Autopsy AFL 2025 Second Qualifying Final - Cats v Lions Fri Sept 5th 7:40pm AEST (MCG)

[BuddysBiggestFan]

Hate Geelong with a passion but Brisbane are playing like trash.

Nothing up forward. Not going to win games with Day and Gallop up front.

 

[LindaCrescent]

He's legit not coping right now!!

Plus can someone please remind him to pronounce the g in words that end in ing.

 

[Grockadoc]

It was also probably technically a push in the back, as he came up from behind and bumped him flush in the middle of the back, knocking him to the ground, so I imagine that would qualify as a push in the back.


Yep.

I don’t have an issue with either one of them.

Agree. Second one Rayner went down easy to draw the free. The first one I'm not sure he flopped, given that he was looking downfield and o'Connor bumped from behind. I doubt Rayner woulf have been expecting it.

 

[Rail King]

Hope good guy McRae comments on the boos

I knew it was Collingwoods fault

 

[Dogs till i die]

How the freekin heck can that 1st free to Rayner be paid - 120m off the ball, nothing to do with the next act of play. That umpire is supposed to be in our top 8 uumpires to get this game. Genuinely shocked the game has come to that.

 

[SSSSSS]

These umpires are never gonna be welcomed at the National Wool Museum

 

[MarcMaverick]

Rayner goes BANG BANG in a final.

Missimg the other two BANGS!.

 

[Aristotle Pickett the3rd]

Ok, that is the worst thing I have ever seen in football in my life.

1 - Umpire needs to be fired and never umpire again

2 - Rayner needs to be fined for staging x2 - if it were up to me I would suspend for 4-5 weeks, that weak as piss horseshit acting does not belong in our game.


Act now AFL, that was disgusting, seriously, ****ing gross.

Got money on Geelong mate?

 

[JasRulz63]

They paid a soft free kick when Bailey nudged his opponent over the boundary line with the ball. The Rayner push was a similar push with the ball 150m away.

Silly by Bailey and also by O'Connor.

 

[SC_Power]

I think we’ve found the worst decision of the decade right there

It HAS been more than 10 years since Stevic dragged Hawthorn over the line in the 2014 PF.
Similar off the ball free kicks which no one saw, when we had them on the ropes 2nd quarter.

 

[My_Username]

Is that actually the rules?

Rarely see that.

You get the free where the infringement took place, or where the ball is, whichever is better, so yeah, that's the rules.

As for the free, yes, it was soft, but it was also totally unnecessary contact, and I'm OK with off the ball contact being treated as more significant.

 

[frggr]

Cats really no one to blame but Zac Guthrie. I’ve never seen such dickhead behaviour lol.

Did you have your eyes closed when Rayner flopped?

 

[Tenens Pila]

Ump 33 - say goodbye to the Grand Final.

Should be your last game of 2025 if the AFL was fair dinkum.

 

[Acinath]

Even Johnno Brown knows they were shit calls

 

[garlic munchers]

Some real specimens caught on camera there supporting the cats in the crowd

What.......did I lip read an "F" word

 

[aCunningPlan]

The 2nd one was there

The first one was soft as shit

Agree with this. Dumb play for the second free, plenty of mayo on it but just stupid from Guth.

First one though...couldn't believe it. I mean players try to milk that sort of stuff all the time but as an umpire you judge this sort of thing and let it go, I've lost count of how many times I've told players diving for frees 'there's nothing in it get up'. Umpire clearly saw it out of the corner of his eye which isn't good enough, needs to be clear and obvious. Umpire coaches would be tearing shreds off them right now.

Just incentivises Geelong to dive now.

 

[Grockadoc]

He's legit not coping right now!!

The difference in his commentary energy levels when Geelong kick a goal to when Brisbane do is damning.

Can't keep his bias in check.

 

[md20]

Im embarrassed

 

[Chism]

Stewart free was there too. Umpires will be in their rooms saying yeah we are being booed to **** but the calls were there.

Cats really no one to blame but Zac Guthrie. I’ve never seen such dickhead behaviour lol.

Whoever loses this game will be beating you frauds in a Prelim anyway.

 

[Johnny Bananas]

How does Rayner look in a mirror and not lose respect for himself?

I think he's powered by the tears of Geelong supporters.

 

[frggr]

You get the free where the infringement took place, or where the ball is, whichever is better.

As for the free, yes, it was soft, but it was also totally unnecessary contact, and I'm OK with off the ball contact being treated as more significant.

It happens 100+ times a game. Most players don't make a big song and dance about it.

 

[Tarkyn_24]

Zuthrie logic - here’s an umpire paying frees in the goal square for minor incidents, maybe I should shove this guy to the ground right in front of him

Did lol

 

[Walter H White]

Anyone who justified any of those 3 frees should forfeit their right to comment on football seriously.

 

[Colonial]

That happens 100 times every game. If you fundamentally change the way that is umpired it need to be in April not September.

I literally said they were very very soft.

 

[DanA]

It really wasn't

If it was a hold or a push in the back fair enough but when has a front on push off the ball been a free kick?