Dodos Demons

Bet none of them have mentioned the umpires warning players earlier.

Anyone know the “rule” for reviewing that Pies point that was subject to a very very late review (clearly crossed the line). Seems like the ARC has discretion to review anything and wait until the next stoppage to inform field umpire. Interested to know what the rules are for reviewing a point when play continues. Could lead to some very unfair outcomes.

Re the free for not handing ball back, a caller to SEN post game said his son was at the game listening to the in stadium commentary and apparently it picked up the umpire telling Pendles earlier being warned that players weren’t handing the ball back quick enough (ie time wasting). Puts a different paint job on the “controversy”. See if the AFL come out and out Pies back in their box (cage). Could be deliberate tactic by Pies and they have been caught out. They should have other officials running the clock like basketball and make it black and white when the clock stops and starts (ie in the rules) and remove the need for field umpires to call time off and on. Such an antiquated system and so not necessary. Move with the times AFL.

I wonder how many of the 12 were on BBB. Sadly, he wouldn't be the hardest guy to chase down and tackle 😪.

If we can’t win the first quarter against the Eagles then it doesn’t bode well for the rest of the season. Rome wasn’t built in a day but if the “learnings” from slow starts cannot be demonstrated this week, when will they start to reveal themselves???

And there seems a complete lack of desire (or opportunity) for the umpires to ever consult on clear mistakes. It’s is like they are fearful of each other. Only time it seems to happen is boundary line throwing (other than arc). They would be encouraged not to but maybe in the last 2 minutes of each quarter (or game) they can? Of course, very little will change, if anything. Like when umpire does bad bounce at start of a quarter. Why don’t they reset the clock??? Rant over.

Chris Scott under the pump in the press conference wearing one of the Cats style headbands.

Joel Selwood says hi …/sarc

“Look, I don’t want to make excuses but you will find out that the team had the flu”

Would be nice if we could kick that straight regularly. Other than the Port game, we never seem to be the team that is in the game because we have kicked straight. We are the team that keeps the opposition in the game because we don’t kick straight.

Looking forward to the next post match press conference where Tom Morris asks Bevo about JUH’s long term future at the Bulldogs. Bevo v Morris round 2 lol. No love lost there. Rumours can only help our chances of prying JUH loose.

I wonder if many players know that once you get to 200 games you can avail yourself of this loophole. Jack Viney can cut loose now.

Did he know those numbers off the top of his head or were they given to him by AFL HQ in the script?

So true - “potential to cause serious injury can be taken into account when grading impact*”. *unless we think you are a great bloke or character witness tell us that we should believe you are a great bloke in which case the inverse applies and we can downgrade the impact in such circumstances. Farcical. It really is. If the AFL did not have so many sycophant reporters - they need to call this out.

Just when we thought the rules had been written in such a way to allow wriggle room for the grading of impact (ie potential to cause serious injury is now relevant to the “impact”) so that the “stars” can be protected, along comes a new contender “the Chairman’s Discretion” as the ultimate power to save the stars when not even the ambiguous rules can. Oh boy, could they be any more transparently biased to the “stars”* if the game. Note those that qualify as a “star” are determined in the AFL’s discretion lol. An indictment on the fairness of the game.

Definitely agree we were beaten by a better team but at the game the players definitely looked flat, slower, fumbly and hesitant. Don’t know if that can all be put down to them being a better team or applying more pressure. We looked a completely different side to the one that played Port only a week or so earlier.

The hypothesis that requires the fewest possible assumptions (without internal intel) is that we were physically cooked from the get go (illness or conditioning, who knows). Time will tell.

Precisely. How can it be that 6 rounds in we are physically exhausted? We did have blooded a number of young guys so can understand forget may need a rest but no idea why the senior player (other than Max) appeared out of petrol tickets from the first quarter. Was it an outlier and if so, still have to wonder why. What happens at the pointy end of the season or even worse, finals. That is was is most concerning. What makes the most sense is that the bulk of the team were suffering some kind of illness but that could also be a convenient narrative to cover over a very weak and flat performance.

Curnow would have to be at the top of the pile in terms of positioning himself to make a free kick more likely thank not. Helps that the umpires fawn all over him.

We win double the hit outs yet get smashed in clearances. Not having a go at Max’s effort and performance but it is so frustrating to have such a dominant ruckman (who trains with his mids for hours during the week on clearance work) have the opposition mids turn up on match day and appear to be reading him better than our mids. I think we had at most 2 clearances in the last that were clean from tap work. The rest went the Lions way or were nullified.

The matrix table which contains the grading of classifiable offences and in particular, the grading of the degree/level of “contact” (ie the force) is open to so much wriggle room (aka for the “stars” of the game) and ambiguity because of one sentence buried in the tribunal guidelines under the definition of impact. That sentence is as follows: “The MRO may however consider the potential to cause injury to upgrade impact from negligible to a higher level of impact.” Wait for the day that a fresh air swing or missed bump that May otherwise have collected an opponent on the head results in a Demons player being suspended. The inclusion of a clause granting the MRO with unfettered discretion to upgrade is an indictment on the tribunal system as a forum for fair and impartial adjudication of these matters.

SEN are advertising a sync feature on their app so you can sync the SEN broadcast to the tv broadcast. Anyone tried it?

Absolute BS. No arms pinned and Rozzee played a dead fish to draw a free. Madness. Should appeal. Opposition player did zero to protect himself and had both arms free. What was rivers to do?

Pies players regularly lead with a dropped shoulder to draw high tackle. Pendlebury and N Daicos the worst offenders. Bad look.

….and a brand that all other serious contenders have worked out and nullify. Oh boy, this could be a long season.