Can mods please ban any social media posts of “how many days since Essendon won a final” please
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Biggest hatchet job on a team in finals since the 2016 GF. Have no love for the bombers but they completely had the wind taken out of them in the 3rd Q by some poor umpiring. Soft ones paid at one end, non decisions at the other. Better team won and doggies would have been stiff to go straight out but the bombers were stiffed and all the fight had gone out of them by the last quarter.
The last time Essendon won a final without Kevin sheedy was 1968not really sure the Bombers are the team to be talking about coaching stability post-Sheedy
This is why I put Cody Flopman as the captain in the AA flopping team.
The bombers got 2 pretty soft 50s and another downfield which resulted in shots on goal.Makes a big difference in the context of the game when 2 soft free kicks are paid in front of goal to push the margin out to 2 and a bit goals in those conditions. I wouldn't be doing cartwheels if I was the Bulldogs.
I hate bad umpiring as much as anyone, but the conspiracy theory crap has worn me down.
If any umpireing posts are also deleted too, boring and bad sportsmanship. The first quarter was all Essendon’s with the umpireing. Bont goes play the footy, no prior, holding the ball. Essendon play gets footy gets tackled try’s fend off, ball up!! Sick of the bad sports continuing the umpireing bs. If the AFL wanted the Bulldogs to win it why would we continually get terrible fixtures year after year?Can mods please ban any social media posts of “how many days since Essendon won a final” please
Surprised to see so many one sided players on both sides.
They have managed to do this with Matho. Not sure about any of the others.The thing the AFL umpiring department needs to be told is to not give ANY benefit of the doubt to the floppers. Selwood, Weightman, Shuey, Mathieson and the list goes on. Every single team has at least 1-2 floppers, with some a lot worse than others.
The worst offenders should be highlighted, and umpires should be told that unless they receive a blatantly obvious free kick they should not receive the benefit of any doubt like other non-floppers do. And any incorrect decisions for or against those players should not count against each umpire’s % accuracy.
The only player this seems to apply to is Toby Greene. Time to make others earn them like he does.
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No, the biggest difference is Essendon are relatively ordinary when compared to bulldogs.Shame it got wet, I think that was the biggest difference.
True. You beat us at Marvel recently. We recently beat Melbourne in the wet and have been very good in wet in the past few years. A big win over Port in Adelaide stands out.Shame it got wet, I think that was the biggest difference.
The thing the AFL umpiring department needs to be told is to not give ANY benefit of the doubt to the floppers. Selwood, Weightman, Shuey, Mathieson and the list goes on. Every single team has at least 1-2 floppers, with some a lot worse than others.
The worst offenders should be highlighted, and umpires should be told that unless they receive a blatantly obvious free kick they should not receive the benefit of any doubt like other non-floppers do. And any incorrect decisions for or against those players should not count against each umpire’s % accuracy.
The only player this seems to apply to is Toby Greene. Time to make others earn them like he does.
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Shame it got wet, I think that was the biggest difference.
Not sure anyone is blaming the loss on the umpiring. But the umpiring was pretty frustrating, especially when there were a number of questionable decisions which mostly went to one side. But in the end, we didn't take our chance when we had them, and once we lost momentum we couldn't stop it. A game in the dry may have been interesting tooHow can ppl be saying a 50 point loss was the fault of the umpires. Other than the Weightman push in the back which was a BS decision what else was outlandishly bad? What about the 2 soft 50s to the dons which gifted 2 shots at goal? We sweeping them under the rug?
Hmmn.. oh well.
Congrats to the Bombers on a season where they exceeded pretty much everyones' expectation.
the last free kick to weightman was actually something off the ball possibly a push in the back that happened to mccrae in the foreground , the umpire mentions push free kick here greater advantage(like downfield)