No Oppo Supporters OPPOSITION OBSERVATION XLIII

[ComfortablyNumb]

geelong fans already trying to start the “our end of season easy run doesn’t count” narrative

 

[tropicaltiger]

every now and again the coaches votes are exactly the same with each others

my theory is the losing coach is salty, and this case its dimma being a sooky brat and saying "I'm not in the mood, same as other coach" thanks is that it grrrrrrr.

 

[voorhees]

FOS out for a few weeks with a broken jaw.

thats some crap luck for the kid
yep..out for 2-3 weeks.
unlike our players with there month on month injuries

 

[The Mighty]

watch buckley and dorkins on on the couch now.

JR8 struggling to not burst into fits of laughter

 

[tigs2010]

FOS out for a few weeks with a broken jaw.

Richmond must be poaching him.

 

[Karp3_dm]

Richmond must be poaching him.

Package up Hugo, Hopper and Samson

**** it, Tresize too

 

[JackNah_8]

every now and again the coaches votes are exactly the same with each others

my theory is the losing coach is salty, and this case its dimma being a sooky brat and saying "I'm not in the mood, same as other coach" thanks is that it grrrrrrr.
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He underestimated melb.


He thought his new toys will be unbeatable

 

[sabso]

FOS out for a few weeks with a broken jaw.

Wasn’t even Ginbey this time

 

[Livonski]

thats some crap luck for the kid
yep..out for 2-3 weeks.
unlike our players with there month on month injuries

Incident not looked at?
Was a bump that caused it.

 

[The Mighty]

Package up Hugo, Hopper and Samson

**** it, Tresize too

And Brown Short, and Banks and they can give us Wardlaw

Easy

 

[The Mighty]

every now and again the coaches votes are exactly the same with each others

my theory is the losing coach is salty, and this case its dimma being a sooky brat and saying "I'm not in the mood, same as other coach" thanks is that it grrrrrrr.
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Saints doing well letting Steele go, hes having a cracking season so far ....................... Lol St Failure

 

[tropicaltiger]

just saw the umpire free kick ladder and I tell you what, the hatred for Richmond is real
now that we are a bottom 2 team, the umpires seemed to be looking after us a little bit better, but take a look at our ex coaching staff......18 teams and sitting at the bottom of the decision differentials are 3 ex tiger coaches and their teams..... giants (kingsly) Suns (dimma) and Eagles (mcwalter) the shit stained smell of Steve Hocking is still lingering.

 

[sabso]

just saw the umpire free kick ladder and I tell you what, the hatred for Richmond is real
now that we are a bottom 2 team, the umpires seemed to be looking after us a little bit better, but take a look at our ex coaching staff......18 teams and sitting at the bottom of the decision differentials are 3 ex tiger coaches and their teams..... giants (kingsly) Suns (dimma) and Eagles (mcwalter) the shit stained smell of Steve Hocking is still lingering.

The free kick advantage we got vs port belied the rooting the umpires gave us in every other respect.

 

[DickieKnee]

Saints doing well letting Steele go, hes having a cracking season so far ....................... Lol St Failure

It's round 4, let's see how his season is going in round 23.

 

[tigs2010]

It's round 4, let's see how his season is going in round 23.

Probably better than Flanders

 

[Karp3_dm]

 

[ShereKhan]

just saw the umpire free kick ladder and I tell you what, the hatred for Richmond is real
now that we are a bottom 2 team, the umpires seemed to be looking after us a little bit better, but take a look at our ex coaching staff......18 teams and sitting at the bottom of the decision differentials are 3 ex tiger coaches and their teams..... giants (kingsly) Suns (dimma) and Eagles (mcwalter) the shit stained smell of Steve Hocking is still lingering.

I said last year to anyone who wanted to listen the reason for our free kick shafting was because people … including umpires … could not deal with Richmond being successful. It was not ‘meant’ to be that way, so subconsciously umpires made sure we never got an easy ride.

I said when we became really poor and the risk of a ‘rise’ was gone, we’d climb back up the free kick ladder as we were no longer a threat … and here we are.

If anyone needed any convincing that we got shafted by umpires and it was never ever the coach, gameplan, players or lack of discipline it’s clear as day now.

You watch … as soon as we start rising in coming years we will be back to the bottom of free kick differential… bookmark it.

 

[Nebular]

I lasted 26 seconds.

 

[Karp3_dm]

I lasted 26 seconds.

Same
The title got me to post here

 

[Groupie_]

if dumma while at Richmond said what chris scott

Chris Scott

Age

49

Ht

182cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.6

4star

K

11.2

4star

HB

5.4

4star

M

5.1

5star

T

1.6

4star

G

0.4

3star

No current season stats available

D

13.2

4star

K

10.2

4star

HB

3.0

3star

M

2.2

3star

T

2.8

5star

G

0.4

3star

just said about gather round the cfl wouldve fined him 50k

 

[The_Kraken]

Voss and the Carlton MC dropped last year’s B&F winner, Hewett. Come on Yze, if Voss can drop their B&F winner, you can drop Hopper.

