(04-04-2019, 01:13 AM)Professer E link Wrote:I still want to know why the MRO ignored the Murphy hit. Powell-Pepper, to his credit , made the ball his object. Butters did not. Combined with his carry on after kicking a goal, this kid is rapidly climbing the "punchable head" rankings. With a bullet.
Not much protection being offered to blokes making the running in marking contests. to put it bluntly.
Unrealistic attempts at marking, which destroy the attempts to mark or spoil and creating chaos at deck level for small forwards is rampant ATM. I thought this was Interference/sheparding in the marking contest, illegal contact... there's ways to umpire this crap from the game, I guess the AFL are too busy concentrating on other minutiae right now.
As I stated, I wan't to know who was playing on Butters and Powell-Pepper at the time. The hit might well be an AFL issue, but the result is a slur on our team first ethic. Somebody abandoned a team-mate looking for a cheap possession.
FWIW, I saw Weiters cleaned up the very same way in a school game just a couple of weeks before we drafted him. The kid had to be carted off in an ambulance and the morons from his opponents clapped the instigators off the field like they were brave champions, the umpires didn't even pay a free kick! Let's just say that team of blockheads had a very close association with CheatsFC, another reason I hate them!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"