2nd Quarter Summary
16.40 - Papley cleverly milks free. He grabs ball, gets tackled and ball is dislodged in the tackle. He throws himself backwards with the tackle and gets the free. Lambert stiff as he doesn't know his tackle dislodged the ball.
14.45 - Blakey sprints through middle, takes 2 bounces and then 19 running steps without bouncing before having a shot. Allowing for 1.5m a step (likely more when running at pace) he runs over 25m without bouncing. No free. Luckily he hits the post with the shot. The running too far was not even raised by the commentators.
13.10 - Parker incorrect disposal (he throws it) no penalised
12.44 - Reid throws it in their forward pocket to Heeney not penalised
12.30 - Heeney drops it after being tackled not penalised
10.45 - Ball kicked to Shai in forward pocket by Graham who is pushed in back just as he jumps to attempt mark. Its a 50/50 but one that is never paid to us.
10.01 - Free to Sydney against Baker for in the back. Correctly paid. The Syd player who recovers the ball hears the whistle and kicks the ball forward to leading player. That is spoilt by tigers so umpire recalls the ball to original free. They took the advantage, just because it didn't come off the umpire gave them another chance. Wrong wrong wrong. The subsequent play leads to a swans goal.
6.35 - Lynch pushes McCartin in side, free against. Sometimes paid, sometimes not.
4.15 - Hewitt tackled and throws it no free paid. Didn't matter as we had the ball and result was George goal
3.10 - Heeney free for Pickett hold in marking contest. Probably there but would love to get that paid all the time.
0.40 - another centre bounce that goes outside circle favours Hickey not recalled
0.26 - Lambert maybe throws it but not seen by ump.
0.20 - Papley runs through contest, is tackled, throws it in act of throwing his arms back for free, not penalised.
0.03 - Block paid against Balta. I would have paid it as Balta was not looking at the contest but the man initially. It was absolutely unnecessary as Wicks had no chance of marking it. Not paid all the time but by looking at the man Balta gave the ump the opportunity.
At least the 2nd qtr not as bad as the first for bad calls.
Every free we received in the 1st half was there, didn't get one you could dispute.
Some 1st half obs
Egg cannot tackle. And has no AFL intensity. Please no more.
Short plays too loose as a defender, gives way too much space to his opponent.
Pickett has awful disposal both by hand and foot but covers huge territory and pressures well.
Rioli was invisible and when he touched it turned it over.
Cotchin's kicking is awful, almost always to disadvantage
Nank was schooled by Hickey, that will never happen again in my lifetime.
Our ruck/mids were well beaten. Not many "best" players. George/Baker and Lynch competed.
Gary Lyon more or less said our defenders cannot play one on one, can only play zone. Based on one half of football. What a muppet, No wonder he has never coached.