News "Cloke deserved more free kicks"

[mattys123]

Finally the umpiring department has admitted that Travis Cloke is being treated unfairly.

While we know nothing will change it's nice to hear them admit it.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-07-29/cloke-deserved-more-frees

AFL UMPIRES coach Hayden Kennedy has conceded Collingwood forward Travis Cloke deserved more free kicks during Sunday’s game against Adelaide at the MCG.

Magpies coach Nathan Buckley noted after the game that Cloke had not received any help from the umpires, and the 27-year-old forward said on Monday defenders still got away with more than they should.

Kennedy told Whistleblowers on AFL.com.au on Tuesday that Cloke deserved several free kicks during the contest.

"We know that Travis [Cloke] should have got a couple more free kicks. There were certainly some in the last quarter which we thought he should have been paid," Kennedy said.

 

[rustyg70]

How many of those missed free kicks were in kicking range?
Cost us the game maybe??
Lets see what TradeDraft has to say about the umps.

 

[Baird]

I thought the umpiring was fine tbh. Unless they're talking about last years game against Adelaide

 

[DERKADERRR]

I wish they had showed that one on the wing where Cloke got tackled mid mark and ended up spilling it which was the worst miss, the crowd went nuts (myself included).

 

[Markfs]

The umpires never give big blokes many free kicks. It goes back years. I remember the so-called greatest fullback of all time climbing all over Lockett's back. It was ridiculous then and things will never change

 

[jathanas]

Cloke always deserves a couple more than he gets. Let's not focus too much on that as it is not why we couldn't win the game.

 

[danielnajdek]

Talia gets away with murder. Same as Lonergan everytime we play Geelong. Holds Clokes arm at all the marking contests yet never gets pinged.

 

[boxy99]

It's a bit late now! Flogs wait till 5 weeks to go in the season to bring the obvious up

 

[rustyg70]

The good news that may come out of this is that the umps may pay more attention to Cloke in marking contests.
The bad news is they may also pay more attention to Keeffe and Frost.

 

[PTpie]

To me its the constant wrestling that Trav initiates. If he chose to go for the ball, gets a good initial push off and has decent delivery he'll mark it every time. I mean put it this way - White dropped about 3 absolute gifts that Trav Cloke or even Jamie Elliot would have gobbled up.

However when he elects to wrestle and gets caught up in trying to beat them physically before taking the mark then I understand why he isn't getting paid as many frees as he probably should.

From Auskick through to AFL your priority should always be ball first.

 

[Apex36]

The good news that may come out of this is that the umps may pay more attention to Cloke in marking contests.
The bad news is they may also pay more attention to Keeffe and Frost.

Don't hold your breath. This won't change anything imo.

 

[Kilmo]

I wish they had showed that one on the wing where Cloke got tackled mid mark and ended up spilling it which was the worst miss, the crowd went nuts (myself included).

Yes. This one. My blood is still boiling about that one.

Cloke had an absolutely dominant game yet unfortunately it will go down as an average game and a loss at that.

 

[SuperSub17]

Cloke had a few ones that should have been paid, yet after the Geelong game when he should have had about 7 they say everything was fine?

 

[TradeDraft]

and Still won’t get them.

Showing that he has been Raped every game

 

[Mateyman]

Tell us something we don't know...

 

[TradeDraft]

How many of those missed free kicks were in kicking range?
Cost us the game maybe??
Lets see what TradeDraft has to say about the umps.

Don’t you mean the F**KING SCUMPS

 

[DinoSoar]

Bit late to come out with the "we were wrong" after the fact, it's meaningless rubbish. Cloke cops it week in week out with no protection, and the team as a whole gets reamed by the umpiring so regularly that most of us don't even bat an eyelid these days. Until the standard of umpiring improves across the board and the AFL takes some meaningful action is this area, I couldn't give a stuff what these clowns come up with in their weekly reviews.

 

[TradeDraft]

Bit late to come out with the "we were wrong" after the fact, it's meaningless rubbish. Cloke cops it week in week out with no protection, and the team as a whole gets reamed by the umpiring so regularly that most of us don't even bat an eyelid these days. Until the standard of umpiring improves across the board and the AFL takes some meaningful action is this area, I couldn't give a stuff what these clowns come up with in their weekly reviews.

Spot On. They say they are wrong but the Umps get no Punishment for it and nothing happens

 

[Kilmo]

The worst was the "sorry, we were wrong" after literally, factually, empirically, objectively, costing us the game against Geelong in 2011 when Pendlebury's match winning goal was deemed to not be to our advantage...

 

[Cory]

* the umps! Useless parasites. Scum of the earth.

Must be required to have no brain when going for a career in umpiring.

 

[SuperSub17]

The worst was the "sorry, we were wrong" after literally, factually, empirically, objectively, costing us the game against Geelong in 2011 when Pendlebury's match winning goal was deemed to not be to our advantage...

And gave Geelong incredible belief for the rest of the year, just saying...

 

[TradeDraft]

And gave Geelong incredible belief for the rest of the year, just saying...

Showing that we also get Screwed by the SCUMPS

 

[eddiebankbalance]

Well I'm not surprised and a reason why I watch less games.

 

[eddiebankbalance]

**** the umps! Useless parasites. Scum of the earth.

Must be required to have no brain when going for a career in umpiring.

Actually, you need a brain to be corrupted.

 

[mattys123]

To me its the constant wrestling that Trav initiates. If he chose to go for the ball, gets a good initial push off and has decent delivery he'll mark it every time. I mean put it this way - White dropped about 3 absolute gifts that Trav Cloke or even Jamie Elliot would have gobbled up.

However when he elects to wrestle and gets caught up in trying to beat them physically before taking the mark then I understand why he isn't getting paid as many frees as he probably should.

From Auskick through to AFL your priority should always be ball first.

Oh please, Cloke marks the ball out in front every time when the ball is delivered to him properly, which let's face it is about once a match. The other 15 times each week the ball is lobbed up into the air, or to the disadvantage of Cloke and therefore he has to engage in a wrestle to take back the preferred position.

It's not Cloke's fault we've only got about 2 blokes who can kick it properly to him.