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Don't talk sense about Freo to a Saints fan, they have this giant complex about their controversial losses to them, it blinds all forms of logic and turns them in posters on a level with Pussies_07_Flag or whatever that dunces name is.
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Don't talk sense about Freo to a Saints fan, they have this giant complex about their controversial losses to them, it blinds all forms of logic and turns them in posters on a level with Pussies_07_Flag or whatever that dunces name is.
Don't take the loud ramblings of so few drown out the fact that most Geelong supporters are still struggling to come to grips with being the best team in football.
Most are humble and have sat through at least 3 more GF losses than wins not to mention
- 1987 (knocked out of the finals on another round 22 result),
- 1992, 94, 95 (especially '92; you take a four goal lead in a GF you must finish it off),
- 1993 (if we'd snuck in the finals we would have done serious damage as we were playing the best football in the league over the final 6 weeks and it was the peak season of one of the greatest players ever)
- 1997 (finished second, played a quality North side in their favourite conditions - under lights at the 'G followed by a heartbreaking semi-final loss played away to the sixth placed Crows)
- 2004 (almost took revenge for 1997, by having the Lions unfairly sent to Melbourne for the Prelim, Aka held for 90% of the game, got away twice from David Johnson, both times in the 4th for goals in a 10 point win)
- 2005 (Nick Davis - the ultimate stomach punch, made worse by the fact I was at the game and called it at 3 quarter time)
Brown Bottle
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You're deluded if you think the umpies kept Freo in the game champ! Freo had the Cats on toast, and if anyone had a good run from the whistleblowers it was the Cats.I am deluded that Freo got 5 goals from free kicks???
Yup.....OK.....whatever you think.
Brown Bottle
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Amen. I don't begrudge the club any of its recent success.
You do have some real idiots on here who don't make it easy though, unfortunately.
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And the amount of decisions inside either 50 that went in favour of the Cats evened that up quick smart.
Neither team was benefited.
KingCJ
Team Captain
Could someone tell me what actually happened? How bad was this miss I've heard of?
Brown Bottle
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Are you?
I'm responding to Joffa's statement that the umpires kept Freo in the game.
Geelong - 25 Frees, Freo - 18 Frees.
I'm impartial to the result and IMO the Cats had a pretty good run of the whistle. I don't know how many goals Freo kicked from Frees so I'm not going to dispute it if you say it's 5. More to the point I don't actually care.
Pav's miss?
40 sec to go, kicked from a shade inside 50 on 45deg angle.
Hit the post
Brown Bottle
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Pav had a set shot from 45-ish about 10m in from the boundary with about 2min to play. Gettable, but not easy. Clipped the inside of the post.
Was it 40sec? Oops.
That were ALL legitimate free kicks.
Unlike a couple of free kicks geelogn were getting. I think Cats missed a goal when Mcpharlin was pinged for hands in the back when he never even touched the guy in the back (in the first term).
I didn't see anything wrong with the free kicks Fremantle got (that led to goals). Perhaps if Milburn didn't go over the shoulder and bartel didn't go high either, you may not be complaining so much. But I forget Geelong is perfect, they never give away free kicks (although apparently they can throw the ball as often as they like).
Stop whinging.
So?? Is there some new thing out now that if a free kick results in a goal, it was automatically an incorrect decision?
Not an easy shot at all. It was actually quite a good kick, just didn't come back as much as Pavlich was praying it would.
If you had a good look at the vision you'd see Farmer trying to pull up on the way down on Selwood. Open your eyes a little wider.
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As for Freo getting 5 goals from free kicks... I'd dare venture that they were all warranted free kicks.
Not wanting to burst the only bubble that some Cats fans are bringing to the argument, but the ones they got inside 50 were there, and if similar incidents happened in your forward 50, you'd have been whinging all week about not getting them.
EDIT: It seems a few knowledgeable posters twigged to this simultaneously.
Not wanting to burst the only bubble that some Cats fans are bringing to the argument, but the ones they got inside 50 were there, and if similar incidents happened in your forward 50, you'd have been whinging all week about not getting them.
EDIT: It seems a few knowledgeable posters twigged to this simultaneously.
KingCJ
Team Captain
Okay. The way I've been hearing it is that he had an easy shot, but fluffed it.
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Nope, anything but. It just shaved the post as well.
Brown Bottle
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Absolutely not.
W.Bulldogs_Aus_WC06
All Australian
so which of those free kicks did you feel were poor decisions? That stat means nothing unless they were poor decisions. Maybe the Cats' defence was just undisciplined when under pressure.
I'll point to a free kick that was a poor decision. Ablett's staging in the centre square, which for mine was far worse than Pratt's staging against Lewis a few weeks back. That terrible free kick directly resulted in a quick break and goal.
I must say i never thought of Ablett as a stager before. Very disappointing.
I know i'm a broken record about it, but the sooner all this staging is addressed the better.
EDIT: Sorry, other people got there before me about the frees.
Let's get Crowley to elbow you in the guts. See if you don't flutter an eye-lid.
They pushed the boundaries tonight on scragging and dirty tagging. Tim Watson mentioned it also.
The angle the cameras showed weren't very informative, Carr got reported for it from an ump who was standing on the other side with a better view, seems like it was not as innocent as you made out.
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What is your problem with fremantle?
Honestly, it's not like the club has a history of beating your side.
Cat's supporters for years have been some of the best on this site, your giving your fellow supporters and posters a bad name.
I'm as rare as anyone (I hope) in bagging umpires. Like all games, you concentrate on what you could have done differently not what you can't control.
That's said, the free in the 3rd (?) quarter where the Freo guy slipped and Josh Hunt, who would have tackled him around the pecs, tackled his head was hard to wear.
The other where Milburn's eyes never deviated from the football when he ran with the flight of the ball and spoiled was tough too, admittedly alot more 50/50 than the Josh Hunt tackle.
