sue

Then I wonder if the coach can be part of the trade instead of Kozzie? <couldn't resist a weak joke - I personally have no opinion on whether Goody should go or stay>

No it's not. It is deliberately inconsistent.

Just what we need. A Brisbane desperate to redeem themselves at home after drawing with North.

But will there be a report for deliberate tripping? An action as dangerous as many of the things that get players banned these days.

I'd like to add to that list, TV coverage terrible. The number of times we see a player with nothing but grass in the frame is maddening. And close ups where a ball is handballed out of frame and the viewer has no idea to whom, if anyone, it is headed. And close ups of the player who has taken a mark/free rather than showing the viewer what options he has downfield. The commentators make it all worthwhile ...... (is there a sarcasm emoji?)

In my distant youth an accidental trip was a free and a deliberate trip is a suspension. What is it now?

Vindey delayed concussion from the unreportable incident last week. Melk rested

Just when you think the depths have been plumbed they find another lower level.

I agree. I recall that years back the umps were told that if a player looks at the clock call play on. I dimly recall it was enforced. Was it? If so, when did it change?

If Melk gets banned for that, the AFL should take up running a croquet competition. Players are always pushing opponents out of the way so they can take a mark. If the do it with hands in the back, or too early before the ball arrives it is a free. I was suprised the ump thought it was a free rather than a mark (but little suprises me these days as inconsistency had reached stratospheric levels). It is common for the opponent bumped out of the way to then contact another player (of either team). And unfortunately and inevitably, once in a while that contact will result in injury. There is no way you can say the player was being reckless with the oppos' safety. If the intent of the bump is to get the ball that should be the end of the discussion. If the player actually gets the ball, then case closed. Either that or AFL croquet.

I agree. Having forked out to get a Kayo sub, I'm watching a lot more games where I don't really care much who wins. So my usual biases are not in play. I find the umpiring is truly a mess. And not just due to the competence or otherwise of the blokes in pastel shades. The AFL needs a thorough review of the rules and how umpires are instructed to rule. Won't happen.

Get him in against C'wood at least.

Sadly you may be right. But I recall being just as passionate and interested in games when it was just a bunch of part-timers playing in the 60's.

He's no saint for sure - but 'assailing'?. The suspension at the end of 2024 was wrong and either motivated by his previous record or the effect on the MRO's favourite team. Probably both.

A genuine question, just curious: You apparently read, reply and react to other people's posts as evidenced by your above post which is only intelligible as a response to someone else's post. While I can understand you or anyone not wishing to get involved in a stream of argumentative counter posts, why do you feel it necessary to add that? You can simply not respond to responses if you wish. Not that I expect a response....

Kayo unuseable at present. Krappo.

Insufficient intent has gone completely insane

I agree. I doubt that in the heat of the moment Langdon would be saying to himself "I won't kick it to Fritsch because <Insert reason I don't like him here>".

I'm pretty sure I saw him playing in the 3rd quarter, if not longer.

Which led to an amusing post on another thread suggesting that if he marks a long way out of goal, an opponent should deliberately give away a 50m penalty.

If he gets 3 weeks kozzie should have got about 1 minute

You may have hit on the reason he doesn't qualify.

And now in general play, the shot is so close up that often handballls go out of frame. I'm sure they do this to make it more exciting for the viewer, not knowing whether the handball has gone to a teammate or whatever. I mean, how boring if it goes to a player well in the clear compared to not knowing what might happen next. (More apologies for being off topic.)

Sorry to go off topic, but your mention of that is what makes me so mad about the way they do the TV broadcasts. I'd like to see a wide shot as soon as someone marks the ball or gets a free. Instead we get a close up of the player with the ball. I don't care if he shaved that morning, I want to see what's ahead of him FCS!

Sadly I think it has come to the point that he should be told to try to kick a point on the right hand side of the goals. When he starts scoring points (and not on the left side!) he can be asked to aim at the goals again.