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SHOULD CLUBS CHALLENGE RESULTS?
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I’ve oft mused that the umpires dept should be an independent body in which case they would be free from the manipulation and coercion from bs castle it wouldn’t guarantee we don’t see decisions like this However it would go some way to restoring integrity back into the game
So limp and defeatist! Kind of surprised from you. So we didn't lose. We had a decision stolen that cost us a goal, for starters. BTW, the ensuing Brions goal, we never know would have happened - centre bounce, sliding doors, totally unknown, hypothetical.
The dismissal of Brions is also weak and groundless. I dislike mindless opposition contempt; I prefer to respect my opponents - why? Because it's a dumb mistake not to; how good do you look after they come out and defeat you after you've heaped crap on them? I regard most interstate teams as having a 3-5 goal advantage at home anyway.
But, at the G, our recent HG, sure, great comeback by us from -7 goals. But still only got there because several of their players missed very gettable shots. Too many on PRE who rubbished them pre-final conveniently forgot about that.
Sure, we made terrible mistakes, but it's finals. All teams do. Still awaiting definitive proof we lost though.
Dude, stick to arguing with Angry Anderson and leave me out of it.
Oops. Thought I saw your name on the post. Must have got it wrong, Dude. (Such a silly familiar, but if that's what you and Ant relate to, who am I to differ?)
Will be getting back to you re the Gibcus topic too. Wait - here it is now.
Any inkling what I was getting at, but didn't want to make too .... blunt. now, post-final game?
Couldn't get back to you close to the game for a few reasons, the distraction over the Dusty leak being just one. But short answer was, btw, yes, we need 7th defender on the bench. But I still retained my view that young Gibbo was a risk, signs of not being quite ready yet. Miller was the ideal D7, if not for being converted into a (quite effective) 2nd ruck. Interestingly, I believe he spent quite a lot of game-time in defence anyway. I was prepared to make JG sub though; as long as Sonsie was not left out; he played a fine game too.
The other answer was to use Short back so another D7 option. He proved again he's not a big game mid IMO. But it's hard to use a short when oppo has 3/4 tall KPFs (but lost McIn.) I guess in the end, we were caught between a rock and a hard place missing Grimes - as was young Josh.
I've found just being polite to Leon is more effective than arguing with him. He gets more and more furious but eventually tires himself out.
He didn’t know because he couldn’t see, he was looking directly into the lights. That has been explained. He said it on the ground at the time. Unfortunately I think the ARC has based its decision largely on his reaction. As have posters here and a lot of the media.
The footage from behind Lynch is hard to ignore and suggests it was a goal.
I don’t think anyone has ever complained about goal umpires?Think my favourite thing about this is the way two weeks ago umpires were a bunch of corrupt cheats who passionately hate Richmond and will do anything to take us down.
Now they are highly-trained, skilled, professional and should have their decisions respected.
And this is about an off field review system and lack of transparency?
The on field umpires were their typical pedantic incompetent selves. Business as usual.
Good to see that the club has put in an official request. Hopefully Brad Scott & the AFL get back with an explanation before next year.
From memory, in the whole history of the vfl/afl, only 2 challenges to results have been upheld, resulting in different winners after the game. Both involved the saints. The most recent one was a few years back and was the “Sirengate” game in Tassie. The only other one I can think of was way back in 1900!!!
Very rare a complaint is official and rarer that a result is overturned
Very rare a complaint is official and rarer that a result is overturned
Umpires not goal umpires. Unless they get got at. Different beasts altogether.Think my favourite thing about this is the way two weeks ago umpires were a bunch of corrupt cheats who passionately hate Richmond and will do anything to take us down.
Now they are highly-trained, skilled, professional and should have their decisions respected.
You might have missed how many times JR and TL were molested at every opportunity. And missed Andrew’s stepping forward off the mark on the goal we were cheated out of ( no 50m penalty) or Andrew’s cold stone htb not paid at the top of the goal square. Etc etc
Did you notice the corrupt cheating field umpire refer the goal to the ARC?
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Bereft of any specific responses over and over.
So why post such crappy views; as if you are representing views of all Tigers fans about this issue? Do you even read the recent posts on a thread?
Another error. You're not being polite; just go missing when challenged ... mumbling stuff like ... dude ... screw the pooch ... dude .... go Gil!!
Bereft of any specific responses over and over.
So why post such crappy views; as if you are representing views of all Tigers fans about this issue? Do you even read the recent posts on a thread?
