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Everything posted by FireInTheBennelly
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Is it any coincidence that Stuie Dew's initials, SD, could also be used for Salad Dodger?
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What's the story with Sexton? Kicks goals in a poor team, can play in the guts, he's got something.
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Publicly funded pigsty
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Umpiring v West Coast in Perth
FireInTheBennelly replied to Rolling Stone's topic in Melbourne Demons
I should add, that after the Bombers saga, I'd put nothing beyond the AFL. -
Umpiring v West Coast in Perth
FireInTheBennelly replied to Rolling Stone's topic in Melbourne Demons
Agreed, however where is the line drawn on what the video umpire can advise on? I've seen no guidelines. All I'm saying is a faint line can be drawn between the 3 scenarios ('the voice', late calls, mind change), there's obviously no way anyone would be able too prove this unless the AFL came out and said it. If it were true, what's the chances of that getting out??? -
Umpiring v West Coast in Perth
FireInTheBennelly replied to Rolling Stone's topic in Melbourne Demons
It's something that's very hard to identify, however there's definitely been an increase in slow/late calls this year, which could be an indicator of this happening. The thing that brought this to my attention was in a particular Dees game, and I can't recall which game it was sorry, on 3 separate occasions when a player was lining up at goals, an unknown voice could be heard over the referees intercom (I'll call it) say '15 seconds', at which point the umpire would notify the kicker of '15 seconds gone'. It was clearly not someone on the ground, and it had a distinct NRL bunker sound to it. I've not heard it in any game since, so I'm assuming this person had hit the wrong button sending the communication public when it should only have been for the umpires earpiece. I'd love to go back to that game and listen to the voice and also if there were any goal reviews. I'd guarantee it's the same voice, meaning that video umpire is giving directions to the on-field umpires. -
Umpiring v West Coast in Perth
FireInTheBennelly replied to Rolling Stone's topic in Melbourne Demons
Because he's doing exactly what the AFL want, he's following orders. The umpires are receiving instructions over their headsets, hence the increasing number of slow/late calls. There was 1 instance last week with Nicholls, where Clarry was tackled and Nicholls called play on and waved his arms after the ball came free. A second later, and nothing had changed, he blows the whistle and calls holding the ball. What changed? Somebody else made that call. -
Umpiring v West Coast in Perth
FireInTheBennelly replied to Rolling Stone's topic in Melbourne Demons
I'd take that, can't see it being that even. -
And hit another Melbourne supporter on the chest, carrot out.
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Has Nicholls ever paid us a free?
FireInTheBennelly replied to In Harmes Way's topic in Melbourne Demons
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Nicholls calls play on and waves his arms, then blows the whistle, holding the ball. Who made that decision?
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8 free kicks to 2 since start of Q2
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I'm not sure why we bother kicking the ball to JKH
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Correct. Swans are avoiding stoppages by throwing the ball out and dropping it.
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Geez we can find players by foot well, shame they're all the opposition
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Better tactic, kick it high on top of Allir's head. Let him cop a few.
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Nicholls can't even run a coin toss
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#tearitdown
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2nd is still open if we win all 3. It means we beat WCE, and I'd back the Lions to beat them in Bris.
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Loving this carnage
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One rule tweak I would make is a tackler can't be penalised for a lingering tackle if his opposition doesn't dispose properly. Quite often the ball carrier just drops it and the tackler has no way of knowing.
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You're probably right but on a tv screen, which is where the evidence is, who's to say how far 5, 10, 20 metres is? Umpires get the distances wrong many times over in every game. Short kicks, running too far etc, so who knows how far 5m is???? I'd like to see the May hit again to see how far that was, comparatively. Regardless, the best the commentary team could come up with was 'Saad had run 4 steps' before he was hit. Pardon [censored] me? Apparently in the rules somewhere it says something about 5 metres, and commentators of all people should be up with that news, but is there something in the rules about how many steps a player takes before it's a late hit? Amateur hour. How much do these clowns get paid?
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Admittedly I haven't seen the druggos draw, and be [censored] if I'd even bother looking, but I recall back in '98 we were looking like missing and everyone was saying we couldn't make it, but with the draw we had I was tipping us to make it, and we did. Are they really done, or is it still possible? Either way, the media know they cash in every time they talk about these cheats. That's all it's about.
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And then picking Oliver instead. Has to almost go down as the biggest bullet dodge in history.
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Hooker's just thrown 2 punches at a guy lying on the ground, near the head. How [censored] dumb could you be?