Review Slow starting Cats come storming home to defeat Tigers by 30 points

[calder_daddy]

I thought they were fixing this issue with temporary towers?

Those temporary towers are another T

Terrible

 

[calder_daddy]

We need to stop playing blicavs in the midfield. Second ruck yes but he has added nothing in the midfield this year. Looked much better with more ball winners in there like bowes and holmes spending more minutes. Perhaps he should spend more time in defence when not rucking and jack henry can spend more time foward to give us an actual marking option down there (neale back to seconds).

I was agreeing with you until you had Henry going to play forward in replacement of Neale
If you haven’t said let’s move Henry out of the Backline due to the amount of goals he has conceded in the past 8 weeks I would’ve agreed.

 

[cats_09]

I know these are Bowes highlights, but how smooth is the Guthrie kicking action when he slots the goal

 

[kickazz]

I don't think those are the official ump appointments... just a nightmarish worst-case scenario.

Yeah probably.

Razor Ray: good umpire, but you want him in away games, loves making a point of not being swayed by hime crowd

 

[Pure_Ownage]

Duncan will be shy of 300 games at the end of this year. I think he's done, but I reckon he'll be given the chance to get to the milestone if he wants to.

Personally i think he should retire and go out before a decline.
That said i agree with you as we will have 4 or 5 other retirements i think the club will let him go on.

 

[Zouz Kitty]

Good.
I would too.
The umpiring is embarrassing this year.

Good, it was an absolute joke in the first half again

No free kicks next week then ..

F*** SAKE CHRIS STICK A CORK IN IT!

Plenty ….for the opposition

Seems to go that way .

The level of ump has been this year .

This McBurney won't help he was a garbage ump..

Agree with all of these comments.

Still, AFL, especially their umpiring department, believe they’re infallible like the Pope + are beyond reproach. They’re irascible.

As a result of Scott’s criticism, do umpires take their revenge on the players? You be the judge.

Rd1 St Kilda - Home (H)
G14 - 18 Home (H)

Rd 2 Adelaide - Away (A)
18 - 9G

Rd 3 Hawthorn A
21 - 20G

Rd 4 Bulldogs A
16 - 14G

Rd 5 North H
14G - 17

Rd 6 Brisbane A
19 - 15G

Rd 7 Carlton H
10G - 14

Rd 8 Melbourne A
17 - 14G

Rd 9 Port Adelaide H
17G - 19

Rd 10 Suns A (I think this is when Scott first criticised umpires, happy to be corrected)
14 - 29G

Rd 11 GWS H
19G - 14

Rd 12 Richmond
19G - 20
Last night in Q1 free kicks were 0 - 9. At the end of the game they were 20 - 19

 

[cats_09]

 

[cats_09]

Up to third

 

[Commando]

Not really much between 2-12 half way through
Swans the standout then it's pretty even

 

[foxdog50]

The only thing worse than tonight’s game is the bloody phone reception at the ground.
Impossible to meet up with anyone and god forbid if you like to look at stats during or even listen to it.
I know the Comms games being canceled has a lot to do with it but a $80 booster from JB HIFI does a better job than that Telstra tower they’ve put in

It was amazing that... it was , when leaving the ground, out the main entrance . There was a portable Telstra Portable Phone reception on trailer.. Even with that there it still did bloody nothing...

 

[Generalissimo]

LOL, "stirking"

 

[And_ROOS]

Scott talked shit about the umpires again in the press conference

Have you seen their calls the last month? It can't honestly get worse, hopefully it puts the spotlight on the umpires and their absolute hot garbage performances the last 5 weeks in Geelong matches.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Rd1 St Kilda - Home (H)
G14 - 18 Home (H)

Rd 2 Adelaide - Away (A)
18 - 9G

Rd 3 Hawthorn A
21 - 20G

Rd 4 Bulldogs A
16 - 14G

Rd 5 North H
14G - 17

Rd 6 Brisbane A
19 - 15G

Rd 7 Carlton H
10G - 14

Rd 8 Melbourne A
17 - 14G

Rd 9 Port Adelaide H
17G - 19

Rd 10 Suns A (I think this is when Scott first criticised umpires, happy to be corrected)
14 - 29G

Rd 11 GWS H
19G - 14

Rd 12 Richmond
19G - 20
Last night in Q1 free kicks were 0 - 9. At the end of the game they were 20 - 19

So we're 1-11 in free kick counts.
Maybe two things are correct at the same time.

Umpiring in the AFL is rubbish, and we're ill disciplined comparative to the rest of the competition.

 

[catempire]

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Where’s Pickett for giving the crowd the finger?

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Have you seen their calls the last month? It can't honestly get worse, hopefully it puts the spotlight on the umpires and their absolute hot garbage performances the last 5 weeks in Geelong matches.

