If all the rumours floating around are true and there's mini exodus, next year they'll struggle to make the eight
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If all the rumours floating around are true and there's mini exodus, next year they'll struggle to make the eight
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Crowmaggedon notwithstanding, I still copped it for our team hosting the 2nd worse AO crowd in AFL history?
OK Let's ignore Saturday when two of the biggest teams with 90k members* each play in a timeslot that 99% people can attend and they get the same crowd? Oh and on the GOAT 350th as well.
Or when Geelong hosted GWS a few weeks back when in the Primetime slot at GHB-MDMA Park and they draw less?
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OK Let's ignore Saturday when two of the biggest teams with 90k members* each play in a timeslot that 99% people can attend and they get the same crowd? Oh and on the GOAT 350th as well.
Or when Geelong hosted GWS a few weeks back when in the Primetime slot at GHB-MDMA Park and they draw less?
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Time off to clear the mechanism.
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Is it true that they have said the main reason they don't have a club facility is because they don't have the expertise to run a licensed club? This is despite having Peter Hurley on their board for 14 years.
When they bring in Victorian players they take them on a tour of their corporate facilities named after a bank and tell them how all their customers hate Victorians. Probably give them a "Kick a Vic" banner in their onboarding pack.
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-06-18/dusty-fined-over-intentional-ump-contact
RICHMOND superstar Dustin Martin is free to play next week, walking away with a $1500 fine for making intentional contact with an umpire over the weekend.
Martin was demonstrating an incident that had just occurred when he made contact with umpire Jacob Mollison late in the third quarter of Richmond's victory over Geelong, appearing to push the official.
However, unlike previous incidents involving Tom Hawkins, Steven May and the Curnow brothers, Martin was not referred directly to the Tribunal and was instead fined by match review officer Michael Christian.
Protected species IMO.
RICHMOND superstar Dustin Martin is free to play next week, walking away with a $1500 fine for making intentional contact with an umpire over the weekend.
Martin was demonstrating an incident that had just occurred when he made contact with umpire Jacob Mollison late in the third quarter of Richmond's victory over Geelong, appearing to push the official.
However, unlike previous incidents involving Tom Hawkins, Steven May and the Curnow brothers, Martin was not referred directly to the Tribunal and was instead fined by match review officer Michael Christian.
Protected species IMO.
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Hahahaha of course Martin gets let off
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Yeah, I totally get that marketing strategy when they were keen to capture as much of the local market as possible and fend off our impending entry, at a time when they were a defacto state team and still finding their way, but now it just seems like a gaping anachronism. Xenophobic even.
What pull factors were keeping Dangerfield, Tippett, Gunston, Sloane, McGovern, Kane Johnson, Stenglein or any of their flight risks from leaving?
Meanwhile we've got a pair of Victorian guys like Salopek and Lockwood - who aren't eternally united to the club by premiership status and whose time ended badly - who are Port for life, because the club is the club. Full immersion.
Hell, even Scott Cummings, a Western Australian who was only here fleetingly and played for 3 other flagship clubs, references the instant feeling of belonging and responsibility to uphold the standards and tradition of a 127 year old club from the moment he walked in the door.
What would he get over the road?
"You're a bloody Croweater now moite, We Are SA! Pride of SA!"
Um... ok?
It's ridiculous.
Their consistency is about as reliable as the score review system.
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AFL legend Leigh Matthews believed the SANFL Tribunal was right to judge Moore harshly.
Speaking to radio station 5AA, Matthews insisted the state league had no choice but to throw the book at the big-bodied midfielder, regardless of the circumstances in which the incident occurred.
"It has to be a seemingly very severe penalty – you can't touch an umpire, that's the point," Matthews said.
"You had to give a penalty that the football world thinks, 'Gee, that's severe'.
"A week's probably a fair penalty, but I think in this case it has to be seen to be a very severe penalty.
"It has to be a penalty we all think is much harsher than is deserved, as an example to everyone else that plays footy anywhere."
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Carlton supporters not happy after the Curnow suspension. Was it similar?
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In the gaping media vacuum caused by the temporary close-down of the Adelaide Football Club, Power assisitant coach Nathan Bassett appears bemused by suggestions that he has been sought out to replace Don Pyke at the Crows:
Picture courtesy of Rueters
Picture courtesy of Rueters
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Apparently that Roo bloke has a few pub connections too.
Not to mention Tex and Rory.
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Showed a clip of footy park on footy SA yesterday featuring the ol’ FLICK A VIC banner in the crowd with safm down the side.
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Doubly ridiculous when you realise he has already been sanctioned for contact with an umpire previously this season. Clearly learned his lesson
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Just like Buddy's escape from a fine for staging.
they used the "he stayed on his feet" defence.
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If the AFL has any integrity at all - which they don't - they will appeal the findings of the MRO.
That is some level of bullshit.
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See, I understand what Martin is doing there and it's very similar to May's incident earlier in the season which in both cases I believe that the player was just trying to physically demonstrate their case to the umpire without any malicious intent but the AFL should've set the precedent back then that there is ZERO tolerance for making intentional physical contact with an umpire. I don't believe that Martin and May did anything wrong intentionally and a suspension for May would have been quite unfortunate at the time, but now the AFL have introduced a grey-area regarding contact with umpire's and you just know it's going to filter down into the lower leagues and start some s**t. I go along to Amateur League games every week and I'm just waiting for the day some poor young umpire gets his block knocked off because some idiot saw that the AFL doesn't care about physical contact with umpires, so why should he?
If you touch an umpire intentionally, you should be gone for a week. No exceptions. It might sound harsh but it has to be that way in order to ensure consistency and unanimity with future decisions. The inconsistency with AFL rulings and rule interpretations is a bloody joke for a national sports competition.
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