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GAME DAY - Tiges v Blues

Tigerhealer

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last I heard it was a “corked” knee and no structural damage
thats what the club said,
it looked like he tried to kick the ball off the ground and miss kicked it, hyper-extending his leg
he went down clutching his knee there (10 mins left in the 3rd)
 
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sconies

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Aug 22, 2019
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welp.
Forgot my PRE rule of thumb which is to never read the game day threads. God you guys are whingers. Great to be back at the G, awesome atmosphere, banked the 4 points, got to tell my dad some god-awful jokes. That's all that matters.
 
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caspar

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Jun 8, 2006
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Great to be back at the footy, I've missed it so much. Great to hear the roar at the start of the game and obviously sing the song at the end, belted our brilliantly by the Tiger army.

Thought we were generally in control of the game bar maybe the first 15 minutes of the 3rd when they got on top and we were probably lucky that they stuffed up what should have been several goals. We were scored against a bit too easily. as someone else mentioned 61% conversion of inside 50's is way too high and makes a mockery of some of the dumb Carlton fans phoning in after the footy, ie. put williams in there and they win. His main skillset is ball use inside 50. Higher than 61%? Seriously.

We generally controlled the game, but some poor ball use and decision making going inside 50 really restricted our scoring. +34 inside 50's showed our general dominance.

Thought our best (in no particular order) were Graham, Martin, Jack and Balta. Rioli lucky he kicked 2 goals, was rubbish other than that. Caddy was quiet on the wing. Bakes very quiet in the 1st half but got more involved as the game wore on.
Aarts I'm not sure on, nice kick, but just doesn't have the pace for that small forward role. Reminds me a bit of Lloydy, very good kick but just doesn't have the pace that George and the others have.
Reckon Lynch is still carrying whatever that foot complaint was, seemed to struggle to get around the ground as he normally does, didn't seem as confident as he usually does kicking from 50.

Thought Carlton were fairly good, but they should be worried about how many inside 50's they conceded. On another night, they could lose that by 40-50 points.

Inconsistency of umpiring is its usual best.

McKay whacks Vlastiuin a good 50m away from the freekick. No reversal. Bring back to Carlton free, leads to Carlton goal.
Astbury whacks one of their guys just after winning a free, reversal. Carlton goal.

Baker tackled members side wing, handballs over the line, correctly pay a deliberate free.
Carlton player does the same, AFL members wing (right in front of me), throw it in.

Cripps does 360 when being tackled, play on.
Cripps tackled in the last quarter facing AFL members wing (I think by Dusty), drops the ball, blatant HTB. Play on.

The Liam Jones deliberate was probably the most blatant deliberate you'll see, no Richmond player inside the 9m from the top of the square. Nank possibly a bit lucky, but his one at least was a lot more 50/50, players within a metre or 2 of him.

The worst one at the ground (haven't seen a replay only on the big screens) was when Broad was penalised in the last when spoiling McDonald. Clearly got the ball 1st, free to McDonald which I just don't understand, is spoiling now outlawed too?
That spoil was wonderful.
 

TigerFlag2017

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May 16, 2007
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With the new rules and speed of the game I think there will be some massive thrashings this year. Teams with young lists or those with major injuries will get blown away.
 

eZyT

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Jun 28, 2019
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For them, Walsh broke tackles at will, has lifted. and they seem to have a lot of extremely one-sided players.

I never realised how extreme Fischers one-sidedness is.

Its up with Greg-Brian Myers on the scale.

agree Walsh looked the real deal.

Its entirely conceivable he ends up more than half as good as Dusty
 

Jewell

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After watching (shorter), high intensity, high pressure games through most of last year found this game underwhelming. Hope others are right and it's just the early season (and not the new rules) that caused this to be such a free flowing, basketball style, end to end spectacle. Wish the AFL would just f... off and leave the game alone
 
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mrposhman

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after a Mason Cox on-the-mark erection

The melt downs would be great. Mason gets an erection thinking about himself, umpire says you moved off the mark. Winning goal from the top of the square.
 
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DavidSSS

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I’m a deadset tech dinosaur David and usually have issues with this sort of thing. But last night it was a breeze; sailed through the gates without a hitch.

