you can't blame them its warm and cosy with one's head shoved so deeply up one's bleached rectum
Analysis Free-kick Ladder
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Dr Tigris
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The problem with taking it all as a conspiracy is that SHocling actually said and did things that were RFC focused. Esp after the 2020 GF.
But we also were a fairly undisciplined/on the edge team.
Hopefully things will settle down and we can get fair umpiring.
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The data does back it up. When I did my analysis during the 2021 season at about round 18 or so, you could see that when a team played us, they were usually 1 standard deviation away from their mean free kick number. The only team that gave away more than their average against us was Hawthorn (GWS was rather close).
I don't think we as a board care about the frees that we give away. A lot of them are usually there and there may be 1 or 2 howlers a game. It is more that we don't get them when the same thing happens to us.
There have been a couple of studies to show a positive effect of wearing blue, I think one was wrt soccer and penalties and the other I think was a US sport. Looking at the table of least frees and negative differential it looks like yellow, red and black are colors that do worse, interesting that red and yellow are often warning colours in nature.
barracoutta
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thats alright mate! looks like you have plenty of time on your hands
Groupie_
time to return the traditional Richmond yellow
pies get sucked off and they have as much black in their jumper as Richmond
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Cheating campaigner a disgrace to humanity
How long will it take for #freekickrichmond to start trending now that Hardwick has moved on? If we start the year with a positive differential, I give it 2 weeks.
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I’d be ok with that
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I agree 100%. But I don't have any real proof. How do you "100% know it happened"? Tell us more.
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It was reported and the campaigner was quoted in the press
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Yep. We do give away stupid momentum killing free kicks but not at the scale the stats indicate. It’s those we are not given or those plays within the umpiring discretion like playing on around the mark etc that kill us.
If what Tiger71 is correct that is an absolute joke and indictment on what is supposed to be a pro league and the biggest one in the country
The only reason I wouldn't describe our treatment by the umpires as a disgrace is because it is a ******* disgrace.
Jumper colour is not the only variable. There are many other potential influences-
- the teams style
- crowd
- the stadium
- the vibe for the year
- the umpires own bias
- head office
What ever it is, Bulldogs getting + 604 differential compared to the Tigers is pretty outrageous, with a total of 2130 frees for dogs over the 5 years it's 28% differential.
Richmond have received 100 more free kicks than hawthorn in that 5 year sampled period. So hawthorn must really be getting shafted.
Maybe the “ free kick Hawthorn “ campaign had an effect on the umpires.
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We were reamed with the dissent rule. Players would cop a 50m penalty for shrugging their shoulders. Then watch Geelol and Porkns going off like a two bob watch at the umps and nothing.
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Not particularly, you can see that with hawthorn their games are less officiated overall. They have low frees for and average frees against.
That was a campaign led by Gerald Weakling due to his envy at Hawthorn's success. Earlier he had been claiming hawthorn's appalling free kick differential when compared with the rest of the competition was because of their anti-social football brand i.e. compare Buddy's treatment from the umpires whilst a hawthorn player compared with how he got treated as a swans player. Richmond has incurred something similar due to their success of recent times.
I used to think it was Essendon that got the favourable treatment due to the number of essendon supporting journalists, particularly at the Herald Sun. But you just have to look at how successful Geelong has been at manipulating the competition via their media supporters and insiders at AFL House i.e. changing rules under the guise of improving the appearance (speed) of the game; manipulation of the AFL trade period and salary draft, e.g. Jack Bowes; the manipulation of the draw via their geelong supporting scheduler which includes hawthorn receiving no marquee games on Thursday and Friday nights - yet, a club that has done nothing off their own back to improve their performances in north other then to beg has been gifted two marquee games.
Hawthorn receive the 8th most difficult draw despite finishing bottom 4; Geelong receive 9 games at Kardinia Park and receive the 4th easiest draw according to AFL media. This does not even start with the lopsided free kick counts Geelong obtain from the umpiring fraternity; and the dropping of the shoulders to incur high contact and defended by none other than Gerald Weakling.
That’s all true. Watching the 2020 GF and there’s an incident where Jack Graham gobs off at the ump when Dangerfop flopped, and won a free. RFC players became the poster child of bad on field behaviour and copped it next game with about a hundred fifties paid against us…
Next game we earnt
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