The free kick to pendlebury confirmed it is not permitted by a RFC player .
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Cotch freekicks?
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Some of our blocking was comical with no real conviction or timing to benefit Cotchin. You would think we would wait right when the ball is being bounced or thrown in before we hit Macaffer, not 10 seconds beforehand.
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Pretty hard to to this at the centre bounce, the ball ups (and there were many) & these are the times he was being blatantly held right under the noses of three umpires who chose to do nothing!
Not anywhere near the ,main reason for our loss but what McCaffer did was ridiculous!
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Seems that the umpires are giving the tag germs way to much latitude
Like Cotchin last night Patrick Dangerfield has been absolutely molested by taggers if the first 3 rounds and got FA assistance from the umps
Like Cotchin last night Patrick Dangerfield has been absolutely molested by taggers if the first 3 rounds and got FA assistance from the umps
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Was saying during the broadcast if my captain was being molested like that I would have lined up McCaffer and absolutely polaxed him. Cop the weeks if they come but send a message that you are not going to just watch it happen.
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I'd be asking why didn't he go to full forward? Maybe my memory is mistaken, but didn't Cotchin sometimes play the Brad Johnson "small full forward" role early in his career? Plonk him in the goal-square and see how MacCaffer handles the pressure then.
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Count the number of non-Collingwood nd non-Richmond people who think McAffer was outside the law and you'll get some idea of whether he qualifies as a good tagger.
No different to us giving Astbury our BOG for shutting down Cloke by doing a purely defensive job. He scragged, niggled, shoved just within the rules.
Fact is, if we had had someone do the same job on Pendlebury last night we'd be ecstatic.
AS for our players helping Cotchin - well, maybe our game plan is don't help out - win your own ball. Don't get sidetracked by other people's issues.
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There's tagging and there's blatant holding....
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The treatment of Cotch makes AFL horrible to watch
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Macaffer had to be surgically removed FFS
He went close to giving the same attention once and a free kick was instantly paid.
I'm sure there will be many clubs remind Cotchin of this game when his next contract comes up .
Kingy would have sorted all this out with one look.
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Guys did try and block a bit, but there's no point doing it well before the umpire throws or bounces the ball. Once the balls in the air, then you block or take them out. To be honest, I thought we were past this in the game what Macaffer was doing last night.
I was at the game and spent the fourth quarter watching Cotchin and Macaffer. Firstly because the game was boring by then, secondly because Cotchin is in my supercoach and I was spitting up meat pie at his performance.
Macaffer held him the entire game, the ball would be 100 meters aways and umpires not interested and he would be holding, pushing and corralling him like there was a stoppage a few feet away. When the ball was actually close he was relentless, definitely holding reguarly. Never received any help from his richmond teamates though which would disappoint you guys.
It is certainly time for taggers to get on the headlines again so the umpires will pay attention and the best midfielders can have a couple weeks off from scragging.
Macaffer held him the entire game, the ball would be 100 meters aways and umpires not interested and he would be holding, pushing and corralling him like there was a stoppage a few feet away. When the ball was actually close he was relentless, definitely holding reguarly. Never received any help from his richmond teamates though which would disappoint you guys.
It is certainly time for taggers to get on the headlines again so the umpires will pay attention and the best midfielders can have a couple weeks off from scragging.
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Hey guys thought cotch got a raw deal last night . Shuey got hammered by curren from the saints last week repeated punches to the ribs and kidneys off the ball then he gives ONE back and cops a week . Hope cotch doesn't get booked . What I don't understand is how a tagger can face away from the contest and block the player without having eyes on the ball . You can't do that if your defending a fwd it's a free everyday . Dirty taggers and tactics should be stamped out of our game
He did. And when he did, we got 2 goals kicked on us in less than a minute. He was the only one out there showing any type of heart.
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Agree with main comments, umpires were weak but other players should have got in there to assist with blocks etc but mainly, we need some mongrel. We are soft. Macaffer should not have had the impact he did have.