Mine took a while to register, generally worked . . . eventually. But, eventually is too long when thousands are just trying to swipe in or out. Plus, I lost count in about 2 seconds of the people having trouble with the reader not reading the code on their phone, just a great big logjam. The technology is too slow, too unreliable and too cumbersome. It makes Myki look quick and the queues at Richmond station after a game are a testament to how rubbish that system is.

The game did resemble basketball too much. Ball was shooting up and back all night. Is this what the AFL want? It is football but not as we know it. Will be interesting to see if that was an extreme example of the impact of the new rules, was the first game of the year after all. But the complaints will come that this is not the game we grew up with if it continues like this.

DS
 

RoarEmotion

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Mine took a while to register, generally worked . . . eventually. But, eventually is too long when thousands are just trying to swipe in or out. Plus, I lost count in about 2 seconds of the people having trouble with the reader not reading the code on their phone, just a great big logjam. The technology is too slow, too unreliable and too cumbersome. It makes Myki look quick and the queues at Richmond station after a game are a testament to how rubbish that system is.

The game did resemble basketball too much. Ball was shooting up and back all night. Is this what the AFL want? It is football but not as we know it. Will be interesting to see if that was an extreme example of the impact of the new rules, was the first game of the year after all. But the complaints will come that this is not the game we grew up with if it continues like this.

DS
There will be a learning curve like with any new thing. Eventually people will get the hang of it. One key is to turn up the brightness on your phone.
 
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Harry

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Think we will miss Soldo as the season progresses
 
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mrposhman

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Mine took a while to register, generally worked . . . eventually. But, eventually is too long when thousands are just trying to swipe in or out. Plus, I lost count in about 2 seconds of the people having trouble with the reader not reading the code on their phone, just a great big logjam. The technology is too slow, too unreliable and too cumbersome. It makes Myki look quick and the queues at Richmond station after a game are a testament to how rubbish that system is.

The game did resemble basketball too much. Ball was shooting up and back all night. Is this what the AFL want? It is football but not as we know it. Will be interesting to see if that was an extreme example of the impact of the new rules, was the first game of the year after all. But the complaints will come that this is not the game we grew up with if it continues like this.

DS

Wasn't that why this was changed? To get back to the good old days of what footy "used to be like, back in our day". Yet you say it doesn't resemble that. That would suggest that this was an ill thought out idea again by SHocking, surely not!
 
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You have to laugh at the cluelessness of carlscum fans. On the way home the deluded were ringing into SEN talking about frees, are you kidding me blues had 10 more frees and 3 of their goals gifted by the umpires.

The Macintosh incident only blues fans could say if it wasn't tripping should've been holding the ball. An honest person would say geez Macintosh was grabbed by the legs should've been tiges free but we'll take the play on call. But no they wanted holding the ball even though it was a 100% trip.

Nankvervis still had pressure when he walked back into goals whereby Jones pretended to tap the ball over 5 meters and go over the line with no one behind him, you literally can't make this *smile* up. The very few blues fans who were there mostly in AFL members were making some noise there and carrying on for holding the ball every time we got tackled but unbeknown to the clueless which is your typical blues fan, tiger players were actually handballing it out.

Other callers were saying we had out McGovern (lol = spud), de Kooning (like CCJ he is still learning the ropes wont be the difference in the game), Tom Williamson (lol = spud), Betts at 33 years old didn't make the cut. The quality they had out was Zac Williams, Jack Martin and Charlie Curnow and to a lesser extent Marchbank. We had royalty out Cotchin and Houli

75 inside 50's to 41 shows that we should've won this game by 50+ based on the countless entries into our forward 50. We need to convert these inside 50 chances when they present.

Overall a good game, blues came to play and took it up to us but I always knew we would scoot away in red time and it panned out that way.

Happy with the win and look forward to next week V the Hawks.
 
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Columbo

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After watching (shorter), high intensity, high pressure games through most of last year found this game underwhelming. Hope others are right and it's just the early season (and not the new rules) that caused this to be such a free flowing, basketball style, end to end spectacle. Wish the AFL would just f... off and leave the game alone
I reckon it had more to do with Carltons game style than anything else...normal transmission resumes next week...