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FINALS: Week 02 2021 (NON MFC)

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Just curious if CH7 are dissecting the dodgy free kicks? Fox have mentioned it but haven’t shown them it’s bloody frustrating. 

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    What a great game!!

    dogs went in harder for longer. Won the contested numbers and deserved the win. 

    lions needed another fwd to mark a few

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    Great game of footy, some tough desperate football in the last 5 minutes. But I can't see either of them beating Port. 

    As for the Lions, they seem to lose games in the same way. Cameron gets off the leash in the first quarter, the other team changes their defensive mindset in the midfield denying Cameron time and space to roam freely, and he shows the limits of his game. Other team comes over the top.

    Dogs very good in a tight game. 

    The umpires seemed to be rewarding incidental contact, but I have to admit, on most of those occasions, the Dogs were first to the ball. 

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    8 minutes ago, wheaters31 said:

    No surprise to see the Bulldogs and Cats on top of the freekick differential ladder for the year

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    That's disgusting.

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    Just now, layzie said:

    You just have to love Aussie Rules Footy folks. Yeah some poor umpiring but the real stars are those guys on the field and they played their hearts out. 

    It’s true layzie, but the game needs to be protected, dare I say saved from its single most obvious blight. When the game’s  adjudication is so often horrendously flawed, it becomes very hard to watch, because it destroys the idea that two teams are playing each other on equal terms. It’s frankly amateurish, and simply has to be better.

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    It was 19-28 btw, Daz, but close enough.

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    5 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    That's disgusting.

    Worse than that Dazzle it a bloody conspiracy!!

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    ...And...then there were 4

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    Bulldogs went +31 in the 2016 finals.

    So far in the 2021 finals they are +17 in just 2 games.

    It stinks, and unbiased supporters are going ballistic on Twitter. 

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    Wow I wish that clock ran for an extra 10 seconds because the lions were about to go back into there 50. I did want to see overtime. Feel for Fagan, I think I'd rather lose by 4 goals than by 1 point. 

    Daniher only the 1 goal. Would have liked to see im kick a few more. 

    What 2 great prelims next week. 

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    Just now, The heart beats true said:

    Bulldogs went +31 in the 2016 finals.

    So far in the 2021 finals they are +17 in just 2 games.

    It stinks, and unbiased supporters are going ballistic on Twitter. 

    It's so transparent, yet nothing ever changes. Season after season, the same armchair ride to the same teams.

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    Two years in a row the Lions have had an advantage that other teams would cry out for in finals (home ground/crowd) and it’s amounted to nothing. The dogs are getting their pressure game going again but really I think port will account for them purely because Port will have the week off and the Dogs just had a fierce encounter. 

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    Absolutely brain melting, the inconsistency between what the umps see as a free kick to the Dogs versus play on for the Lions.

    God the Lions missed Hipwood. Playing a man short with big Joe on the ground.

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    I thought Brisbane was the better team, so really don't mind them going out.

    Umpires! was Brisbane ahead on the count with frees for, at the end of the first quarter. They stormed home for the dogs in the end, brutal.

    When I heard an umpire heckle Johannisen after the siren in the third, i thought they would even up the count in the last. As he was getting into his routine, came the call, kick it over the man on mark. 

    Plenty of Brisbane players went missing at times in that game. The Dogs got belted up, they will be sore and it appears they have some injuries, a few may not get up for next week.

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    13 minutes ago, Webber said:

    It’s true layzie, but the game needs to be protected, dare I say saved from its single most obvious blight. When the game’s  adjudication is so often horrendously flawed, it becomes very hard to watch, because it destroys the idea that two teams are playing each other on equal terms. It’s frankly amateurish, and simply has to be better.

    Spot on Webber. It definitely makes it hard to watch, I just wonder if it will ever change.

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    7 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

    Wow I wish that clock ran for an extra 10 seconds because the lions were about to go back into there 50. I did want to see overtime. Feel for Fagan, I think I'd rather lose by 4 goals than by 1 point. 

    Daniher only the 1 goal. Would have liked to see im kick a few more. 

    What 2 great prelims next week. 

    Daniher is an absolute DUD

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    10 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

    Wow I wish that clock ran for an extra 10 seconds because the lions were about to go back into there 50. I did want to see overtime. Feel for Fagan, I think I'd rather lose by 4 goals than by 1 point. 

    Daniher only the 1 goal. Would have liked to see im kick a few more. 

    What 2 great prelims next week. 

    Lions got your extra 24 seconds to make top 4 due to a timekeeping error in R23

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    Oh the conspiracy!

    the umpires get together and decide they want the dogs to win! It’s been happening for years. You can tell as the dogs haven’t won a final in 5 years. 

    they were harder at it and won contested ball. Admittedly a few dodgy calls but it happens 

    you honestly think the umps get together and decide to pay more frees to the one team?? 😂

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    So in the prelims it is rd23 all over again. This is spooking my MFCSS.

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    3 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

    bears have finished top 4 for the last three years for a solitary win

    Dogs are not finished top 4 in the last 10 years and have a flag

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    2 minutes ago, DubDee said:

    you honestly think the umps get together and decide to pay more frees to the one team?? 😂

    Plenty on here seem to think so.  Some even convince themselves that the AFL tells them which team to favour.

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    2 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

    Plenty on here seem to think so.  Some even convince themselves that the AFL tells them which team to favour.

    Lol. Crazy isn’t it

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    3 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

    Plenty on here seem to think so.  Some even convince themselves that the AFL tells them which team to favour.

    Reckon AFL would want the flag in “developing market”

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