10 hours ago, rjay said:

 

What is it with the Crows and player development...

They do pretty well with defenders (Davis, Talia, Lever, Doedee etc), Mids (Sloane, Danger, Crouch boys)...

...but boy are the key forwards flakey...Tex, Jane, the other Jane went to Sydney mmm Tippett.

Lynch is handy and Fogarty will be a player imo, still only a kid.

12 hours ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

I watched 3/4 of that game, the umpiring in parts was disgraceful. Crows lost a couple of early goals because of it.

 If the AFL wants to benefit from gambling then punters should be made aware of which teams will be favoured week to week by the umpires.

What we need is a third umpire review system for general run of play decisions

15 minutes ago, Crompton's the man said:

What we need is a third umpire review system for general run of play decisions

Would be ideal but let’s be honest, it’s never going to happen. 

And as we know a goal kicked or missed could then change the game going forward. 

2 decisions last night which were blatantly obvious in the first qtr were the Crows player running towards the goals chasing the ball which was heading for a behind and pushed squarely in the back and over the line. An obvious free kick and an easy snap would of resulted in a goal. The second was the Texan marking the ball right on qtr time. He didn’t push his opponent he used his forearm which is legal and the umpire could see how it played out. 

I hate 17 other clubs with a passion (Richmond by far the most) but I do enjoy a punt. I bet small (to modest) amounts on multi bets containing all the games of the round. Whilst I understand mistakes are made by umpires (as well as players) when they are as obvious as the ones mentioned above, I along with others have the right to feel ripped off. 

18 hours ago, The Third Eye said:

Score review SNAFU in the Brisbane v Essendon game. Bomber player kicks out of a pack, field umpire calls touched and the ball goes through. Score review appears inconclusive but field umpire’s call is overturned. Is this what the score review was meant for?

The problem with overturning a field umpire’s call of “touched, play on” is that upsets the concept of consistency in umpiring. It’s not possible to overturn or challenge a call of touched in 99.9% of situations in a game so in the very rare situation that occurred yesterday, the call of the umpire on the spot should not have been questioned.

19 hours ago, dees189227 said:

Was hoping for the lions to beat essenscum today but don't think that will happen. 

The Lions were incredibly disappointing. Set themselves up to break through the Don's defences so many times and messed it up with lousy skills. Both sides stank. Both are better than they showed but that was a horrible game to watch and suggests it's a long way back for the pair of them.

Hoping the Saints hang on to Richo into next year. Don't like him and don't rate him. Relied for far too long on a few old blokes who repeatedly finished us off. I'd like to enjoy knocking them off consistently to square up, so hang on Richo!