I was also perplexed by this, and the "commentators" didn't even pick up on it. Sometimes wonder if they're actually watching the game.

Hated losing so much that he cheated the system

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are the saying what Curnow's damage is yet?

I agree with Bolton; we should be proud, but no where near satisfied.

if we had some more running and disposal depth through the middle we'd be finals bound. if we had a functioning forward line we'd even win a game or two once there.

I don't have the benefit of a replay to refer to, but didn't Kreuzer fail to make contact with the ball when he dropped it in the "tackle"? In which case: illegal disposal after taking possession from a ruck contest. I thought it was a free. The umps paid illegal disposal quite a lot which was good to see, I'm sick of teams like Sydney and Hawthorn scoring goals after a chain of half-a-dozen deliberate drops and hand-offs disguised as "jarred free".

Being a Sydney resident, I'd say they are genuine in their support but don't really "get" the game. The prime example was the Sydney vs. GWS game at the SCG this season. The first 15 minutes of the game was some of the most intense footy you'll ever see: big hits, ferocious tackles, smothers, etc. Real high quality stuff that would have the MCG roaring. But after those 15 minutes the score was 0.1 to 0.0, and you could hear a pin drop. Then finally Sydney breaks through for a goal, and the crowd wakes up from its slumber with a heartfelt cheer. Man, for me the goal was the anti-climax to some seriously amazing football, but I guess Sydneysiders are all about the razzamatazz.

Not a big fan of crying umpiring because so many calls are down to interpretation. But Christ I got mad when that bloke who can't afford a second name took the 'mark' over chas curnow then proceeded to play on from 5 metres in front of it and set up a goal. Not interpretation, basic rule.

Because it's early in the game it won't be discussed. But @#$%&! you umpires.

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Left wing moralists
In self serving denial
They shit me no end

We lost because of their advantage to sign one player?, this differs how from when we could sign the likes of Motley, Kernahan, Bradley, Naley, Dorotich, Bosustow, Hunter and Williams from interstate, whilst shipping our cast-offs to the likes of Fitzroy and St Kilda?

So many want to go back the good old days, because of frustration of compromised drafts, the failure of equalisation, academy's, COLA, and whatever tap in79 is on about in his posts and return the days where Carlton won 7 flags in 20 years, Collingwood made 40 GFs in 100 years, Hawks made 7 GFs in a row, and 50% of teams in a 12 team comp - St Kilda, Footscray, Geelong, Melbourne, Fitzroy and South Melbourne didn't win a flag between them in a 40 year period.

And you say it's a farce about what the SCG is, but I assume you had no problem playing at Princes Park which was so small it's 50m line was about 44m, and at the time had a playing length that was 29m shorter than VFL Park?

Style of play and commentary is subjective taste, so no qualms there however I remember when people would loathe the likes of Don Scott, Morphett, McKenna and pine for the days of Williamson and co. from the 60s. As for umpiring, people hated Coates, Russo, Goldspink, Vernon, Harvey etc in the 90s, and more than likely Boyle, Bremmer and Briscoe 100 years ago.

It's your right to think it's a sham now - and you may well be correct, but on your logic and the examples I've given it always has been, perhaps now you are more aware of it due to greater exposure.

Last week there were supporter on here whinging that Hawks beat Sydney due to the leg up they get from the league and umpirimg, and now some are claiming we lost to Sydney for the same reasons....

Sorry to hijack, but blaming everything from the AFL to tidal movements rather than what we've been able to control for losses or our current predicament frustrates me.

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Yep.

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I hope Essendon* folds.

Yeah I noticed that Weitering moment. I think he's been generally less intense with the physical stuff since hurting his shoulder. Can't blame him, still so young and it's a long year and he's playing on some big guys. He'll improve in that area, he's such an exciting talent. I agree on the corralling, it can be bloody frustrating when you just want to see them cracking in. Gibbs for instance can get into a 'corral mindset' which is frustrating because I think he's a fantastic tackler as evidenced by yesterday.

Very pleased with yesterday and the last 2 weeks really. Very impressive improvement because we were on a downward trend for a few weeks which I thought would continue for the rest of the year. In particular our attacking mindset has returned after a few weeks of being lost with ball in hand.

Keep it up Baggers!

I agree with this I don't think enough is made of just how bare our FWD line is. It is makeshift at best. A couple of good forwards would do amazing things for this team.

Yep, I was shouting "you can't do that!" at the tv. Overall can't complain about the umpiring though, once again terrible disposal skills killed us. Christ, the amount of times players couldn't hit a target by foot from 30 odd metres away had me tearing my hair out. Incidently, I didn't have a problem with that free against Krooz in front of goal.

there is no equation -there are no second prizes, particularly in grand finals

deep

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This type of slight is alien in the more cultured part of the world - Walsh. Its up there with mad dogs, Englishmen and the midday sun!

Isn't this exactly the team defence BB preaches? Part of it at times is to coral and force a disposal that results in a turnover. Rather than rush the player and overcommit. However this requires the rest of the team to be set up correctly behind Jacob. It only takes one player to be out of position to give the opposition the easy pass over the corralling player.

It's cool to not like it, but it's certainly a team rule not a Jacob decision and certainly nothing to do with Jacob's shoulder.

I was really impressed. I forgo that Walker, Jammo, Dre and Thomas weren't out there and to be honest I didn't miss them.

Another quality inside mid and a small forward will see us start winning games

This has got to be the best tackle of 2016!

https://twitter.com/AFL/status/756839353318453248

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I don't really get the game anymore. Neither do the commentators or supposed 'experts' who are paid to watch it for a living. The rules change weekly and overlap each other...it's impossible to officiate or understand the rules

A shoe in as tackle of the week

Rod Waddell wrote:
"Hawks kicked 75 points last week and beat the Swans.

CFC kicked 75 points last week and lost to WCE.

Can you see the correlation?"

Wrote this in the pre-match discussion. If we kicked 75 points we would of won....by a point!

Doesn't make me feel any better

I wasn't alive then