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Why no x metres back please first?

Overrated

It’s terrifying the enthusiasm with which the bulldogs are given frees that aren’t even considered going the other way. Week after week.

Good teams always give free kicks in red time

Wow.

Good goal against a brief run of enthusiastic umpiring. Look for them to further stamp their name in the game from here

Geelong allowed to run through the mark. I like it.

We need to get someone in front of Hawkins for the rest of the game. See what he can be tempted into.

Suspend him

They look poor. They will also be tired and a week older next week. Neither team looks threatening.

First half yesterday was about where the bulldogs free kicks were given. Kept them in the game along with Essendon inaccuracy and also the one sided adjudication of rules. The bulldogs get frees that the other side don’t get and yesterday’s first half was no different. Two sets of rules for them.

Essendon should bring up the umpiring post game regardless of consequence. The bulldogs are being handed this. Frees in front of goal. Frees going one way and not the other. I hate both teams and don’t have a dog in this fight but I am very over the umpiring handing the dogs opportunity week after week. partly on Essendon for their inability to convert too.

I thought it was aggressive. He walked straight through him while telling him what a shot job he was doing for no reason. Intent was there.

Our game does have a history of champions who are also thugs. The thuggery tends to fade from memory as time goes by.

That’s not how any justice system works. If he’s acting a fool then as an adult he will need to own that.

He looked to be imposing himself and trying to intimidate. It was very deliberate. Gotta be a couple of weeks if the AFL is serious, but probably won’t be. You can’t try and impose yourself physically on an umpire. It’s just about the dumbest thing I’ve seen a footballer do in a while.

Has he ever done anything else. Watching him belt gawn at the g earlier this year with zero ramifications was pretty [censored].

Melksham?

During that 20 minute period they didn’t have a single bounce of the ball/drop of the ball/ umpiring decision go against them. They had many umpiring decisions in that period help set up goals too. Every time the ball fell out of a pack it fell right in their hands. We were constantly wrong footed or slipping over. You get a few of them a year and they were able to capitalise on it because they’re good. They won’t do that again all finals and I doubt we will have that happen against us again this year. Even if it happened again they might kick four, but eight was nuts. I would think everyone has been on both ends of it playing sport at any level. Sometimes you get a golden run and sometimes you’re left standing there looking stupid thinking I’m not doing much wrong here.

The term “one wood” to describe a team or players strength is annoying and has become over used in recent years. A golfers strength may be their putter. The one wood is just one club in the bag. It also hasn’t existed since the beginning of the nineties, when the “driver” became what that club is referred to. Must have a lot of [censored] golfers in commentary.

The late call on Anb was odd. Only after the ball had fallen loose and we were off did the whistle come. Suspiciously late. Not to mention how out of context the free was beside the other calls of the game.

Worst deliberate call of all time. That was genuinely strange.

That was a blessed quarter for Geelong. They won’t do that again. Had a little help early in the quarter and then momentum had some fun. We dropped our heads badly. We need to make a respectable game out of it now though

Decision making/execution/game awareness forward of centre is a killer. We need a bowey/Salem like half forward. We cough up what would be simple possession chain goals or set shots kicking or handballing to the wrong spots a lot.

The umpires without doubt made sure the eagles got momentum early after the restart. The Kennedy free and the not paid mark to spargo were inexplicable