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Seagrave_Holmes said:
What are your thoughts on Toby McLean?
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Considering the past 5 game logs he is making the next step into becoming a very good footballer
 
Luv_our_club said:
No problem admitting Poppy has looked for high tackles at times his career. But the umpires noticed it and addressed it by calling play on...which aint happened with the Duckwood. As a forward Poppy was doing it 1 to 3 times a game, as opposed to 11-15 for one of your mids.
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i see you guys have a new duck on the block, helps you slot your first goal today... how many you got now 4 or more hey?


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Testekill said:
Papley should be cited as he seemed to go down a little too easily with what looked like just a shove to Duncan. If another angle surfaces that looks like more impact then I can accept it but the angle provided just looks a bit soft.
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Difficult to see the hit itself from the TV angle but Duncan did have a clenched fist and if he hit the solar plexus it's a pretty tender spot to hit (think balls but higher up). Anyone being hit in such a way genuinely deserves a free kick, regardless of whether they milk it to make sure it's paid. There's a difference between faking for a free and accentuating a free that's genuinely there. Any forward will accentuate a push in the back, no matter how slight. Any mid will try to make a tackle look like they've been carried forward in the action. What's Papley to do ? Pretend he didn't get hit ? This is footy. The aim of the game is to kick goals and umps will pay frees if and when they see them (unless the player is a bulldog). Duncan is an idiot to have made the hit, out of play, in front of goal and in front of an umpire FFS. Chris Scott should have benched him. No mattter how hard it was it was unnecessary, stupid and undisciplined. It cost Geelong (the best 4th quarter players in the league) any chance of getting back into the game when they were only 25 points down on their home deck with the wind and the crowd behind them.
 

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Sylvia Saint said:
Moot point. This is the diving thread. Do you think Selwood's stats make him immune from criticism too?
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Sure. Was just addressing an apparent general consensus that he is an average to poor footballer that does nothing but get high free kicks. That's far from the case.

You're welcome to keep jumping at shadows though.
 

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bungee said:
Difficult to see the hit itself from the TV angle but Duncan did have a clenched fist and if he hit the solar plexus it's a pretty tender spot to hit (think balls but higher up). Anyone being hit in such a way genuinely deserves a free kick, regardless of whether they milk it to make sure it's paid. There's a difference between faking for a free and accentuating a free that's genuinely there. Any forward will accentuate a push in the back, no matter how slight. Any mid will try to make a tackle look like they've been carried forward in the action. What's Papley to do ? Pretend he didn't get hit ? This is footy. The aim of the game is to kick goals and umps will pay frees if and when they see them (unless the player is a bulldog). Duncan is an idiot to have made the hit, out of play, in front of goal and in front of an umpire FFS. Chris Scott should have benched him. No mattter how hard it was it was unnecessary, stupid and undisciplined. It cost Geelong (the best 4th quarter players in the league) any chance of getting back into the game when they were only 25 points down on their home deck with the wind and the crowd behind them.
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He got him square in the chest, no way he was clocked in the diaphragm or any sort of plexus, Papley just faked it, it's like getting hit on the shoulder and going down clutching your face, that's not accentuating the action
 

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Papley gets like 1 free a game. He's ranked like 115th in Frees For this year. Completely unremarkable for a guy now playing a fair bit of midfield minutes.

If he's diving to get frees, he's not doing it particularly well or often.
 
Mr Lizard said:
It was the most recent example of Papley diving.

What did you think the negligible force bit of Hodge's tribunal defence was about?
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You mean the tribunal defence that failed? Again, shit example. How is Hodge hitting someone off the ball an example of a dive?
 
Mr Lizard said:
How is Mitch Duncan getting two weeks for dropping Papley with a devastating straight right an example of Papley diving?

...and yet it is. I'll let you do the maths.
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He got one match. So your Hodge example is shit and again we're back to square one, so I'll ask again, even if we call Papley going down and getting up again within seconds of being hit in the solar plexus a dive, what's another example?
 

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