You can’t beat ‘City Hall’. This mob is law unto themselves. Start a ‘Super League’ and fark this corrupt organisation off.
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The French did it
Seperating heads from shoulders did the trick
This was sort of hinted at for ANZAC day. A massive game like that has millions invested in gambling on it. I know one of the biggest companies (i think it was Sportsbet) had the promo that if your team is x amount up we will pay out as a winner. Collingwood were 30+ up so that means every bet on Collingwood winning gets paid. If EFC then wins Sportsbet loses every single win bet on that game. IF lets just say that would cost them 200K, its good business to invest 20K in some “insurance”. Now I’m not saying thats what happened but it clearly highlights integrity issues the AFL have regarding gambling & the accountability of umpires.
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I’m confused. So you’re allowed to climb the post and touch the ball from a much higher height as long as the post doesn’t shake? He was climbing the post to make himself 9 feet tall.
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The rules don’t mention it explicitly, because the AFL is awful at writing rules. They added a rule about not holding up players to gain height and didn’t think of similar things (or write it sufficiently vague to cover other circumstances).
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How many times do people have to hear the story before they realise the Essendon Football Club and anyone who has anything to do with them, wears the cloak of the saga. Forgiveness
the AFL would not know the first thing about forgiveness when it come to us.
However they are very forgiving. Have a look at page 22 of today’s Sun. You will read how" a senior figure of the AFL gave a character evidence in support of a sexual predator, who has now been cleared to umpire suburban league matches that involve children. The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal -taking into account the senior AFL official’s backing -has overturned a refusal to grant the pervert a permit to work with children."
The Herald Sun says, "the case is alarming, not only because VCAT has upheld the appeal and approved a permit for the applicant to work with children. The umpire who is now officiating at games, cannot be named because of a suppression order that VCAT imposed, in part to prevent “embarrassment” to the umpire.
The identity of the “very senior” AFL identity has also been supressed so that person won’t be accountable for supporting the sexual offender with a character evidence - evidence that had weight because of his senior standing with the AFL.
The applicant (sexual offender) aged 57, has a long and shocking history of sexual offending.
His first offence dates back to 1983 when, as a 21 year old, he was charged with having sex with a 15 year old girl who fell pregnant. He said he thought she was older.
In 2009 he was refused a Working With Children Permit - a decision VCAT then overturned.
But in 2010, he followed and propositioned a woman, and in 2011 he pleaded guilty to wilful and obscene exposure and stalking and placed on the sexual offender’s register, but that was rescinded after an appeal to the County Court. Because of those charges he lost his Working With Children permit. This time, his appeal to VCAT in 2013 was dismissed. In 2014 he was again accused of wilful and obscene exposure, but he claimed he had been urinating in a bush and the charges were dismissed.
The AFL employee who gave character evidence told VCAT that the man was a “stalwart” of the game, who had been a junior and senior umpire and a mentor to young players for “seven or eight years” before his 2013 disqualification. VCAT vice-president Ian Proctor, in approving a Working With Children permit for the man, found there was now “no likelihood of future threat to a child by him.” These are direct quotes from todays Sun.
All I can say from my previous experience of working with “rock spider’s” in jail, I hope Mr. Proctor and whoever the very forgiving “high ranking AFL employee,” is - will these man take responsibility if they are mistaken about this predator and he re-offends. Not on your Nelly!
The AFL are many things as some of us acknowledge, but; this action absolutely takes the cake. I am pleased I have no relatives with children playing AFL.
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Gil: It was practical umpiring
Longmire: Rampe’s a real quality person
Rampe: I genuinely didn’t know it was a rule
Essendon:
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I actually liked what slobbo said before about Essendon being a soft club
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anyone see AFL360 then?
Where they had Longmire straight after the game saying it’s a free kick?
Unbelievable.
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This is a lot more alarming than our terrible loss. What a joke of a justice system, and a true boys club at the top end of town. Endangering kids because an AFL big wig says so.
Zero air from the AFL media on this one, almost as if instructed to blow up the goal post story to quiet and potential noise.
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Robbo is on fkn fire tonight on AFL360.
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Farking rigged game
Chris Scott…blow me !
I’m sure slobbo carrying on about something will make all the difference to the outcome of said thing, … 
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I underestimated the AFLs ability to dribble ■■■■. What happened was deliberate and explicit in terms of being against the rules. The rules clearly state that a free kick is to be paid from the goalsquare. There is no conceivable way that a non-call is correct, yet we have Gil come out and tick it off. I’d have had slightly more respect for them if they said they got it wrong. We can talk about how poor we played all night, that we didn’t deserve to win given how we played. But given the moment when this happened, the fact there was no more time left in the match, that incident cost us a win. That you can’t argue.
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Wow. Woosha just commented that umpires are choosing to influence game results by deciding whether or not to pay free kicks. He wasn’t as vocal as I wish but made an excellent point by insinuating that if we had been 25 points down, they might have given Myers a free kick! Also said Smith could have been told just to get out of the way instead of 100m penalty. It’s a start.
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He obviously does read stuff on here either 
Is this on afl360?
He was on Talking Footy.
Snippets on that quoted below from The Straight Dope. Only slightly off-topic, given the thread is about how we’re happy to accept inconsistent treatment.
“Anti-doping authorities had in their keeping twenty-six frozen urine samples taken from sixteen Essendon players in 2012. When the newly developed test was applied to these samples, three showed elevated levels for Thymosin Beta 4; one dramatically so.”
“The three ‘elevated’ levels in the Essendon samples were measured at 8.9, 9.9 and 142 nanograms per millilitre.”
“Professor Schänzer’s team tested forty-eight samples taken in 2012 from AFL footballers playing for clubs other than Essendon and from six Essendon players who received no injections from Stephen Dank. According to the results, 31 per cent of those samples showed elevated levels of Thymosin Beta 4. Some players had readings of 60, 70 and 80 nanograms per millilitre. The highest concentration found in a sample provided by a non-Essendon player was 285 nanograms per millilitre—double the highest concentration recorded by any sample taken from an Essendon player.”
(The high reading for us was Dell’Olio immediately after a nasty leg injury — when you would expect the body to build TB4.)
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