He seems to be a Provocateur in that he doesn't go with the crowd here on
- the Umps collude with the AFL to pay free kicks against us
- The MRO is out to get us
- that every journo despises us and try to bring us down
- that every decision the club makes is bang on 100% correct
He has more patience than I do on the umpire one. I don't engage in that discussion on here for the exact reason that the responses are always childish and angry, and in most cases posters genuinely do not understand the rules.
Instead of welcoming an alternate opinion he cops it, but I'd say he's always pretty respectful.
I don’t think you are being fair to the posters on here that are heart and soul tigers. Of course there is passion and plenty of bias.
But I don’t agree with your points on the whole
- the umpiring stats are self evident. We watch the game every week and see the inconsistency. I haven’t seen anybody mention collusion between the AFL and Umps (though I wouldn’t argue that is hasn’t been said). It’s more weekly bewilderment, frustration and this place allows an opportunity to vent amongst like-minded people. Surely to be expected on here so why try and temper it??
- the main discussions with MRO have been the Marlion Pickett suspension and fines. Again I haven’t seen the argument that the MRO is out to get us - just Marlion! And it was a suspension worth debating. Again if we can’t do that here, where else do we go? SEN? Surely TBR etc must expect passionate defence of our players here
- some truth to this one, but for example people bag Robbo for a lot of stuff he says. Same with Whateley.
Cornes does always bag Richmond I can’t stand the bloke. His bagging of Nank and the club for appointing Nank, and declaring on several occasions Cotch should have walked after 2021, while never mentioning Robbie Gray’s decline or going after Hinkley - well he can get stuffed. And Nank and Cotch were 1 and 2 on the ground against Port last year
- you have made this one up, the Club gets criticised on here and there is good debate. TBR just goes the one way all the time, which is Ok but people are going to fire up.
I see you go down a similar road to TBR in the last bit , suggesting others are childish and don’t know the rules etc. its a public forum of course there will be all types, and passionate people will rant a bit. Maybe you are wrong? Or TBR is?
