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Someone earlier said why isn't Caldwell goong to many CB's but I reckon Stringer has had almost as many CBAs this match as he had all season to date

Well that wasn't smart from JL

There's this weird thing in football where chase down tackles lead to everyone being red hot on HTB calls, umpires themselves. I don't think that's HTB but I've been surprised enough times to now be hopeful/worried when those type of incidents happen

The play on was bad and the kick was even worse

Even that from Jake, he should have handballed to Davey and then blocked for him

Well, almost every player

Congrats to Jake Kelly for giving up two of the dumbest 50m pens in the space of like 10 seconds. A true achievement

this was only moments after one his classic displays of treating a younger, greener fellow commentator like they exist only to be his servant. a golden couple of minutes for this ****head. (this was when alister nicholson was trying to explain the rule regarding the ball hitting the umpire)...

I still don't think Redman had a chance of getting the force downgraded given it was with both hands and clearly made contact, but that's some good work from GWS. very interested in this green case. I thought since Wright was sent straight to the tribunal, we should have tried to fight a...

I don't think the salary cap floor is really a factor though. the biggest salary cap factor harming lower performing teams ability to sign good free agents is simply an under-supply of free agents, due to the rules around free agency, and that the afl salary cap does not make the good teams burn...

how so? there's things about the salary cap that need to be fixed up for great equalisation but anything relating to the floor doesn't really factor in

he's throwing the edge gimmick under the bus by telling the truth about today's effort not being much different than last week's effort. poor commitment to the bit

that many people use these emotional buzz words, which now includes all things essendon edge related, to get around actually discussing football. If these words are only ever used as a critique when things are bad, it's probably not actually a worthwhile critique. essendon hasn't actually been...

here's how toughness, effort, competitiveness and all that stuff works. Did your team/player perform above or below expectations? if above? Wow! So hard at the contest. Very tough! [insert video of one player exemplifying these characteristics] if below? Disgrace! Very soft, no effort...

Similar to Glenn Maxwell, who has James Brayshaw to blame for the Big Show nickname becoming well known which so clearly affected precipitations of Maxwell, I'm pretty uncomfortable with this Wizard nickname business. I don't know or really care to know the who, what, when, hows of the nickname...

well Jones himself clearly rules out one of those marks

hell give him a 4 year contract

It was either a jokey reply or serious outrage at the disgraceful invoking of John McCarthy's death which, to the best of my knowledge, there has never been anything to suggest it was anything other than tragic misadventure after a night of drinking, which is obviously unrelated to illicit drug...

wow afl players have been known to associate with dodgy people? this is shocking to learn but enough about the worrying trend of the afl playing group being dominated by private school boys

Right now, I'm not sure why WADA should care about this...? WADA doesn't care about illicit drugs apart from game day tests. So players got additional drug tests to check that they wouldn't fail a game day test. That's...good, for everyone? That's just the WADA angle. Obviously there's War on...

i just thought the draper thing was him doing some silly revenge for the late hit that he got dealt, which itself was probably silly revenge stemming from the wright incident stupid, but not particularly noteworthy otherwise

I was at the game but I've noticed a few times already this season when Kayo is out of sync and I have to go out and go back in to get it back in sync. a truly wonderful service

Well that's the problem and it's gonna cause an issue when a player gets charged with intentional conduct and it happened 15 meters away and it does get downgraded. They've left too much wriggle room, but Redman was well beyond that

there's probably a recent example, but back when I was regularly playing attention to this, I can't recall a charge ever being downgraded based on level of impact. Intentional/Careless or High/body, or getting it thrown out altogether, sure yep, you can find technicalities like Carlton have...

In the article announcing the changes, the AFL website wrote: The action of a player ruled to have committed a strike when intentionally shoving or fending an opponent will now be graded as Intentional rather than Careless (watch Charlie Ballard incident below, cited by the AFL as an example)...

yeah well let's see if they want to stick around down there if they're not paid to

easy for me to say as someone in Sydney, but I've never really understood the passionate debate about this. The spilt is 7/4 right? this year the MCG games are Hawks, Collingwood, Carlton and Freo. Do we need another home game at the MCG this year so we can play against WC at the G and get the...

It always does when it's half filled though. It's part of the reason why the interstate clubs + smaller Melbourne teams getting access to the G is such a tricky problem, because yes, they should play more games at the MCG for the sake of fairness, since the GF is there for the next 40 years, but...

Throwing these together coz I looked up why Hewett got off it's best to think of careless/intentional from the POV of "did they intend to commit a reportable action?". The easy example is a bump. Almost every bump is graded as careless, because it's legal to lay a bump. It's just if you...

gonna be hard to beat this. the afl charged the rules on striking over the off-season, so the intentional charge is likely going to stick, so we're left with trying to get it thrown out on impact, which is pretty pretty tough. dunno how george hewett didn't get graded as intentional last week...