If we are a serious club we MUST protest Rampe post climb

[Spike]

Sydney Swans (sydneyswans)

Talk about wishy washy cr@p

[stir_fried_ewok]

Thank god for that. Rampe meant no malice when he climbed the goal post. I misread this whole incident as I was convinced he was trying to hump it against its will.

[loyalandproud]

Obviously related to the Fonz- the word ‘sorry’ was distinctly lacking.
Pathetic excuses all round.
Come on Essendon - say something!! (Disappointing blah blah…)

[BomberMik]

Lloydy nailed it on the AFL site. There is gambling involved, so to say the decision was wrong will open the AFL up to a whole new ■■■■ storm above just fking up and screwing over Essendon, again. I don’t particularly want the win as we were dogshit, and I’m still not over the anger today.
I would like us to have a spine and just call it out, but we won’t. It adds to the anger of the weekends loss, but is not by far my biggest concern coming out of Friday night.

[theDJR]

Communication professionals on the AFL site saying Rampe will get two “please explain”s.

Ol’ Gil will be annoyed at that.

[kesslin]

In some ways this may prove to be a turning point. It is showing the AFL for who they are. They make a mistake, double down on it by arguing the umpire was right, and then try to cover it up by not allowing the audio with Stringer. In one sense they are snookered. It’s like the saga but this time everyone can see it, even Kevin Bartlett, Jon Ralph and Tim Lane.

As I commented in another post, the article by Chip Le Grand on November 13 2015 told the real story of the saga that only two out of 27 Essendon players tested positive to TB4. Other clubs were roughly the same.

I wonder how they will compensate us this time.

[theDJR]

No, the other clubs had a much higher rate of “abnormal” readings for TB4.

[Bessie]

Oh god, just all shut up and get shafted again ??? No no no

[SiMFiR]

Lloydy nailed it on the AFL site. There is gambling involved, so to say the decision was wrong will open the AFL up to a whole new ■■■■ storm above just fking up and screwing over Essendon, again. I don’t particularly want the win as we were dogshit, and I’m still not over the anger today.
I would like us to have a spine and just call it out, but we won’t. It adds to the anger of the weekends loss, but is not by far my biggest concern coming out of Friday night.

Here we go again.
■■■■■■ Sydney took the win. You don’t hear them saying “oh in fair sportsmanship we will give up the 4 points because we are embarrassed about the way we won” Bullshit they will, they’ll take the win and call “suckers” to us. ■■■■ 'em.

[handypoint]

Maybe behind closed doors there is a reason we are getting some good trades done…

Lets have this weekend roll around and see how we respond.

Its exciting, the AFL is becoming more like WWE in terms of its manufactured outcomes…

Keeps the punters coming back for more.

Oh and Sydney must pencil in at least one home win every year. If I were them I would be requestibg us.

EFC… Total ■■■■■ at the SCG for as long as you can remember.

[Casio]

Looks like Rampe could do with a hug. Where’s Hep at

[Bomber1408]

Agreed

[Fairybread]

How some people think we would look

How we would actually look

[BomberMik]

Here we go again.

OK maybe not “I don’t particularly wan’t the win” but at this point i don’t really care as I am just angry .

[kesslin]

Agreed.

[SiMFiR]

Maybe behind closed doors there is a reason we are getting some good trades done…

Lets have this weekend roll around and see how we respond.

Its exciting, the AFL is becoming more like WWE in terms of its manufactured outcomes…

Keeps the punters coming back for more.

Oh and Sydney must pencil in at least one home win every year. If I were them I would be requestibg us.

EFC… Total ■■■■■ at the SCG for as long as you can remember.

Isn’t that what we said after Anzac Day?

Isn’t that what we said last week-end?

I’m over it. Just win a ■■■■■■■ important game.

[People_s_Prince]

Its exciting, the AFL is becoming more like WWE in terms of its manufactured outcomes…

Maybe our story line is that we get reamed by the umpires at the start of the season, but then Heppell saves an umpires life on the field and then we get favourable umpiring for the rest of the season and win the Grand Final with a free kick count of 50-6.

[handypoint]

Obviously we schedule in the loss against Sydney to prop up AFL support in the northern states. I think its in return for the Danihers, past present and forever into the future.

[GuzzLG]

When we called out the AFL publicly on AOD during the Saga (through briefing parts of the press), Sarah was the result. Like immediately. Like the very next morning. How’d that work out for us?

The AFL have the power to crush us any time they want. They have that power over almost all clubs. They control the AFL media completely (so they control the public narrative at all times), they have all the money, they have basically unlimited powers to suspend players/officials/clubs and they also have the power to unduly influence government decision making.

They own all of it.

Its horrid, and makes me upset, but that’s the way it is.

The AFL’s time will come one day.

What the banking royal commission highlighted is the lack of trust in major institutions and the consequences for those in charge.

It can be done. Jackson Taylor was this close. But the clubs and their fans need to come together. AFL’s divide and conquer strategy is the only thing it’s got. Just happens to be effective coz I farken hate every other club.

[GuzzLG]

Lloydy nailed it on the AFL site. There is gambling involved, so to say the decision was wrong will open the AFL up to a whole new ■■■■ storm above just fking up and screwing over Essendon, again. I don’t particularly want the win as we were dogshit, and I’m still not over the anger today.
I would like us to have a spine and just call it out, but we won’t. It adds to the anger of the weekends loss, but is not by far my biggest concern coming out of Friday night.

The other side of the coin is this.

Gil effectively gave the green light for umpires to enforce the rules when it meets their definition of “practical”.

Now, if you were a criminal type who wanted to corrupt an umpire to help fix matches or part of matches, you know that umpires have this kind of licence and that they won’t ever face any repercussions for not applying the rules. Would knowing this this encourage you or discourage you from trying to pay-off umpires?