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Round 6: The Holden Gemini games.
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Can’t believe these spuds are 4-2. Good job umps, good job. If that was us, they would have blown the whistle instantly. HTB!
Dorks, Aints, Dogs and Cows are the wins. That's what happens with easy fixtures.
Actually a pretty good game of footy except fot the result. Soligo & Durham are excellent pickups for both clubs. I love the way Durham plays. Two way footballer.
I just had a look at their fixture.
Wow.
Doesn’t really get hard until back end of season.
They’ve had two under one goal wins against middling sides and really towelled up the dogs as a good win. Percentage tells you what you need to know.
Maybe they get eighth and get pumped in another final.
Biker Mice from Mars laying on the footy at the end.
Said it once but I'll say it again - AFL footy is the only elite sporting comp in the world where the rules are adjudicated to depending on the time and circumstances of the match.
Weak as p1ss from the umpires there. Disgraceful.
Watch Walker cop a fine for having something to say at the end, too.
There are plenty of examples to draw on, but taking into account the Carlton-Freo game a couple of weeks ago where the Dockers were completely robbed at the death and now this, surely something gives.
The standard of umpiring for a so-called 'elite' sporting competition is atrocious, lamentable and a complete farce.
From a purist point of view, the AFL is getting less watchable as a product year by year.
Said it once but I'll say it again - AFL footy is the only elite sporting comp in the world where the rules are adjudicated to depending on the time and circumstances of the match.
Weak as p1ss from the umpires there. Disgraceful.
Watch Walker cop a fine for having something to say at the end, too.
There are plenty of examples to draw on, but taking into account the Carlton-Freo game a couple of weeks ago where the Dockers were completely robbed at the death and now this, surely something gives.
The standard of umpiring for a so-called 'elite' sporting competition is atrocious, lamentable and a complete farce.
From a purist point of view, the AFL is getting less watchable as a product year by year.
Just another big rule change that the tossers claimed so 'changed the game for the better' BS ... now wound back and almost ignored.
Both couldve been Tigers as well.................................. moreso Durham
100% agree.
In EPL if it's a penalty it's a penalty no matter what.
It's ridiculous how they have a license for "the feel of the game".
That's where the problem is.
The AFL is a *smile* *smile* show
I hate Essendon as much as the next guy, and get frustrated with the umps more than most, but I don't think it was at the extreme end of the scale, and it isn't hard to find examples that are. Could have gone either way. And context matters, crows had had a few crude goes at drawing a free leading up to it.
Disagree Snake. Jumps on the footy and lays dead. No attempt. That’s a free every day of the week.
The Crows played for the free and rightly so weren’t given one. But that doesn’t mean they get penalised for the blatant obvious.
Yer, I have to agree. It was so bad it was funny at the end IMO. Sure, Draper might have been pinged - he actually had time to take possession, get up and try to dispose of it perhaps, would have been tackled most likely, for another time-killing stoppage.
But lots of errors and staging, especially Tex, at the end. So I think Crows copped their just desserts. (Not at all fond of the Druggies but I took them in my family-comp tips to catch the leader, so pretty happy).
