#AFL Finals week 3 weekly discussion thread

[KTigers]

The Grand Final will be the seventh consecutive Richmond game at the MCG. It's a brutal schedule for them, road warriors that
they are.

[liz]

So when the ball is right at the beginning of its flight path, any smothering and touching seems much less likely to be reviewed by the roaming umps because they are just not in close proximity and concentrating on it (like a goal ump).
The guy(s) who know they touched it have to yell and gesticulate pretty loudly to alert an ump, but with the crowd noise, no one can hear anything.
I had to look at a few times to see the fingers bending, although the commentators picked it up quickly like Richo.
The AFL have owned it now.

And yet how often do you hear umpires call "touched, play on!" as soon as a ball is kicked in general play! I realise they probably don't get these spot on, but it's pretty frequent that they do notice a ball is touched off the boot. Maybe it's a matter of degree of touch. A fingernail on a ball in general play may well got unnoticed, but becomes a major talking point when it's a shot for goal, even if it has close to no impact on the trajectory.

Slightly deviating, I am amused by how a touch off the boot leads to a play on call, yet a first touch by another player in a contested marking situation is almost never sufficient to bring about a play on call.

[Blood Fever]

And yet how often do you hear umpires call "touched, play on!" as soon as a ball is kicked in general play! I realise they probably don't get these spot on, but it's pretty frequent that they do notice a ball is touched off the boot. Maybe it's a matter of degree of touch. A fingernail on a ball in general play may well got unnoticed, but becomes a major talking point when it's a shot for goal, even if it has close to no impact on the trajectory.

Slightly deviating, I am amused by how a touch off the boot leads to a play on call, yet a first touch by another player in a contested marking situation is almost never sufficient to bring about a play on call.

Also, when a forward shepherds on the goal line to allow a goal to go through, the whole rule book is thrown out, especially in regard to holding and front on contact.

[Hotpotato]

Anyone willing to give a slight nod to Eddie (despite his downcast and different demeanour exiting his seat) and proceeding to the Giants rooms to congratulate every player (as reported - Macquarie Radio) or .... pass it off ....
As pure Eddie showmanship?

[Blood Fever]

Anyone willing to give a slight nod to Eddie (despite his downcast and different demeanour exiting his seat) and proceeding to the Giants rooms to congratulate every player (as reported - Macquarie Radio) or .... pass it off ....
As pure Eddie showmanship?

All about Ed

[Bloods05]

It's hard to accept his bona fides after seeing what happened with Adam Goodes.

[Blood Fever]

It's hard to accept his bona fides after seeing what happened with Adam Goodes.

Like The Boy Who Cried Wolf, no one trusts him anymore. Megalomaniac.

[KTigers]

I don't think it's going to take McGuire long to revert to form, and sometime later this week he'll be screaming for the
GWS academy to be closed, limiting the number of GWS taggers in a game and also the number of players called
Jeremy GWS are allowed to have in their forward line.

[Doctor J.]

I don't think it's going to take McGuire long to revert to form, and sometime later this week he'll be screaming for the
GWS academy to be closed, limiting the number of GWS taggers in a game and also the number of players called
Jeremy GWS are allowed to have in their forward line.

He has already said something along the lines that a GWS win will be good because it means no one will hear about it, and it will be a perfect reason to start winding back all the "concessions"

[KTigers]

He has already said something along the lines that a GWS win will be good because it means no one will hear about it, and it will be a perfect reason to start winding back all the "concessions"

In particular GWS' "overuse" of delisted free agents, who they had more of on the field on Saturday than top ten draft picks. It was an outrage.

[Sandridge]

It's hard to accept his bona fides after seeing what happened with Adam Goodes.

Exactly what I thought.

[Hotpotato]

My cobber from Wagga got two tiks to Giants PF and took his GF to the game for a day out to discover that (wearing plenty of Orange) they were situated just behind Joffa in the middle of the Pies Cheer Squad.
They copped plenty of abuse (they, well more he barracked very loudly).
His GF, not a footy fan, said it was one of the best days of her life.
He supports The Swans and also The Giants as I do, but only a Swans member.

[Bloods05]

My cobber from Wagga got two tiks to Giants PF and took his GF to the game for a day out to discover that (wearing plenty of Orange) they were situated just behind Joffa in the middle of the Pies Cheer Squad.
They copped plenty of abuse (they, well more he barracked very loudly).
His GF, not a footy fan, said it was one of the best days of her life.
He supports The Swans and also The Giants as I do, but only a Swans member.

How on earth does anyone support two teams? How? It's like bigamy.

[stevoswan]

How on earth does anyone support two teams? How? It's like bigamy.

+1

[Mel_C]

Exactly what I thought.

Same here. Eddie went to the Swans rooms to speak to Goodes and apologise. Then a few days later came the King Kong "joke".