Mega Thread Port Forum General AFL Thread Part 31

[tribey]

Why are Adelaide the only team that ever gets these apologies?

Aren't their umpiring mistakes in every single match?

It only feeds into their victimhood mentality that they're the only team who gets shit umpires

They always forget or gloss over the games and individual incidents that go their way too.

The nailbiting win over a rampant Melbourne in 2021 at Adelaide Oval comes to mind.

Two massive non-calls (blatant HTB on Keays, blatant deliberate by Murray) in the final 90 seconds that handed them the win.

Or the 2022 Showdown just prior to Sam Mayes giving away the result-defining high free to Murphy, Mayes took a perfectly good contested mark against Brodie Smith — with the Crows man falling to and then punching the ground in anger because he’d just been beaten all ends up — but the umpire found a completely invented infringement against Mayes, costing Port a shot at goal to seal the win and gifting possession to the Crows.

It’s diabolical.

 

[raptalia]

Agreed Pieman, as much as Port supporters admired Choco for his passion and `Port pedigree' that `catastrophic 2007 GF defeat' where he admitted to being talked out of closing the game down (apparently by Phil Walsh), and any chance of keeping the final margin at a more acceptable level unfortunately left the club with an unwanted record it will almost certainly be stuck with forever!

After the GF debacle there was his `heads will roll' comment (and none did), admission some years later there were still players with ongoing issues from that dark day that should have been handled better, and the continual topping up of the list with other clubs has beens or rejects (eg Walsh, Forster- Knight and others) so IMO it was a combination of all of the above that put the kybosh on Choco ever getting a senior gig again!

Sad, but true '54.

 

[jackag24]

They always forget or gloss over the games and individual incidents that go their way too.

The nailbiting win over a rampant Melbourne in 2021 at Adelaide Oval comes to mind.

Two massive non-calls (blatant HTB on Keays, blatant deliberate by Murray) in the final 90 seconds that handed them the win.

Or the 2022 Showdown just prior to Sam Mayes giving away the result-defining high free to Murphy, Mayes took a perfectly good contested mark against Brodie Smith — with the Crows man falling to and then punching the ground in anger because he’d just been beaten all ends up — but the umpire found a completely invented infringement against Mayes, costing Port a shot at goal to seal the win and gifting possession to the Crows.

It’s diabolical.

Don't forget the Jenkins poster

Did we get an apology for that?

 

[TazD]

Crows are silver spooned losers.

 

[tribey]

Don't forget the Jenkins poster

Did we get an apology for that?

That was ticked off as ‘correct’, just like the Shuey-Polec ‘high’ in the EF (even though Shuey later admitted he was shocked to have been paid it as the league had announced a targeted crackdown on shrugging/ducking/dropping for such frees prior to the 2017 season).

 

[raptalia]

I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but it’s interesting to follow trends.

So far in 2026, there has been 17 games between a Victorian and non-Victorian team.

Victorian teams have won 15 free kick counts. With 1 draw (Port v North) and 1 loss (Adelaide v Collingwood)

No non-Victorian club has won the free kick count at home against a Victorian club.

As far as Victoria in the AFL goes I am a dead set conspiracy theorist and the stats you quote do not surprise me. In anything they justify my conspiracy theory.

 

[Steve Dore]

AFL admits crucial umpire error late in Crows' defeat to Cats

Geelong's Tom Atkins convinced umpires a free-kick was his in a decision the AFL has since clarified should have gone Adelaide's way in a tight contest.

www.abc.net.au

So, the AFL's answer is to introduce even more video reviews. What is wrong with instructing Umpires that if they are unsure throw the ball in? It would be quicker than waiting for a video replay.

The whole point of the last touch exercise is to speed the game up by avoiding excess throw ins but waiting for a video is going to take just as long. By the time the Umpire has signaled for a review, the video review official has rewound the tape then looked at the tape several times then transmitted the call back to the Umpire then the Umpire has awarded the free and policed the mark they might as well have thrown the ball in. Disputed calls are not going to happen all that often but when they do, signal unsure and get on with it. Maybe sometime in the future the Umpires will be wearing smart watches on which they will be able to replay an incident without going upstairs? Until that happens throw it in.

There were two problems, the Umpire's got it wrong but they also allowed a player to suck them in and that does not look good.

 

[Skeptikal]

Malinauskas under pressure to declare a state day of mourning and establish a Royal Commission.

Olsen pressures AFL for Crows to have all Friday night games for next five years and priority picks for next decade.

 

[GremioPower]

This Saints-Lions match is making a callus in my eyes.

 

[Scholz Supremacy]

Nobody can kick a goal at Marvel today.

 

[GremioPower]

5:45 to QT

The score is 5-4…

 

[GremioPower]

Nobody can kick a goal at Marvel today.

The weather has been nasty.

 

[Scholz Supremacy]

It’s going to be whoever scores the most behinds wins this game.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

5:45 to QT

The score is 5-4…

Well Chelsea are tough to beat at home...

Wait you're talking about a footy game?

 

[GremioPower]

MORE BEHINDS THAN IN A BRAZILIAN BEACH

 

[GremioPower]

Wait you're talking about a footy game?

Under a closed roof, let’s not forget that.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

1.12 between them!?!

 

[Andy_B]

1.7 to 0.5 in a dome

definitely need more teams

 

[GremioPower]

1.7 to 0.5 in a dome

definitely need more teams

Yes. More coaches, more front offices. New perspectives.

 

[GremioPower]

A lot of athleticism.
No footballism.

 

[240volt]

Footy has become so boring

 

[Andy_B]

Yes. More coaches, more front offices. New perspectives.

more dog shit getting a gig at the top level

on and off the field

 

[Grave Danger]

1.12 between them!?!

The broadcaster must be furious. Maybe they'll extend the break to squeeze a few more ads in.

 

[GremioPower]

more dog shit getting a gig at the top level

on and off the field

The game was better when there were more teams; VFL/SANFL/WAFL were all top-level.

 

[Andy_B]

The game was better when there were more teams; VFL/SANFL/WAFL were all top-level.

ironic