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

[Hotpotato]

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.

[Go Swannies]

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.

[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.

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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

[CureTheSane]

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.

[CureTheSane]

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.

[stevoswan]

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.

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......

[Danzar]

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?

[Markwebbos]

What thread is this?

To be clear I’m suggesting that a thread be created for ranting. It doesn’t exist at the moment.

[rojo]

Just hoping that someone will create one!

[Hotpotato]

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

[stevoswan]

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

+1

[Ludwig]

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.

[barry]

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

[707]

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!

[AnnieH]

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.