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Yes it's important, but these days the free is usually paid against the player doing what Dunkley did. This is done to protect against the serious risk of major leg damage to the player running in.

And flying Shane and Deanne and Taj's siblings, over to watch Taj's first game with us will complete the healing.

Don't think so. I think he will stay on hbf as a distributor. IMO it suits his style of play and is most beneficial for us. More chance of Hunt playing on a wing IMO.

Looks like it just got better. Available this week.

Plenty on here didn't 18 months ago. Same with JJ.

He needs a block of games to get his confidence up and not feel like he will be dropped if he spills the next mark. Players play with a bit more freedom and instinct when they feel they are part of the side. He has the attributes and I think he is one breakout game away from being an automatic selection and playing good consistent football.

Absolutely!

Yes we are and we simply had a bad night converting opportunities. As you said, a few more goals instead of points and it is a thrashing.

Mabior Chol as his mentor probably helped.

The great Guru Bob.

Yes Balta, Reiwoldt and Lynch agree.

Yes shown over and over on fox footy. Try AFL site under MRO this week and they will probably have some video. Pretty ordinary action by Cotchin and clearly deliberate.

Yes I posted that very thing earlier and it's only a matter of time. Then when the player complains, another 50. Hope it's not us.

Settle down Jaded. How Cotchin didn’t get at least a week is mind boggling. He could have really done some major damage to Walker’s leg with his studs. No wonder Walker was furious with the MRO on radio yesterday. The AFL didn’t like his comments, but watch them do nothing, to make it all go away. Cotchin has repeatedly got away with incidents that others would have been penalised for.

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Not according to 20 year VAFA umpire Brian Clarke, who says it is making it much harder for he and his fellow umpires and leading to more crowd anger. Veteran former AFL Umpire Darren Goldspink agrees with him. If they follow the AFL on this in junior footy, more morons will attack/abuse the umpires and cause even more problems. People need to understand that everyone agrees with umpires being treated respectfully. It is the heavy handed approach of the AFL that is the issue here.

Either can I.

Think you have missed the point. That is clear dissent and has always been. We are now penalising players who STAND on the mark, don’t say anything to the umpire, or even look at the umpire, but merely put their arms out. Too bad if they put their arms out, merely to put the player having the kick off his kick. The rule is arms out 50. That is a joke, except nobody is laughing.

Clearly it’s do as I say, not as I do.

McKay cops a fine for being bumped and falling over and this bloke launches into a space orbit, after a hand on his arm, after he initiates contact and gets off Scott free.

Other than our winning lately, I don’t really enjoy the game anymore and I blame the AFL for that loss of enjoyment.

I hope we tell our players not to appeal for frees, verbally or with hands out, as that will have to be a free and 50 against us. If the umpire didn’t award a free, appealing will be against his decision and obviously under the rules dissent. My anger is with the AFL, not the umpires, as I have posted previously. This is a pathetic and unnecessary rule. It has always been a rule that dissent is penalised and we should have left it at that. Clearly former umpire Goldspink agrees, as does nearly every ex player in the media.

The biggest staging of recent years gets a goal from a free and 50 and cops no fine. Tom Hawkins does it again. I give up. The MRO is just a joke.

Robbo gave the solution, do away with all the players and use robots.

Agree with the thrust of your post, but disagree with the way they have brought this in. Any abuse to an umpire should be penalized and I am sure we all agree on that. I just don't think that every bit of frustration, or even guarding the mark with hands out is abuse. They have even given a 50 for a player shaking his head. That could be at himself. I don't agree that putting the arms out is a 50, otherwise you can't even STAND and guard the mark. It is an overreaction. This is being badly adjudicated and is another reason to criticize umpires. The umpires don't need this and it is unhelpful to the cause. Just make it any DEMONSTRATIVE gesture or verbal abuse aimed to the umpire. This is a perception rule and made so the crowds see no abuse of umpires. At the moment it is a farcical rule, bringing the umpires under more attention. They don't need it and neither does the game. PS: Imagine losing a GF, because a player is waving his arms at the player having a free kick or mark, to try and put him off his kick and a 50 is paid for abuse, giving his team the winning goal. That would not be helpful to umpires.