It will be interesting to see if other sides adopt some of the smothering/stifling tactics against us that Freo employed today. It will be interesting to see if other sides are capable of it.
They worked harder and wanted it more...but in the end they lost. I suspect they will be seething. Should be a tough game next time we play them.
The umpiring evened itself out in the end so we shouldn't dwell too much on that.
If Freo couldn't do it, i'm not sure if any other team can......but let them try.
Fog will get suspended but he could have hospitalized Fyfe, he kept his spoil lower than it could have been...
Fog will go and can't really argue much to save himself.
Having said that, i had the thought watching the replay of that which i don't know if the AFL has thought through.
Players are supposed to have duty of care and not hurt their opposition. So if Fog watches the ball and jumps at it and takes fyfes head off, he can be suspended due to lack of duty of care. If Fog doesn't want to do that, takes his eye off the ball to see where Fyfe is and makes contact, he gets done for taking his eyes off the ball. He's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. What do the AFL want him to do??
Now, of course how he went about it was wrong, but if instead of extending his arm, he did what peter wright did and tried to take a chest mark while watching the ball....would it have mattered?
