So I will ask again. Do we knkw if Ridley will get up for Wednesday?
yes
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So I will ask again. Do we knkw if Ridley will get up for Wednesday?
my guess is he will be rested for sorenessSo I will ask again. Do we knkw if Ridley will get up for Wednesday?
We have played one less game remember.
Yeh, but still a decent discrepencyWe have played one less game remember.
Watching the replay on that Shaw hit on Townsend and that is the correct decision. Just 2 players going for the ball. Shaw is a solid unit and used his body to perfection bracing for contact. Taranto should be suspended for his Ridley hit. No intention of getting the ball himself and went in hip/arse first at someone with their head over it. Pretty much in between Ben Long and Kyle Langford in terms of how dangerous it was. And those are the actions we are supposedly trying to eliminate.Match Review: Bomber charged with rough conduct, Giant in the clear
Match Review Officer releases findings from Friday night clashwww.afl.com.au
"Incidents assessed:
Contact between GWS GIANTS’ Heath Shaw and Essendon’s Jacob Townsend from the first quarter of Friday’s match was assessed. The ball is loose in Essendon’s forward line. Shaw and Townsend approach the ball from opposing directions. In the process of taking possession of the ball, Shaw makes high contact to Townsend. It was the view of the MRO that Shaw was contesting the ball and had no realistic alternative way to contest the ball. No further action was taken."
i refuse to believe anyone is dumb enough to think that was a suspendable offenceMatch Review: Bomber charged with rough conduct, Giant in the clear
Match Review Officer releases findings from Friday night clashwww.afl.com.au
"Incidents assessed:
Contact between GWS GIANTS’ Heath Shaw and Essendon’s Jacob Townsend from the first quarter of Friday’s match was assessed. The ball is loose in Essendon’s forward line. Shaw and Townsend approach the ball from opposing directions. In the process of taking possession of the ball, Shaw makes high contact to Townsend. It was the view of the MRO that Shaw was contesting the ball and had no realistic alternative way to contest the ball. No further action was taken."
If people see both sides of the coin it's fine, but quite often posts read like the umpires being the sole reason we lost, and a lot of posts were like that the other night.The umpiring has been unusually sh*t against us a lot this year. While we have been crap and should be better, with all the injuries I'd like to feel we're playing on an even field.
My point, people are allowed to blame and complain about the umpiring. It doesn't mean we don't know our own team are as much to blame.
Surely that's against Essendon for hurting his ******* elbow
A few of those gws special frees not paid every time we took our out of our defensive area and we might have scored enough to winWas a free kick to ward every day of the week. Whether he went in looking for the free or not who knows. He definitely put some mayo on it when he hit the ground. I reckon Smith would have done the same as Ward
This is not the reason we lost the game. Should never have been so close. Our intensity dropped off and we just could not get the ball forward.
It is the little things that are losing games. The missed handballs, overcooked kicks, lack of run through the middle, defensive pressure, that Tippa pass to McKernan etc.
Anyway, was a much better game than the Lions. A game we should probably never have lost. Hopefully it burns deep. We need to be more ruthless when we get a 4-5 goal lead.
Ridley didnt even get a free kick. Its literally the same action that Ben Long and Kyle Langford got suspended for. Going in with your hip/arse when someone is bent over picking up the ball.Surely that's against Essendon for hurting his ******* elbow
Usually I get more annoyed at my own team. But this year I feel like we’ve copped a lot of bad umpiring that has had a say in events against us. I get annoyed about things that feel unfair more than I get annoyed at my team not being good enough. Fairness is a big thing for me (and I assume others) and so it becomes the bigger target for complaint, if that makes sense.If people see both sides of the coin it's fine, but quite often posts read like the umpires being the sole reason we lost, and a lot of posts were like that the other night.
Don't get me wrong, I was as pissed as anyone at the umps the other night but I saw plenty of stupidity and ineptness in the red and black to the point I couldn't blame the umps and to win would've papered over too many cracks.
he got a free. took them a few seconds to call it...though could have been waiting to play advantage.Ridley didnt even get a free kick. Its literally the same action that Ben Long and Kyle Langford got suspended for. Going in with your hip/arse when someone is bent over picking up the ball.
No it was Smith that got a free about 5 seconds later. Ridley was play on.he got a free. took them a few seconds to call it...though could have been waiting to play advantage.
Very surprised Taranto didn't get looked at. Mumford too for the first hit on Merrett.
Even just to be cleared/explained.
MRO - nothing to see here.....have yourself a fine Zerk though (Anyone know what this was for?)
ah right. hence why it took them so long...i was a little baffled.No it was Smith that got a free about 5 seconds later. Ridley was play on.
Because it didn't get him high. Like it's pretty simple, you choose to bump, you have to get the them the side otherwise it's a free kick and maybe suspension. He did, so why does he have to be punished?Ridley didnt even get a free kick. Its literally the same action that Ben Long and Kyle Langford got suspended for. Going in with your hip/arse when someone is bent over picking up the ball.
no pay out, no salary, no redundancy. He wants to go home, go home but no free meal ticket. The spud signed up for a long term deal. Maybe some personal things going in in regards to his family but life is tough sometimes, hope it works out for him but being a professional sportsman is a businessYep that plus demanding to be played forward - give him what he wants/needs and send him home. Has been great for us but close to last straw
Yeah that's become a real problem.Umpiring killed us but, not as much as we killed ourselves.
How many times do we get to the 40 to 44 range with a great lead and lose, check it out. We don't need new coaches [yes we do] we need a psychological
overhaul.
Because it didn't get him high. Like it's pretty simple, you choose to bump, you have to get the them the side otherwise it's a free kick and maybe suspension. He did, so why does he have to be punished?