#AFL Round 22 Weekly Discussion Thread

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  • goswannies
    Senior Player
    • Sep 2007
    • 3049

    #46
    Originally posted by 707
    How bad are the Adelaide sides!

    Port are a complete enigma, beat very good sides one week, pathetic the next, absolute roller coaster.

    Adelaide, well I'm very happy for them to turn to poo, shuts up their supporters here. They are in a difficult position with an ageing list, do have pick 3 which they will use on a runner, could be a rebuild coming.
    707, did you go to the get together at the Seven Stars to watch the Dees/Swans game?

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    • stevoswan
      Veterans List
      • Sep 2014
      • 8555

      #47
      Dogs grinding down the Giants..... I suppose a free kick advantage of 15 - 5 will do that. I effing hate that team.... Phil Davis just told an umpire "You just don't understand". He was right, the commentators backed him but I suspect that umpire understands alright. He understands that his employer would like another fairytale perhaps....this disgusting bias towards Melbourne teams (or against Sydney teams) is ruining this league.

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      • troyjones2525
        Swans Fanatic!
        • Mar 2008
        • 2908

        #48
        How many others on here are genuinely pissed off that Josh Dunkley is playing for one of my most hated teams the Western Bulldogs and not us! If the recruiters truly rated him as much as they should have then I have no doubt that he would be in a Swans jumper, no matter how much his dad had issues with Roos and the club... We certainly made an error in judgment there...

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        • troyjones2525
          Swans Fanatic!
          • Mar 2008
          • 2908

          #49
          Originally posted by stevoswan
          Dogs grinding down the Giants..... I suppose a free kick advantage of 14 - 5 will do that. I effing hate that team.... Davis just told an umpire "You just don't understand". He was right, the commentators backed him but I suspect that umpire understands alright. He understands that his employer would like another fairytale perhaps....this disgusting bias towards Melbourne teams (or against Sydney teams) is ruining this league.
          +1

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          • crackedactor
            Regular in the Side
            • May 2012
            • 919

            #50
            Originally posted by stevoswan
            Dogs grinding down the Giants..... I suppose a free kick advantage of 15 - 5 will do that. I effing hate that team.... Phil Davis just told an umpire "You just don't understand". He was right, the commentators backed him but I suspect that umpire understands alright. He understands that his employer would like another fairytale perhaps....this disgusting bias towards Melbourne teams (or against Sydney teams) is ruining this league.
            It's now 17 to 5 fre kicks. Victorian umpires screwing over another Sydney side. Just so unusual!!!! Of course there is no bias there. LOL, LOL.


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            • Sandridge
              Outer wing, Lake Oval
              • Apr 2010
              • 2076

              #51
              Originally posted by crackedactor
              It's now 17 to 5 fre kicks. Victorian umpires screwing over another Sydney side. Just so unusual!!!! Of course there is no bias there. LOL, LOL.


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              Not the first time GWS has been screwed over in a game against the Bulldogs.
              The Giants were just as hardly done by in the 2016 finals as we were.
              Disgraceful pro-Bulldog umpiring in the last 2 games of 2016!

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              • stevoswan
                Veterans List
                • Sep 2014
                • 8555

                #52
                My earlier post stating the free kick count was 14-5 (amended to 15-5) was 40 minutes ago. The Giants still have 5 frees. They have recieved 5 frees in almost an entire game! The umpires don't even try to hide it now.....and the Giants have just given up trying.

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                • Nico
                  Veterans List
                  • Jan 2003
                  • 11339

                  #53
                  5 free kicks in a match must be some sort of record. It seems almost impossible for this to happen.
                  http://www.nostalgiamusic.co.uk/secu...res/srh806.jpg

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                  • stevoswan
                    Veterans List
                    • Sep 2014
                    • 8555

                    #54
                    After seeing what happened in the cricket overnight, I am loving this line from Titus O'Rielly:

                    "As for the Power, with finals on the line, this performance was as bewildering as Joe Root claiming he isn’t a cheat." Spot on.....

                      Footy is a passion, not some cold hearted, spread sheet dominated rational exercise. On a Monday, you want irrational reaction. You want emotion to tru

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                    • bloodspirit
                      Clubman
                      • Apr 2015
                      • 4448

                      #55
                      I just realised, that of all the top 8 teams (which I am assuming will remain the same after next week, with the same top 4), the team I least want to see win is Geelong. Surprising, I know. Largely that is due to C. Scott.

                      I have to confess that I don't bear the same hatred towards the Bulldogs/fairypuppies as others. It's not their fault they were the beneficiaries of dubious umpiring. And I was moved by the great emotion their fans felt from the result, much as we were when we won in 2005 and everyone wished us well. That could easily have been regarded as an AFL-scripted story line too, but nobody is suggesting that (helped that Andy D had thrown everyone off the scent by calling our footy ugly). Even if the sliding tackles that nobbled Hannebery et al in the granny were deliberately intended to injure (and I'm not sure that they were), I hold that more against the player than the team. Not so sure I like Luke Beveridge though. He , like quite a few senior coaches, seems to have thug/bully aspect to him which is offputting.
                      All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others. -Douglas Adams, author (11 Mar 1952-2001)

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                      • Nico
                        Veterans List
                        • Jan 2003
                        • 11339

                        #56
                        So the Saints are prepared to offer Bradley Hill $900,000 a year and he is contracted to the end of 2021. Didn't someone else recently transfer to them on similar terms? Gee, the rest of the squad must be on bread and dripping.
                        http://www.nostalgiamusic.co.uk/secu...res/srh806.jpg

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                        • stellation
                          scott names the planets
                          • Sep 2003
                          • 9720

                          #57
                          I watched the first 3/4 of the Giants/Bulldogs game, it was the most biased umpiring I've seen this season. I'm not surprised by the final result, the Giants players seemed genuinely disheartened.

                          The one that stands out in my mind as the worst was Johannisen being wrapped up in a perfect tackle in the Giants F50 and somehow the decision being holding the man against the Giants. The only possible justification the umpire could have would be they assumed Johannisen did something clever (he didn't).
                          I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
                          We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his time

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                          • Meg
                            Go Swannies!
                            Site Admin
                            • Aug 2011
                            • 4828

                            #58
                            ‘THE AFL has made a stunning interpretation change to the studs-up rule less than 24 hours after it was blasted by Richmond coach Damien Hardwick.

                            Tigers forward Jack Riewoldt was penalised twice for using his studs in a marking contest during Sunday's win over West Coast.

                            While the AFL said both decisions were correct, they have made an immediate change to the interpretation of the rule ahead of round 23. ‘


                            So ... Hardwick complains, AFL change the rule. H’mmm Longmire, time for more complaining?


                            The AFL has made a stunning interpretation change to the studs-up rule Rule change stunner: AFL relaxes interpretation to studs-up rule - AFL.com.au

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                            • barry
                              Veterans List
                              • Jan 2003
                              • 8499

                              #59
                              You couldn't write Vic bias more clearly than the overturning of the Toby Greene rule as soon as a Vic player gets penalised for it.

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                              • Blood Fever
                                Veterans List
                                • Apr 2007
                                • 4048

                                #60
                                Originally posted by barry
                                You couldn't write Vic bias more clearly than the overturning of the Toby Greene rule as soon as a Vic player gets penalised for it.
                                AFL reacts straight after Hardwick squeals. Embarrassment and laughing stock.

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