Just watched the reply of the final minute and the Reid "non-mark" is an absolute howler.
Can you imagine Collingwood, West Coast, Essendon, Bulldogs, etc not being paid that mark/free kick??
What are the chances of the AFL coming out and saying, "Yep, got that one wrong."
Menzel > Rohan
Also meant to mention earlier was quite telling I thought that after Rose kicked into the man on the mark, none of his team mates came to support him afterwards.
In a game decided by less than a goal every free kick or non free kick is critical. We won the free kick count 15 to 12 so had the rub of the green.
Rose and henney had far more say in the result than the umpires.
Poor Rose, you could tell he knew he had just kicked his career into the man on the mark.
In fact, it looked like he went to slap hands with Papley, who declined. I felt a bit sorry for him.Originally Posted by Industrial Fan
Fifth loss in a row; 4th by less than 10 points. Some cynics might even say that it has the appearance of tanking. And even more cynical folks might say that the umpires have colluded in the scam. But we all know this is totally and utterly ridiculous.
A couple of weeks ago I said the game is just too difficult to umpire. All close games are decided by umpires. Every loser can point to one or two incidents where had things gone the 'right' way the result would have been otherwise.
At the end of the day we are not playing finals and sitting with pick 4 in the draft. So it goes.
It's quite stark the drop in performance for Rose when he plays AFL. It must be some kind of psychological barrier that blocks him from performing anywhere close to how he goes in the NEAFL.
I only caught the the final 10 mins on the wireless. Jarrod Crouch (commentating) was imploring Heeney to ‘follow through’ with his two kicks for goal . He didn’t. Nick Davis should sort that . Thank goodness it wasn’t a Grand Final.
Name one opponent who has had the better of him playing the Nick Smith role this year? Held his own playing way out of his height and weight division yesterday.
Yeah, I didn’t like that. Someone needed to pick him up (the game was still going too). I hope that is spoken about internally during the week - good teams show more empathy.
As an overall "building to something, just perhaps not this year" (which is not a state of mind we've had to consider in a very long time) game I found it quite encouraging and the game itself enjoyable.
I really enjoyed watching Menzel play, seems such a smart/natural forward- seems to do the right things to create space for himself and others. I hope we keep him around next year, if he can get everything right he'd compliment Buddy well.
I'm really not sure that the tv coverage should have been interviewing Sam Reid on the ground after such a close loss where he had a game winning opportunity late. That seemed a little odd and the poor chap looked lost.
I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his time
I didn't want to dwell too much on the Reid no call, but couldn't help myself...
Here's the image of the marking contest with Stein's armed wrapped pretty clearly around Sam's and dragging it down; it looks like a textbook image to use to explain chopping the arms/infringing in a marking contest.
It's a tough game to umpire, I was willing to give the benefit of the doubt that they might not have had a good view so checked for the positioning of the umpires. The ball was coming back in after a kick-in was turned over (strong mark by the wonderful Jordan Dawson, by the way) so good coverage of umpires still in that end of the ground- there's two that should have had a good look to be able to see it.
I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his time
Ray Chamberlain would have given it.
But not Stevic. Umpire to the left had a very clear view.
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