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The pace of the game and the continued intensity of pressure caught out quite a few of the players - Newman being one of the worst offenders with his turnovers but I was buoyed by the way we fought out the game - especially without winning centre clearances and a number of easy goals that we (or the umpires) gifted to the pussies.

I reckon Father Time is catching up to Newmy quicker than he thinks. Its been a number of weeks now where I reckon he gets caught with the ball a lot easier than in the past, looks extremely slow at times.

I thought Newman was better than Docherty.

I thought quite a few of our players did not look 100% in the headspace, Docherty, SoJ, Cripps, it looked like they had let the Handbaggers get under their skin and never got back on track.
 
That 22 is a real problem for us, he even rules against us from remote distances! I suspect someone at our club must be asking a few questions today, because the difference in the umpiring stands out like a sore thumb! This season it seems worse than before. For example, Cripps can have his head ripped off and 22 won't budge, but if Cripps even dusts an opponent's hairdo 22 won't hesitate to blow the whistle. It must be infuriating for our players, it's not the free being paid it's the frees not being paid that are the problem. I thought Leigh Fisher was pretty harsh on us, but 22 takes it to a new level!

The one saving grace about the stage fright phenomenon is that it happened during the Home & Away.  I would like to think we will be far better prepared next time (assuming we get another crack!).

I thought quite a few of our players did not look 100% in the headspace, Docherty, SoJ, Cripps, it looked like they had let the Handbaggers get under their skin and never got back on track.

Wow, based on this he should get the sack today. Oh sorry forgot, its all part of the AFL's agenda to keep us out of the 8 and down the bottom of the ladder.

by EB1
I thought Cameron and Hawkins contributed to other goals as well which was the difference.
Geelong are playing a different game style now, I even saw Hawkins in the back pocket, the reliance on Dangerfield, Selwood etc is now over and more of their players are playing in a non traditional way and taking on more responsibility rather than relying on a couple of stars to ignite the rest..

Score involvements

Curnow 7.4
McKay 6.4

Cameron 7.8
Hawkins 8.2

The difference here is probably in some part  due to the fact that Geelong are producing a few more scoring opportunities.

Goal Assists

Curnow 0.4
McKay 0.3

Cameron  0.8
Hawkins 1.2

5. There's more to goals than kicking them
The 'goalkicking gunfight at the 'G' may have seemed an anticlimax with eight goals spread between Jeremy Cameron, Tom Hawkins, Charlie Curnow and Harry McKay, but it's the hidden statistics that show the difference between the pairs. The Cats duo combined for 20 score involvements, making sure goals were being kicked no matter whose boot the ball came off, while the two Blues totalled just nine. So far this season Hawkins and Cameron have totalled 33 goal assists compared to Curnow and McKay's 10. As good as the Carlton combo is, their Geelong counterparts know how to share the spoils up forward just a little bit better. - Howard Kimber

I think you have conflated and confused multiple different issues covering both off-field and on-field events into a single perspective. Whether you do that innocently or deliberately only you can know, but it is invalid to de-value multiple debates by conflating several issues into the single perspective, that's the sort of stuff the media do when they attempt to deride an opinion. There is a philosophical term used to describe that sort of tactic/error, whether it's innocent or deliberate, it is called an Association Fallacy.

Like it or not we as a club have an issue with 22, why that exists is a very separate debate but there is clearly a difference in how he officiates when he is part of our umpiring panel.