Scripted games.

[Gavin Excell]

The question is, who's behind this dastardly scheme? Little Wayne and the illuminati or the Rand corporation and the reverse vampires.

This is the single greatest threat to the game we all love.

Jewish bankers

 

[Hobbes]

Jewish bankers

Certainly, some matches appear to be umpired by a wunch of bankers.

 

[AGC]

I agree with the OP. I've often thought the AFL scripted Essendon games last year, to punish them for the supplements saga.

 

[3rdManUp]

 

[Del80659]

almost every game is decided by the umpires gifting and/or taking momentum to and from teams every quarter, every game. i'm starting to believe the battle is against the umpires - there's a huge mental battle going on where a team knows how the umpires are officiating their match, they have to suck it up and battle through it, i almost believe that's the struggle of trying to win a game. umpiring calls are made so frequently it's absurd, they're constantly made for things you might not have seen or understood, the players themselves may not have understood or maybe just know is downright wrong. they don't just miss/call a chop of the arm or a push in the back or something these days, they constantly change how they officiate throughout the season in accordance with the form of the teams and how they can play, then they control the momentum within these matches. but they also control how teams do play by letting them go or calling them up when they normally wouldn't. this is just what i think i've started to see in 5 or something years. it's probably just fixed for whoever makes the most money for them that year and whatever creates the most surprising and exciting narrative.

- gil

 

[Nick Daffy 10]

I think the OP may be going a little far in suggesting that some matches are predetermined from a CEO level.

But I reckon the umps are giving BS free kicks to try and keep the scores close till the end.

 

[PieLebo87]

Personally, I know that Wayne Harmes was OOB, even if I wasn't born. AFL didn't want the Pies to end their drought.

2002 GF, clear case of the AFL wanting Brisbane to go B2B. Absolute travesty.

 

[PieLebo87]

almost every game is decided by the umpires gifting and/or taking momentum to and from teams every quarter, every game. i'm starting to believe the battle is against the umpires - there's a huge mental battle going on where a team knows how the umpires are officiating their match, they have to suck it up and battle through it, i almost believe that's the struggle of trying to win a game. umpiring calls are made so frequently it's absurd, they're constantly made for things you might not have seen or understood, the players themselves may not have understood or maybe just know is downright wrong. they don't just miss/call a chop of the arm or a push in the back or something these days, they constantly change how they officiate throughout the season in accordance with the form of the teams and how they can play, then they control the momentum within these matches. but they also control how teams do play by letting them go or calling them up when they normally wouldn't. this is just what i think i've started to see in 5 or something years. it's probably just fixed for whoever makes the most money for them that year and whatever creates the most surprising and exciting narrative.

- gil

I actually agree with this.

I find it interesting how the umps also shut down players when they try arguing. I'd lose my mind as a player and go crazy decking umps if I was playing.

 

[Heardy_101]

I think it's hilarious that the main ones the OP mentioned and described, all but a few involved the Bulldogs.

Think someone is a tad salty.

Or is contributing to the Ice epidemic.

 

[Del80659]

There's no doubt in my mind the AFL is corrupt, but I refuse to believe they have any say in who wins games.

If it's corrupt what else would they be corrupting?

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

If it's corrupt what else would they be corrupting?

Corrupt in their business practices. AFL are into making money, they couldn't care less about who wins.

 

[The Goon]

Superb troll. 10/10. Would read again.

 

[Higgs Boson]

ITT Chief missed a golden trolling opportunity - to wit by locking the thread a few days ago with a comment inferring the AFL threatened to punish him if he didn't do it

C'mon Chief, the most stable genius, TTWPOBA

 

[Scotland]

There's a definite pro-West Coast, anti-St Kilda conspiracy going on with the umpiring.

The who and the how and the why aren't really known, but it comes up every year so has to be a thing.

 

[Scotland]

Also people need to become familiar with Hanlon's razor.

 

[Hard Ball Get]

Anyone who legitamatly thinks a sport is fixed, but continues to follow it and support a club passionately, is about as rational as a bloke who cheers and barracks for a result in a WWE match.

 

[Filthy Sanchez]

It's still real to me dammit!!!

 

[RanceyPantz]

OP must have missed Cotchins game against North in the elimination final...

 

[WCE_phil]

I actually agree with this.

I find it interesting how the umps also shut down players when they try arguing. I'd lose my mind as a player and go crazy decking umps if I was playing.

I'd flat out scream in their faces. If someone on the street talked to people the way the umpires do at times they'd be lucky not to get hit. I find the AFL players extremely restrained.

 

[kickazz]

I actually agree with this.

I find it interesting how the umps also shut down players when they try arguing. I'd lose my mind as a player and go crazy decking umps if I was playing.

Well they do have to control the game. It's not QandA.

 

[Reality Check!]

Richmond vs Sydney - Add another one to the list.

 

[Poor Form]

Evidence is mounting. People will start to come round I'm certain

 

[Quinz]

Richmond vs Sydney - Add another one to the list.

But the Tigers still lost?

 

[Gavin Excell]

 

[Blue1980]

Richmond vs Sydney - Add another one to the list.

Lol. Any come from behind win is rigged?