All Australian stagers

[TrialByVideo]

The 'architect' was mentioned, but that sacred cow must not be slaughtered, just gently caressed with a powder puff!

 

[gold1]

Do we have a ruckman candidate?

 

[The Big Richo]

The 'architect' was mentioned, but that sacred cow must not be slaughtered, just gently caressed with a powder puff!

Personally I think the first one is probably a free kick and the second one definitely is.

 

[artball]

anyone got a stat on how many goals Ginnivan has from free kicks?

 

[Willo]

anyone got a stat on how many goals Ginnivan has from free kicks?

All of them

 

[Brodders17]

anyone got a stat on how many goals Ginnivan has from free kicks?

I saw a funny still shot from the weekend coverage.
Ginnivan- 2 disposals, 2 goals, 2 frees.

 

[Mac]

Personally I think the first one is probably a free kick and the second one definitely is.

I’m with you. In fact, I didn’t think any of the examples were particularly damning. The first one he was hit while in mid air, so pretty good acting skills to ’throw yourself forward’! Second one was clearly around the neck. Any other player would have asked the question the same. The third wasn’t very clear but seemed too fast to call. The fourth one I thought he was just first to the ball The hawks guy jumped into his back. Easy pickings for Montagna. go hard at one of the old time darlings, not so easy.

No where near as bad as Dangerfiel’s second half efforts in the 3 finals we played against them. He’s by far the worst serial flopping offender IMO.

 

[Rfc4Ever]

There's staging & there's ducking, both a heavy blight on the game

 

[Tigers of Old]

There was a young Pie named Jack Ginnivan..
He got tackled on his chin-again..
but he'd dived for the free kick again..
Poor young Pie Jack Ginnivan..
Begin again..

 

[tigertim]

 

[T-Shirt Tommy]

McCrae crowing that the AFL have admitted that they missed 2 free kicks for Ginnivan.

Keep ducking on!

 

[Tenacious]

Depends what you definition of stager is I guess.

To me, a stager is someone who tries to pretend something happened when it didn't, like ............

.......... a lot of your work here ............

 

[Batchelor Party]

Don't know if it's considered staging but Jack Silvagni seems to try to elicit sympathy from the umpires by having his face frozen in a permanently pained expression. It's like he ate one too many of the spicy stuffed olives off the antipasto platter and he realizes he has to get to a toilet immediately.

 

[The Big Richo]

.......... a lot of your work here ............

It happens, you just need both eyes open to see it.

 

[Brodders17]

.......... a lot of your work here ............

i dont like too much TBR bagging, but that is funny!

 

[Eddie from Elwood]

Selwood doesn't roll his shoulders - he lifts his arm to drag the tackle high. It's nothing to do with technique. Guys are trying to wrap arms around him and pin his arms so he can't get a handpass away. If you watch the tackles they start in the correct position but he's always ready to lift his arm and drag the tackle high. Grimes does it too. If you recall correctly the AFL identified this and they actually changed the interrpetation in 2017.

Under the new tightened interpretation, if a tackle is reasonable and the ball carrier is responsible for the high contact via a "shrug, drop, arm lift or duck, play on should be called".

The AFL interpretation also reads: "if the tackle is not reasonable, a free kick should be paid against the tackler, regardless of the actions of the other player."

Unfortunately when umps reward players for drawing frees they will continue to do it. IMO its not as much to do with tackling technique and more about the actions of the guy getting tackled. The AFL has dropped the ball on this, they think its more important to penalise a guy for taking one step on a mark or rolling his eyes at a free kick.

Absolutely true! On Grimma though, in his early days he was prolific.......not so much these days.

 

[rensman]

Do we have a ruckman candidate?

I reckon Grundy goes to ground a little too easily at times and it's not accidental

 

[Rod]

Adam Cerra needs to be in consideration… flops forward trying to draw in the back free kicks… did it really well against us.

 

[RoarEmotion]

This one cost us. Still hate it.

 

[kyuss]

This one cost us. Still hate it.

I was sitting behind the goals that night and that was right in front of me. Hated Brett Allison ever since.