The facts about free kicks

[reigning premier]

Excellent... Those stats PROVE the more we're penalised, the more successful we are....

[desredandwhite]

Those numbers don't prove anything apart from:

FACT: We give away more free kicks than we receive.

Why is this so? Possible reasons:

1. We are a dirty team
2. We play a style of football that tends to give away more free kicks
3. We are not as good a team, therefore more likely to be chasing other teams' players with the ball and therefore more likely to infringe
4. The umpires are biased
5. We have struggled to keep ahead of rule changes
6. We don't act for frees
7. Pure luck

True answer? Probably a combination of all factors above.

[reigning premier]

Those numbers don't prove anything apart from:

FACT: We give away more free kicks than we receive.

Why is this so? Possible reasons:

1. We are a dirty team
2. We play a style of football that tends to give away more free kicks
3. We are not as good a team, therefore more likely to be chasing other teams' players with the ball and therefore more likely to infringe
4. The umpires are biased
5. We have struggled to keep ahead of rule changes
6. We don't act for frees
7. Pure luck

True answer? Probably a combination of all factors above.

Really??? Truly???? It's not just because everyone hates us and their jealous of our spiffy red and white uniform????

[johnno]

Those numbers don't prove anything apart from:

FACT: We give away more free kicks than we receive.

Why is this so? Possible reasons:

1. We are a dirty team
2. We play a style of football that tends to give away more free kicks
3. We are not as good a team, therefore more likely to be chasing other teams' players with the ball and therefore more likely to infringe
4. The umpires are biased
5. We have struggled to keep ahead of rule changes
6. We don't act for frees
7. Pure luck

True answer? Probably a combination of all factors above.

All of them except reasons numbered 1 and 3. I think.

[Donners]

We were in the black in 1987 and 1988. We need to bring back David Murphy and Barry Mitchell, who lead the way in the positive free kick count.

[ROK Lobster]

Really??? Truly???? It's not just because everyone hates us and their jealous of our spiffy red and white uniform????

Is there a correlation between free kicks against and the hooped socks?

[satchmopugdog]

Is there a correlation between free kicks against and the hooped socks?

The wide boys in Melbourne are getting their revenge on hoops..they make them look fatter than they really are.

[reigning premier]

Is there a correlation between free kicks against and the hooped socks?

Moreover, does anyone have the free kick count when we played in our centenary jumper against Carlton??? Perhaps it has something to do with amount of Red Vs White that we wear on any particular day??? The more white, the less free kicks????

[johnno]

Moreover, does anyone have the free kick count when we played in our centenary jumper against Carlton??? Perhaps it has something to do with amount of Red Vs White that we wear on any particular day??? The more white, the less free kicks????

Yep, Carlton 25-Swans 18.

[connolly]

What I dont understand is that a lot of these guys are form an era that had far more infringing and far more violence than today yet they keep putting more and more rules in place. Is this the situation of the kid who always got picked on in the playground getting their revenge?

Who are these people canvassing when they make rule changes for the "good of the game" - as they constantly seek to hide behind. I can tell them right now that there chances of connecting with the western sydney market are zero and so out of touch its incredible. I cant believe even the die hards in melbourne pine for a game that has no toughness about it , multiple "tiggy touchwood" rules that leave you cringing, zone based defences etc etc. People are kidding themselves if they think this is the way forward.

Looks like from the figure that we are heading towards a 2007 type differential based on already being half way to the 2008 differential after round six.

The Rules Committee are an interesting bunch. Bartlett, who made a career of running away from physical contact, the ultimate outside player who never laid a tackle in his career. Gale whose main claim to fame is to play alongside a steriod cheat and not realise that his hulking frame was the result of anything apart from Weet Bix and who has campaigned against an effective drug testing regime. A soft, soft ruckman who jumped into cwentrebounce contests like Dame Margot Fontain in Swan Lake. And finally Michael Sexton who barely made one tackle a match as a defender. We get what we would expect from these lightweights and yes men. Restrictions on physical contests at the ball.

[johnno]

Yep, Carlton 25-Swans 18.

still getting shafted.

[satchmopugdog]

[QUOTE=connolly;436836] Gale whose main claim to fame is to play alongside a steriod cheat and not realise that his hulking frame was the result of anything apart from Weet Bix and who has campaigned against an effective drug testing regime. A soft, soft ruckman who jumped into cwentrebounce contests like Dame Margot Fontain in Swan Lake. QUOTE]

Plus he went to Marist in Burnie rather than a real school..those Christian brothers teach you a thing or two about physical contact.

[connolly]

Plus he went to Marist in Burnie rather than a real school..those Christian brothers teach you a thing or two about physical contact.[/QUOTE]

And the final piece in the jig saw is deftly slotted in!

[AnnieH]

And the final piece in the jig saw is deftly slotted in!

... so to speak.