#AFL Rd 17 Sydney v North, ES, 15 July 2018 @SydneySwans #NorthSwans

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  • Hotpotato
    Senior Player
    • Jun 2014
    • 2285

    Aliir Aliirs best game and growing in confidence.
    How many senior games has he notched ?
    21 or 22.
    Dunno what more he has to do please some people .... .
    He’s has the skills and the coolness under pressure.

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    • Go Swannies
      Veterans List
      • Sep 2003
      • 5697

      I normally hate North games but that one was a ripper with a great ending. Skill errors all over the place but lots of heart.

      And it was great to sit with ScottH for the first time in quite a while. A good afternoon all round.

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      • bodgie
        Regular in the Side
        • Jul 2007
        • 501

        As brilliant as our young team was there were times we looked so small and immature and were tossed aside like rag dolls. We'll need a handful of the old fellas back and in form pretty soon.

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        I think the match day thread is the place for ranting! Just skip the live banter and tune in later when things cool off.

        At one point early on the free kick count was 8 to 1. Highly rantable as the game unfolds

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        • CureTheSane
          Carpe Noctem
          • Jan 2003
          • 5032

          Originally posted by ugg
          Yes he did a Troy Luff by overcorrecting his bias. Which annoyed the heck out of the hoi polloi on the North BF board
          Yep.
          It was fake.
          Which made it redundant.
          Poor choice for that game.
          As was Hodge.
          The difference between insanity and genius is measured only in success.

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          • CureTheSane
            Carpe Noctem
            • Jan 2003
            • 5032

            Originally posted by bodgie
            As brilliant as our young team was there were times we looked so small and immature and were tossed aside like rag dolls. We'll need a handful of the old fellas back and in form pretty soon.
            Read somewhere that we had 10 players with less than 30 games.
            That's pretty much half the team if you take out Kennedy.
            Fair effort.
            Other teams will be envious of that win.
            The difference between insanity and genius is measured only in success.

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            • stevoswan
              Veterans List
              • Sep 2014
              • 8573

              Originally posted by Velour&Ruffles
              That's the point, although not in the way you think. The umpiring wasn't inconsistent. it was very consistently in favour of North. On several occasions virtually identical incidents occurred within the same minute but were adjudicated in entirely contradictory ways, the consistency being that it was always in North's favour. WTF is the use of a board like this if we can't have a rant about it?
              Exactly my point.....it has to be discussed when it's so obviously biased and potentially result changing.

              Originally posted by Markwebbos
              We aren’t suggesting you can’t have a rant sbout umpires, just that there is a thread for the ranting.
              Never noticed an Umpire Rant Thread.....The match thread is the obvious place to discuss all aspects of the game, including adjudication.....it can't be separated from the action, it's all part of it. I think those who complain are to an extent, attempting to shield themselves from 'uncomfortable' reality. Time for a check......

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              • Danzar
                I'm doing ok right now, thanks
                • Jun 2006
                • 2027

                Originally posted by Markwebbos
                We aren’t suggesting you can’t have a rant sbout umpires, just that there is a thread for the ranting.
                What thread is this?
                Captain, I am detecting large quantities of win in this sector

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                • Markwebbos
                  Veterans List
                  • Jul 2016
                  • 7186

                  Originally posted by Danzar
                  What thread is this?
                  To be clear I’m suggesting that a thread be created for ranting. It doesn’t exist at the moment.

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                  • rojo
                    Opti-pessi-misti
                    • Mar 2009
                    • 1103

                    Just hoping that someone will create one!

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                    • Hotpotato
                      Senior Player
                      • Jun 2014
                      • 2285

                      Who would read it, it’s better to have all points of view on the game ere .

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                      • stevoswan
                        Veterans List
                        • Sep 2014
                        • 8573

                        Originally posted by Hotpotato
                        Who would read it, it’s better to have all points of view on the game ere .
                        +1

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                        • Ludwig
                          Veterans List
                          • Apr 2007
                          • 9359

                          Sorry for intruding on The Umpire Vilification Thread but I just noticed that the only Swan not to have a clanger for the game was Colin O'Riordan. Not bad for a first gamer.

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                          • barry
                            Veterans List
                            • Jan 2003
                            • 8499

                            I thought the umpiring was bad but fair. I only saw second half though.

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                            • 707
                              Veterans List
                              • Aug 2009
                              • 6204

                              Originally posted by barry
                              It was great to see the team without the usual non-impact players Rohan, Hannerbury, Jack.
                              Are you suggesting they have been dead weights in our games so far Barry?

                              We need to keep moving forward and if we lose old favourites along the way, so be it. Gold Passes have to stop, reward those bashing down the door in NEAFL. COR is such an upgrade, even in his debut game, this is the future!

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                              • AnnieH
                                RWOs Black Sheep
                                • Aug 2006
                                • 11332

                                Again...
                                ALIIR
                                Love that kid.
                                OMG. Heart attack footy or what?
                                From 30cm in front of it, I screamed at the TV, ten seconds!! Joey heard me and told the others.
                                Happy to have the four points.
                                Even happier Collingwood lost. My phone will be quieter this week.
                                Wild speculation, unsubstantiated rumours, silly jokes and opposition delight in another's failures is what makes an internet forum fun.
                                Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones who let in the light.

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