly

Actually men are very protective of their genitals if there's even a slight threat of a hit or whatever. Kick a soccer ball at someone and see how their hips turn to protect their groin.

 

[Dalions]

if you run about the football field and you're unaware who's around you you'll get body checked. Rankines body check was a charge and a head high one at that. he should get weeks for that. that's good. in comparison did we ever see Simon Black unaware of his surroundings.......Josh Drummond etc.
Starce has been bumped like this plenty of times before. It's tells me he's a ball watcher.....not a great attribute for a defender.

I feel that every player in the game has been caught out ball watching before.
Just because most don’t cop a high bump as a result of the ball watching doesn’t mean it is their fault or that they are accountable if they do.

 

[Dalions]

Actually men are very protective of their genitals if there's even a slight threat of a hit or whatever. Kick a soccer ball at someone and see how their hips turn to protect their groin.

Not if you don’t see it coming.

 

[Nunez]

if you run about the football field and you're unaware who's around you you'll get body checked. Rankines body check was a charge and a head high one at that. he should get weeks for that. that's good. in comparison did we ever see Simon Black unaware of his surroundings.......Josh Drummond etc.
Starce has been bumped like this plenty of times before. It's tells me he's a ball watcher.....not a great attribute for a defender.

 

[martinson]

Silly arguments aside what's been missed imo over all this is that Starcevich had been shadowing Rankine hard up to that point and Rankine expected him to turn and run towards him like defenders often do. Rankine made a split second decision to get a bit pro active , Starcevich kept looking at the ball and down he went.

Bad miscalculation by Rankine seeing Starcevich got concussed and subbed.

 

[Dalions]

Silly arguments aside what's been missed imo over all this is that Starcevich had been shadowing Rankine hard up to that point and Rankine expected him to turn and run towards him like defenders often do. Rankine made a split second decision to get a bit pro active , Starcevich kept looking at the ball and down he went.

Bad miscalculation by Rankine seeing Starcevich got concussed and subbed.

Assumption is the Mother of all ****ups!

 

[beardancer]

Silly arguments aside what's been missed imo over all this is that Starcevich had been shadowing Rankine hard up to that point and Rankine expected him to turn and run towards him like defenders often do. Rankine made a split second decision to get a bit pro active , Starcevich kept looking at the ball and down he went.

Bad miscalculation by Rankine seeing Starcevich got concussed and subbed.

rankines charge was a charge not a sold block. good tough footballers like mitch robbo or linc would have blocked solidly, holding their ground, sitting their opponent on his arse.....perfectly legal and good, hard, fair footy. rankines effort was vicious and reckless. in my experience, acts like rankines are usually based in fear and a fearful mentality.

 

[beardancer]

Just on starce, remember how many times he gets caught out by a forward who slips out the back leaving starce sprinting back to the goal square to spoil a mark. It happens regularly. He keeps getting caught ball watching and not being aware that his opponent has slipped out the back door. It's a problem in his game.

 

[martinson]

rankines charge was a charge not a sold block. good tough footballers like mitch robbo or linc would have blocked solidly, holding their ground, sitting their opponent on his arse.....perfectly legal and good, hard, fair footy. rankines effort was vicious and reckless. in my experience, acts like rankines are usually based in fear and a fearful mentality.

Rankine's fearful ?

OK. Not his usual form.

 

[buttermuffs]

Terrible comparison. The situations are not even remotely similar.

Starcevich is actually required to spin 360 degrees at constant speed always to ensure all his angles for being hit are covered.

 

[Elixuh]

Just on starce, remember how many times he gets caught out by a forward who slips out the back leaving starce sprinting back to the goal square to spoil a mark. It happens regularly. He keeps getting caught ball watching and not being aware that his opponent has slipped out the back door. It's a problem in his game.

Or alternatively he is holding our defensive structure.

Our forwards did this in the Melbourne game for instance. Sat off their press so that if we won the ball they’d be out for the over the top.

 

[beardancer]

Rankine's fearful ?

OK. Not his usual form.

yes, fear aggression.