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GAME DAY R19 Tiges V Hawks

Most of us wrote off the Tigers at the start of the fourth quarter (including me) but boy were we wrong. There is still life in the Tigers
Pride is hard to topple.
Great fight back.
 
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Reverse that Essendon disaster and we’d be 5th
The Essendon loss and Carlton draw will probably cost us a spot in the finals; definitely should have won both games.

Not that it matters really; despite the great comeback win our form is not good enough to be competitive in finals. We have beaten just one team currently in the 8.
 
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I’ll say it again: it’s hard to have respect for AFL umpires. Each week just fundamental, obvious, clear and blatant frees that they “miss”.

58,000 people can see that blatant free on Jack, hundreds of thousands at home watching on tv, the commentators …but the 4 umpires in the thick of the action ? Nup.

At best, outright incompetence. At worst, outright cheating.
It is inconceivable that not one of four umpires could not see that blatant free kick by Sicily against Jack in the last quarter. Grabbed his jumper and threw him to the ground. Even the normally anti Richmond Fox commentators were incredulous.

You can only surmise that the umpires are cheating.
 
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It is inconceivable that not one of four umpires could not see that blatant free kick by Sicily against Jack in the last quarter. Grabbed his jumper and threw him to the ground. Even the normally anti Richmond Fox commentators were incredulous.

You can only surmise that the umpires are cheating.
Perfect fact is the flog calling Vloss to play on 2 seconds after marking in dying seconds. It's just rinse and repeat stuff with these blokes
 
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Perfect fact is the flog calling Vloss to play on 2 seconds after marking in dying seconds. It's just rinse and repeat stuff with these f*tards.
Yep more evidence of cheating. Why was he called to play on so quickly. Unbelievable :mad:
 
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It is inconceivable that not one of four umpires could not see that blatant free kick by Sicily against Jack in the last quarter. Grabbed his jumper and threw him to the ground. Even the normally anti Richmond Fox commentators were incredulous.

You can only surmise that the umpires are cheating.
They don’t “miss” all these free kicks as the commentators describe it …they “choose to miss”. Big difference.
 
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Perfect fact is the flog calling Vloss to play on 2 seconds after marking in dying seconds. It's just rinse and repeat stuff with these f*tards.
Or insufficient intent called when a Richmond player waited for the bounce of the ball after it had been kicked close to the boundary, and it broke the wrong way and dribbled over the line.

AFL automaton.
 
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Or insufficient intent called when a Richmond player waited for the bounce of the ball after it had been kicked close to the boundary, and it broke the wrong way and dribbled over the line.

AFL automaton.
The one against Graham was pathetic. I laughed at the one which bounced back into the ground instead of OOB from one our players. Flogs must've got angry!
 
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The good thing is that some of our young players really stood up towards the end today - Ross, Banks, Coutlard, especiallyand even Mansell despite missing that goal.

How we won that is mind blowing but that will give the team some belief - to play so poorly and yet to come home from 6 goals down is down right robbery but will take it.
 
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Was pleased with how the players ran out the game after a 6 day break from a game in WA….had expected them to stop.
 
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Weak Pickett.
That effort in the first qtr highlighted his overhead softness. Weak one handed effort when in the clear. He thought there was contact coming. He actually lifted in the last I thought but his overhead work (unless jumping from behind is soft). It’s odd because he is hard at it on the deck.
Had a pretty average game. Imagine he is under a lot of mental pressure though so understandable if he isn’t quite there.
 
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Oh FFS Ben, take those shots.
Not his fault. Cotch called for it. Dumb and really turned the match at that time. That and Picketts weak marking effort just earlier were pivotal in the hawks turnaround.
 
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Was pleased with how the players ran out the game after a 6 day break from a game in WA….had expected them to stop.
Yeh they looked gassed with a few minutes to go, was huge to get the win.