one incident / game
us V Cats at the G
its 2013 we are on the improve
52 to them 57 at halftime , gee we are making a fist of it , for what ever reason the Cats seemed to delight in smacking us
on the stroke of half time a young Cotch was getting away from Selwood on the Bay 13 wing
Selwood in desperation dived full stretch and grabbed Cotch by an ankle and brought him to ground , free kick
Scott went off his chops in the coaches box , nothing new there , but a handful of senior players were incensed that a free was paid against Selwood and they rushed to the umpire and complained at length , and continued to ring the umpires and reminstate all the way off the ground
after half time the frees flowed the Cats way and they had a big win
the take aways for me were
Richmond couldn't have had 1 player do half as much as the Geelong players getting in the umpires faces with out there being big trouble and big fines
tripping in that manner is a reportable offence , MRO , nothing
and the sheer entitlement that the most blatant free shouldn't be paid against their darling
my blood boiled for a long time , but the revenge could be they get used to the elevated numbers of frees
and when finals come along the whistle tends to be put away
the cruel irony for them is the level frees during the H&A underwrites a certain amount of success , but it also seems to create a glass ceiling during the finals
they build their model on players and game plans coupled with very frees and not paid frees and can point to the success it brings
but all the expert analysis of why the Cats falter in September dont touch on the frees
we should be greatful
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