Hate to break it to you but it could definitely get worse

 

[foxdog50]

Hardie would have been handy out there in the first half

I was talking to a very well known ex Geelong Player. He played 200 plus Games for Geelong..
A few things he said..

We Have 1 of the weakest midfield group currently in the AFL.

1 thing he couldn't understand is.. Why Hardie and Mannagh aren't getting a game.
He said Mannagh shouldn't of even got dropped to start with.

And he said with Match selections, Chris Scott has his favourites and doesn't pick players that who deserve there chances

 

[Art Vandelay_]

I was talking to a very well known ex Geelong Player. He played 200 plus Games for Geelong..
A few things he said..

We Have 1 of the weakest midfield group currently in the AFL.

1 thing he couldn't understand is.. Why Hardie and Mannagh aren't getting a game.
He said Mannagh shouldn't of even got dropped to start with.

And he said with Match selections, Chris Scott has his favourites and doesn't pick players that who deserve there chances

We could all play 20 questions to figure out who it is but there's 42 with 200+ so may still not pick the right name!

 

[Lana]

our

Lawson

Good.
I would too.
The umpiring is embarrassing this year.

Good, it was an absolute joke in the first half again

No free kicks next week then ..

F*** SAKE CHRIS STICK A CORK IN IT!

I don't know how you could interpret his comments as "talking shit", if anything he was defending the umpires.

Particularly liked the call when the Tigers player dived on the ball 5m out from our goal and got tackled by another Tigers player and they were too gutless to call the most obvious HTB ever under any interpretation of the HTB rule.

Oh great!
There goes our ‘minusculerestest’,
slimmest chance of beating Sydney.

Umpires next week:

15. Matthew Nicholls
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22. Nathan Williamson
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32. Jacob Mollison
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37. Martin Rodger
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Reserve:
18. Ray ‘Razor’ Chamberlain
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<KILL ME NOW>


Edit: Generalissimo is correct, not official umpires, my opinion about umpires who dislike Geelong the most.

Have you seen their calls the last month? It can't honestly get worse, hopefully it puts the spotlight on the umpires and their absolute hot garbage performances the last 5 weeks in Geelong matches.

Whether they've been shit or not is irrelevant. They consider themselves a secret society who are the true powerbrokers and the most important part of the AFL match, without whom the game just can't go on. They are accountable only to themselves. First Scott call them out, then he called out their boss. They don't appreciate have the attention being brough their way. It is akin the just yelling calm down to someone who is fuming. They'll be out for blood.

 

[catempire]

I was talking to a very well known ex Geelong Player. He played 200 plus Games for Geelong..
A few things he said..

We Have 1 of the weakest midfield group currently in the AFL.

1 thing he couldn't understand is.. Why Hardie and Mannagh aren't getting a game.
He said Mannagh shouldn't of even got dropped to start with.

And he said with Match selections, Chris Scott has his favourites and doesn't pick players that who deserve there chances

Guarantee he would have been a “sack Scott” guy all through 2012-2021.

 

[foxdog50]

We could all play 20 questions to figure out who it is but there's 42 with 200+ so may still not pick the right name!

My main point I was trying to say, it's not like a ex player like Wylie Buzza who played 5 or so games. This ex player had many years down Geelong and is still involved with the Club was saying this.
( Which I totally agree with him )

 

[foxdog50]

Guarantee he would have been a “sack Scott” guy all through 2012-2021.

I didn't ask him that question. So yeah ...... ok..

 

[cats_09]

Where’s Pickett for giving the crowd the finger?

I think that's an AFL investigation thingy rather than an MRO decision

The news tonight said it would be looked at

 

[Art Vandelay_]

My main point I was trying to say, it's not like a ex player like Wylie Buzza who played 5 or so games. This ex player had many years down Geelong and is still involved with the Club was saying this.
( Which I totally agree with him )

As do I.

Read far too many disparaging opinions on him from BF couch potatoes.
Not fussed what the philistine fanbase thinks of him, we still should be giving him a shot.

As for favourites, Scott absolutely does have his favourites. Some pay off like Blicavs. Others like Murdoch... Not so much.

 

[iameviljez]

Stanley is cooked though wouldnt play him.

I suspect he's only now going to come in when Conway needs a break. They've shown faith in Conway now despite a couple of games where he's been beaten but not humiliated. it's the right move IMO

 

[iameviljez]

Whether they've been shit or not is irrelevant. They consider themselves a secret society who are the true powerbrokers and the most important part of the AFL match, without whom the game just can't go on. They are accountable only to themselves. First Scott call them out, then he called out their boss. They don't appreciate have the attention being brough their way. It is akin the just yelling calm down to someone who is fuming. They'll be out for blood.

How is the quote feature going there?