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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 17 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond
Last post by laj -
Quote from: LordLucifer – on
I try not to pile on the umps but those two late calls against the Blues were really bad.

Haynes did no worse than a gazillion defenders have done all season yet the umpire decided to ping him, that is another of a handful of rules that needs to be thrown out completely.

As for Campbell being grabbed to high, the replay clearly showed he "did a Ginnivan" and ducked well into it and early too. Really poor call from the umpire and it is a serious concern because if they can't get stuff like that right, then you have to question what is going on behind the scenes ......... match-fixing, betting etc.

Blues should have kicked straighter and held a 5-goal buffer, made hard work of it and never should have been in that position.

Kudos to the young Tigers for fighting it out, big raspberry to Lynch who is getting grossly overpaid for the woeful kicking at goal he showed us.
Too many umpires. There's 4 each game so it means you have to get right into the dregs of umpire depth to umpire each game. So you get poor umpiring. Like a football side having to play each week with player's numbers 30 to 40 on their list and expect to get a good performance. You'll get rubbish.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 17 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond
Last post by LordLucifer -
I try not to pile on the umps but those two late calls against the Blues were really bad.

Haynes did no worse than a gazillion defenders have done all season yet the umpire decided to ping him, that is another of a handful of rules that needs to be thrown out completely.

As for Campbell being grabbed to high, the replay clearly showed he "did a Ginnivan" and ducked well into it and early too. Really poor call from the umpire and it is a serious concern because if they can't get stuff like that right, then you have to question what is going on behind the scenes ......... match-fixing, betting etc.

Blues should have kicked straighter and held a 5-goal buffer, made hard work of it and never should have been in that position.

Kudos to the young Tigers for fighting it out, big raspberry to Lynch who is getting grossly overpaid for the woeful kicking at goal he showed us.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 17 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Richmond
Last post by laj -
I don't think I want to play a crap team again. 3 games against two of the sh ittiest sides in years and we won them by a total of 11pts.

I seriously prefer to play a good side. We seems to lift our level. We've beaten sides competing against us for a top 10 spot, rolled Geelong,seems to have started their form slump, but play Essendon and Richmond and we barely turn up and nearly lose.

What's with our goalkicking! We should have stitched that game up early in the last qtr but kicked 6 pts straight either side of 3/4 time.