04-14-2023, 08:53 AM
The biggest howler was right at the start of the game on the 3rd ball up when Cripps grabbed the ball and an ineffective short-range handball to Ollie Hollands saw the ball fall loose. He was then tackled from the front by Rachel’s IIRC but as Cripps turned around to go after the loose ball O’Brien joined in a gang tackle while the ball was at O’Brien’s feet and they pushed him down onto his back and lay on top of him as the ball was rolling away. How was that not holding the man? AFAIK, the tacklers’ ignorance that the ball is no longer in possession is irrelevant. That set the scene for some home ground decisions and they scored their first goal less than 30 seconds later.
There was another bizarre one where one of our players “marked” a ball but the umpire had called touched. A Crow was allowed to come in and put his shoulder into a high speed tackled straight in the back of our player. WTF, you can’t slam into someone’s back when applying a tackle.
There was another bizarre one where one of our players “marked” a ball but the umpire had called touched. A Crow was allowed to come in and put his shoulder into a high speed tackled straight in the back of our player. WTF, you can’t slam into someone’s back when applying a tackle.