Game Day Festival of Footy (Round 10-12)

[ratsmac]

Re: Game Day Festival of Footy (Round 10-12)

What a umpire driven game freo Carlton was. Some of the worst umpiring all game with non calls, mystifying call and then to end with 2 frees in 10 seconds was just fitting. Umps ruined a pretty enjoyable game to watch I thought.

[chef]

Re: Game Day Festival of Footy (Round 10-12)

What a umpire driven game freo Carlton was. Some of the worst umpiring all game with non calls, mystifying call and then to end with 2 frees in 10 seconds was just fitting. Umps ruined a pretty enjoyable game to watch I thought.

Manufacturing entertainment. It really is AEFL.

[Sedat]

Re: Game Day Festival of Footy (Round 10-12)

What a umpire driven game freo Carlton was. Some of the worst umpiring all game with non calls, mystifying call and then to end with 2 frees in 10 seconds was just fitting. Umps ruined a pretty enjoyable game to watch I thought.

Umpires have gone back into their shell on holding the ball and the game has been worse for it. Something needs to be done at the end of the season to fix up this grey area and make it easier for the umpires to do their job properly.

Carlton were definitely lucky with the Taberner deliberate, even though he was clearly intending to hit the boundary. Yet another rule that is too grey and open to inconsistency. The downfield has been paid all season - there have been some very soft downfield frees all year.

[merantau]

Re: Game Day Festival of Footy (Round 10-12)

Carlton were very fortunate. Two very iffy free kicks in the last 10 seconds and then Newnes kicks a goal that is probably a 1 in 10 chance.

[Sedat]

Re: Game Day Festival of Footy (Round 10-12)

Carlton were very fortunate. Two very iffy free kicks in the last 10 seconds and then Newnes kicks a goal that is probably a 1 in 10 chance.

The luckiest thing was that Gibbons was closest to the ball and should have taken the kick. Newnes a much better kick than Gibbons.

[Sedat]

Re: Game Day Festival of Footy (Round 10-12)

Carlton also lucky that a downfield free cannot be awarded when the ball goes out on the full. The free kick should have been given to Docherty where the infringement took place. Freo would be seething.

How can an umpire not know their own rules?

[ratsmac]

Re: Game Day Festival of Footy (Round 10-12)

Carlton also lucky that a downfield free cannot be awarded when the ball goes out on the full. The free kick should have been given to Docherty where the infringement took place. Freo would be seething.

How can an umpire not know their own rules?

Haha that just adds to the umpiring shit show that it was. Freo should feel absolutely jibbed

[EasternWest]

Re: Game Day Festival of Footy (Round 10-12)

Don't think I've seen a better after the siren kick for goal than the Newnes kick. He absolutely flushed that.

What a kick.

[Sedat]

Re: Game Day Festival of Footy (Round 10-12)

Haha that just adds to the umpiring shit show that it was. Freo should feel absolutely jibbed

Actually I stand corrected. It was correct to award the free downfield. Social media lit up with an old interpretation of that particular rule.

So Carlton were only lucky that the Taberner deliberate was harsh, the Docherty downfield free was soft and the wrong person got the kick after the siren!

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

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The darkest days. I can remember supporters booing Royce Hart as he ran off the ground after three quarter time.

The Royce Hart period was when I moved to Melbourne from Maryborough. I remember as the new kid 7yrs old being greeted at the school gate Monday morning, as the only Dog's supporter in my grade, with my mates laughing at each drubbing.
Funny...that only made me even more rusted on as a Dog's supporter. That's where support became passion.
All around me kids were jumping off their team to support Richmond. I couldn't fathom how changing team could even be an option.
I wore our shittiness as a badge of honour, reckoning that one day loyalty would be repaid. That's probably why 35 yrs later i cried like a child when we won the flag. All those Monday morning school entrances being laughed at for a Dog's flogging most weekend were redeemed.
Luke Darcy doesn't get much right as a commentator, but he once said 'A Dog's flag is worth two at any other club. He was correct.

[Dry Rot]

Re: Game Day Festival of Footy (Round 10-12)

Don't think I've seen a better after the siren kick for goal than the Newnes kick. He absolutely flushed that.

Agreed.

Who would you trust from our team (current 22, not Dickson) to do that?

[Dry Rot]

Re: Game Day Festival of Footy (Round 10-12)

Can someone who knows far more than me, please explain to me why Freo in the first half, on top but playing on on a really wet ground, kept pissed around with hand balling?

Surely you would play a long kicking, territory taking game getting it into your forward 50 by foot and keeping it there, almost NRL territory style.

[Dry Rot]

Re: Game Day Festival of Footy (Round 10-12)

Can someone who knows far more than me, please explain to me why Freo in the first half, on top but playing on on a really wet ground, kept pissed around with hand balling?

Surely you would play a long kicking, territory taking game getting it into your forward 50 by foot and keeping it there, almost NRL territory style.

Luckily, the Dogs never over do hand balling....

[josie]

Re: Game Day Festival of Footy (Round 10-12)

Schache- oh that’s right, we never pick him either.

[Remi Moses]

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One of the worst decisions ever
No moaning up a storm this week I bet
Great kick , but never should have been