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Nothing about the corrupt and inconsistent MRO/Tribunal surprises me anymore, but if Kozzie got 3 weeks for what was arguably at least partly due to his opponent's actions, how on earth could Xerri not get more?

Most blatant blocking by Cameron (though not too successful). No free. Umpiring continues to be soooo inconsistent

Sorry, didn't see that. I think it is nice to see some C'wood supporters embrace their 'image' as we joke about our snow trips and cheese etc.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/09/ato-commissioner-sent-ai-meme-mocking-collingwood-afl-supporters-to-all-20000-staff

Well it was a lot better than the thrashing many on here expected. Our short handballs to a player about to be tackled were a worry. Maybe due to too many players getting too close to the action.

If there were no umpires on the ground they couldn't get in the way. How about a team of x umpires where there are x camera angles on the match, x being increased as needed. The off-field umpires pay the frees with the most senior one overriding any conflictig decisions. Obviously you'd need someone on the ground wired to the decisions of the off-field umps to convey the decisions to the players. .But he might never move out of the centre circle (and have a very loud whistle), or maybe the boundary umps could convey decisions to players too. But then who would we hate.....Back to the booze.....

quite right. I have no idea why the umps indicate where they are going to run back to. They always run back at right angles to the line of their shoulders, ie. straight back. They don't convey any extra information to the players by indicating.

The goal reviews always amuse me when they spend 2 minutes looking at video and finally announce 'looking at the snickometer (or whatever they call it) we can see it hit the post. Why on earth do they not look at that first instead of wasting time deciperhing poor quality video? Topped-off just then by the announcer saying "looking at the angles, we can see on the snickometer". What angles!?

Without sounding like an episode of Yes Minister, I said, maybe, just maybe there is an unstated reason. If it is private (to TMAC or others) then it would not be surprising that there would be an 'issue with explaining it to members'. Let's look at it the other way round. Has Goodwin ever given an explanation for dropping him when his form was so good etc? If he hasn't explained it, it's very odd that he hasn't. Maybe he has - but I can't recall it. Anyone know exactly what was said (if anything)?

There have been several many posts which have asked that question, but mostly rhetorically in order to put the boot into Goodwin et al and expresss frustration with the club. But if it is as inexplicable as it seems to all of us, maybe the question should be asked genuinely. Maybe, just maybe, there is something we don't know. Anyone in the know have anything to say?

Retrospective rules/penalties are obnoxious in all walks of life. Sure, make a rule 'from now on' if you want, but imagine if the government made a rule that if you have 3 parking infringements in the last 10 years and get another one, your car will be compacted. Why can't we ever hear something like this from the MFC:

More than that. Am I right in thinking the umpire had already stopped the clock. Subsequently using 'play-on' to break up a melee may sound a plausible excuse, but I don't think it is good policy to give such an advantage to either side, and especially the one that start the melee. Just imagine if it was a close game and happened to C'wood.

I'm not so sure. Whenever a team catches up a bit in the Q4 it is often attributed to the leading team putting the cue in the rack etc. But often the only evidence of that is that there were outscored for the first time - that's not proof of lack of effort in itself and other possible explanations are not hard to list. In the GC case they needed percentage and they seemed pretty excited every time they kicked goal in Q4 for a bunch of rack cuers.

With Q1 being a complete disaster, I give credit to the players for keeping at it and losing by a modest margin with 2 players down with a sniff of being in a position to win in Q4. Sorry if I am accepting mediocracy, but for me it's better to lookk for positives than beating myself up over something I have no influence over.

talk about a slow news day - regurgitate ad nausem. The only new thing in there is this laughable clause: .... "as his team’s season hangs in the balance" Good to see this 'journo' still has us making the eight.

I have no idea. But I was suggesting that because you had to ask who he is, maybe Praha was hinting that your favourite forward would later be as unknown as this Michael Evans chap. Hopefully that will not be the case and he will be clebrated as Melbourne's multiple Coleman winner.

The fact that you have to ask that question may indicate what Praha's concern about Jefferson is. 🙂

You know the umpiring is bad when you fall about laughing about the inconsistencies and errors favouring the team you are barracking for. When oh when is the AFL going to realise they are making a hash of the game. And don't get me started on the ugly wrestling match to be seen at every ruck contest. /enddailygrump

what about 'free kick reversal vs 50m penalty' combined with that.

What a fuss about nothing in this thread. I bet if the team was winning this thread wouldn't have even appeared.

sorry to be pedantic, but if he already aims to the right as you say, but misses to the left, then I suggest aiming even more to the right. There seems no hope that he will improve his ball drop etc. (Though I did recently see one attempt at goal where he kept the ball low and fast, rather than belting the cover off it. Still missed, but at least it didn't give me time for my usual groan.)

yes, but the cure hasn't worked to date and it looks like it never will. Aiming right can't cause a worse result (OOB is often better than a point), and who knows, maybe Max's subconcious works differently than others. Worth a try at least.

Perhaps give up on improving his technique and just tell him to aim to the right of the goals.

And no ridiculous rules which require an on-field AI engine linked to a crystal ball to adjudicate.

Thanks for posting that. I have been avoiding reading his crud and that confirms my decision was correct.