AFLW R8 - Carlton vs Gold Coast @Metricon - Fri 5:10pm

[crashlander]

I just watched the replay and Harris didn't dive once.

In the first quarter head high tackles on Hosking, Laloifi and Harris weren't penalised and Prespakis was often held at stoppages.

In the second quarter, Harris had her arms chopped in a marking contest - play on.  Later in the quarter Harris fumbled the ball, looked down to grab it and her opponent pushed her head with both hands - nothing.  Harris was then penalised for a dangerous tackle which really was quite innocuous.  Prespakis was hit high - play on.

In the third quarter Harris was pushed in the back in a marking contest - play on.  Prespakis was crunched and had a free paid against her for holding. 

In the last quarter Harris was penalised for another innocuous "dangerous" tackle.  A bit later and she was held without the ball - play on of course.  Finally, she copped a glancing high tackle during a chain of possessions that ended up in a goal for us and no free was a good call.

There were many other dubious decisions, most of which favoured Gold Coast.

While it's probably going too far to suggest that there's one set of rules for Harris and Prespakis and another set for other players, I suspect that the umpires have been told to keep an eye on tackles laid by Harris and Prespakis and there's a reluctance to pay frees to both, particularly Harris.

And this in a game where we won the free count 16 to 14. Makes you wonder how many frees we really should have got.
For that matter, we got a lot of frees against Richmond, but then they paid some absolute shockers to even up the numbers.