 

[Nebular]

Voss and the Carlton MC dropped last year’s B&F winner, Hewett. Come on Yze, if Voss can drop their B&F winner, you can drop Hopper.

Start a social media thing #dropthehop

 

[Tiges1229]

 

[Meteoric Rise]

I said last year to anyone who wanted to listen the reason for our free kick shafting was because people … including umpires … could not deal with Richmond being successful. It was not ‘meant’ to be that way, so subconsciously umpires made sure we never got an easy ride.

I said when we became really poor and the risk of a ‘rise’ was gone, we’d climb back up the free kick ladder as we were no longer a threat … and here we are.

If anyone needed any convincing that we got shafted by umpires and it was never ever the coach, gameplan, players or lack of discipline it’s clear as day now.

You watch … as soon as we start rising in coming years we will be back to the bottom of free kick differential… bookmark it.

The Richmond free kick reaming coincided perfectly with S Hocking arriving at AFL House and taking charge of the umpires, MRO, rules and interpretations for the 2018 season. It is from then on we started seeing Richmond record big outlier returns in free kick differential stats.

Richmond + or - from AFL Median free kick differential average per game stats from when we started making finals:

2009: -0.7
2010: -1.9
2011: -1.8
2012: +1.1
2013: +0.5
2014: +0.1
2015: +3.4
2016: -0.1
2017: -2.2

Hocking arrives....

2018: -5.0
2019: -1.0(we looked gone with early injuries, so Hocking erred in allowing almost fair umpiring, but vowed never again)
2020: -3.6(would be -4.5 in full game time)
2021: -3.8
2022: -3.7
2023: -2.3
2024: -3.7
2025: -1.4
2026: +3.6


Before Hocking was put in charge of the umpires, for 9 years Richmond's range was -2.2 below AFL median to +3.4 above AFL median for free kick average per game differential. There were 4 positive results totalling +5.1 and 5 negative results totalling -6.7. On average we were just below AFL median, but not by enough to worry about.

Post Hocking all the way up to 2025 we see the range is -1.0 below AFL median to -5.0 below AFL median. There are zero positive results, and 9 negative results totalling -23.5 below AFL median.

So we can see some pretty serious work was going into making sure the umps reamed us until we got the wooden spoon, now hopefully it is starting to normalise a bit. But it is only early days this year.

I have little doubt the officiating went all time bad for Richmond from 2018 because Hocking had a set against them and consciously or otherwise his stance against Richmond has been transferred to the umpiring fraternity, who were under his command.

Between 2016 and 2025, a 10 year span, Richmond "achieved" a negative free kick differential in every season. There has to be an equal chance of a random AFL club getting a positive or negative result in any given season. So a team getting 10 negative results in those 10 seasons is a 1023 to 1 shot. Worse that a thousand to one chance of occurring.

'ken cheats.

 

[Achilles Heel]

The Richmond free kick reaming coincided perfectly with S Hocking arriving at AFL House and taking charge of the umpires, MRO, rules and interpretations for the 2018 season. It is from then on we started seeing Richmond record big outlier returns in free kick differential stats.

Richmond + or - from AFL Median free kick differential average per game stats from when we started making finals:

2009: -0.7
2010: -1.9
2011: -1.8
2012: +1.1
2013: +0.5
2014: +0.1
2015: +3.4
2016: -0.1
2017: -2.2

Hocking arrives....

2018: -5.0
2019: -1.0(we looked gone with early injuries, so Hocking erred in allowing almost fair umpiring, but vowed never again)
2020: -3.6(would be -4.5 in full game time)
2021: -3.8
2022: -3.7
2023: -2.3
2024: -3.7
2025: -1.4
2026: +3.6


Before Hocking was put in charge of the umpires, for 9 years Richmond's range was -2.2 below AFL median to +3.4 above AFL median for free kick average per game differential. There were 4 positive results totalling +5.1 and 5 negative results totalling -6.7. On average we were just below AFL median, but not by enough to worry about.

Post Hocking all the way up to 2025 we see the range is -1.0 below AFL median to -5.0 below AFL median. There are zero positive results, and 9 negative results totalling -23.5 below AFL median.

So we can see some pretty serious work was going into making sure the umps reamed us until we got the wooden spoon, now hopefully it is starting to normalise a bit. But it is only early days this year.

I have little doubt the officiating went all time bad for Richmond from 2018 because Hocking had a set against them and consciously or otherwise his stance against Richmond has been transferred to the umpiring fraternity, who were under his command.

Between 2016 and 2025, a 10 year span, Richmond "achieved" a negative free kick differential in every season. There has to be an equal chance of a random AFL club getting a positive or negative result in any given season. So a team getting 10 negative results in those 10 seasons is a 1023 to 1 shot. Worse that a thousand to one chance of occurring.

'ken cheats.

You’ve taken over the Ron the Bear mantle