Good to see Dimma give a drive by on the umpire dissent adjudication:
”Last week dissent was glaring (at the ump) this week you can (waves arms), it’s hard to know where you stand”.
but hey, he’s just a 3 time premiership coach, what would he know….
The amount of free kicks that would have been payed against us in Rd 1 that were let go over round 2 was phenomenal. Every game I watched and I'm in Broome kicking back ladies and gentlemen, so I watched alot of footy, had blatant demonstrations of dissent.
The stand the mark rule was as abhorrent as it has ever been this weekend as well. It was forgotten about for North Melbourne, they did what they wanted.
Ill keep going, the way the NM players have been coached to play for in the back frees cost one of them a concussion. If the player refuses to use a knee to offset a tackle, I call it self preservation, then they should 1, not get a free for in the back and 2, get pinged for holding the ball. If this interpretation was used by the afl it would disincentivse the outcome of gaining a free kick by placing oneself in harms way. Willie Riolis tackle was pure and the NM player was let's just say, poor. Carlton forward line did the same thing against us in the forward line, plant 2 feet and just lunge forward getting the free. The onus for ones welfare lies primarily on the player themselves and secondly on their opponent. Umpireit that way and the head I juries would go back to where they used to be.