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

[Lavender Bushranger]

Surely Jon Ralph has been drinking?

 

[Rustin Cohle]

If people are saying you “can’t just shove people more than 5m off the ball” then I look forward to the universal acceptance from oppo fans of Nick Daicos getting 45 free kicks next time he’s tagged.

 

[Delisted]

You're really clueless. GWS will get all the free kicks.

Let me guess, GWS paid off the umpire too.

 

[ShooterMcGavin8]

Have a listen to the whinging on the television. **** me, don't ever upset the precious VFL

 

[peternorth]

"Let's hope geelong win this because it was an absolute catastrophe"

ralphy

 

[blinkd]

The Lohmann free was there

 

[hippyhippy]

Christ the commentary team can't remove their bias... can't stop talking about it

 

[danster168]

When the commentators say "you can't pay that in a final!"

Are the rules different in a final?

They're soft frees in any round not just a final.

agreed. it should be a large flopping fine for Rayner and an inquest into the umpires. Check for any betting accounts with family members, check the lot. Laughably bad.

 

[DaicosDisciple35]

Hmm, enjoying seeing these Vic muppets squirm after the Rayner free kicks, ngl.

No one in VIC wants Geelong to win this lol. Get your head right vic teams hate each other we’ve got no ‘state solidarity’ as you suggest.

 

[aCunningPlan]

There really should be ab option for the umpires to issue a warning. Soft but unnecessary contact - warning, repeat = free

There is, literally that. It's called communication to control the game and prevent escalation. See a bloke swing an arm around and miss, have a word to him afterwards to watch out. Just puts players on notice without impacting the game.

 

[Acinath]

They get worse on replay

Surely Rayner should be expected a financial hit after this game

 

[geelong_crazy26]

Absolutely disgraceful umpiring display. These umpires must never be given a finals game again. I’m a Neutral supporter but I’m ropable with those decisions!!

Never seen a final influenced by umpires as bad as that. Literally could decide a result

 

[dopefish]

What could have been a 33-point lead in a final, cut to just 15 in two successive, soft umpiring decisions will be quite scandalous if they are the decisive factor in who wins tonight. I think the AFL would have to get tougher on players who stage for free kicks. I'm going for the Lions, by the way.

 

[Headless]

haha. Dezi is rayners new nickname. Dezi had how many touches minus those 2 howlers. 1 touch. 2nd worst player on the ground behind Lester.

Fritsch has zero goals in the 2021 GF when you subtract their six goals, danster168.

 

[SC_Power]

Question.
Have you ever heard a commentator say the Umpires Coach needed to sort the Umpires out during a game?

Or that a player should be fined for staging?
In the half time wrap?

 

[gillon]

The off the ball pushing and shoving should've been stamped out years ago, but the AFL have let it go.

Deciding to pay it in a final when it's ignored 99% of the time is hilarious.

 

[Elixuh]

‘Let’s hope Geelong can win’ - this is top shelf commentary

 

[Soggy2112]

You like those decisions?

I don’t like either one.

I can understand how the first gets paid though, if the umpire is monitoring the whole 50, and sees O’Connor hit Rayner from behind (which he does do), and Rayner goes down, it’d be hard to tell whether he dived as he did or was actually hit hard.

The second one is a shocker, the umpire was right there and absolutely should have seen that there was nothing in that.

At the same time, what is to be gained by Guthrie doing that? given what he had just seen it was a completely unnecessary risk to take for little gain.

 

[Hawkforce]

"Let's hope geelong win this because it was an absolute catastrophe"

ralphy

Nope. Let's hope the Lions win for the most epic Chris Scott presser in history

 

[DaicosDisciple35]

The melting is so bad many folks I used to know as solid men are now puddles of people. I’m sitting in it, it’s wet and weird.

 

[danster168]

Christ the commentary team can't remove their bias... can't stop talking about it

any chance you watched any of the game. its literally the only thing to talk about. The game was over until the umpires had psychotic episodes.

 

[Fadge]

Ok so now there's rules to do you can boo? Get a grip snowflake. Grow a spine.

Maybe your club should have been less preoccupied with the Rankine incident and everything associated with it, and focussed more on your first Qualifying Final in nearly a decade...

 

[RCAB]

He’s right. It’s a push-in-the-back, and miles off the ball.

It’s too soft for “rough conduct”, but not for a push-in-the-back. Especially that far off the ball.

If you don’t pay that, you could just knock your opponents over off the ball all game long.

It really ISN'T!

This happens a hundred times a game... It never gets paid.. until tonight.

 

[Leather Poisoning]

So what would you do if he punched him in the head?

Weird hypothetical but let's go with it.

1. Pay the reverse free kick. I don't konw the specifics about when a free kick should be paid at the place of the incident rather than just where the ball is.
2. Report the player that punched him.
3. Perhaps pay 50m penalty rather than a 150m penalty.

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Game dynamic completely changed Brisbane reset and only 15 points down.

It was 59-32 when Stengle was lining up to take a shot.