Oppo Camp The Non-North Footy Discussion & Matchday Chat Thread (NNFD&MCT) VII

[Liam Boy]

How is SA football heartland?

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

If that's the case, you can pretty much lock in North v Freo at Snowtown Oval on Sunday at 4.40.

And it will be one of our ‘home’ games.

 

[Heaps of fun]

yep, you can bank on it.

Invite the neighbours.

 

[Marstermind]

If that's the case, you can pretty much lock in North v Freo at Snowtown Oval on Sunday at 4.40.

I don't get the allure of "Magic Round".

How is playing a game between two neutrals "magic"? What if it was in Victoria? Who would rub their legs together in excitement at the GWS v Port blockbuster in Ballarat? Is it just for TV? If so, who cares? The games could be played anywhere in front of no one - lockdowns proved that.

Here's a novel idea - play each game at a venue that allows as many of the fans of either side to attend.

Unless I'm missing something, "Magic Round" = Wank.

 

[Marstermind]

Invite the neighbours.

It could be a "Family" event. Play a games at Adelaide Oval, have a walk from Glenelg Beach, plenty of bunting to decorate the ground, get Simon Beaumont to present a medal to the BOG.

 

[big_e]

I don't get the allure of "Magic Round".

How is playing a game between two neutrals "magic"? What if it was in Victoria? Who would rub their legs together in excitement at the GWS v Port blockbuster in Ballarat? Is it just for TV? If so, who cares? The games could be played anywhere in front of no one - lockdowns proved that.

Here's a novel idea - play each game at a venue that allows as many of the fans of either side to attend.

Unless I'm missing something, "Magic Round" = Wank.

A state government gives the AFL a couple of million dollars to host it. That's the only allure I can think of.

 

[Only Forwards]

I don't get the allure of "Magic Round".

How is playing a game between two neutrals "magic"? What if it was in Victoria? Who would rub their legs together in excitement at the GWS v Port blockbuster in Ballarat? Is it just for TV? If so, who cares? The games could be played anywhere in front of no one - lockdowns proved that.

Here's a novel idea - play each game at a venue that allows as many of the fans of either side to attend.

Unless I'm missing something, "Magic Round" = Wank.

Because the AFL is sports entertainment.

It is contrived nonsense.

If the AFL wanted to do something that made football feel more like traditional football there would be a round where every game was on at 2pm on a Saturday.

But that would never happen.

 

[Val Keating]

Wasn’t sure which thread to post this in, I’m sure GR posted it many hours ago, but seems someone’s in trouble

AFL umpire arrested over alleged suspicious betting on Brownlow Medal

www.9news.com.au

 

[tazaa]

Wasn’t sure which thread to post this in, I’m sure GR posted it many hours ago, but seems someone’s in trouble

AFL umpire arrested over alleged suspicious betting on Brownlow Medal

www.9news.com.au

I reckon I know who the ump is too lol

Round 1 Hawthorn game is the hint

 

[tazaa]

I reckon I know who the ump is too lol

Round 1 Hawthorn game is the hint

Lol just found out one of the umpires on the weekend officiated his first AFL game. Catch is I played junior footy with him and he’s a massive Hawks fan.

 

[blackshadow]

I don't get the allure of "Magic Round".

 

[Val Keating]

I reckon I know who the ump is too lol

Round 1 Hawthorn game is the hint

HUGE STORY

 

[Val Keating]

Be careful mate. This story could be massive.

 

[king rising]

How crook is that

 

[gokangas]

Interesting that 3AW news reader said that the umpire is alleged to have distributed the info to HER group of friends. Only one HER I know who umpires unless it was a slip of the tongue. (Hun report says four men arrested - curious).

 

[King Corey]

Interesting that 3AW news reader said that the umpire is alleged to have distributed the info to HER group of friends. Only one HER I know who umpires unless it was a slip of the tongue.

It was "herr". Umpire appears to be a Kraut. /transmission

 

[scottywiper]

It would appear the umpire has committed a cardinal sin!

 

[Nate7]

It would appear the umpire has committed a cardinal sin!

Yes, the disgraced archbishop

 

[gokangas]

It would appear the umpire has committed a cardinal sin!

Yes, the disgraced archbishop

Oh. Wakey wakey GK.

 

[tazaa]

Be careful mate. This story could be massive.

It’ll come out soon enough.
When I read the police report on the ages involved and the areas they reside in, wasnt too hard to piece two and two together.

Anyways, f*** him if it turns out to be true.
His umpiring was abysmal and the games better off without him.

 

[benbanjo]

It’ll come out soon enough.
When I read the police report on the ages involved and the areas they reside in, wasnt too hard to piece two and two together.

Anyways, f*** him if it turns out to be true.
His umpiring was abysmal and the games better off without him.

was he an AFL listed player before?

