Autopsy AFL 2025 Round 4 - Suns v Crows Sat April 5th 1:20pm AEDT (Peoples First)

[Dan Moody]

Gotta be judged on how you win Andrew. Have to put your hand out and say all good and move on, not keep heckling

A bad winner is always worse than a sore loser.

 

[JM#1]

Mac Andrew STAR

Agree, he did well to keep Thilthorpe to only 5 goals.

 

[Mr MysteryGuest]

Its callled a contest. Play on

Tackling someone in a marking contest is an illegal move

 

[outabounds]

You can't chop arms in a marking competition but you can grab them, and push, good to know

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[joe444]

Gold Coast 2025
Frees for: 66
Frees agt: 37

Blowing out quite nicely.

 

[JHF1870]

He's better than Holmes IMO.

Not yet. Holmes is critical to most of Geelongs movement from def to fwd

 

[justlookingaround]

Get ready for a decade of Free kick suns

 

[Plugger35]

It wasn’t a mark……… because he got bloody tackled and dragged to the ground. Literally to the ground.

How hard is it to adjudicate that?

What was the Suns defender supposed to do? Just let Rankine mark it uncontested? He was trying to stop him from marking it.

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[Hayes4PM]

Better than Nick Riewoldt better player too 3 Premiership v 0

Ease up turbo

 

[PerthBoy86]

He dropped a chest mark. He didn't deserve to have it paid

Did he technically have possession? If not he can't be tackled.

 

[Doggy]

Crows lose again and revert to lamenting the umps

They're right..

 

[Bearded Clam]

Since when can you tackle a player taking a mark?..

Since this joke of a league we all think is a football first league and not a manufactured entertainment business first wants to make sure whats good for business comes first..

The suns winning is good for business.

 

[57 Milner]

Neale Bullen lost that for the Crows. Had the ball with enough time to get a kick inside 50. Instead tried to draw a high free by collapsing his legs for no reason and got caught htb.

Crows fans should be livid at that passage.

Indeed. Wrong colored gurnsey for that type of thing. No point trying

 

[Andyy]

Can’t outbody a stick figure in Andrew. Too bad the gym doesn’t teach you how to play as a forward.

Crap post.

 

[paullions]

Get ready for a decade of Free kick suns

Should rename them to the Gold Coast Hawks then.

 

[Bipolar Bear]

Tackling in a marking contest? Sure no worries.

As an ex-FB, these type of comments bewilder me. You mean a spoil attempt? The defender is allowed to make a play on the ball. If Rankine took that in his hands as opposed to on his chest, the Crows win.

 

[1990crow]

Gold Coast 2025
Frees for: 66
Frees agt: 37

Blowing out quite nicely.

Clearly AFL directed. Sickening.

 

[Mr Meeseeks]

Agree, he did well to keep Thilthorpe to only 5 goals.

Not to mention acting like a dick after the siren

Poor from Mac

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[madjoe]

Agree, he did well to keep Thilthorpe to only 5 goals.

wasn't on him actually but don't let the truth get in the way of a big win from the big mac

 

[JHF1870]

Tackling someone in a marking contest is an illegal move

Robbie Gray in literally every contest in his career. Lets talk about Walkers failure in the dying moments.



Or the game saving smother

 

[PiCkLeJuiCe]

Gold Coast 2025
Frees for: 66
Frees agt: 37

Blowing out quite nicely.

VICBias in action

 

[the big lebowski]

What was the Suns defender supposed to do? Just stand there and let him mark it uncontested?

So when you don’t think you can impact a marking contest just tackle the opposition to the ground

Either rankin was in possession of the football and it’s a mark. Or he wasn’t and he tackled to the ground in a marking contest.

It’s not even debatable.

It was a free.

 

[GoldbergsGold]

The biggest problem is that the umpires put the whistle away for 2 Crows marks/frees but were happy to blow it for the Suns.

Whatever way you look at it that was an absurdity and the AFL would be loving it. Gold Coast get the win, established club gets an honourable loss and all they have to do is apologise midweek

But also, the Crows had an opportunity in the end to win/draw it, but their forward decides to chip it into the contested pocket, instead of having a shot, that was such a poor decision when the team is behind and there's barely any time left. It would only be ideal if the player was uncontested.

 

[Bipolar Bear]

Not yet. Holmes is critical to most of Geelongs movement from def to fwd

And champion data have Thilthorpe as the best player in the game at the moment, and has been since the end of last year.

 

[Elixuh]

Indeed. Wrong colored gurnsey for that type of thing. No point trying

It’s not a free if you do what Neale bullen did. It hasn’t been a free for about 5yrs