DiscoStu17

This umpire with the goatee has got [censored] for brains! NFI He doesn’t know when a tackle is high. He doesn’t know when you are allowed to go for a mark and use your body to block. Half of these guys (umpires) should be retired.

Rubbish article. Pretty sure our comms officer is Max.

I think they tried everything to keep him there, but the go home factor was too strong for him.

Not often you see a Mayan pyramid in the score summary

Nash’s tackle on Soligo was pretty good. The umpire should have tapped Soligo on the shoulder and pointed to the screen.

Heath? Verrall was on the field for half the time, and got more taps/hits to advantage – mainly against Heath. Maybe we should go and get Harry Boyd as well? Where is his fan base from last year?

The main problem to come from this is that we could be 10 goals up in the last quarter of a final, and the opposition would still think they are a chance and will not lie down under any scoreboard pressure whatsoever.

I haven’t seen an umpire call players back into the Centre after a 6–6–6 rule free kick before. The only rule I can see is that a 50 meter penalty can apply the 6–6–6 is adjudged to be deliberate. Either way, I can’t believe that they obviously haven’t looked at the 6–6–6 scenario. Marking players and tall defenders go deep in defence. Wings, Mids and half backs go towards half back. Tag dangerous midfielders. Pretty sure we never had a rule to not turn your back on play – thought that that was pretty self evident. Bowser was actually the only one in the right place, until he turned around and jogged back to the others.

Nah. Have a look at his last goal when he was running to the right fwd pocket. He had 3-4 players inside that he could’ve handballed to. Once they realised it was him, and he had no intention of sharing the ball, they all stopped. All okay if he kicks them from the boundary, over his shoulder all the time – but not exactly the percentage play. I think this has also become a problem in the A’s.

You can do that if you don’t give handballs when they are there

DS54 just thought he was CP5 for a second…. Same action, same result

Someone else looks like him 😳

And a little night-Mary? Sorry, I’m a little late again.

So Sam Taylor was reckless? Or intentional?

Carlton’s gotta sell CURNOW and Mackay, and see what they can get for them. They are in more need of a rebuild than West Coast.

Great. Unless he turns up looking like Thor - in the last movie (was that love and thunder)

Should be Hardie, Ferraro…

And TC is back in the ruck. And Verrall is back on the pine. No wonder he’s only getting 40min per game. Hopefully TC will still be okay at the end of the game.

AJ is looking up and about, and can get the ball. Unfortunately, his disposal is [censored] and I’m not a big fan. So far he’s kicked to the opposition inside 50, and hand balled over a team mates head when it should’ve been a walk in goal

I’ve wondered about that move for awhile because he is so mobile and takes a big Mark. He looks good there

Anyone who was there – was that a push in the back? It really didn’t look like it.

Looks to me like there’s a fair few players from that draft that will be pretty good – not just the top four. I could name Michalanney, Weddel, Humphrey, and Fletcher off the top of my head. Then of course there’s The poo 💩 Seriously though, I was wondering a bit as well. Mainly because this group was more affected by Covid than any other. No under 16’s, no underage year. Even in 2022 I think the state squads were a bit all over the place. So I think many of them will have a slower start to their careers, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the games played is not significantly different by the end.

Let’s hope that sometime in the next three weeks they can disinfect the regular seats.

Yes, it was a direct response to PCL injuries to Goodes and others, which I think was largely misguided. If you want to now jump at the ball, it will be at the same time and opposite direction as the opposition – you each get about three steps, which surely must cause more problems. When you could decide for yourself whether you wanted to go back 5 m – 20 m and jump early or late, there was less chance of a direct clash. The random nature of the bounce also stopped direct clashes, but it’s unrealistic to expect umpires to be able to bounce the ball that high anymore – especially without the plate in the middle, which was removed following Rehn‘s injury in 1996. It didn’t stop Goodes getting another PCL injury in the 2012 GF, so was it just something about the way he jumped? I would like to see the Ruckmen required to start outside the 10m circle, with their foot touching the line. Ideally, the circle should become 15m. This would only work if the blocking infringement was re-introduced. This is a key part of our game in all contests. Players need to be able to make the ball their priority. If players are not going for the ball, what are they doing?

Lots of blocking doesn’t get paid, but I think they are trying to cut it back as much as possible – bear in mind that there are very 1:1 contests in the modern game, or anyway a hell of a lot less than the 1980s when the blocks were much easier to see. I don’t think that the changes to the interpretation of the push in the back rule have been successful. It’s very much like 1995 again. You should be able to use your arms to create space, but not send players flying across the ground. This rule was generally well applied up to 2006, when it got out of control again, and the 2007 “not allowed to touch the player in front of you” rule was introduced. I can’t believe we had to put up with that [censored] for 12 years. Basically, the umpire needs to forget about the push in the back rule unless it’s obviously interfering with the player in the front/dominant position. This is for marking contests and ruck contests. The only other time is during a tackle, which is completely different as the players are generally on the ground. They also need to forget about paying a free kick for chasing and touching a player as they are about to kick the ball. Should only be a free kick down field if the player has been truly mugged – not just if he falls over.