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Matt Rowell just did his shoulder

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    9 minutes ago, Clintosaurus said:

    Matt Rowell just did his shoulder

    Feel for Rowell. Shoulders can be a frustrating heal sometimes. I don't feel for GC though. The AFL's baby. F em.

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    Appears to be a new rule. 
    Players taking a kick outside the boundary line, aren’t being made to bring the ball in over the mark, but rather are being allowed to continue on outside the line . Should be thrown in, as soon as they play on or kick it outside the line.

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    15 minutes ago, Redleg said:

    Appears to be a new rule. 
    Players taking a kick outside the boundary line, aren’t being made to bring the ball in over the mark, but rather are being allowed to continue on outside the line . Should be thrown in, as soon as they play on or kick it outside the line.

    Move sideways off the line and its play on.  If the ball is fully over the boundary line, it must be out of bounds.?  

    And as you say,  should then be the umpires ball to throw in.

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    Can we get GC’s King in our forward line please. Next season will do ?

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    1 minute ago, Whispering_Jack said:

    Gold Coast doing a better job at the moment at countering Geelong’s movement of the football than we did last week. 

    That wouldn’t be hard Whisp. Most teams can counter it except us.

    Even the coach said we didn’t know how to get the ball back. That says a lot. 

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    Be interesting to see how we get outcoached this week. So many options.

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    21 minutes ago, Redleg said:

    Appears to be a new rule. 
    Players taking a kick outside the boundary line, aren’t being made to bring the ball in over the mark, but rather are being allowed to continue on outside the line . Should be thrown in, as soon as they play on or kick it outside the line.

    If you’re taking a kick outside the boundary line, you can play on, or switch the kick. You don’t have to kick the ball directly over the mark. Is that what you mean?

    But if you do play on outside the boundary line and Then hesitate while being outside the boundary line, then it should be thrown in. If you play and commit to it, without hesitation then it’s play on.

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    5 minutes ago, whatwhatsaywhat said:

    my god i wish we hadn't [censored] away a top 6 pick on may

    a king brother was ripe for the taking

    Mate if we all had the benefit of hindsight we would all be millionaires. 

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    We had King right in front of our door step.

    Questions need to be asked who the [censored] ticked off in trading it away for May.

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    1 minute ago, DemonOX said:

    Mate if we all had the benefit of hindsight we would all be millionaires. 

    This is the job of the recruiting staff and list management team. Messed it up, there's no way around it.

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    Umpires must have a sneaky punt on cats. They call things differently depending on the colours of the jumper. 

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    28 minutes ago, whatwhatsaywhat said:

    we lost a forward; we should have been drafting a forward

    hindsight is 20/20 but goddamn....

    A part of me wants to be at ease that Luke Jackson can be our Ben King..

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    GC skills dropped off half way through 3 quarter.

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    52 minutes ago, Megatron said:

    If you’re taking a kick outside the boundary line, you can play on, or switch the kick. You don’t have to kick the ball directly over the mark. Is that what you mean?

    But if you do play on outside the boundary line and Then hesitate while being outside the boundary line, then it should be thrown in. If you play and commit to it, without hesitation then it’s play on.

    What, you can run outside the boundary line, past the mark and keep running there, out of play  until you kick it in and that is ok. I don’t think so.

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    16 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

    To be fair, after the 2018 finals we probably thought Weideman was the next King brother. 

    There’s not much fairness hereabouts.  But I see the GC who have passed us according to the doomsayers don’t seem to be losing to Cats by just a few points. 

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