Player Watch #25: Paul Curtis - signed to end '28

[Cyber_punk]

You hate the administrative body. The sport's pretty ****ing solid imo

IMO the quality doesn't even come close to 90s/early-mid 2000s. Looking back it just feels like a different sport altogether.

Change for the sake of change to justify their wages.

 

[zoomba23]

IMO the quality doesn't even come close to 90s/early-mid 2000s. Looking back it just feels like a different sport altogether.

Fair, but concessions need to be made for understandable changes, such as the concussion stuff and fitness improvements. I mean, those 90s games, as high-scoring and entertaining as they were, and as insanely talented as the best forwards of the day were, look ridiculous now for all the wide open space that the bloke with the ball had all the time. Defenders had no hope. It was a scoring bonanza. Bit unbalanced imo.

Imo we probably hit a peak balance sometime around 2010-2012, and now there's too much artificial meddling with defences in a desperate attempt to boost attacking back to the top of the pile, when it's patently obvious to everyone that fitness levels these days just don't allow it

 

[giantroo]

 

[leighlee13]

Of course it has. We aren't Geelong or Collingwood. Such bullsh*t!

 

[HugeJohnson1]

Let’s storm AFL house. What a ****ing joke.

 

[franjon]

Of course it has. We aren't Geelong or Collingwood. Such bullsh*t!

Of course. We don't matter enough financially.

 

[TheKanga]

Absolute joke that
3 matches is way to harsh
Might as well have just punched a bloke

 

[Seattle Mariners]

To the appeals?

 

[tenderwarrior]

Absolute joke that
3 matches is way to harsh
Might as well have just punched a bloke

would have got 2

 

[TheKanga]

The nepotism and favouritism of certain clubs and players is frustrating.

Everyone knows it
That there is rules for some but not others like Dangerfield, Daicos & Cripps to name a few.

 

[Colby2Sheez]

FFS.

The AFL is continually run by the biggest dickheads that have ever existed.

 

[roo blitz]

AFL has lost the plot. Im done with the game. Its not the same game I have followed for some 50 years. They can get stuffed. It was a perfect tackle

 

[King Corey]

Carlton 5 appeals for 5 wins in 2024.

Nothing to see here.

 

[OG Real]

so who's restarting the BS chant on Thursday night? man im gutted for King PC...

 

[THE_GUN]

Absolute joke that
3 matches is way to harsh
Might as well have just punched a bloke

Max 1 week

 

[William Caresser]

Cannot stand players collapsing forward when they get tackled - it's like ducking and they should be fined. Instead Curtis gets 3 weeks with a perfectly good tackle because Sinn chose to flop.

 

[Dinkers]

We have become like the SANFL

Sensitive austalian national football league.

Yes we should appeal, and yes we should be dragged kicking and screaming.

But we will have Wotts tell the football world how important equalisation is. You put 2 and 2 together

 

[Hop_lessly Devoted]

Really feel for Paul C. It's gut-wrenching.

 

[jay317]

Was primed for a good performance too. What a rort.

 

[Cold Sober]

The worst outcome, total joke.
If it was a brownlow favorite it would have been thrown out.
How would you be, Grand Final, running into an open goal and having the PERFECT game saving tackle overturned.
Fluck the AFL and their brain dead explanation for upholding.
ps.Intrusion yes but, didn't see anywhere else to post my anger at such a shite decision given by idiots.

 

[My Left Foote]

Funny because it’s true.

 

[Colby2Sheez]

Carlton 5 appeals for 5 wins in 2024.

Nothing to see here.

I still can't get over the AFL actively promoting Watson's tackle, which was way more dangerous than Curtis', whilst wilfully rubbing the latter out for 3 weeks.

It's utterly bizarre.

 

[berniemccarthy]

Anyone got Jenn Watts email address ?

 

[Val Keating]

What a ****en joke

 

[Ashley B]

Compare the pair I find this discriminatory. Not Paul’s fault he is a beast in the gym and the Port bloke can only bench a little more than the bar and can’t hold his ground.