AFL Rd 14 2022 Post Game Postulations Carlton vs Richmond

[Thryleon]

It's no accident both teams have miraculously come good after all the off-field whinging kiboshed the umpiring dissent rules.

Dimma and Scott are the King and Prince of the Whingers, every press conference, every door stop, is used to influence officialdom in some way to favour their team or disadvantage the opposition. It's no use people being in denial about it, and taking the higher road just puts your own club at a disadvantage. If you are not working for success on every available attack surface you are not working at all!

When you watch a game like last night, and see continual push in the back infringements going unpunished, just keep in mind Dimma's comments, "FFS, just let them play!" He basically badgered the AFL into ignoring infringement from Dusty, Grimes and others and used the Nthmond success as a platform to tip the playing surface in their favour.

Free kick Dawks or Free Kick Nthmond is not just about free kicks, it's about all the infringements they get away with as well!

The AFL tried to kibosh the practise via the dissent rules, and then the whingers won again by effectively complaining the rule out of implementation! Now Riewioldt is back to his begging best, arms out sooking, approaching umpires at the breaks, pestering without remorse or conscience.

Normally I'd disagree, but the effect was quite noticeable last night.  FWIW, the Tigers played a very unsociable brand, and were called up on it in round 1, and unfortunately the umps went the other way last night.

HOWEVER, come finals time, they will umpire more like they did last night than not.  I do wish they would cut out the playing of the man not the ball crap though.  I lost count of how many of our players got tackled without the footy.