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Push in the back for me is the absolute worst. I don’t know why or how it came to be so confused, but it honestly gets paid at random. There’s Ginnivan as an issue yes, but Tom Hawkins has been gifted probably 50+ goals throughout his career for pushing in the back. It’s maddening.
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The defender plants the feet before laying the tackle, so he had stopped his momentum. Then he moves forward with small steps after that towards the player. Not sure what else they could do to limit the amount of force. Then again, I don’t know if the Carlton player propelled himself forward either, he seems to be moving at normal motion of picking up the ball then lowers his head just before contact (that video is slow motion so it would have been a fraction of a second). I still don’t think it should be a free kick to the the Carlton player, but this one is closer than I thought it would be. That one is 50/50 for mine in the context of…. if the AFL is protecting the head, and lowering the head happens every time you pick up the ball (you probably don’t want to be smashed in the face by a tackler either, hence lowering the head), then that is tricky to write a specific rule for that will work. Especially if you don’t ‘propel’ forward into the tackle. AFL is going to have a hard time being a full contact sport and eliminating concussion. Just not going to happen.
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I know a few Scottish people that would be upset at me if I didn’t mention that Jimmy Barnes and Bon Scott were both born in Scotland.
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Honestly Adelaide aren’t as bad as they’re currently playing. They look low on confidence so a quick start by them and some belief and it’ll be a slog. As you said, just take the win! Go Dees
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Just play the same team oriented way we have been playing and we’ll win by 5 goals. We played what felt like was a big emotional win for the club so hopefully their minds moved on quickly considering it was a 5 day break. We are at our best when we’re team orientated!
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Speaking of Howes and Mcvee, they look so similar on the ground! I can’t tell them apart at all
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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.
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Personal opinion: I think the hawks should start marking the ball.
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I looked it up as I wasn’t 100% sure, but ruckman have to stay in their defensive half of the centre circle, until the ball is bounced or thrown up. Should be a free kick to the oppo ruckman if the ball hasn’t bounced or the left umps hands.
100% agree about the false narrative. It was just a bloody good game of footy. I generally dislike when supporters, including us, go down the road of ‘IF only X did/didn’t happen we would have won’… that applies to every disposal and decision throughout the entire game. IF X player kicks this goal at this time, we would have won. Yes, but they didn’t, hence your/our team lost. I worked with a bunch of Collingwood supporters and they would talk like this ALL the time after a loss. They were never outplayed, always hard done by the umps even if it was only one bad decision. Drove me nuts. Always If only X, if only Y, if only Z had happened, we win. At no point watching the game did I feel like we were ‘lucky’ to be in it. We played really well and absorbed a lot of attacking footy especially in our D50 (I could say, IF May was in, we would have won by 6 goals), our forwards kicked the goals they had to kick and Port didn’t. Pretty simple. The word ‘IF’ does a lot of work sometimes that can paper over how hard and well a winning team has played.
