Send 'em back to the WAFL!!!!

[docker_johnno]

Cough cough. er johhno this is football we are talking about here.


While we are on football. Please dont blaspheme else sabre_ac wiil have to ban you

hehe,


Not one of my posts would have got a run on Dockerland. That is beauty of BF i suppose.

 

[docker_johnno]

Rob,


Free kicks for average for year,
2004 - 13.7
2005 - 16.9
2006 - 15.2 (14.6)

Frees Against average for year
2004 - 14.7
2005 - 17.7
2006 - 20.5


increase the intensity and hardness and bingo.

 

[dockertor]

Rob,


Free kicks for average for year,
2004 - 13.7
2005 - 16.9
2006 - 15.2 (14.6)

Frees Against average for year
2004 - 14.7
2005 - 17.7
2006 - 20.5


increase the intensity and hardness and bingo.

So your saying we have always been harder and more intense than the opposition on average? Umm no. We get a raw deal from the umps.

 

[Rob]

Rob,


Free kicks for average for year,
2004 - 13.7
2005 - 16.9
2006 - 15.2 (14.6)

Frees Against average for year
2004 - 14.7
2005 - 17.7
2006 - 20.5


increase the intensity and hardness and bingo.

How the hell does that prove anything about hardness and intensity? All that shows is that we get screwed every year, and this year is worse than ever. We were a deadset bunch of marshmallows last year, yet we still gave away more frees. That tells me it's got precisely jack sh*t to do with hardness.

 

[Ripper]

http://www.realfooty.theage.com.au/realfooty/articles/2006/05/24/1148150326806.html

HAVE trouble fathoming AFL field umpires' decision-making sometimes? Well, you're not alone — so are some of the clubs, most notably Fremantle, which admitted this week it is contemplating the extraordinary move of calling in a former umpire to assess why it has been on the wrong end of free kicks in all but one of its eight games this season.

I hope it is not Docker Johnno or an umpire that thinks like him that they are calling in.

 

[RogerMellie]

Happened last year as well. Well behind on the free kick ledger. And we were arguably the softest team in the league then. There is no way we've suddenly jumped to being the hardest team at the ball going around.



Not suggesting a conspiracy, i'm saying the likely cause of getting a worse deal than just about every other club is our lack of profile in Melbourne. They don't fear giving us a raw deal. Give Collingwood a raw deal and it ends up on the back page of the Herald Sun, or give Essendon a raw deal and it ends up on the Footy Show. Even when the toast get a couple of decisions go against them it's a major story in the West (despite finishing with far more free kicks than the opposition including their fair share of dubious calls). No-one bats an eyelid when it happens to us. Every f**king week.



It's not the negativity, it's the bias. What tipped me over the edge about the media was the Sunday Times the day after our derby win. The front and back page were dedictated to what a great player Judd is and how those nasty awful Dockers fans shouldn't boo him. The 2nd to back page was a story about how Judd says Dockers fans shouldn't get their hopes up. 12 pages in, there was a paragraph about some footy match that was played the previous day, apparently we won.
Then a week later some f**kwit toast fan threatens Didak on camera, and the media portrays him as some sort of hero. Yet someone fabricates a story about our coach getting spat on (with no evidence whatsoever) and the media are talking about it for weeks. Like it or not, there is a clear bias from most sections of the Perth media.

Too true, fella. Well said.

 

[kanabar]

thats the WA media for you always getting *u*ked by them

 

[Turbo]

jack juniper, just give him one game, he will turn that into 10 which will turn itself into a rising star nomination which will lead to the actual award and then next years brownlow more than likely. agree?