How was the goal after the siren allowed to stand? It’s a moot point but what is the point of the system if they don’t over turn wrong calls?
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Hawthorn.
Because he kicked it before it sounded? That was my impression at the ground.
We have also gone from conceding red time goals, to “Even Redder Time” goals after the siren now
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But we almost have a basketball team, how can you say that?
I’m still here. By myself as everyone has left now obviously.
So many problems.
Our structures are just awful. Any team with a semi organised zone can easily get the ball back off us when we try to leave our defensive area.
When we do, by some miracle, get a turnover in the middle of the ground we have to chip chip sideways as the forwards are not in position. I feel as though this wasn’t the case last year.
We need to get rid of Zaka, Myers, Heppell from our starting midfield. Zaka can play permanent forward. Hepp needs a role where he never needs to kick it - tagger? I’m a fan of Goddards but he’s not going to take us forward either. Starting midfield rotation of Smith, McGrath, Parish (give him a crack at it, he’s being wasted at half forward), with Zac and Fanta on wings. That’s the future.
Criticism of the forwards is understandable but unwarranted. They can’t get their hands on the thing due to our mids getting destroyed at clearances and our disposal into the forward 50 being awful. We had 34 inside 50s today. Lowest of any side this year.
TLDR - we suck
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After the siren, and it’s clear on the replay it was
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He didn’t -you’ll see it on the replay. No way they allow that goal to stand if essendon kicked it.
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Not to mention the frees we did NOT get - like Mutch being whacked in the face; JD being manhandled and thrown to the ground while trying to take a mark.
Also not to mention the 50 m penalty against JD when he tried to tackle Sicily who had clearly played on.
Not to mention that the maggots call play on against us if one of our players even glances sideways yet they constantly let Hawthorn players make multiple attempts. FFS they even called play on against Baguly last week despite him holding the ball above his head to indicate he had taken the mark.
Not to mention the goal scored after the siren, yet nothing from the maggots and no video review.
Also not to mention marks that were paid to them even if they were only held for 0.002 seconds (thanks to @barnz for timing that one).
Sure we were shit) but even a good team would lose against a side getting so much help so consistently from the maggots.
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At minimum we need answers to the following.
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Why we are non-existent in the third quarter.
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Why no moves are made during the game, except when it’s over.
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Why no big name players have been dropped.
We need answers.
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They would’ve as somewhat bizarrely whilst they’ve brought in the goal review system, for the end of any quarter and any issues with players kicking the ball just before/after is down solely to the field umpire’s collective judgement.
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Go home bruz
Really? I got the impression this wasn’t the case. Thanks for clearing that up.
Jeez dkp, ease up a bit. I know you’re angry and disappointed - we all are - but we’re all on the same side here!
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watch the replay of the 3rd qtr and see how we were screwed over
I just had an argument with a housemate who said umpires make no difference against good teams -we aren’t a good team - bias and cheating like that make a huge difference
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I’m sorry I can’t ignore you on the new Blitz.
That’s the only apology you get from me.
Do you understand the term supporter?
Predicting how crap we can be shouldn’t be a source of satisfaction.
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It is possible that no player currently on the Essendon list will ever play in a winning finals side with Essendon.
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I tipped us to get beaten by 100, given the result I am quite comfortable.
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You’re not altogether wrong but there are serious issues with what we are doing.
Rightly or wrongly we are trying to play possession footy, but for this to work we need players who can spread to provide options
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There’s a saying that goes “if you date a di.ckhead, that’s fine, it happens to a lot of people, but if everyone you date seems to be a di.ckhead then it might be you that’s the di.ckhead.”
Players go out of form sometimes, that’s on the player, sometimes you have a team that’s not quite right and that happens, but you know what it means when the whole team seems to be both individually and collectively horrifically out of form? It’s the coaches.
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