Clarko is a flog/don't block this week

Great to hear an internal memo has been leaked advising the umpires to clamp down on defenders blocking after Clarko went and had a whinge post loss to the Swans. So we can add that to quick handballs and third man up rule he's destroyed over the past 18 months...

Who runs the AFL? Clearly Hawthorn.

Another knee jerk reaction, just watch the umps get this wrong and someone lose a match in the dying seconds.

Clarko and Bevo have been complaining about this problem for a long time , it was even bought up by our VFL coach with Schache on the weekend.

Just leave Tom in the goal square and he will kick four goals in the first quarter if they are serious. The Adelaide plan A in defence is Talia blocks or holds the opposition key forward anf McGivern takes the intercept mark.

Happy with Clarko bringing this up - self-interest as it will help Boyd and Schache immeasurably.

Personally, I think good on Clarko for flying the flag of his club, even if Horse Longmire thinks he is being a bit of a sulk. If our Bevo had the connections I'd say "go for it".

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Originally Posted by Ghost Dog

Personally, I think good on Clarko for flying the flag of his club, even if Horse Longmire thinks he is being a bit of a sulk. If our Bevo had the connections I'd say "go for it".

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I don't see what the issue is either. The blocking sucks. Stop it.

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Originally Posted by Ghost Dog

Personally, I think good on Clarko for flying the flag of his club, even if Horse Longmire thinks he is being a bit of a sulk. If our Bevo had the connections I'd say "go for it".

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Longmire is the sook actually, complaining to the AFL about our GF

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Originally Posted by bornadog

Longmire is the sook actually, complaining to the AFL about our GF

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I missed that. Did he? Ah well, I quite like Horse Longmire. How can you not like a guy named Horse? haha.

Question is, when is it Ilegal blocking and when is it legal shepherding ?
What's the difference ?
Thought the rule was you could sheperd if the ball was within 10 metres .

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Originally Posted by ledge

Question is, when is it Ilegal blocking and when is it legal shepherding ?
What's the difference ?
Thought the rule was you could sheperd if the ball was within 10 metres .

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5?

I believe marking contests are treated differently. IE: you have to have eyes for them all in a marking contest but a shepherd around the ground you don't.

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Originally Posted by Ghost Dog

I missed that. Did he? Ah well, I quite like Horse Longmire. How can you not like a guy named Horse? haha.

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He's an entitled sook. He instructed his big bodied and experienced midfielders to go as hard as they could to intimidate younger and smaller bodied opposition, and wondered why when the opposition went harder and earlier at the footy free kicks were given away.

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Originally Posted by jeemak

He's an entitled sook. He instructed his big bodied and experienced midfielders to go as hard as they could to intimidate younger and smaller bodied opposition, and wondered why when the opposition went harder and earlier at the footy free kicks were given away.

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Oh well, I guess one is entitled to do such things in a grand final. It didn't work though did it? In the history of finals, rough and tough tactics haven't really worked well. Brereton hit etc.

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Originally Posted by Ghost Dog

Oh well, I guess one is entitled to do such things in a grand final. It didn't work though did it? In the history of finals, rough and tough tactics haven't really worked well. Brereton hit etc.

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He's entitled to do it but when it backfires, he isn't entitled to blame umpires for his own stupidity and indicate we only won because the umpires were picking on Sydney, which is a ridiculous assertion to make given the Swans were the AFL endorsed team for years.

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Originally Posted by Twodogs

He's entitled to do it but when it backfires, he isn't entitled to blame umpires for his own stupidity and indicate we only won because the umpires were picking on Sydney, which is a ridiculous assertion to make given the Swans were the AFL endorsed team for years.

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Correct, he can instruct his team to play as he feels. Only someone from Sydney, or the mollycoddled large Melbourne clubs would have the temerity or sense of entitlement to sook it up after losing a grand final.