Round 23 Crows v Swans

[Hotpotato]

Common sense prevails … astonishing .
What’s going on?

[stevoswan]

The other I'd have is no soft call. If the umpire is unsure, he's unsure. Let's not then tilt the balance on what could be decided by the burden to get to one answer behind higher or lower than the other. Just send it up and let the ARC decide.

I agree with this point as I have noticed over time that with disputed goals against the Swans, the goal umpire usually says "I think it was a goal" and for disputed goals for the Swans they often say "I think it was a behind".....thereby giving the advantage in the case of 'not enough evidence to overturn' to our opposition. I really hate that!

[stevoswan]

IT was a blatant throw. Let's not be silly now

Who's being silly now Barry? It was a handball.

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The totally sensible thing to do. There doesn't even have to be any exceptions. If the ball crosses the line between the inner posts, it's a goal, the outer posts, it's a point. Basically, it's scoring like soccer. It doesn't matter who it touches or what it touches.

Add last touch out of bounds and the game would be so much easier to umpire.

But could the game stand the lack of controversy? What would Whateley and Robbo have to talk about. AFL 360 could be reduced to a 10 minute program once a week.

So now we can handball goals in footy? Never heard anything so silly in my life. Are we just trying to destroy the game for convenience sake?

[stevoswan]

Unfortunately he won't get off. Too much bad publicity, where on talk back today they were still harping on as if the Swans were the villains and rubbish suggestions that they should forfeit and give the match to Adelaide. So they will not be getting any favorable treatment at the judiciary tonight. Dwayne Russell even sarcastically said that they may increase his suspension by a week. Talk about a pile-on. It was a mistake, it has been acknowledged so as per the current rules jut get on with it. I hope that Longmire and the boys use this as ammunition and galvanize the squad.

McCartin got off.....free to play. The enemies will go berserk!

[stevoswan]

He's been on Fox for as long as I can remember - since the relaunch of Fox Footy, I think. His recent change was to leave the ABC and go to SEN for his morning show.
I suspect he's always been a bit of a Vic-twat, and particularly a Geelong-twat.

I don't have Fox so I didn't realise that. Fair enough. Agree, he's certainly a Geelong-twat.

[Ludwig]

Common sense prevails … astonishing .
What’s going on?

The tribunal bought my head-butting defence. I was always confident it would work.

[MattW]

https://x.com/senwabreakfast/status/...QKwk_9TTaxWD2Q

As inconclusive as everything else.

Goal umpire was in perfect position and was very confident in his decision. And Lloyd does seem to be pointing up at the post before ump called the point ….

https://x.com/bigd1477/status/169290...QKwk_9TTaxWD2Q

LOL. Someone interview Jake Lloyd.

[MattW]

The totally sensible thing to do. There doesn't even have to be any exceptions. If the ball crosses the line between the inner posts, it's a goal, the outer posts, it's a point. Basically, it's scoring like soccer. It doesn't matter who it touches or what it touches.

Add last touch out of bounds and the game would be so much easier to umpire.

But could the game stand the lack of controversy? What would Whateley and Robbo have to talk about. AFL 360 could be reduced to a 10 minute program once a week.

Christian Petracca agrees: https://twitter.com/FOXFOOTY/status/...sD8_FgTjQ&s=19.

[MattW]

To be fair, there was a very decent segment on the McCartin tribunal decision on AFL360 tonight. The decision was explained in detail. Whateley and Robinson agreed with it.

[Hotpotato]

Whateley and Robbo are an odd (quite watchable) couple, I’m not as addicted as I used to be bc they don’t spend a lot of in-depth on the Swans.
The most hilarious footy show (IMHO) is the
FRONT BAR .

[The Big Cat]

The most hilarious footy show (IMHO) is the
FRONT BAR .

Would improve 100% if they got rid of Andy Maher. How he has survived in the media for so long has me astonished.

[Ludwig]

Whateley and Robbo are an odd (quite watchable) couple.

I really liked them in Mother & Son.

[Kafka's Ghost]

I really liked them in Mother & Son.

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[cruiser]

https://twitter.com/ajgardineresq/status/1693844820622741727?s=46

Hope this link works. Interesting footage of that behind from another angle.

[Sandridge]

https://twitter.com/ajgardineresq/st...622741727?s=46

Hope this link works. Interesting footage of that behind from another angle.

When it happened, the commentators thought it was a goal. When they looked at a slo-mo replay, they thought it had hit the padding.