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FFS, can the AFL and the umpires lock themselves in a room and watch that game and analyse the 'holding the ball' rule.
There is more than enough incorrect decisions to go over and sort out their $h!t. We'd be in double figures of OBVIOUSLY wrong decisions.
1-7 in the first quarter
8-0 in the last quarter (i think)
....but the umpires don't even up the free kicks.
Poor umpiring took away from the spectacle of the game.
(Didn't effect the result, just the spectacle)
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08-25-2024, 08:24 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-25-2024, 08:31 AM by LP.)
Fans are focussed on the last quarter missed opportunities, it's the wrong focus and it papers over all the wasted footy early in the game, we should have been level or even ahead at 1/2-time, but we burnt F50 entries time and time again and often uncontested / unforced errors.
A complete lack of composure when we have the footy, and it's not the forwards that are to blame.
We have plenty of run, plenty of fitness, we finish strongly, as strong as any other team, we need some calm reliable ball users who are functional on both sides of the body.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"
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Why do they put numbers on the umpires backs. It makes the crowd notice an umpire that’s perceived to be against us and I think dangerous to them! Yes I’m talking number 32 lol but seriously people around me were absolutely baying for blood. I think they shouldn’t be so identifiable.