That was Heeney.....not Mills. Post edit: Sorry wolftone, I now see this has already been well corrected!Originally Posted by wolftone57
That was Heeney.....not Mills. Post edit: Sorry wolftone, I now see this has already been well corrected!
Last edited by stevoswan; 10th September 2017 at 06:17 PM.
I think Harry will go out, most of his stats came in the second half when it was all over. To half time he had 3 possessions and 13 fantasy points.......you'd think Melican has to come back in if he's ok.
My biggest fear at this point is making the GF and facing the new fairytale, the 'Fairycubs'......and getting shafted again.......that would be mortifying.
The key for sinclair was field position control
We needed it in our forward half and locked
With Sinclair's bud Reid etc we had so many targets it allowed us to deliver quickly into the forward line with less risk of it coming out fast
I thought the Melbourne media, both radio and television, was fairly positive towards the Swans today, however the rest of it was just Tiger delerium. If they make the granny, whoever faces them, especially a non Victorian team, will be the Lannisters of Aussie rules.
I fear every final.My biggest fear at this point is making the GF and facing the new fairytale, the 'Fairycubs'......and getting shafted again.......that would be mortifying.
I can't see why we can't get umpires from outside the competing states to officiate the games. Eg. Why were Victorian umpires, umpiring a victorian side. Cricket did this year's ago.
Why are their no NSW based umpires. We have 2 teams from here.
Neutral umpires makes sense as a fan on an emotional level but I can see why the umpires would resist it massively.
For starters it is a huge slight on their integrity, possibly justified, and also from a Vic Umpires perspective it would mean that very rarely would the biggest nursery of umpires (and probably the best) get to officiate the big one. Since 1990 there has only three Grand Finals without a Victorian team (2004-6) so you're effectively disenfranchising the entire Victorian Umpires Association.
As for why there are no NSW umpires I cannot speak for the country leagues but the Sydney umps cannot even manage the local league and would destroy and AFL Grand Final with their incompetence.
On the whole I think the blaming of Umps on results is poor form and largely exaggerated in terms of their impact. The modern game with its speed must be incredibly difficult to officiate and we should recognise that.
I would like to see more accountability though, those guys last year really shouldn't officiate a game at the highest level for a long time
I agree. I thought we looked undersized in defence and it was just as well we dominated in the midfield. We conceded a shot on goal in 56% of their entries, which I suspect is well above our season average.
To be fair the AFL umpires competency test must be pretty tough. No one has passed yet.
Looking for their "story", the comeback from
0-6 is the back up for the Richmond fairytale.
Hopefully you have no complaints about the performances of these two player. I think they both showed the work rate and determination that Longmire would have been expecting from them. Cheer cheer the red and the White! So proud of the whole team effort shown.
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If that was early in the third term, he was down in his haunches holding his head, because he tackled Hartley and Hartley hit him with a swinging elbow to the face. Whether it was accidental, or delivered with enough malice to attract the Tribunal's interested, it's hard to tell?
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