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1 minute ago, Demonland said:

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* Melbourne, Collingwood, Sydney & Richmond have all played an extra game. 

Sydney surprises me.

Also great to see the Bulldogs get their fair share of decisions against for a change!

Interesting to see if West Coast stays so high.

 

I glanced at the figures on my App close to half time and we had a big lead up to then (I think it was around 17 - 8 in our favour). Since it finished at 25 - 24, it looks like Port got the rub of the green in the second half. Either way, I don’t think they can blame the umpires for the loss. 

16 minutes ago, Whispering_Jack said:

I glanced at the figures on my App close to half time and we had a big lead up to then (I think it was around 17 - 8 in our favour). Since it finished at 25 - 24, it looks like Port got the rub of the green in the second half. Either way, I don’t think they can blame the umpires for the loss. 

I said it somewhere else, but I watched our frees closely in the first qtr on reply and they were all clear frees. The 2 that we got goals from were Clarry being held so he couldn’t run in to the next contest which is 50m and Allir looking at and jumping into BBB to stop him going for a mark. Clear as day. I was just surprised they paid them at Port but that’s the ground bias coming into it. 

Our final against Carlton was highly suspect in umpiring terms.

The AFL ALWAYS has an agenda.

 

Most defenders struggle against Curnow and McKay, so they resort to measurers that result in free kicks. If you watch the North Melb match closley the North defenders panicked and gave away unnecessary free kicks and silly 50m penalties. Most of them weren't soft either, regulation, by the book frees and 50m penalties.

Curnow & McKay are going to be a handful for most defences this season.

31 minutes ago, Lexinator said:

Gee, wasn't imagining it! Carlton are getting so many rubbish frees and inside their 50 that result in goals!

Carlton always gets rubbish frees in front to Harry and Charlie 


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After Round 8

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Free Kick Ladder - 2024

Club

FF

FA

Differential

Carlton

166

134

+32

Essendon

151

122

+29

Gold Coast SUNS

174

152

+22

Adelaide Crows

158

141

+17

West Coast Eagles

149

138

+11

Port Adelaide

157

147

+10

Fremantle

145

136

+9

Brisbane Lions

150

148

+2

St Kilda

142

140

+2

Sydney Swans

158

156

+2

Collingwood

174

173

+1

Melbourne

147

147

0

Hawthorn

149

152

-3

North Melbourne

148

153

-5

Western Bulldogs

135

142

-7

Geelong Cats

110

140

-30

GWS GIANTS

121

165

-44

Richmond

117

166

-49

Free Kick Ladder - 2021-2023

Club

FF

FA

Differential

Western Bulldogs

1272

1112

+160

Carlton

1365

1258

+107

Brisbane Lions

1346

1279

+67

Fremantle

1290

1238

+52

Collingwood

1277

1227

+50

Essendon

1254

1217

+37

Melbourne

1254

1221

+33

Geelong Cats

1278

1247

+31

GWS GIANTS

1220

1206

+14

St Kilda

1271

1262

+9

Adelaide Crows

1391

1397

-6

West Coast Eagles

1229

1247

-18

Hawthorn

1232

1263

-31

Sydney Swans

1331

1370

-39

North Melbourne

1252

1326

-74

Port Adelaide

1278

1360

-82

Gold Coast SUNS

1235

1320

-85

Richmond

1148

1375

-227

Can we pre-emptively lodge a complaint to the AFL about he number of frees Carlton will get this Thursday night?

Our zero differential shows how useless the stat is when we have games where we have lost the free kick count 21-9 and won the count 24-12. Its a roll of the dice what the umps are going to do on a given day.

Its all about what doesn't get paid and where certain free kicks are paid(looking at some real soft ones Charlie Curnow is going to get in front of goal)

 

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11 minutes ago, Demonland said:

I wish our forwards got 1/10th of the frees Curnow gets gifted. You can't go near the guy.

Doesn't help that the AFL want Carlton to do well.

3 hours ago, Demonland said:

I wish our forwards got 1/10th of the frees Curnow gets gifted. You can't go near the guy.

This is a bit of a myth. This season he has had 9 frees in 8 games.  Of those, 7 of the 9 frees were in games vs North and Adelaide, and in the remaining six games there have been four games where he hasn't received a free at all.

 


Edit - just went and checked last season.

Including finals, he played 26 games and got 39 frees. 

Of those 39 frees, 11 were in two games vs the Filth (LOL) and another 11 were in three games vs North, Saints & West Coast. 

Remaining 21 games he had 17 frees in total, including nine games where he didn't get any at all, two of which were against us.
 

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The Tiges are constantly on the bottom.  What's with that?

Three premierships in four years was enough for HQ?

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26 minutes ago, JTR said:

This is a bit of a myth. This season he has had 9 frees in 8 games.  Of those, 7 of the 9 frees were in games vs North and Adelaide, and in the remaining six games there have been four games where he hasn't received a free at all.

 


Edit - just went and checked last season.

Including finals, he played 26 games and got 39 frees. 

Of those 39 frees, 11 were in two games vs the Filth (LOL) and another 11 were in three games vs North, Saints & West Coast. 

Remaining 21 games he had 17 frees in total, including nine games where he didn't get any at all, two of which were against us.
 

I must have just watched all those games.

1 hour ago, Demon Dynasty said:

The Tiges are constantly on the bottom.  What's with that?

Three premierships in four years was enough for HQ?

Because they were and are dirty and have terrible tackling technique particularly around peoples necks.


On 02/04/2024 at 08:18, Bitter but optimistic said:

That Carlton figure is a disgrace.

A lot about that club is disgraceful, starting with their supporters.

The Fam and I were at the Carlton end at the final last year, horrendous, so many of them visibly shaking with aggression! There’s passion but that was something else.

15 hours ago, Demon Dynasty said:

The Tiges are constantly on the bottom.  What's with that?

Three premierships in four years was enough for HQ?

 

Really is fascinating. 

 

Do OOB on the full count as free kicks? On Sat night Geelong kicked at least 7 OOB on the full, if these are counted as legitimate free kicks then it sort of skews the numbers

On 07/05/2024 at 15:53, FearTheBeard said:

Our zero differential shows how useless the stat is when we have games where we have lost the free kick count 21-9 and won the count 24-12. Its a roll of the dice what the umps are going to do on a given day.

Its all about what doesn't get paid and where certain free kicks are paid(looking at some real soft ones Charlie Curnow is going to get in front of goal)

 

It of course doesn’t account for the unpaid frees - we could start a book on how many throws Cripps will get away with Thursday.  


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