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Brilliant win - lack of accuracy stopped it bring an 8 or 9 goal win.

Just want to shine a light on Sam Weideman - what an effort today.

Abysmal umpiring 

It was a good warm up for the avalanche of free against next week at skinny stadium. 

 
3 minutes ago, BDA said:

The Weid did his bit today. Was always going to be tough for him

Agree Sam did his job


I’m really enjoying the salty tears of Adelaide fans crying that Lever is soft for going down when hit in the guts. Yet Foggerty ran away like a little scared cat the moment Viney stepped in. 

 

 

Sam did good but we miss a ruck. Not just in the contest but around the ground. O’Brien was influential in the air. Weideman needs to find his own niche - what he excels in, and really hone in on it. It’s it’s tackling pressure then so be it try lay 10 plus tackles. Each tackle creates a potential spillage for our mids to mop up. Good effort by us. Up against it and came through with a win. Those games up there are always like this for us.

Today was the type of win I’d expect. 

Keep them at arms length, but pull away when required.

The problem for them was Taylor Walker’s corky. He was the only bloke who could have won the game for them. After his cameo in the first half, he was barely sighted.

On its day, no one beats our mids. Lots of trios have a mixture of grunt and class. Our three best engine room mids are some of the physically strongest I’ve seen. The Lions of the early ‘00s are the only midfielders who could not get physically pummeled by our blokes.

Off to Mordor now. Geez I want us to knock them off. The media suckholes are champing at the bit to designate Geelong some type of premiership frontrunner and I don’t want us to give them a reason to.


Can’t believe not a word from Foxtel commentators on what was probably the worst umpiring performances this season. 
 

Really happy for Mitch Brown to bag 2 goals, tried hard in the ruck, but way undersized.. Has been a great team man for Melbourne and deserved a bit of reward. 

29 minutes ago, Graeme Yeats' Mullet said:

23  to  9

Cheats

Absolute Crucifiction!!

And we still win by 5 Goals

That was a great 2nd half from the boys 

Clarry just the lazy 13 tackles tonight (on top of his usual ridiculous stats).

Things you love to see from players AFTER signing a contract.

 

20 minutes ago, Smokey said:

Who cares, we won 

 

I think an official complaint has more merit/power after a win. 

Edited by Mel Bourne


37 minutes ago, Graeme Yeats' Mullet said:

23  to  9

Cheats

Does anyone know how many of their frees resulted in goals or scoring shots. 

23 minutes ago, I'va Worn Smith said:

One of the most appalling displays of umpiring I have ever seen and I've been around for a while.  The AFL have tried to make the umps some sort of footy celebrities for TV purposes, but their feel for the game and judgement is just so bad.  In fact, it currently is a blight on the game.  This win tonight is bigger for us than the score would suggest.  We had to beat incredible odds, which were solely down to atrocious umpiring, on Adelaide's turf and we did it with grit and determination.

That's the Demon spirit, which nobody can deny.  Not even the umpires.   Go you mighty Demons.

It may be also worth remembering the return game last year, when we beat Adelaide by 41 points

MELBOURNE 104 def ADELAIDE 63

3. P.Seedsman (ADE)

2. B.Keays (ADE)

1. B.Fritsch (MEL)

Beggars belief really.

22 minutes ago, Smokey said:

Who cares, we won 

 

I care, had a gut full of biased interstate umpiring for the last 30+ years. For a multi million dollar industry it's F'n amateur hour

38 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

23 to 9 frees. That is as corrupt an umpiring exhibition as you will ever see. 

Adelaide is a hole of town. Their supporters are feral. 

They can farkl off

Was at the game 

‘the roar of affirmation’ is real.  Umpires inevitably get sucked in to appeasing the crowd.  It is amazing to witness

17 minutes ago, waynewussell said:

Where are the umpires with balls? The Umpires Choir would be a thing to behold!

A chorus of castratos 


10 minutes ago, Lord Nev said:

Clarry just the lazy 13 tackles tonight (on top of his usual ridiculous stats).

Things you love to see from players AFTER signing a contract.

 

Even the clearly biased commentators were saying how incredible he is. 
His hands are the best I’ve ever seen. 

Happy with the 4 points so lets move on to next week. I must say it was one of the worst umpiring exhibitions any one is likely to witness. They were a disgrace. 

21 minutes ago, waynewussell said:

Where are the umpires with balls? The Umpires Choir would be a thing to behold!

All Castrati choir

 
7 minutes ago, Razor said:

Was at the game 

‘the roar of affirmation’ is real.  Umpires inevitably get sucked in to appeasing the crowd.  It is amazing to witness

Yep, they're feckless wimps

44 minutes ago, I'va Worn Smith said:

One of the most appalling displays of umpiring I have ever seen and I've been around for a while.  The AFL have tried to make the umps some sort of footy celebrities for TV purposes, but their feel for the game and judgement is just so bad.  In fact, it currently is a blight on the game.  This win tonight is bigger for us than the score would suggest.  We had to beat incredible odds, which were solely down to atrocious umpiring, on Adelaide's turf and we did it with grit and determination.

That's the Demon spirit, which nobody can deny.  Not even the umpires.   Go you mighty Demons.

That wasn't Umpiring.... IT WAS BLATANT FRIGGEN CHEATING!


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