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Tbh I thought they were pretty consistent across the 4 qtrs. Kick even half straight and the game would have felt v diffferent

gonna have to win this ugly. can’t remember a game .. ever…where we’ve blown so many easy chances. start well and we can put it to bed.

some of the misses have been beyond terrible. Nibbler, kozzie, spargo , gawn all super easy shots.

well put. It’s so obvious now it’s genuinely embarrassing for the AFL … or it should be. That the dogs must train for it is clearly obvious now. while I hate it I can’t help but feel if it’s allowed then maybe we should too? they’ve literally hit another player on the ground when yr plus 14 or 15 kicks. But there’s more to it as well isnt there… as you pointed out. It doesn’t explain why so many frees are missed to opposition teams v the dogs. Its like the umps WANT to give the dogs free kicks. 2 blatant mark infringement 50’s against Weightman let go, 2 really iffy “ unrealistic attempts” given to them. It’s spoiling the game.

“unrealistic attempt” … 2x horrible decisions. we should make that an umpiring award when they try to be impartial v the dogs !

It’s really frikn hard to watch the consistently out of whack umpiring fr the dogs. wtaf is going on.

That bit is okayish. Seems a long way behind schedule which is annoying and it’s better we have our ground to train on. More settled. But we’re winning so it doesn’t feel too bad. Im more hanging out for an announcement that we have a home base. Rightly or wrongly seems like if we can’t tick that box when our relevance is peaking it may never happen.

yes… we still most def do :-)

I’ve always seen Dunstan as inside. Think he’s as good as we’ve got to try and replace Viney.

yep, but It’s such a nothing club … and he’s also a bit responsible fr that. In how they play and who they are.

i’m with you on this. They’re going deep into sept imo.

king kicked 1.6 they should have won by 6-7 goals. I reckon they’re ok the saints.

He’s staying.

NFT’s are very much here to stay. Theyre already huge and some are selling for close to a million bucks. Why? yes you can buy and swap as previously mentioned. But also, In an online world you can use an NFT as part of your digital identity i.e put up on your social media pages as part of how you or your business defines itself online. wearing a rolex may have impressed certain people in the past… ie people you actually met. But that's the old school version which was also stupid in its own way. If it was all just about telling the time you could just wear a swatch. A well known and /or exxy NFT on your social media pages or on the pages of your business might impress anyone who visits your sites. This could be, depending on what you’re doing or want to do, many thousands of people per day. Try to argue that has no value! The owner of an nft can be verified online in seconds so you can’t really duplicate it. Like it or not, as long as we’re in an online world NFT’s are here to stay and only going to get bigger.

.. and some things no longer do ;-)

Appreciated this 👌

That’s true. However what’s happening here isn’t a single badly umpired game. This is a multi year , game affecting trend that NEEDS to be discussed. It seems clear now that somehow the dogs are playing the system. If we want to at least aspire to non partiality from our umpires we need to understand how this has happened. It’s SO obvious now that not talking about it is harming the game.

exactly. It’s got to be called out. it’s not just a one off event.

The free kick issue is something the dogs have been specialising fr some years. There just HAS to be a key to understanding it.. and undoing it. It’s genuinely taking away my enjoyment in watching the game.

THE worst decision i think i’ve ever seen and part of an ongoing pattern . NOT a one off.

17-3 free kicks bulldogs way since qtr time. This happens every. single. week Realky needs to be investigated.

amazing the different tone from opposition supporters after you win a flag. They sound like we used to lol. Fwiw, i’m predicting a close game.

Thanks. Context definitely needed re that answer!

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Luck is a massive player! for the fun of it I thought I’d list a few areas where I reckon luck can influence a result. 1./ Injuries. Yes as part of this there is also conditioning, commitment to fitness, capacity to play thru pain etc and yet this element very much exists. Who gets injured at what point of a game or season is critical. What’s creates being at precisely the Wrong place at the wrong time etc . 2./ Missing easy shots for goal. If you think a player might kick a certain goal say 98% of the time, and they miss and that effects the result. yes, bad kicking is bad football … and you can practice all you want but you can never be perfect. When the imperfections happen is important. 19 points down in the GF , fritsch marks a perfect kick. If he’d missed that shot could life be different now? I don’t know that answer… but it’s a question . 3./ Bad umpiring decisions that lead directly to goals. 4./ On a more macro level there’s also draft picks. yes identifying talent plays a major part etc etc. but even the genius of Taylor picks Weid ahead of McKay. StKilda picks McCartin missing out on Trac. etc These clearly influence results. 5 / Again on a more macro level. trading. Did anyone really see Langdon, Lever, Tomlinson being as good as they are. Plenty of trades go south for the very same reasons ours went north. We can argue forever about fate vs choice and hard work. i’m certainly not saying it’s a binary thing . The later is responsible fr maybe 97% of success, but I do believe luck ALSO plays a decent part . Many people like to believe they 100% control of all aspects of their lives but for mine it’s no more true personally than it is in football. To argue against luck is to see yourself as seperate to a huge universe with its 1 million causes and effects.