I agree. Poor Matt Kennedy. He's just trying to be first to the footy as you should and consistently got punished for it. That's what frustrates me more than anything else about modern footy.

Had another look at the game today.

Jeez, we were absolutely reamed by the umps in the second and third quarters. Anytime we were tackled in was holding the ball against us, anytime they were tackled no matter how much time they had or how they disposed of the ball it was a ball-up.

Not saying it would have necessarily made a difference to the end result but who knows what would have happened if we had into that last quarter a goal or two up.

I try limit myself to one 'homer' piece each season. Have already blown through that after one round, but the contrast between how we lost to how Collingwood lost was too tempting to pass up... https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/mar/26/afl-history-repeats-for-collingwood-but-season-has-a-long-way-to-go

EFA

Thanks for reading this grammatically challenged peanut's posts too

I try limit myself to one 'homer' piece each season. Have already blown through that after one round, but the contrast between how we lost to how Collingwood lost was too tempting to pass up... https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/mar/26/afl-history-repeats-for-collingwood-but-season-has-a-long-way-to-go

AFLCA Votes

P Cripps 10
D Martin 7
K Simpson 6
Riewoldt 3
Butler 2
C Curnow 2

Pros

Curnow! Please keep him forward for the rest of the year with an occasional stint in the middle. Finally found a 50plus a year goal kicker.
Kreuz for the first half
Simmo played well but so he should he is the 7th defender
Cripps taken his game to another level but kicking still an issue.
Marchbank solid as always
Wright making himself a good career at Carlton
Gartlett actually surprised me for his first game back solid.

Cons

Daisy Thomas
Yep stats looked good and tries but being at the game Richmond left him by himself as though they wanted him to get the ball. The game stops when he has the ball either he tries a handball over the shoulder or a cute kick that floats off his boot because he is always under pressure with his lack of leg speed. Nothing happens!! His shot from the boundary a dribble kick outside 50 was a disgrace he is a player who has lost all physical attributes. Plenty of kids in front of him.

Lack of speed in the team with Cripps Kennedy and Thomas in the same side doesn't work. Kennedy looks painfully slow at times he needs to find a lot of the ball for him and Cripps to work in the future.

All for the new modern defensive structure of sitting 10-15metres in front of your opponent when defending but not when you are one on one with your opponent and he is in the goal square and the opposition is running with the ball just outside or on the 50m line with a simple kick over the top to him. We would have conceded 6-7 goals like this!
Jones and Weitering were caught doing this numerous times and probably not their fault as it looks like a coached structure. Jones needs to worry about beating his man first instead of trying to be an Alex Rance type. I'm a massive fan of Weitering but he looks like his confidence has left him. As a first year player he backed himself and was taking intercept makes against whoever now he has a punch first mentality where he is not attacking the ball in the air as hard as he used to now it's more like he's hoping to get a fist in.

SOS Only young and the first game of the year but he's the in-between size without leg speed needs to hit the scoreboard regularly to keep his place.

Pros

Curnow! Please keep him forward for the rest of the year with an occasional stint in the middle. Finally found a 50plus a year goal kicker.
Kreuz for the first half
Simmo played well but so he should he is the 7th defender
Cripps taken his game to another level but kicking still an issue.
Marchbank solid as always
Wright making himself a good career at Carlton
Gartlett actually surprised me for his first game back solid.

Cons

Daisy Thomas
Yep stats looked good and tries but being at the game Richmond left him by himself as though they wanted him to get the ball. The game stops when he has the ball either he tries a handball over the shoulder or a cute kick that floats off his boot because he is always under pressure with his lack of leg speed. Nothing happens!! His shot from the boundary a dribble kick outside 50 was a disgrace he is a player who has lost all physical attributes. Plenty of kids in front of him.

Lack of speed in the team with Cripps Kennedy and Thomas in the same side doesn't work. Kennedy looks painfully slow at times he needs to find a lot of the ball for him and Cripps to work in the future.

All for the new modern defensive structure of sitting 10-15metres in front of your opponent when defending but not when you are one on one with your opponent and he is in the goal square and the opposition is running with the ball just outside or on the 50m line with a simple kick over the top to him. We would have conceded 6-7 goals like this!
Jones and Weitering were caught doing this numerous times and probably not their fault as it looks like a coached structure. Jones needs to worry about beating his man first instead of trying to be an Alex Rance type. I'm a massive fan of Weitering but he looks like his confidence has left him. As a first year player he backed himself and was taking intercept makes against whoever now he has a punch first mentality where he is not attacking the ball in the air as hard as he used to now it's more like he's hoping to get a fist in.

SOS Only young and the first game of the year but he's the in-between size without leg speed needs to hit the scoreboard regularly to keep his place.

AFLCA Votes

P Cripps 10
D Martin 7
K Simpson 6
Riewoldt 3
Butler 2
C Curnow 2

Riewoldt seriously? I must have missed something.

Must have been the tunnelling on Jones.....

Finally watched the replay.... Confirmed what I thought.. A LOT of pushing in the back to make the ball come to ground. If the umps start paying these, it will genuinely be curtains for the tiges.

... and could not believe how many times I heard the commentators say 'could have won a free'.... Wow wee.... I was stunned

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Exactly. But the story became our goals from 50's smfh, when they did all the could in that late first/ second quarter to keep Richmond in the game. This f##### sport stinks to high heaven and those protected yellow maggots are the reason why. Yet we continually let them get away with it by not publicly savaging them; while that piece of #### Hardwick gets congrats from HQ instead of a fine . We will never succeed until we hold these officials to account.

Someone should say something.
Someone official? Probably not a good idea...The AFL gestapo will come down on us hard again.

BUT, what about a comedy skit, in gest from 3 comedians pointing out the incidents with footage or if that's not possible, just pointing out the actual time those incidents took place...and make fun of the situation ...in gest.

I think that's the way to go. Good idea? Yeah, Nah?

Comedy...light heartedness...in gest (sure)...but poignant....and unofficial.

This has been going on for too long...since Carlton players/ people were overtaken by Carlton haters in the media

Someone should say something.
Someone official? Probably not a good idea...The AFL gestapo will come down on us hard again.



BUT, what about a comedy skit, in gest from 3 comedians pointing out the incidents with footage or if that's not possible, just pointing out the actual time those incidents took place...and make fun of the situation ...in gest.

I think that's the way to go. Good idea? Yeah, Nah?

Comedy...light heartedness...in gest (sure)...but poignant....and unofficial.

This has been going on for too long...since Carlton players/ people were overtaken by Carlton haters in the media