Autopsy 2022 Round 4 - Fremantle Dockers v GWS Giants, 7.25 pm Sat 9 April @ Optus Stadium

[Orange Agent]

This has to be the worst game Ward has ever played.

 

[EmeraldBimbo]

Does one laugh or cry now?

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[Orange Agent]

Funny how they've muted Ray so it's less obvious who's making the s**t calls.

 

[dlanod]

Does one laugh or cry now?

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I was already dead instead.

 

[sydney_gws]

I give up. Deleting account and membership.

 

[dlanod]

Funny how they've muted Ray so it's less obvious who's making the s**t calls.

We just got an "advantage" where a player got tackled half a second later because he'd stopped - that's a new one.

This is getting beyond hilarious now.

 

[ClockworkOrange]

Biggest free kick differential in the history of the AFL according to MMM radio.

Less match integrity in the AFL than Pro Wrestling.

-26 in this game, prior AFL all time record was -23.

Razor Ray = FULLY PRE-MEDITATED & 100% GUILTY.

If this was a horse race there’d be a steward’s inquiry.

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[EmeraldBimbo]

These calls are turning into a joke

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[BarryAglett]

Biggest free kick differential in the history of the AFL according to MMM radio.

Less match integrity in the AFL than Pro Wrestling.


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We need McCarthy to give another well placed Umpire spray

 

[Hendo_21]

Whole coaching staff needs to be turned over, same issues we've had for ages and they're yet to be addressed, maddening inconsistency, the bright flashes look great when all the talent we have on this team clicks and are on the same page but doesn't happen nearly enough and we get what we just served up.

 

[Land of the Giants]

Does anyone still believe the AFL doesn't use umpiring to sway results?

 

[BarryAglett]

Free kick differential is literally an extra Freo player

 

[Big Stinky Monk]

Free kicks 40-16.

 

[Land of the Giants]

Free kick differential is literally an extra Freo player

Or two.

 

[dlanod]

We need McCarthy to give another well placed Umpire spray

I'd have given up and started clotheslining players since they'll play some ticky tacky thing anyway.

 

[Colonial]

Disgraceful

 

[ClockworkOrange]

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[Orange Agent]

We haven't deserved to win but this pretty ridiculous.

 

[dlanod]

Nice replay showing Preuss getting slapped in the face before giving away a free.

 

[Hendo_21]

We haven't deserved to win but this pretty ridiculous.

We got smashed pretty much all game we're just lucky Freo were inaccurate for most of the game

 

[JC100]

The umps are smashing us however we are invariably second to the footy, have our tackles broken and if we are first to the ball we are flat footy and are getting smashed in the tackle

 

[BarryAglett]

A smart, independent journo should review each free kick against GWS and see what he finds.
AFL can never say bad things, but someone would get a great story from it.
Freo aren't spuds but they weren't that much better than GWS.

 

[Giant Gutsache]

Free kick count doesn't excuse the missed tackles and lack of effort. Leave Bobby in WA. Clearly doesn’t want to be a Giant.

 

[dlanod]

We haven't deserved to win but this pretty ridiculous.

The hilarious thing is that many free kicks are there. In every single game. Against every single team. It's just that usually umpires will never pay this many because they get backlash so they let casual holding in ruck contests or soft high contact in spoils or poor tackle technique go in every other game. Today they obviously decided "* it, no one gives a s**t about GWS anyway" and decided to only let it go for one team.

 

[dlanod]

The umps are smashing us however we are invariably second to the footy, have our tackles broken and if we are first to the ball we are flat footy and are getting smashed in the tackle

This.

The umpiring was awful.

But so were we. Yet again. In exactly the same ways as always.

We could well have won this despite the umpiring. We were in it for a lot of the game because despite how lacklustre we were, Fremantle seemed determined to outdo us. All it would've taken was a minimum of composure, forethought and intensity - same as the Richmond game. But nah, seems like that's off the cards this year.