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    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...

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    Re: Clarko is a flog/don't block this week

    Another knee jerk reaction, just watch the umps get this wrong and someone lose a match in the dying seconds.
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    Re: Clarko is a flog/don't block this week

    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.
    Bring back the biff

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    Re: Clarko is a flog/don't block this week

    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.
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    Re: Clarko is a flog/don't block this week

    Happy with Clarko bringing this up - self-interest as it will help Boyd and Schache immeasurably.
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    Re: Clarko is a flog/don't block this week

    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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    Re: Clarko is a flog/don't block this week

    Quote Originally Posted by Ghost Dog View Post
    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".
    I don't see what the issue is either. The blocking sucks. Stop it.

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    Re: Clarko is a flog/don't block this week

    Quote Originally Posted by Ghost Dog View Post
    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".
    Longmire is the sook actually, complaining to the AFL about our GF
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    Re: Clarko is a flog/don't block this week

    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    Longmire is the sook actually, complaining to the AFL about our GF
    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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    Re: Clarko is a flog/don't block this week

    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 .
    Bring back the biff

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    Re: Clarko is a flog/don't block this week

    Quote Originally Posted by ledge View Post
    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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    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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    Re: Clarko is a flog/don't block this week

    Quote Originally Posted by Ghost Dog View Post
    I missed that. Did he? Ah well, I quite like Horse Longmire. How can you not like a guy named Horse? haha.
    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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    Re: Clarko is a flog/don't block this week

    Quote Originally Posted by jeemak View Post
    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.
    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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    Re: Clarko is a flog/don't block this week

    Quote Originally Posted by Ghost Dog View Post
    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.

    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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    Re: Clarko is a flog/don't block this week

    Quote Originally Posted by Twodogs View Post
    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.
    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.
    Nobody's looking for a puppeteer in today's wintry economic climate.

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