There was a ruck contest deep in our forward line in the last where Meek took both eyes off the ball and put both hands on drapers shoulders to hold his arms down, was the most blatant ruck free I’ve ever seen, ‘play on’
Hawks have been annoited this year.
Got lots of help in the last v Sydney too
Is that the one where they never even got to the ball drop because of Meek’s action?
Draper’s face was comically surprised as he fell backward if I recall.
They are going to say that he had time and space when he first had the ball to dispose which overrides the slip and under pressure when he disposes it.
They generally don’t pay it that way but that’s what they will say to justify it.
And players often wait for pressure to come before simply carrying the ball over the line, the fact that McGrath actually tried to keep ot in before slipping shouldn’t have gone against him.
Kmart Matt Nicholls was horrific last night. He was legit guessing out there.
Ha, that’s who I thought it was. Was yelling out “you’re ■■■■ Nicholls” all night. Even went to his house after the game and yelled it through his window….oh well….
You remember when Draper fell on the ball and didn’t give away a free kick in the final seconds against Adelaide. Then he did a reenactment after the siren. And the AFL looked stupid. Even though there were about 3 unpaid free kicks against Tex the racist in the seconds leading up to it?
Well that’s why he’ll never get a free kick ever again.
EDIT: 10 Goals 18!!! WTF
Was there one where Sicily took a mark, hit Perkins in the head knocking him to the ground and then played on straight over him? Surely you can’t do that.
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Which interestingly, a Hawks player almost did a perfect reenactment of in Q4 last night directly in front of our goals, and was also called play on. It was extraordinary.
Yep the umps never give him anything. Remember the cats game last year. It’s basically open slather on drapes in a marking contest and at the defensive end he’s not allowed to make any contact at all.
Deserves a please explain to headquarters at this point
Did you really have to include in the screenshot the rule below about climbing and shaking the goal post. I was only just starting to recover from that Dane Rampe incident.
For the rushed behind, i read that as all 3 of the first lines have to apply. It doesn’t say ‘or’ after each line
At least you’re not Dustin Fletcher.
The only player to have every single rule in the book applied against him throughout his career. That Dustin Fletcher?
There’s an or. It’s an ‘or’ list, not an ‘and’ list.
If mum says “you can have a choc wedge, a golden gaytime or a paddle pop”, you only get one. Not the last or both of the first two….
Anyway, I look forward to every player who has prior opportunity, but then turns into trouble and rushes or disposes the ball through for a point being equally penalised all year.
Hahahaha as if!
I don’t mind keeping the fires burning
If you are initially under no pressure, you can’t just wait until pressure comes and then handball through. Sort of what Bowden did all those years ago. Stood there under no pressure and waited until player came near him and then rushed it.
However McGrath was under enough pressure initially IMO for him to still be able to rush the ball through.
