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NON MFC: Rd 23 2021

Diamond_Jim
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9 hours ago, Clintosaurus said:

I'm a little bit interested in why the Dogs have been deserted by the umps the last 3 weeks  after 6 years of nothing but love. I did post a few weeks back that I thought the AFL wanted Brisbane and Port in the top 4. Looks like it may just happen, but at the time I thought it was us that was being assisted out.

Good question. I think your hypothesis above has legs. 

Above I suggested the hypothesis in bold:

17 hours ago, Nairobi_Demon said:

I’ve watched bits and pieces of the Dogs games the last two weeks, and one thing I noticed is that they didn’t seem to be getting a helping hand from the umpires like they did in the game against us. And it makes a big difference.  
 

Today, for example, the free kick count was 23-15 in favour of Port. And last week it was 14-11 in favour of the Hawks. Our game was 25-11 to them!
 

Perhaps the umpires have noticed the talk about their huge free kick advantage and are trying to balance it out (a little) before season ends. 
 

They’re other reasons why they’re down and losing, but I think this has contributed. 

 

And LD has hypothesised that it relates to us:

9 hours ago, leave it to deever said:

My mfcss is playing up with the idea of the umps stiffing the dogs so as to us playing port.

Must win tonight.

In some ways we can test these hypotheses next week. If the umpires revert to favouring the dogs then it’s an indication that it’s either hypothesis 1 or 3. That they wanted another interstate team in the top 4 and not that they were trying to correct their biased umpiring earlier in the year. 😆

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    This is a good game to watch but not much defending going on. It's not finals footy

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    Might need another decimal point on that percentage graphic in the corner of the screen

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    Leaving aside the question of matchups, Roffey and Pert will be pretty chuffed to get that minor premiership cash injection into the club and it's facilities. What is it like 600-800k or so?

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    Amazing how many times Brisbane have been 4th and then dropped back to 5th today. Currently 3 points adrift of the double chance.

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    This must be torture for the Dogs fans 😂

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    The Brisbane benevolent game..

    What a joke..

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    Just now, Rab D Nesbitt said:

    This must be torture for the Dogs fans 😂

    Remines me of watching the live ladder in the last round back in 2017. 

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    Just now, Mr Steve said:

    Remines me of watching the live ladder in the last round back in 2017. 

    Yep .... thinking the same ... that match was W.Coast v Adelaide. Adelaide were a much better side (finished top of ladder?), but I think they rested players for that match.

    I think Bulldogs will miss out on 4th in the same way that we missed out on 8th that year. Can't rely on other teams!!! 

     

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    4 minutes ago, bingers said:

    Yep .... thinking the same ... that match was W.Coast v Adelaide. Adelaide were a much better side (finished top of ladder?), but I think they rested players for that match.

    I think Bulldogs will miss out on 4th in the same way that we missed out on 8th that year. Can't rely on other teams!!! 

     

    gawd, those awful memories of thinking jake lever's first action as a demon was failing to clear d50 with a rushed kick, giving it straight to liam ryan, who slotted it out and pushed us out of finals...

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    Go eagles. That was hard to type but I would rather play the dogs or port than bears.

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    1 minute ago, Graeme Yeats' Mullet said:

    Would prefer to play finals locked in Perth where the WCE didn't make the 8...

    we dont want them to win just get within 20 points. 

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    Considering West Coast don’t like travelling and have a lot out this is a pretty good effort. 

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    Gee their four goals away from 4th and in danger of maybe losing. The team in 8th would be worried as well. 

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