R18s results should give a pretty clear picture of the impact of playing in Darwin. The crows on a 6 day break playing the cats (tough ask) then us v Port.
Was at the Richmond Carlton game. It was by far the worst umpiring display I've seen this year. Kept a 60,000 plus crowd mostly silent apart from mumbling WTF.
Yep, faked it. Even had a fake 'vampires blood' capsule already in his mouth just in case someone elbowed him in the chin.
FFS...can the media get any lower?
We're being beaten on the inside and the outside as well as 'teeing up' mark of the year kicks to Jeremy Howe. Only way I can see out of this is more tackling pressure and running it more out of the backline - admittedly the latter is very high risk.
Ling's commentary has deteriorated since he first started. As others in this thread have suggested, this may we'll be 'dumbing down' to instruction. God knows where this ends...they end up commentating in acronyms? If that's so then it's MBBFF..Mute Button Best Friend Forever.
There too. Recall David Neitz - who had been a strong advocate for drafting Talia - going pale and almost falling over backwards when we picked Gysberts.