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What a relief, we WERE officially robbed

joeboy
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Just announced : the AFL has officially ruled the goal that was paid to Adelaide despite McVee’s efforts, WAS actually touched before crossing the line🤦‍♂️

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    Well it looked touched on the eastern wing at Adelaide Oval.

    The goal umpires ruled it a point but for some reason four eyes in the bunker decided to get cute and over rule the goal umpires decision.

    Does it really matter though? but we always seem to be on the end of theses bull tish calls.

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    And Marchbank finally comes clean and says he didn’t touch Petracca’s kick in 2023🤣

    It didn’t cost us the Adelaide game, but the review system is [censored] embarrassing.

    AFL would have to possess the worst system in world sport, NRL does it so much better.

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    wouldn't have changed the result, crows have been on the other end of about 6 of these that cost them the game in the past few years

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    21 minutes ago, jaydenh10 said:

    wouldn't have changed the result, crows have been on the other end of about 6 of these that cost them the game in the past few years

    Brave call, jh10!

    If memory serves, the word is 'reasonable'.

    To the naughty corner!

    😁

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    Putting aside our dismal performance for the year but we have been on the end of some really poor umpiring decisions at critical moments

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    1 hour ago, Dee Zephyr said:

    And Marchbank finally comes clean and says he didn’t touch Petracca’s kick in 2023🤣

    It didn’t cost us the Adelaide game, but the review system is [censored] embarrassing.

    AFL would have to possess the worst system in world sport, NRL does it so much better.

    did he re Marchbank?

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    2 hours ago, joeboy said:

    Just announced : the AFL has officially ruled the goal that was paid to Adelaide despite McVee’s efforts, WAS actually touched before crossing the line🤦‍♂️

    Do we get a prize?

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    2 hours ago, jaydenh10 said:

    wouldn't have changed the result,

    That we will never know...

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    all the nitwit commentators were saying it wasn't touched either accept jono brown

    anyways, mistakes happen. i still reckon we are better off having a goal review rather than not

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    Good old sports entertainment hey? When did you last see a free paid against the Pies in the last 5 minutes of a close game? Best it's ever been.

    So many manipulated results there's at least 30 games of no consequence in the last 7 rounds. All good though as Collingwood, Geelong and Hawthorn will make the prelims.

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    22 minutes ago, Clintosaurus said:

    Good old sports entertainment hey? When did you last see a free paid against the Pies in the last 5 minutes of a close game? Best it's ever been.

    So many manipulated results there's at least 30 games of no consequence in the last 7 rounds. All good though as Collingwood, Geelong and Hawthorn will make the prelims.

    add lions/gc to that

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    Could they also go back and rule on that 21 insufficient intent act by the crows where we.lost by a point?

    Just for posterity.

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    12 hours ago, Phil C said:

    Just get rid of it. It’s purely an excuse to advertise Crypto. Infuriating stuff.

    I wish I'd bought some too.

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    Well it looked touched on the eastern wing at Adelaide Oval.

    14 hours ago, YesitwasaWin4theAges said:

    The goal umpires ruled it a point but for some reason four eyes in the bunker decided to get cute and over rule the goal umpires decision.

    Does it really matter though? but we always seem to be on the end of theses bull tish calls.

    Not sure it doesn't matter.

    If we were closer players may have been more motivated.

    What sort of review system takes a perfect umpires call and deems it wrong?

    Edited by Previously known as LITD.

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    We have had too many poor decisions or non decisions in the last year or so. And we say nothing. Goodwin’s record would look better if he had spoken up LOUDLY. But no it’s just a job

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    7 hours ago, FireInTheBennelly said:

    Did they announce what steps they're going to take to ensure it doesn't happen again? Or was it more of a 'soz, not soz'?

    They're going to introduce a 'new' rule where if the ball is shown to be touched before crossing the line, or if it is unclear and the umpires initial call was touched, then the umpire's call remains.

    Just to give clarity for the future.

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    17 hours ago, Dee Zephyr said:

    And Marchbank finally comes clean and says he didn’t touch Petracca’s kick in 2023🤣

    If ever there was a 'sliding doors' moment that was it.

    We'd have ended the 2023 season 2nd, not 4th and played Lions in first final at the G and not Coll.

    Evey chance we'd have beaten Lions then straight into a Preim and we'd still have Gus❤️💙.

    Oh, what might have been🥹

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    1 hour ago, 640MD said:

    We have had too many poor decisions or non decisions in the last year or so. And we say nothing. Goodwin’s record would look better if he had spoken up LOUDLY. But no it’s just a job

    How do we know that the club says nothing? Even if Goody spoke ad nauseum in pressers about how the umps are cheats, all he would get is a significant fine, as opposed to the continual favourable treatment McRae and C Scott receive to overcompensate when something trivial goes against either of their teams.

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    15 minutes ago, Clintosaurus said:

    How do we know that the club says nothing? Even if Goody spoke ad nauseum in pressers about how the umps are cheats, all he would get is a significant fine, as opposed to the continual favourable treatment McRae and C Scott receive to overcompensate when something trivial goes against either of their teams.

    Dimma and Lyon are pretty good at it too.

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    1 hour ago, Little Goffy said:

    They're going to introduce a 'new' rule where if the ball is shown to be touched before crossing the line, or if it is unclear and the umpires initial call was touched, then the umpire's call remains.

    Just to give clarity for the future.

    That doesn’t seem new to me. I thought that is how it always was interpreted.

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    Tell me something I dont know. I still havent recovered from that free not paid to Jim Stynes in the goal square. It was such a howler the umpire retired the next day.

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    18 hours ago, Wells 11 said:

    did he re Marchbank?

    Nah lol, just running with the shafted theme once again

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