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Speciesism against moose.

League to announce a third WA team?

So, we shouldn't discuss anything about other clubs and their players as they are not part of our club or future? You surely don't believe that. If discussion about Jackson annoys you, just ignore it.

We discuss all sorts of aspects of clubs and players, why not their motivation for decisions? Almost all of it is pure speculation, and if we really knew we wouldn't be posting on here anyway. We're not harming Jackon or his mum or his pet dog by discussing these things. I'm sure our interest in all aspects of Jackson will diminish pretty soon anyway. Personally I'm not fussed about him leaving - seems to offer opportunities for fixing deficencies in our list. Doesn't mean I'm not interested in the human side of things as well. I think it is completely reasonable to ask why Jackson decided not to pursue NBL

But he didn't. Was any reason ever given publically?

So Oliver reddened his eye himself. Give it a rest

Typical AFL

Disagree. Even if Jackson has had an underwhelming year, he is a known quantity and is more likely to come good than an untested pick 2 who may or may not become good in x years.

How can a pick 2 who may turn out to be a fizzer be equal to a former pick 3 who helped win a GF? There has to be more than steak knives in addition.

https://www.afl.com.au/video/841926/did-oliver-break-players-code-in-berry-incident-?videoId=841926&modal=true&type=video&publishFrom=1662959100001 Even if you accept this twaddle, how was Oliver meant to know it wasn't intentional?

The two are not incompatible. I believe we had an opportunity lost AND a good year.

I'm surprised that this could happen before the Casey GF (except for any players who can't play in that).

Would he really make public what he thought which would give to other clubs an indication of what changes he plans to make in 2023? Doubtless they have a good idea anyway, but why give them anything - they all have 17 other clubs to worry about. Or maybe he doesn't know himself yet.

Sorry 58er: Leading in every game and then losing a few of them yet never being thrashed (so that you remain second on the ladder at the end of the season) is hardly devestating (though disappointing to not do better etc). Anyway it sounds a lot more positive than being thrashed in games from the start.

“We’re not done yet” is open to interpretation. Either we are not dead yet (which is not very positive) or we will do more (which is positive) Let’s hope the players read it the latter way.

They had a similar error last week.

Three matches broadcast in NSW/Canberra means only 1 match will be shown that doesn't involve Sydney or GWS. Arrrggghhh.

The rule is interpreted stupidly as well. If someone is zooming through the protected area and there is no way (short of tearing all his ligaments) to actually turn and affect the player with the ball, then ignore it. So rather than players and umpires guessing where 15m is, let them guess 'could the player actually affect they player with the ball'. If a player zooms past but is so close the umpire thinks he could have affected things, ping him. If not, don''t.

I rarely look at this thread after a loss until a couple of days have gone by. While the result was miserable, I wouldn't despair just yet, nor would I be particulalry confident. With all the faults in our game style which have doubtless been discusseed in this thread, and with a large number of our players having a shocker, how is it that we only lost by 3 goals? And 3 goals came from 50m penalties. BTW, was there any media commentary about Franklin's staging?

If that diagram was drawn using actual data, known positions of cameras etc, I'd have some faith in it. Looks like a cartoon to me attempting to prove a whatever the artist intended. Anyway, Lynch must be very happy the attention is not on his crappy kick.

You'd need a ring of them to outline the extended goal post. And declare a no-fly zone over every footy ground presumably.😁

It would be the same on here if it happened to us. More new video above and I continue to be amazed how definite people can be interpreting a poor 2D image as if it gave solid 3D positional and timing information. (Do I have to add I was more than pleased Richmond lost?)

I just don't see how anyone can be sure if a ball would have touched the goal post if the post was 10 metres longer. So if all players acted as if it was a point, I'd think it's more likely to assume they thought it missed by quite a lot. Maybe it did. I expect the speed of the ARC's decision related more to the reaction of players (which they are on record as taking into account) than any video we saw. I'm surprised at people who say they definitely saw that it went over post. The ball can appear to go over a post after it has gone past the goal line. Impossible to be sure without views from more than one direction.

I don't think that is clear. He may have just been unsure where it had gone. And it seems he would have been right to be unsure.

According to the article in the Age, they even have a hit list of whom not to believe: https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/the-controller-the-analyst-and-the-supervisor-inside-the-afl-review-centre-20220717-p5b27c.html Not sure that is appropriate.