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Sadly most of the commentators are 100+ years old mentally.

Geez, don't hit him too hard with the feather of 'poor form'. Maybe he should have been fined, not zero times as has happened under the unbiased MRO, and not once but 2 times. Once for exaggerating a mild shove to the upper chest and secondly for holding his head pretending it had been hit. Make all the excuse for the AFL you like but you will not convince many that the MRO is not corrupt.

Sure if he faked it, he should be fined. Doubtles you think the guy who gave him the slight push should have been fined - oh wait, that's only for non-C'wood players. Why do you think pointing out bad things our players do somehow makes it impossible for us to call out the AFL for blantant inconsitencies and biases? I hope you are not one of those people who like to show how independent and unbiased they are by taking what they think is an unpopular position no matter how ludicrous. Virtue signalling gone awry.

Why can't we have a discussion about umpiring without someone bringing this up. For anyone interested in our game (ie. not the AFL, but our game), it is an important topic and if a few more people join the debate because we are not winning, so be it. Yes, we do have to win more games and even a flag (oh, we did that), but it doesn't mean we can't criticise the standard of umpiring and the AFL's rules/interpretations.

DISGUSTING. At first all I could do was laugh. AFL is [censored]

What legal expert writes these rules. Doesn’t say if those points are all required AND between points or just one or more are OR between points. You have to deduce it is OR from your knowledge of footy but that is not the way to write clear unambiguous rules. Might explain a lot about the state of the rules.

Maynard to be retrospectively traded to a small club.

I think he was justifying it - can't see any other reading of the words, but will take his word if he says he was not doing so. But you are right, that is how it gets applied.

Excuse me, but I think that is a ridiculous distinction. Surely faking your head was affected is exaggerating the contact. In any case, Maynard was holding his head when bent over on the ground - wasn't that pretending his head was affected? Or is there something special about being contacted by the ground rather than someone fist? Do you have a job with the AFL propaganda department or just hoping for one?

Watching on TV makes it hard to judge, but if Andrews was hampered from playing his usual role then how can you say Fritta had mimimal impact? Given he's not been kickng goals recently maybe it was a brilliant coaching move. Yes we did lose the game, but I bet we did a lot better than you expected.

Non recalled centre bounces are a disgrace to the game. Just throw it up. I’d love an explanation of why after a 666 warning they throw it up rather than bounce it. Says something presumably

Not even a vague “he went down a bit easily”.

I did just the same as the bolded bits. Still made plenty of errors.

I'm not reading the whole thread having read a few doomsayer's posts. Before the match most of those posters thought we'd be done by a large margin. I see it this way: 1. Brisbane supposedly in great form and on their home ground. Us out of form. 2. We played a lot of players with little experience and were supposed to be smahed in the middle without Petracca and an out of form Oliver. 3. Yet a game we came close to winning (and even closer to drawing bar one mistake), regardless of which team missed its chances etc. How can anyone not take some confidence in that?

That might be partly due to the way they video it these days. There are numerous close shots where you only see the ball and maybe 2 players. The ball heads out of shot and you have no idea if it is a brilliant pass to a team mate or a disaster or whatever. This heghtens the tension and I'm sure it is deliberate by Fox/7 for that reason. Certainy is not of interest to those who want to follow the game.

thanks. But was any reason given why it should take so long? It is beyond belief that it should take more than a few weeks. If he is innocent, then it's totally unfair to effectively ban him till he is too old or out of it to play again. If guilty, then unfair to the club. And similar for anywhere inbetween. Or am I missing something?

Does anyone know what is happening with this? It seems nothing at all. Who/what is responsible for the delay? Justice delayed is justice denied etc. What's the story/excuse? (I know it is off topic, but why is there no thread about this? I can't see why it can't be discussed without causing the mods any grief.)

But what supporters say here has no effect on miniumum standards within the club. So it doesn't matter if some supporters are in the view of some others over-forgiving of faults.

You think that photo is clear proof that he is overweight? Those arms are clearly just rippling with fat folds. Not so much on the waist in comparison. Surprising. In short, I don't think the photo tells us anything except loose clothing tells us nothing.

So true. I really enjoy it when a player gets a soft touch to one side of his head and then holds his hands to the other side of the head.

Serious answer: The conspiracy is not against the MFC per se (and some others), but in favour of where the AFL thinks the big $$$ are. The overall effect may appear similar.

True, but so do the players from other clubs doing it and some of them are having quite a good season. I can understand MFC supporters being [censored] off when it gets ignored until it's us in the sights.

Fine them? hah! Didn't the AFL declare a couple of years back they would pay frees against a player who ducks his head regardless of the tackle. This was in order to discourage ducking so as to protect the head, nothing to do with milking frees? As usual with the AFL it is a rule/interpretation that lasts as long as a lettuce (with apologies to Liz Truss). The only problem I have with the May's fine is he's about the 50th example this year. If the AFL was fair dinkum why not go through all the tapes and fine the other 49.

Has any one in the footy media noticed?