Good article

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He's completely missed the point or has chosen to ignore it. No one is arguing that Freo's last few minutes were awful.

Yet I'm critical of some players for not respecting their opponents? Does that not signify to you that I thought the opponent was half decent? Hmmm...maybe not.

In addition, Football/Soccer being such a low scoring game means that a VAR decision might be deciding a team's only goal for the match.

A "Captain's Challenge" or whatever you want to call it for AFL would be bringing in an exploitable rule that seeks to prevent what exactly? How often are matches decided by clear umpiring errors, given that most adjudications in our game are interpretations and split second judgements, not binary choices?


It's easy to think up a scenario where a challenge system would be pox.

Less than a minute left and less than a goal down a midfielder gets a quick kick out of congestion to the edge of the centre square. The marking player is too far out to score and quickly pushes back from his mark to look for a lead. The ball was kicked out of the pack so the opposing team immediately calls a challenge even though it's clear to everyone that there was no touch.
Cue the video review where the shitty technology used means that the ball moves a foot between frames. The operator goes through the various angles interminably and after what seems like several minutes calls it as "insufficient evidence to see whether the ball is touched". Meanwhile, the defending team has parked 17 players in the forward 50. Super.

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I believe Clark . After all , he is a faaarking idiot for letting Cottrell mark the ball . Clark is known in footy circles as a whiny sook who never shuts up so the swings and roundabouts thing eventually got him . The little boy who cried wolf once too often and he got his right whack .

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Watch the behind the goal footage. He's looking straight at the umpire while "berating himself".

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Credit to Fremantle's coach, showed a lot of grace & class in his presser.

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While being practically held back by teammates no less.

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There shouldn't be. It would be unworkable. Umpires have to make split second decisions without the benefit of slow mo replays. they will miss stuff. We already have too many umps making calls more inconsistent through games (4 interpretations of the same rules on the same ground)

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The AFL can fix that, just add another rule that stipulates both teams must revert to the 666 start of play configuration once play resumes after a captains challenge to avoid teams parking the bus. To simulate the centre square we will have extra squares painted all over the ground especially for such play restarts if the umpire needs to bounce the ball.

I would rather my team loses because a mark brushed someone's triceps on slo-mo replay, than be subjected to Captains Challenges.
Yeah, I'll whinge about it. But watching AFL games with more ridiculous reviews is a terrible idea.
The umpire on the boundary went to the video umpire when the Freo player clearly kicked the ball out of bounds, and they gave it the all clear. At least, that took a few seconds.

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Someone needs to tell the Freo defender, Draper it think his name is, that you cannot pull on your opponents jumper. He did it multiple time and got pulled up on most of them. He then looks at the umpire with a confused look.

Give it a few years and we'll have AI umpires giving perfect decisions in real-time. Then a few years after that we'll have AI players and VR headsets for the crowd beaming them all their betting and merchandise options updated to align with specific match events that were programmed in advance. Welcome to the matrix.

Like every game day thread? lol

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I'm loving this! 22 years since the Riccardi incident. Finally!

You made the comment that the players "drunk their own bathwater" - that clearly implies that the performance was all about us doing the wrong things and gives no credit to the ability of the opponent and the homework they did on us. Sometimes you just come up against a tough opponent that doesn't let you do what you want, and it has nothing to do with us getting ahead of ourselves and "drinking our own bathwater".

Oh and your other post re. karma.....you don't have to go back very far to see that it doesn't exist - if it did, Maynard would've been rubbed out and the Pies would've been knocked out. Instead, he played and they won the flag. There is no karma.

Some Blues fans are happier when we lose it seems.

If this happened in the Suns Giants game no one would really care.

It happened in the friggin Cats vs Dogs game, Stengle marked the ball over the line ffs!

He went back and kicked a goal when it should have been a point, and they won by LESS THAN A GOAL.

Geelong doesn't sell papers/get clicks like we do.

Cotty would have snapped it through on the right foot if the mark wasnt called. Getting caught up in challenges and reviews would ruin that.

With umpiring you just have to go with the flow and hope your team is good enough to beat any bad luck they have with the calls throughout the game.

It is a hard game to umpire. As a spectator if you are going to get caught up in moaning about umpire decisions then AFL really isnt the sport for you.