19 Men On The Ground

[The Coon Dog]

When you're at the game & there's an interchange screw up, it's sometimes difficult to know what has happened.

Tonight at the start of the final term I understand that we had 19 men on the ground. Oops! I can see Rocket doing his lolly over that.

For those that had radios or watched TV, what actually happened? Who was the culprit?

Importantly, it occured when it was crucial that we kicked the first goal of the last quarter. Talk about taking the wind out of your sales!

[LostDoggy]

Re: 19 Men On The Ground

Welsh was on the ground, then tried to run off after the ball was bounced.

[Rocco Jones]

Re: 19 Men On The Ground

Scott Welsh. Apparently he didn't the mach-up board.

I found it odd that we only have 2 players going to the bench. I asked the people I was with whether someone other than Higgins was hurt.

[The Coon Dog]

Re: 19 Men On The Ground

Welsh was on the ground, then tried to run off after the ball was bounced.

How could that happen?

Ever since Adam was a boy the magnetic board is lifted aloft at the break & the first thing you do is look to see where you are playing.

So, either a player (maybe Welsh) wasn't concentrating at 3/4 time or the magnetic board was wrong.

Either way it's amateurish at best.

[angelopetraglia]

Re: 19 Men On The Ground

That goal really hurt us.

We worked so hard to get within 3 goals. Must of been so deflating for that to occur.

[LostDoggy]

Re: 19 Men On The Ground

The worst part was how woeful the Dogs are at cheating -- Welshie could have snuck off quietly, but NOOOOO.. he had to make a song and dance about it, sprinting like a madman off etc and generally letting the whole world know what a f*** up it was.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

Re: 19 Men On The Ground

How could that happen?

Ever since Adam was a boy the magnetic board is lifted aloft at the break & the first thing you do is look to see where you are playing.

So, either a player (maybe Welsh) wasn't concentrating at 3/4 time or the magnetic board was wrong.

Either way it's amateurish at best.

I suspect the interchange stewart made another mistake ala SF 08. He looked pretty dirty with himself at the time and for quite a while.

It's beyond comprehension that at AFL level, you can't get these sorts of things right.

[Before I Die]

Re: 19 Men On The Ground

Scott Welsh. Apparently he didn't the mach-up board.

This was confirmed by Eade at his after match press conference. Though i think his words were "that Welsh didn't look at the match-up board"

[LostDoggy]

Re: 19 Men On The Ground

How could that happen?

Ever since Adam was a boy the magnetic board is lifted aloft at the break & the first thing you do is look to see where you are playing.

So, either a player (maybe Welsh) wasn't concentrating at 3/4 time or the magnetic board was wrong.

Either way it's amateurish at best.

I reckon your spot on, Welsh was concentrating.

That goal really hurt us.

We worked so hard to get within 3 goals. Must of been so deflating for that to occur.

Totally agree.

We worked so hard to get ourselves back into the game, that it just shot us down.

[Rocco Jones]

Re: 19 Men On The Ground

With Welsh being the extra player on the ground it was more like 18.2 men on the ground.

[Sockeye Salmon]

Re: 19 Men On The Ground

How could that happen?

Ever since Adam was a boy the magnetic board is lifted aloft at the break & the first thing you do is look to see where you are playing.

So, either a player (maybe Welsh) wasn't concentrating at 3/4 time or the magnetic board was wrong.

Either way it's amateurish at best.

Eade was asked what happened and he said Scott Welsh didn't look at the matchup board.

[The Coon Dog]

Re: 19 Men On The Ground

Eade was asked what happened and he said Scott Welsh didn't look at the matchup board.

Unforgivable, given the state of the game. Killed any hope we had.

[LostDoggy]

Re: 19 Men On The Ground

Poor old Scott well thats one for the boys on Mad Monday.

[The Coon Dog]

Re: 19 Men On The Ground

Poor old Scott well thats one for the boys on Mad Monday.

The crew on Before The Game can relax, next week's Tool of the Week has already been decided.

[soupman]

Re: 19 Men On The Ground

Just thank god that they changed the penalty for it, otherwise we could be staring at the scoreboard reading St.Kilda: 106 to Western Bulldogs: 7 after our score was wiped. That would be a real percentage killer.