 

[tazaa]

was he an AFL listed player before?

Nope.
Only ever played local level footy.

Got into umpiring few years back. He’s one of those blokes who was made for being apart of the AFL fraternity.
Not the smartest bloke by the looks of things.

Anyways, f*** the campaigner. After round 1 and the shit he pulled then, glad to see the back of him.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

Horrendous news with Adelaide AFLW premiership player Heather Anderson passing away.

Crows ‘deeply saddened’ as AFLW premiership player Heather Anderson passes away

Crows ‘deeply saddened’ as AFLW premiership player passes away

www.foxsports.com.au

 

[giantroo]

It's Pell.

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/news/mark-robinson-reveals-the-money-trail-that-exposed-an-afl-umpire-in-alleged-brownlow-medal-betting-scandal/news-story/f8b338c3481253a9ed48909eb875d811

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Finally, sadly, the Brownlow Medal may have been got at.

It seems it could have been an inside job, as it always is with the betting scandals which have rocked sports around the world.

Cricket, baseball, basketball, soccer, you name them and they’ve all been brutalised by people believing they can fix matches, play dead or bowl no balls.
The Brownlow Medal was supposedly beyond the reaches of desperate and devious money makers.

But, no, an umpire has allegedly betrayed the purity of the Brownlow.

His name is Michael Pell.

You might not have heard his name before, and now you probably won’t forget it.

He, and three others, were arrested on Monday morning.

They probably were thinking they had got away with the Great Brownlow Robbery until police knocked on their doors.

It’s not yet known why Pell allegedly gave the votes of several matches to his three mates, who then allegedly placed bets across multiple betting agencies.

Was it a dumb tip-off or was it much more sinister?

Did Pell owe them money, was he being stood over? Are they old mates or organised crime figures? Did he get a cut of the action?

A police investigation will probably determine all that.

The immediate concern for the AFL is how deep does the scandal run

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How many times did it allegedly happen and is Pell the only umpire?

Pell would be feeling sick right now.

He’s allegedly been caught betraying football’s most prestigious and most sacred award, which had its first night of celebration in 1925.

Not once off, either. He’s allegedly cheated the system in multiple games. He sat with his fellow two field umpires post-matches, where they decided who would receive the 3,2 and votes, and then he allegedly broke the seal of trust.

Pell umpired in the vicinity of 16 games this year and all 16 of those games have or will be scrutinised with betting agencies.

Allegations of The Great Brownlow Robbery, as opposed to one of Victoria’s most famous sporting scandals The Great Bookie Robbery, were identified by a modern-day crime fighter — data.

It appears Pell’s three mates, or at least one of them as the kingpin, placed the same bets across multiple agencies to try to avoid being red-flagged by the data police.

It didn’t work.

One agency was alerted to a punter or punters placing bets on players’ votes in different matches and winning every time. By the end of the count, a red flag was beside his name.

That information was given to the AFL. It cross-checked betting patterns with their other betting partners and found the same person/people had placed similar Brownlow bets with them.

The AFL immediately knew the information could only come from one source _ the umpires.

It cross checked the betting with games and the umpires involved and it produced the one constant — Pell.


The discovery sickened AFL officials, too.

The league is accused of over indulging in betting partners, but without them Pell and his mates would still be thinking they were God’s gift to gambling.

Pell’s explanation will be the most riveting.

There’s a documentary on Netflix about an NBA referee named Tim Donaghy, who in 2007 gave information to gamblers about how he would referee games. He also bet on those games.

He was jailed for 15 months.

Over the years, there’s always been whispers and rumours surrounding the Brownlow.

Plunges have been won and lost, but one story has a bit more meat on the bone than others.

In 1993, the umpires had their traditional pre-Brownlow BBQ on the Sunday, and the chatter among each other suggested Essendon’s Gavin Wanganeen would go close to winning the medal.

Carlton’s Greg Williams was the raging favourite, but one of the umpires told a bloke about the enthusiasm for Wanganeen, and the bloke told colleague Jon Anderson, who already had a stack on Williams to win.

At 14-1, Anderson had a saver on Wanganeen. ‘’Hearing the umpires had said that was enough for me,’’ Anderson said.

The most infamous scandal came in 1910, when Carlton’s Bongo Lang was suspended for five years for accepting a bribe.

In response to these current allegations there will be calls to change the Brownlow Medal voting.

We don’t want that.

What we want, what we ask for, is people who don’t cheat, lie and deceive the Brownlow Medal.

Now it’s allegedly happened and Pell might end up joining football’s Hall of Shame, and potentially being on the podium.

 

[Devington]

Jesus christ, Robbo, that's a year's worth of flowery indulgent language right there. Come the **** on.