Papley is turning into a player I don’t admire:
- Always staging for free kicks
- Abusing umpires and giving away a 50.
- Not using teammates when they are in better position.
- On a performance level he is dropping marking opportunities and fumbling the ball.
Maybe it’s time to trade him out.
Umpiring - the hardest position in the game.
The thing that surprises me is that you almost never see someone get pinged for throwing the ball. It looks like a quiet change of the rule. Not that I mind it - the game goes more quickly - but it should be official.
He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)
Spot on. A great effort, and a little more polish inside 50 would have seen a different result. Buddy looked very rusty, but neither the conditions nor the fact that May is in career-best form helped. I recall May doing a good job on him playing for the Suns.Originally Posted by Thunder Shaker
Hayward does my head in; capable of winning the ball brilliantly, a second later he turns it straight over. The 11 point turn-around after he missed that shot proved really costly. It stopped our momentum, and gave it to the Demons.
Nevertheless, this is a team on the right track. Never gave it up for a second.
Still talking about umpiring. Time for the coaches DRS challenge to come in.
But I reckon Paps will have a sore nights sleep.
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Oh dear.....another agitator? Seriously BS, that is a strange, strange thing to say. It's BS.
You are joking surely???
I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not so sure..................
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There is pretty much a crazy post a week I reckon - this one wins this week
Mamma Mia, here we go again.
"You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."
No denying that we got a bad deal in 2016 gf and that umpiring probably is worse than 50 years ago but it is also a MUCH harder game to umpire plus their weren't 6 million camera angles and replays to reveal whether a decision was correct or not. Give it a go at a decent level of footy with the crowd roaring before you go to hard at them. Agree with MCS that umps need more support and maybe should go full-time.
Why does sinclair go for marks one handed, in the rain?
I didn't think there was much wrong with the umpiring - at least in terms of it being biased. It was a lot better than some other games this year. I'd probably have paid McLean one or both of his very close "contested marks" but I guess that's with one eye shut.
At half-time I feared we were going to be beaten convincingly. We seemed a bit timid, too respectful of the Demons in that second quarter. But excellent second half lift by our midfielders, especially.
I thought the defence played well at ground level but clearly we lost it in the air at the back. Our forward line was well-blanketed by the Dees' defence, so that's something to work on.
Given we are still in a learning / development phase, that wasn't too bad an outcome. But when I say learning/development, that's a short term thing. I hope they can made considerable strides within this season. Remember we were hardly playing premiership football at the midway point of 2005. That's not to say I'm expecting a premiership this year but I think we've shown that we didn't just get an early break on less prepared teams at the start of the year. We can grind it out with the best. We just need to work on that polish, and hope our younger mids gradually gain more confidence in their ability as the season wears on.
The radio said that Rowbottom limped off the ground towards the end of the game after he was caught holding the ball. They mentioned his knee because of the strapping.
I’m sorry. I don’t like it when players abuse umpires and give away
50s.
This happened didn’t it?
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