Redleg

Ah the Valiant.

I can see it now. Tribunal sums up after allowing the appeal, that no reasonable person or footballer, could have foreseen, that a smaller player, dragging a bigger player to the ground, would cause the bigger player to hit his head on the ground twice and that after all, he really didn't mean to do it and he is sorry.

You and me both. Do we honestly believe Roo or Tom being pushed, grabbed and 2 teamed, are going to consistently mark big bombs? Also our small forwards seem to be off the boil too. How many goals did the Dockers get from a chip pass?

Understand your op, but there is a wide range of ages, personalities and character types on here, who will react differently to different situations. We are rarely that good or that bad. Footy fan forums exist to voice opinions, which will vary in the extreme. Personally, I haven’t given up, far from it, but that doesn’t mean I can’t post on what I see happening from week to week, same as many others. We have areas to work on and fans have every right to discuss those, without personal abuse of course. Andy would be furious if no one posted and DL would be very shallow if it just reported team changes.

If we could have had a normal disposal efficiency yesterday of say 78%, instead of 66%, we would have won well, We can work on that, by decision making changing. Less bomb, more pass.

It’s not Griffiths, as we have had a good injury run and we have won most last quarters so far and are still running at the end of games. It is skill, speed, game plan, attitude and ineffective clearances and a non settled forward line.

Everything you posted, I said to my son at the game. I added, our disposal was terrible, 66% cannot win a a game, we showed no aggression, especially at LJ and more so when Darcy went off, allowing LJ to follow up and win the game for them, they didn’t miss, we too often did, we never short passed going into forward 50 and our forward line has a kid, a cooked player, an injured/lacking confidence one and too many small forwards who had no impact and we lacked awareness, spoiling team mates and costing a few certain goals. Our GF team would have killed our side yesterday. Clarry and Petty out cost us beyond belief.

That is the most inaccurate post I have ever read on DL. Probably a dozen clangers. Turned it over continually.

Wouldn’t make our side with 87% disposal efficiency, as we went at 66% today.

All credibility for a start. He is either hopeless or a cheat. Others can decide which.

Umpire 13 is crying.

Watching the umpires steal the game from the Suns. Paid a 50 and goal for moving 2 metres over the mark. Replay shows guy in the mark never moved an inch. And another free kick goal. Same umpire the last 3 goals. Frees 20-10 for Dogs. I hope Suns win and that umpire cries. Umpire 13 is clearly a Dogs fan.

Well as bad as some say we are, would you agree that if we kicked straight we would have won. That is what in many respects makes it so infuriating.

Precisely.

68% disposal says it all. Needed to put LJ off his game and we haven’t

The problem is they are never seen again. Maybe it’s just the Piranhas in the moat, who knows?

You could be right and he will be a long way off a 6 year contract, at $800k plus per year.

He did look in a lot of pain and I thought he said to the phsysio/doctor who was walking with him, he was no good. He could miss next week and it looks like Hewitt, Newman, Kennedy and Hollands could all miss.

He is also dropping a lot of marks. It’s probably just a form slump, but it does highlight the dangers of long contracts at big money, if you get them wrong, it can stuff up your list.

I think Dan has just smashed the glass.

We have a chance to possibly put all our eggs in one basket and get a seriously good player, OR, have a strong draft hand, to get some very good young players in and maybe solve a few of our problems. I am in favour of the latter.

Cats playing an Irish kid off 3 VFL games. He must be very good.

While most would agree we haven’t played our best football lately and our lineup is not settled, especially forward, if the umpire had not paid that 7 metre pass to Lord, or Grundy had punched the ball through the points, in the first few minutes, or any one of 4-5 frees which ended in goals had not been paid, we would be second on the ladder, with the best percentage in the AFL. We can still trust this team.

No

There you have it. I have a real level of disquiet about the Tribunal Chairman and to a slightly lesser degree the MRO. With the MRO there is little transparent explanation, as to why some incidents and not similar or worse outcome others are treated so differently. With the Tribunal Chairman, the former AFL prosecutor at the Tribunal, he seems determined from my viewing, to confirm penalties rather than truly evaluate the incident. He tries to bring in the Law, to cover deficiencies in fact. Tribunal hearings imo, should be about the common sense issues of what happened and were they intentional acts or accidental, could or should they have been avoided and an overarching principle of how we want the game played. The Chairman has decided cases, by suggesting alternative actions, that are totally unreasonable in a contact sport and in some cases just plainly impossible to perform in a contact sport or pressure situation. Some of his decisions imo are just plainly laughable. He has confused the reasonable man in the Law definition, with a footballer in a pressure situation, where there is no sensible comparison. I think we would be better served with someone else as our Tribunal Chairman, with a background in the game and yes possibly a Law degree, but not used to stifle the actual way the game is played, so as to make it nearly impossible for the players to play and the fans to watch.