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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Voting 2024 AFL Rd 11 Carlton vs Gold Coast
Last post by tonyo -
Sometimes I think we mark Charlie pretty hard.  He kicked 4, could have had 6 or 7, and was the clear difference between the two sides in the second half.  Sure, he got towelled up in the first half, but he only needs 15 minutes to turn a game, and his two marks in the third quarter were classical power forward stuff.

So

Team A-  (would have been better if we didn't cough up lazy goals at the end.)

Cripps 5
Walsh 3
Curnow 3
Williams 2
TDK 1
Harry 1

HM : Newman, Dutch minor, Dutch major, Kennedy,

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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 10 2024 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney
Last post by Milhanna13 -
Quote from: tonyo on
Hmmmm tagging, or scragging, or free kick every day of the week?  Time to show this to the umpires' department.....



This is a hobby-horse of mine....  It happens to Crippa so often it is not funny.  "Tagger" takes his eyes off the ball and hugs Cripps at every opportunity before the ball is even bounced.  Or sits on him, and tackles him just a sec before he takes possession.

What makes the Swans worse is Grundy was doing it as well.  Watch the replay.  1st Q, we were getting ascendancy in the middle.  So, what do they do?  Grundy starts mauling Pitto and King as the ball is bounced - he is grabbing them from accross the line and nto allowing them to jump at the footy.  He got pinged for it twice - but probably did it 50 times

We know we rely on winning the clearances.  So, Horse has 3 of his blokes hang onto our ruckman and 2 prime movers, before the ball is bounced.  Give up 2 or 3 frees in the process.  But, essentially stop our main avenue to score

Has been a Swans trait since Roos - push the rules right to the edge and get away with it 99 times out of 100.   Roos invented tunnelling, holding players down in tackles to let the defence set up.  Now Longmire has perfected the holding prior to getting the ball....  along with (as another poster mentioned)  just kicking the ball off the ground in the middle of a pack (not sure what happened to kicking in danger, but it certainly doesnt apply to the fluffy ducks)
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 11 2024 Post Game Postulations Carlton vs Gold Coast
Last post by bobby -
Quote from: Lods on
I'm not averse to giving the removing the prior opportunity a go.
But I think we need to see it trialled before we make the change to determine how much of a difference it would make.
Just for a bit of fun I watched a quarter  a few weeks ago and tried to 'umpire' it on the basis of get the ball and if tackled release it virtually immediately in a proper manner...no prior.
Of course it may very well  have been my interpretation, but I only counted 4 occasions when it would have made a difference...when a free might have been paid.
I'm guessing it was probably a lot greater on the weekend
I wonder how much difference it would make to the game, but we won't know unless we trial it...with umpires a bit more accomplished than my good self :))

I'm open to trying it as well. I think when the ball is live we may see some kicking off the ground and fisting/paddling the ball forward. Shepherding may come back into the game (its not what it was these days) to give the guy trying to take possession a chop out.