The Cult of Disco Turner

Tonight is the straw that broke the camel’s back for me. I hate watching the sport right now. I can tolerate our team being bad. But I cannot cope with officiating that is this bad. I like to think I’m a pretty smart guy and am fairly rational but I’m now honestly struggling to believe the AFL is not rigged at some level. This sport is in a bad state at the moment and I just can’t keep watching it week in and week out the way it’s currently being umpired.

I think this might be the end of watching footy for awhile for me. I just can’t do the umpiring anymore. It is not a fair sport. It is broken.

Free kick Carlton. Free kick Carlton. Free kick Carlton.

Free kick Carlton.

If you do not think the umpiring is having a significant negative impact on our ability to win this game, you need glasses.

They played on…how do they get a free?

Ran quite a way there…

My lord Koz is worth the money

I believe the youths call it a “high 10”

bright spots so far are Fritta and Langford

diabolical umpiring

The cult has a spot open for you if you’d like to join…

I certainly don’t disagree that we aren’t where we should be—and what the posted graph says to me is that we simply play to the level of our opponents rather than playing to a consistently high level, which is very frustrating. But I feel like it’s kind of unfair to ignore any positives about where we are at/might be going, or to ignore some of the nuance and complexities of the players we’ve lost/gained.

Yeah I mean even if the graph looks simple I would say that measuring how we’ve statistically performed against different teams, and, in turn, comparing that against how other teams have statistically performed against each other represents concrete data.

This thread is so perfect. Someone tries to present some slightly positive concrete data which shows we’re not that far off it and even makes sure to include some nuance and they’re immediately shouted down.

This is what happens when Spargo is playing at Casey and Petty is concussed. Nobody love a weekly whipping boy more than Demonlanders.

I’m preparing myself for Xerri to get 1-2 weeks—if anything. It’s pretty clear at this point that logic and consistency don’t exist at AFL HQ.

JHF and Harley Reid arguing over who has worse anger management issues

EDIT—looks I missed that someone had already posted an update on this but: Tom Sparrow was up and walking and talking in the rooms after the game.

You can say what you want about his play but Clarry bleeds red and blue

Xerri 6 weeks.

I hate that this game means we all might have to admit PF was right about something

This is evergreen

And after 3.5 months of despair I’m back to being excited about Roo and Jeffo again

Senior players kicking inaccurately inside 50 is Goodwin’s fault?