Are these numbers true? That is beyond random statistical variation by any definition. That table of numbers, without the headings, should be pasted on the wall behind Yze at the press conference after our next win.
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Umpire farce - Getting worse by the minute!
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From AFL Tables.
In that period, there have been 39 instances where the home team were -10 differential.
Richmond have had 9 of those.(10 including Sunday)
23% compared to 17 other teams accounting for the other 77%
I've got a mate who installs TV's in prisons. He's got a box that will sort you out. Can't break it, hang yourself from it or use it as a weapon. Its almost like they designed it for Richmond supporters.New TV required (again)
Can anyone recommend a TV with shatter proof glass by a thrown stubbie?
That just might be the funniest post I've ever read on this forum.
I received the same reply Harry. I hope others have emailed the club as well. Your choice though
Might be several more shaftings then before we get to pin it behind Yze at his presser…
Can’t break it? Hrrrmp you haven’t seen Willo in action mate. I’ll road test a couple
I was that *smile* wild i stormed out of the house at 3/4 time and headed over to the local shopping centre. Just hoping a meth head or two would say something. *smile* *smile* well *smile*. Not a bastard to be seen
He also does nurse call systems. With a bulk order we could probably get him to set up the monitoring at AFL house. Then we could all sit at home shitting our pants, throwing stubbies at the TV and pressing our nurse calls everytime the muppets got it wrong. AFL house would light up like Times Square! Not only would the umpiring improve I reckon they'd up our morphine too!
Yeah ! Get into em Willos. Send you over to the Middle East to track down these Hommus dudes too.
Yeah he said that in Club XIII once. He and Adam Kingsley were so dismissive of the umpiring department it wasn't funny. I don't think it's the umpires per se (though they are inconsistent/incompetent) it's the overall philosophy of basically "only pay 40 frees a game".
Rugby Union tried that and it failed so they then clamped down and penalised everything. Really noticeable 2 years ago in Super Rugby. Coaches learned quick smart and now you have a fast game, higher scores, and far fewer infringements. And now the RFU is looking to the same approach.
Spend 2 to 3 weeks in the AFL penalising everything (so 100+ free kicks a game) and watch how quick the holds and throws would disappear. But that would require a strong, consistent, non-compromised umpiring department.
And that the goes to Governance and hey we know how good Goyder is at that. /s
Nobet Pays does that already in the home he’s in.
Wow, that is stunning, we are the only team to have a free kick deficit for our home games. Stunning. Not just a deficit either, a yawning chasm.
I'll add to this, here is a plot of the free kicks for and against for the period 2017 to 2023:
Gee, we're all alone in the top left corner, how did that happen? We get the least frees, our opposition get the most frees when they play us. Over a period of 7 years. Sorry, too much disparity there, something is going on.
For 2024 so far, we receive 71% of the frees awarded against us, And, you guessed it, this is the worst percentage of any team. That's after we got 16 to Gold Coast's 15 in Round zero. So, for rounds 1 and 2, we received 30 frees and 47 were received by our opposition, down to 64% for the last 2 rounds . . . both played at our home ground.
DS
GWS have done fairly badly on fee kicks, so let's look at their home record:
Games: 75
Frees For: 1,399
Frees Against: 1,412
Quick calculation in my head but I'm generally pretty good.
So, even GWS received 13 more frees than their opposition at home.
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