Free Kick count?

[EasternWest]

You know what “Hughesy” GGF. This guy use to barrack for the dogs then changed teams to Carlton. How’s that working out for you?

Plus he's gone off the deep end socially. Totally forgotten that he was a less than working class rat and not a member of the Judd born to rule society.

Anyway sorry for derailment back on track.

We win, sucks to be them. Their tears are delicious.

[The Pie Man]

I was VERY nervous the Duryea masterpiece was going to be pinged, thankfully the umpire must’ve had a similar line of vision that the boundary line camera had, where it clearly shows Cameron knocking the ball onto Doc’s legs as he was sprinting.

Noticed Julian De Stoop called out Hughes on this take.

[merantau]

Plus he's gone off the deep end socially. Totally forgotten that he was a less than working class rat and not a member of the Judd born to rule society.

Anyway sorry for derailment back on track.

We win, sucks to be them. Their tears are delicious.

He is beneath contempt. What sort of adult changes football teams? That's so weak.

[bulldogtragic]

Plus he's gone off the deep end socially. Totally forgotten that he was a less than working class rat and not a member of the Judd born to rule society.

Anyway sorry for derailment back on track.

We win, sucks to be them. Their tears are delicious.

I went to a few of his early gigs and he was *!*!*!*!ing hilarious. Admittedly I pay less attention, but I haven’t heard anything remotely funny out of him in about two decades. Just another waste of breath and energy from him.

[bulldogtragic]

Zorko two OOF in the last 10 minutes, one last 10 seconds.

The umpires force him to do that?

[The bulldog tragician]

The officiating is being elevated as though it was the key determinant of the match. It’s not like the last gasp one in Geelong earlier this year, where a free missed in the last few seconds would certainly have altered the result. There is no obvious howler..I genuinely think the most contentious decision was overturning Bont’s goal.

This was a brilliant well-contested match with brave and committed efforts on both side, played at breakneck speed, swings of momentum, and lots of amazing moments. Most thought it was the match of the season yet somehow nitpicking about free kick “tallies” is becoming the narrative and I’m getting pretty angry!

[SonofScray]

It’s incredibly disrespectful to all parties.

[Go_Dogs]

Enough air time for this topic.

Brisbane players and fans, you were not good enough for long enough. Best of luck in 2022 (except for when you play us).

[FrediKanoute]

I think this one was a cut and dry free kick. McInerney had eyes only for English and straight up blocked him. One of the clearest frees of the day.

Agree. What was strange about it was that it was paid! Imagine how good Timmy's ruckwork would be if umpires paid this all the time!

[Ghost Dog]

Forget it. All this whingeing about free kicks and it was their home turf and if they were really the better team they would've won by five or six goals.

[Happy Days]

Discussing the standard of umpiring is a lot like "remember when":

[Testekill]

The biggest differential is that we don't give away a lot of high tackles and play fairly clean; we tackle around the midsection instead of the chest and we don't play silly buggers trying to work opponents over.

[BornInDroopSt'54]

Can't the football world just credit us for putting our noses over the ball first and are more likely to draw a free kick and also could it possibly be that our tackling technique when our tackles stick are of a high quality that also warrants paying the free kick.

Brisbane could have quite easily won that game if they kicked better in the dying stages so the football world needs to pull their heads in on us getting more free kicks than anyone else and may be look at the play in general.

I wonder how the umpiring division is feeling about them being accused of bias or not doing their job.

I suspect we spend time addressing how not to give frees and are good at it. Plus we play the ball and are first to it more often.
We have no dickheads and are disciplined. The frees come and we minimise free against.

[Twodogs]

Enough air time for this topic.

Brisbane players and fans, you were not good enough for long enough. Best of luck in 2022 (except for when you play us).

Or try to knock us out of a top four spot. I'd have to have something along the lines of, oh I don't know, maybe a TIMEKEEPING *!*!*!*!ING ERROR or something like that, help them out.

[jeemak]

I suspect we spend time addressing how not to give frees and are good at it. Plus we play the ball and are first to it more often.
We have no dickheads and are disciplined. The frees come and we minimise free against.

When Don Pyke and a few others sooked it up in 2016 Bevo got really terse and suggested there might be something in our training that is behind the differentials.