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This is what stood out to me too. Didn't seem to have near the intensity of his other teammates. I'd give him another week, but would be having a word in his ear.

5 day break. 90 points. Meh. It'll do ;)

As much as 90 is good - I'm thoroughly [censored] at North getting the last 3 goals.

BOWZER!

Why? He controls his intensity. If he was having a dip but not showing much for it, fine. But he's not.

I love you Fritta. I love you Kozzie.

That was a great Van Bullen goal.

We actually look dangerous when we lower our eyes.

The one thing I'm not liking so far is Schache's presence. Doesn't seem to go as hard as everyone else.

I'm a bit concerned that Norths goal kicking accuracy might punish us here. So far they haven't kicked a single point!

I'm sure by the end of the game we will ;)

Yep. This is all I'm concerned about. Don't put the cue in the rack!

WTF was that!? Haha. 2 of our guys giving away a HTB.

Soft 50, but I'll take it.

Yeah, landed on it similar to Howe and his arm.

Think Jeremy Howe's injury, but for a lower leg/ankle. That's exactly what it looked like.

I'm liking what I'm seeing but are we that good or is North that bad?

My second favourite game of every round. Whoever v Freo.

I mocked up a jumper. Have at it! :D

And a massive 4 behinds in the VFL last week. We can't be saying we want to reward form in the VFL and then reward BBB with his 0.4. Do I want to see BBB back in? Of course. It's hard to deny Schache a chance based on his VFL form though.

Check the first post in this thread, it explains the process nicely :)

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No, It's as simple as the protected area also extends to behind the player manning the mark. 5 metres back, 10 metres either side (so in total a box 5m deep x 20m wide). If an oppo player enters that (unless to stick with one of the other teams players) it's a 50. Same as the rest of the protected area at any other time. Here's the picture of the protected area again for people that have missed it. The "No player can enter this area" is a bit misleading as players of the same team of the player who took the mark CAN enter the protected area. It should say "No player of the opposition can enter this area". I think. I don't know anymore. I've read these rules too many times today and I've confused myself even. What I do know is that Lever wasn't allowed to. He did and in a way that wasn't subtle.

This I agree with. The standard of umpiring tonight was appalling. The consistency with how they umpire is not great. This is sadly the best we can expect while umpires are part time and essentially doing it as a hobby for some extra cash. If we want improvements then the discussion needs to be started on making the umpires a professional organisation with a full time career path for the ones selected to adjudicate AFL games. The fact that they aren't in a billion dollar league is laughable. The AFL has said that if they were to go down this path then some umpires would want to leave. Well - Good. If some aren't willing to put in the time and effort required to improve the standard of umpiring league wide that moving to a full time position would afford, then why would we want to keep them? Rant over. P.S - All of that said, they aren't cheats and the 50 paid against Lever still wasn't making up rules as they go along.