Here is a neutral opinion with a little humour - by Titus O'Reily
Geelong (89) v Richmond (86)
What a classic game! We had Tom Stewart purposely taking out Dion Prestia and then taking a crucial mark to secure the game.
It’s a feel-good story we can all get behind.
There was a lot of talk out of Geelong about how Stewart had ‘owned up to his error’ and that it was ‘poor execution’.
Error? It didn’t look like an error.
Poor execution? I would say he executed it perfectly. If you wanted to take out one of the opposition’s key players, that’s exactly how you’d do it.
And owning up to it? What else was he going to do? There were 60,000 witnesses, and it was caught on camera.
It was one of the most blatant, open-and-shut cases I’ve seen in ages.
There’s been talk of bringing in red cards in response to the incident, but I can’t support that.
I’ve said it before on the issue of red cards; the only card an AFL player should ever be shown is a drink card.
The main reason I oppose it, is that the AFL won’t stop at a red card.
They’d soon have a yellow card, then a blue card and a purple card.
Plus, would you want to give Razor Ray the ability to send one of your players off? Never.
Aside from the unpleasantness, this was a cracking game with huge momentum shifts which came right down to the wire.
In the end, I thought the difference was the Tigers were probably a midfielder short when it counted, and obviously Geelong’s win has a massive asterisk next to it which you should bring up with Cats fans all week.
Geelong (89) v Richmond (86)
What a classic game! We had Tom Stewart purposely taking out Dion Prestia and then taking a crucial mark to secure the game.
It’s a feel-good story we can all get behind.
There was a lot of talk out of Geelong about how Stewart had ‘owned up to his error’ and that it was ‘poor execution’.
Error? It didn’t look like an error.
Poor execution? I would say he executed it perfectly. If you wanted to take out one of the opposition’s key players, that’s exactly how you’d do it.
And owning up to it? What else was he going to do? There were 60,000 witnesses, and it was caught on camera.
It was one of the most blatant, open-and-shut cases I’ve seen in ages.
There’s been talk of bringing in red cards in response to the incident, but I can’t support that.
I’ve said it before on the issue of red cards; the only card an AFL player should ever be shown is a drink card.
The main reason I oppose it, is that the AFL won’t stop at a red card.
They’d soon have a yellow card, then a blue card and a purple card.
Plus, would you want to give Razor Ray the ability to send one of your players off? Never.
Aside from the unpleasantness, this was a cracking game with huge momentum shifts which came right down to the wire.
In the end, I thought the difference was the Tigers were probably a midfielder short when it counted, and obviously Geelong’s win has a massive asterisk next to it which you should bring up with Cats fans all week.
