Autopsy AFL 2025 Round 2 - Dogs v Pies Fri March 21st 7:40pm AEDT (MCG)

[PerthBoy86]

Awesome game, best of 2025 so far. Love watching both these teams play.

Take it all back Pies - Sidebottom and Shultz absolute mega-stars and dragged your team back into it.

Always thought the public and media were a bit harsh on Schultz. Don't know if you could say the trade was worth it but he's a decent bit player who can bob up, not a spud. The Pies vets still huge for them. They also know how the play the 'game' if you know what I mean .

 

[SC_Power]

Now I have heard it all. A Port Adelaide supporter critiquing a Collingwood player for an alleged "lack of physicality"! I mean the latter phrase would apply to just about every player on your list every week. Give me a break. Goodnight & good luck.

I was defending your player, and like a true Collingwood supporter you had to pick up on the one flaw I think he has and you escalate to having a go at a team that’s not even playing. With an all sweeping argument that is just embarrassing to you to even write.

Geez the AFL are enablers to you mob, they treat you like gods because of the money and you interpret that as meaning that you ARE gods.

 

[gungho]

Great game of footy last night. Very impressed with the both teams but particularly the Dogs for performing so well with their outs. The umpiring - yeah, it went Collingwoods way. That's the way it goes sometimes.

 

[MagpieJo]

I never really understood that attitude. More than happy to accept when luck goes my club's way. Otherwise I think I'd be a bit of a (*ckhead, tbh.

With the AwFuL in your back pocket you couldn’t possibly understand! Those farms are picking up in price now, how many more do you have to give away inthe paper bags?

 

[Gumby2Hurley]

The dogs have really impressed me the last two weeks considering they’re missing players like the Bont, Treloar Weightman and Jones. dunno when JUH comes back but he’s a star too when fit.

 

[domus]

Only player in the comp that gets paid marks from 5 meter kicks

I LOVE it! Hate away!

 

[domus]

Agree with this. First time I've suspected something sinister is going on here

Evil, actually.

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[domus]

Liam Jones, Weightman, O'Donnell... we have quite a few best 22 players out.

Not counting Jamarra.

You have indeed. Funny thing about footy is people often say wait until all the stars are back and when they return the club's fortunes don't always improve.

 

[Bald]

You have indeed. Funny thing about footy is people often say wait until all the stars are back and when they return the club's fortunes don't always improve.

Not sure there are too many examples to reflect on like ours. Our top 5 in last years best and fairest either being out or having very little preseason. That’s before you even consider Weightman and Jamarra, and then Naughton who had glandular fever over the offseason.

I agree with the premise of your post if you’re talking 2-3 stars, but we’ve got 4 out and those we do have are underdone.

 

[Yellow Feathers]

Just keeping everyone fresh. You will understand when you see your team play finals.

My brother in Christ it is round two and you have a bye coming up.

 

[voorhees]

Great game of footy last night. Very impressed with the both teams but particularly the Dogs for performing so well with their outs. The umpiring - yeah, it went Collingwoods way. That's the way it goes sometimes.

summed it up perfectly..
just add that Darcy is the future of the comp and a star

 

[Ctracks]

Who the hell is McGuinness?

Other than "checkers" you had a full squad. I know which way that goes if both are at full strength

Plays for Hawthorn

 

[BringFevBack2021]

3 votes though, right?

He’s a great player but the hype is overblown. Ask him to fight through a tag and win his own ball and we know how that’ll end up.

Cmon man

This is the most I’ve seen him stand up in tackles and try to fight through

I thought Libba was BOG but Nick didn’t play a soft, outside game

One of my favourite Nick games in his career last night

 

[Pleasedontfail11]

My brother in Christ it is round two and you have a bye coming up.

We are old Guru. We need the break already.

 

[Countryfooty1]

Always has been according to their supporters every player is a superstar

To be fair they were right about Houston. Has the potential to be the recruit of the season. Always been a very good kick. McCrae is just using him smarter than Hinkley did

 

[Iamspock]

When we lose next. I won't sook about umpiring or missing players. The response you will get from me will be well played too good on the night. Even if I don't feel that way.

No you won't.

 

[Andronicus]

When we lose next. I won't sook about umpiring or missing players. The response you will get from me will be well played too good on the night. Even if I don't feel that way.

Even if you don't feel that way?

So happy to lie?

 

[Bont the Lord]

Think this says it all.....
Matthew Lloyd added: “If that was a Collingwood or Carlton or Bombers on the wrong side of that...that’s as bad umpiring against a side that I’ve seen.

 

[Satan]

FOOTSCRAY swingman Rory Lobb has escaped sanction for an accidental strike on Collingwood ruckman Mason Cox in the dying stages of Friday night's clash at the MCG.

Swingman lol

 

[Macca180]

Umpires screwed the Bulldogs.

At least when they got sucked off by the umpires it was a Grand Final.

 

[Countryfooty1]

Tin foil hat stuff and laughable that it's coming from a West Coast supporter who must have been asleep during the seasons where they got a nice run from the umpires at home led by Luke Shuey trying to draw free kicks all game long.

To put it more simply I think the better teams usually get the right end of the umpiring, If you control the game more you have a better chance of getting free kicks. Stats don't always back it up as with the Hawthorn 3 peat they lost the free kick count a lot but it felt like when the game was up for grabs they would get the free kicks when it mattered.

I don't think the free kick count needs to be 50/50 but tonight was one of the rare games where by just watching it appeared one team was getting the rub way more than the other so it made me check the free kick count during the 3rd quarter.

The reason Hawthorn lost the free count so regularly during that time is they played the percentages. They knew that the way the rules were being interpreted massively encouraged players to look for head high contact. They knew in a lot of those situations they were going to give a free away no matter what happened so didn't try to avoid it. Instead of committing 60% to the tackle to try and avoid conceding a free they embraced it and ensured that the player was tackled hard enough that they spent minutes of the ground and capitalised on those better player's absences for those minutes. Keep in mind that the AFL was a lot more lax when it came to suspensions then.

This had the flow on effect that players knew what was coming when they played Hawthorn and were more hesitant to manipulate that interpretation at the business end of the season for fear of injury and missing games. Hawthorn backed their depth to be able to cover those suspensions throughout the season with enough wins they were going to qualify in a reasonable position. The biggest difference between Hawthorn and other clubs during that time was that other clubs accepted that's the way things were and Hawthorn found to accept it and use it to turn the tables on their opposition.

We see this a lot with Damien Hardwick during his successful tenure at Richmond and Chris Scott. What they are really saying to their players with their antics is the AFL and rules committee have NFI and have set things up so that criticism won't come and things won't change and so you are going to get terrible decisions and overall standards of umpiring dropping. Instead of getting frustrated by it, embrace it and find a way to work it to our advantage.