Redleg

Now nearly 3/4 time and Sam Frost revelling in the chilly conditions.

Frost has been very good in the first half for Casey today. If Weid isn't ready, surely he is the bloke who can play CHF or CHB and pinch hit in the ruck. Big, strong and quick, while capable of making a mistake, he is surely better value than Tim Smith at this stage. I would rather him on the hff than ANB, because at least he has weapons.

Sorry, you are correct the 42% was for his entire game. The 4 possies after 1/4 time was correct. If it was the same % throughout the game he could have had 1 effective possie for 3/4. He is a mid or small forward. That is pathetic. He also seems to have no feel for the game. See his miss from the goal square and his handball from 2 metres, hard as hell into Jones’ face. I cant believe a tired Spargo wouldn’t have been much better for us.

How can it be explained away by the umpiring department as they will attempt to do, that in an area where 65% of the game was played and we were attempting to kick goals when Port were trying to stop us, there was not one infringement noticed against us.

Umpire 11 the main culprit. An Adelaide umpire, big surprise. Curtis Deboy is an Australian rules football umpire currently officiating in the Australian Football League. He first umpired in the Central District Junior Football League in 2004. He made his umpiring debut in the South Australian National Football League in 2009 at the age of 19 and went on to umpire 119 SANFL games, including the 2013, '14, and '15 Grand Finals. He was on the AFL umpiring rookie list for 2013 and 2014, officiating his first game, substituted on as an emergency umpire, in 2014. In 2015, he was added to the senior umpiring list, and made his debut as a non-emergency umpire in Round 4 of that year, in a match between the Western Bulldogs and Adelaide at Docklands Stadium.

ANB 4 possessions at 42% for the last 3 quarters. Give me a break. Misses from 10 metres. Handballs hard into Jones' face. Drops marks. Spargo dropped and Garlett not considered. No crumbers and no pace, yet we bomb it long all night. Notice the little chip kicks to a loose man inside 50 by Port, after a quick short run, something we were incapable of last night. Despite that and the umpires, we butchered the ball and cost ourselves the game.

Can't believe I did it, but I emailed Robbo at the Hun and told him to write what we all saw with the umpiring. It was disgraceful. The Melksham decision was a disgrace and Ling was laughing at the call, blocking in a one on one contest. One goal taken off us. Then the 100 metre penalty and a goal to them. Umpire 11 is either a Port supporter or just totally incompetent. I think he paid about 15 frees to Port and maybe 1 to us. They had about 12 frees in front of goal for soft incidents and kicked about 6-7 from frees or 50's. We couldn't buy one. The West Coast game was also a disgrace. The AFL should worry less about changing the game and more about the poor standard of umpiring.

Me too.

Yes he got some poor delivery but he didn’t jump at the ball he turned his back and tried to rove to the pack. If his name was Joe Blow he would be dropped on his last two games. Let’s be fair about this he was terrible. I keep banging on about ANB being useless under pressure. When will the selectors see it. I don’t care less about his running he is hopeless against good sides who apply pressure. Garlett or Spargo for him tonight and we might have won.

That was a disgrace, but then followed with allowing them to play on, when everyone stopped ,after calling back 3 of our play ons. Pathetic. One goal taken off us and then onee given to them.

Good boy.

Done the way you show it, a rejig of the pathway over a short distance and the removal and replanting of some trees to line that rejigged pathway, would not see any interference to the park land at all. Surely it is better to have some community use of the area as an oval, than a car park where the ground can be damaged. You can still use the oval when the MFC is not training, yet chopped up ground from cars in winter is far harder to walk across. Plant a few more trees here and there and you have improved the park area. The new building would help deaden the train noise and improve the look of the tracks area, which is an eyesore. I would think the nearby residents would have an improved lifestyle and raised property values. A win/win. Now lets hear from the Greenies.

Think we just missed.

I wonder if they served biscuits or toast.

That sort of long term, big money contract, will probably succeed. I think he will stay an Eagle. He has driven his price and deal up and that was probably the aim of the exercise.

I'm off to the new training oval.

And PJ.

Think Urine.

I will send a warning to the wineries in Margaret River.

Well I got the opposite info. I was told if he doesn't sign with us he won't be a Demon..

Growing your own bananas is very therapeutic.

You Trumped me.

Langdon made a lot of mistakes yesterday. Don't think Freo will let him go. Gaff will cost a fortune and I am not as crazy over him as others on here. I know he racks up the stats. Would he improve us, possibly/probably? Wallis to me would be a great value get and would make our 22 ahead of say ANB, on his ear. I just reckon there are more Tim Kelly's out there.

Agree he may be far more value gone than staying and the AFL will give them even more.

I think GC just waived goodbye to Lynch.