Circa1982 said:According to the Giesch and Fraser they were all there
Yep, thanks to the Giesch I found myself barracking for Scumwood Saturday.
No mean feat I tell you!
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Yep, thanks to the Giesch I found myself barracking for Scumwood Saturday.
No mean feat I tell you!
Chiang Mai Tiger said:
Good Lord!
I hope you fixed your broken soul after the game by singing the greatest club song of all about 200 times while waving a Tigers scarf over your head!
I'm only every tempted to barrack for the Scabbies when they play Cartoon. And then I turn off the telly and find something else to do. ;D
its hard to dent that the umpiring advantage they receive places them up a rung or 2 on the hateable scale. some say they are smart by going about things the way they do, but IMO they lose a lot of integrity with the blatant playing for high free kicks.
Smart people would understand the rules n learn the right tactics to exploit maximum advantage of the rules instead of bleating about them.
Even our very own Jakey learnt how to lower the knees n shrug the shoulders so that he now gets free kicks for being decapitated instead of simply being ignored by the maggots.
Even our very own Jakey learnt how to lower the knees n shrug the shoulders so that he now gets free kicks for being decapitated instead of simply being ignored by the maggots.
TigerMasochist said:
I'm not sure I have ever seen Jake get a free kick for high contact. Indeed, I reckon I have seen at least a couple where the umpire has penalised Jake for striking his opponents arm with his head.
Haven't you been watching games this year streaky one? For a ratbag hardnut who couldn't buy a free with a fist full of chooklotto tickets Jakeys been breaking better than even with the maggots.Streak said:
TigerMasochist said:
I forgot my cute laugh at the end of my post TM.
He has been getting a decent run from the umps this year. The only thing I'd question is if this is due to him learning how to drop in a tackle. In his case, more likely he has learned to jump instead.
;D Jakeys got the Selwood shrug working very nicely this year.
Taking players a long time to work out that the head is a sacred site in football, way to many slow learners still falling into high contact trap n a handfull of smart operators keep gaining from others stupidity.
Taking players a long time to work out that the head is a sacred site in football, way to many slow learners still falling into high contact trap n a handfull of smart operators keep gaining from others stupidity.
Every player thats ever played the game has pushed the boundaries of the rules as far as possible to manipulate a favourable result. Never cheating if you don't get caught n if you get caught it's penalised.Ian4 said:
Tony Braxton-Hicks
There are no stupid ideas, just stupid people
If a player ducks his head to draw a high tackle then he's putting himself at risk. If KB is really serious about the head being sacrosanct then maybe they should have a free kick against them for dangerous play, much like the new sliding rule and kicking in danger.
That will never happen, but surely the rule could be tweaked so that the umpire can interpret whether a tackle is negligent and potentially cause injury, whereas a shrug of the shoulder isn;t negligent or dangerous and is therefore play on.
Thus a finger touching the top of a shoulder should be play on while dangerous/injurious/negligent contact would draw a free.
That will never happen, but surely the rule could be tweaked so that the umpire can interpret whether a tackle is negligent and potentially cause injury, whereas a shrug of the shoulder isn;t negligent or dangerous and is therefore play on.
Thus a finger touching the top of a shoulder should be play on while dangerous/injurious/negligent contact would draw a free.
There really needs to be a reinterpretation of the rule around ducking, as it is essentially akin to "staging" for a free kick.
The Duckwood brothers are milking it for all it's worth. There was a reinterpretation of the rule whereby players charging head first into a pack, it was previously judged as high, is now "play-on". This should be adjudicated the same. If an umpire sees a player about to get tackled, and that player purposely drops his knees, and ducks into the tackle to draw a head high, then it should be called play-on.
The Duckwood brothers are milking it for all it's worth. There was a reinterpretation of the rule whereby players charging head first into a pack, it was previously judged as high, is now "play-on". This should be adjudicated the same. If an umpire sees a player about to get tackled, and that player purposely drops his knees, and ducks into the tackle to draw a head high, then it should be called play-on.
Ian4 said:
I reckon cheating is too strong a word Ian. I don't like it, but the guys are not going outside the rules as they stand.
I cast my mind back to the days of KB and throwing the ball in front of himself when he was about to be tackled. He earned a lot of free kicks doing that until they changed the rule to stamp it out.
i would like to see a tackler swing their arm hard, especially in a GF, at a Selwood, Shuey ect, then when they shrug, hit them hard around the head, very hard. free kick but maybe knock them out and they are out of the game. be interesting if it went to the tribunal.
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