Agree that Buddy has to control himself. Not only because he could get suspended but when he gives away frees during the game it costs us.
I noticed that Hodge got a week for punching Papley in the stomach. I remember seeing Papley on the ground hunched over. Where was the free?
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I was starting to wonder at the weekend whether a hardness at the man had replaced a hardness at the ball. I have no problem when our players respond to an opponent's aggression, but I am not sure we need to be targeting anyone just for the sake of it.
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They don't seem to pay those in a game. It seems like the AFL are trying to stamp it out through the MRP rather than through match-day umpiring.
During the broadcast I also heard the umpire exclaim, "it's not against the rules, but cut it out, okay!" This was just after the second Langford kiss. I wasn't sure if it was related to that or not, but there are things in the game that umpires seem reticent to act on that are later deemed to be transgressions.
I find it interesting also that Barry Hall said he should not have played in the 2005 GF for his body strike in the PF. It would have just been a $1500 fine had it happened today.
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Hodge was suspended because it was his third fine in this season
I agree, Newman was fine.... and talking about butchering the ball, Heeney (and I love him), twice in the last quarter, under no more pressure than "I'm in the open, I can't @@@@@@ this up!", did exactly that, straight to the opposition. It was infuriating! We ain't gonna drop him........
Our problem against the Hawks was that Sinclair's contested mark in the first 2 minutes was our last of the game. Our big men need to do more in this department.
Geelong I think play a bit differently - who do they have out? If Smith is playing for them then we need someone who can compete against him in a marking contest, and that isn't Naismith. We desperately need Reid back, or Tippett (if he can give us his best).
A huge percentage of the Hawks contested marks was when they had two or three on our one
We can learn from this but we have not so far against the Hawks
Let's see our tactics against the cats
Dangerfield out, not appealing. Evens up the missing and potentially missing players.
Hodge is appealing his strike on Papley. Hope he gets suspended, been a sniper for a long time now, as indicated by two previous fines this season before this latest hit.
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