05-13-2019, 01:00 AM
(05-13-2019, 12:26 AM)deags link Wrote:This. x 1 million.
I thought that bar the last 5 minutes, where our guys looked broken once Collingwood got more than a goal in front, we were the better side. Deserved a win, but obviously the AFL had decreed differently, and they had instructed the umps to make it happen.
24-8 free kick count is putrid, and just doesnt happen legitimately at this level of footy.
We are just not putting sides away when we play well, we're still lacking the finishing we need to top off our periods of dominance. We keep scrapping up a goal or two lead when we should be 5 or 7 goals ahead!
As for the frees, it can only be explained by a bias, but is it a conscious or subconscious bias? I'd say it's subconscious, the umpires favor the name players, they always have and they always will! So if that assertion is true it suggests the free kick count will be yet another unwanted by-product of our scorched earth list policy!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"