daisycutter

the pre-season is certainly part of it, maybe a big part, but as others have said there is a lot of other things contributing. we don't seem to be making much of fist about anything. very disappointing

and it's whack not wack ?

career ending

no sympathy for morris. he made his bed, he can lie in it (no pun intended)

4.1 this qtr - that's better accuracy

sounds like it's blowing a gale, jack

pity it's not 6.3

yeah it shouldn't irk traditionalists. when i played there was no padding on posts. now with so much padding many goals are denied which does irk me, so this solution would be a good trade-off

it would certainly make a huge difference, wyl and allow many more accurate decisions but it is still a 2 dimensional video and unless you have multiple cameras on different angles there will still be some incidents that will be hard to pin down. cricket still has problems with low down catches because of the 2 dimensional aspect perhaps multiple technologies (snicko, infrared etc). like in cricket, could be used but expensive, given it could occur in so many different non-fixed positions on the ground (unlike in cricket or around the goal posts).

or just not reported? they must have sold a few hundred in the last 4 weeks at least. surely

luci, i must say i have watched the vision (maybe there is more vision i don't know about) and i couldn't say whether it was touched or not. the vision is not good enough quality (for this purpose) and the frame rate is not sufficient for good quality slo-mo. also on other occasions where many have claimed to see a touch (not all cases) i have similarly been unconvinced. i think the real problem is that our technology is nowhere good enough at this stage for the marginal touch cases. i agree though that there is certainly a process problem and too many officials/commentators talking bs and jumping the gun

frees 29 : 14 How much is 15 extra kicks worth?

it's in the banana state

simply outrageous ?

i'm familiar with the cafe snack version (sweet). do you have any more info on this other version (links, etc)?

in many parts of the world they grow "cooking" banana variants (not sweet) which are used more as a vegetable than a fruit. In fact in some countries these variants predominate (e.g. South America i believe)

face it, there's nothing that bananas can't do, uncle

this thread is probably racist based on latest definitions

well that will be the death of umpires making on-field reports

toss a coin for result

so if jones hadn't intervened would lockhart have taken his kick in the goal square where the ball was????

ok, wasn't clear on that, but after the free was awarded to us, so kick-in now negated and 2nd infringement was then after and a separate event. does this mean that we would have got the free and a 50m (i'm confused over crazy rules), if so this means the penalty was 200m (50m + kick to us, 50m + kick to them). seems way, way over the top how often do you see someone penalised for a cheap head knock get some treatment and the umpires ignore the treatment? what was worse, the head butt or the retaliatory hip and shoulder? the proportionality doesn't stack up. anway it really pizzes me off, in case you couldn't tell

the jones reversal cost us 150m and it's just crazy and not right, lost 50m free to us, 50m free to freo plus 50m penalty = 150m or 3 kicks in effect a ball-up (i.e. one cancelling the other) would make more common sense and who ever heard of an automatic 50 just in one section of the field in one certain play? more afl interference, if true. ...... and it wasn't an indiscretion during a kick-in, that was the walter's one, this was well after the kick-in, but it seems the umpire can't work that out for himself

lots of impatience and short memories on here chook. I reckon even superman would take a bollicking from some posters.

yes i found it very odd with three freo players delightedly undressing viney i'll have to ask uncle bitters for his psychoanalysis, seems very freudian