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5 hours ago, layzie said:

Who was the Richmond player who basically hung there and then eventually walked it over the boundary line? If Gus's is deliberate over that then my next holiday is to Bolivia

 

5 hours ago, layzie said:

Fair enough, I didn't see the ball knock as it was on the other side but that makes sense now.

Be sure to send us pics from Bolivia!

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2 hours ago, DeeSpencer said:

There’s rules and interpretations and for a long time now spoiling the ball out has been allowed in marking contests but if it’s not a marking contest you have to show sufficient intent to keep the ball in. 

Also ‘the what other option’ is nonsense. These are highly skilled athletes. Gus had the option of punching it forward or to the corridor. He could’ve taken possession. He could’ve not touched it at all.

He punched a bouncing ball straight over the line. That might make the video for insufficient intent. It’s clear cut.

Its not even a bad play by Gus. We concede possession but have time to set numbers back rather than getting caught on the back flank. It’s not nearly as much of an issue as several of the frees paid. 

I'll concede that there were other options but going at the ball full tilt and then trying to direct a punch in a certain direction when you're about to get cleaned up by an opposition player is a lot more difficult than it looks, I would have thought benefit of the doubt in this scenario. 

When it comes to the option of taking possession, how do they know he wasn't trying to do that? It wasn't like there had been a high ball bouncing around predictably, that Richmond player soccer hacked it and it was pinging around like crazy, Brayshaw did what any good player would.

Anyway it's done now, happy to move on and I'm sure we'll see something similar in the next few weeks not paid deliberate.

 

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On 4/26/2023 at 7:00 AM, —coach— said:

Have a friend who is an ex afl umpire and still does AFLW matches. They most certainly do review every match and every decision. They then receive an overall score which determines whether they umpire AFL matches or are demoted to other leagues to improve (where they don’t get paid any where near as much). Problem is the AFL look at whether the decision was ‘technically’ correct, not correct in relation to the decisions or non decisions already made in the game. On the ‘technically’ correct metric, they do very well. On the correct in relation to the game, I think we all know they are sub par.

I would like to see how how the rate interstate games. Some are ridiculous. Watching Adelaide or Weagles umpires will miss so many obvious frees for the away team. I cannot think they could possible come out with a good score for those games. 

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On 4/26/2023 at 6:19 PM, kev martin said:

Do you get it, narratives move, just as culture, in constant change. At the movement the institutions are powerful, with there PR to push us where they want. The individual has a hard time expressing the alternatives. Poor @DutchDemons had no chance. Me well, what was it, "That ....", well done, your voice wins.

I don't have an issue with what DutchDemons said and some of the observations brought up were worthwhile ones.

However anyone that tries to tell me the 'correct' way to honour my immediate family's service in WW2 can frankly stick it.

That's my last say on this.

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14 hours ago, Demonland said:

 

Melbourne in two of them BUT we are still treated by the AFL as one of the smaller clubs with little to no drawing power. We really need to get ex- Melbourne guys into head office to change this thinking around.

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Seen a bit from Richmond fans about their young players but even though they were missing a few, our side was easily younger than theirs (25y 202 days to 26y 129) and less experienced (by 173 games). 
Nank and Broad would have been useful but the presence of Lynch may well have encouraged more high balls into 50 which is usually to our benefit. May generally does well against him. Jack Graham is mediocre. I think the effect of their outs has been overplayed.

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