I was thinking something similar. Be interesting if stuff started popping up on banter channels, and there were group boutique bets on the umpiring.
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Umpire farce - Getting worse by the minute!
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Doesn't matter if we on top and lording it. Doesn't matter if we cellar dwell. We get treated exactly the same. How egalitarian. Seriously it's an incredible table.
I might start doing it, they don't know whether I placed a bet or not so when we get a game that is biased we post on their media feeds
it is absolute cheating with a preset bias, zero respect for the cheating behavior and almost as if Melbourne were in the know. Non Richmond supporters had the same thoughts. The club need to come out and make a stand otherwise memberships will drop. It’s not worth the angst to watch this, all we want is a fair contest - it’s just not
Excuse my ignorance but can you place a bet that side A will receive more free kicks than side B?
If so then 100,000 members should place a bet on one game. e.g. Collingwood/Richmond the result should create *smile* storm. Doesn't matter what odds are offered the results are predetermined by exposed bias.
If so then 100,000 members should place a bet on one game. e.g. Collingwood/Richmond the result should create *smile* storm. Doesn't matter what odds are offered the results are predetermined by exposed bias.
But the draw didn't waste us a home game this year. We played the Saints on gather round, but on the return game we are the home team against the saints........... playing on THEIR home ground. (Sorry for the sarcasm - seems the AFL ain't sorry)!
Thanks for the clarification. Didn't know about this. I'd assume its both teams home game then? Either way, its annoying how we always play in Adelaide 3 times per year due to always playing Port Adelaide in Adelaide, The Crows in Adelaide and then the gather round is never against either of those two teams.
And the tv stations like to see a crowd in attendance. If there were 30,000 seats empty and people were all outside, I’m sure the media would want to know why.
If there one thing the afl don’t like is to see themselves embarrassed on the National stage
Any media mention of how a boundary 5 cm away from the post does not see a ball hit on the full, and change direction by 90 degrees?
and nor does the goal umpire 5 m away nor any of the 4 field umpires of whom at least 2 had an uninterrupted view?
and nor does the goal umpire 5 m away nor any of the 4 field umpires of whom at least 2 had an uninterrupted view?
Don't worry Larrakin, it isn't a wasted home game against StKilda, that was just gather round. In Round 22 we have an actual home game against StKilda and it is to be played at . . . oh, wait . . . Docklands, their home ground
DS
PS: seems Frickenal beat me to it, bloody outrageous fixturing.
I watched today's game and there was some incredible umpiring there too.
1 incident I will detail.
An Essendon player, maybe in the 3rd quarter, got his head ripped off. The umpire was standing there looking straight at it and called play on. Now, the call of play on is actually revealing. An umpire doesn't call play on unless something has happened which requires adjudication. So, the umpire clearly saw the high tackle rule being broken and did not award a free kick.
This is not incompetence, the umpire clearly saw the incident. I still think this is related to the AFL's agenda of less free kicks. And less free kicks means not awarding every free kick the umpires see, which is a recipe for gross inconsistency.
DS
1 incident I will detail.
An Essendon player, maybe in the 3rd quarter, got his head ripped off. The umpire was standing there looking straight at it and called play on. Now, the call of play on is actually revealing. An umpire doesn't call play on unless something has happened which requires adjudication. So, the umpire clearly saw the high tackle rule being broken and did not award a free kick.
This is not incompetence, the umpire clearly saw the incident. I still think this is related to the AFL's agenda of less free kicks. And less free kicks means not awarding every free kick the umpires see, which is a recipe for gross inconsistency.
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And Brown was very lucky not to be reported for that incident
Clearly a deliberate high impact chin to the forearm. Didn't have eyes for the ball either.
Well it’s obvious from the still photo that Brown incorrectly disposed of the ball BEFORE the head high contact. Sheesh, Richmond free kick…..seriously.
Those are staggering numbers. 27 times to nil. It's almost a statistical impossibility given the change of players, coaches, opponents etc in that period.
The Free kick diff ladder since 2017 has the Tigers at -
18th
18th
13th
18th
18th
18th
17th
And we are 18th at the moment. No other side is consistently in that lower half let alone the bottom 4. Teams near us at the bottom, like the Kangaroos for 22 & 23 have also been at the top of the diff ladder in prior years.
GWS went 17th/17th/18th/14th/4th/9th/11th and are currently 17th. They are the closest to us. But are still 294 frees better off than us.
We should be unfurling signs at the ground with these stats, questioning how the hell it can happen.
Our our players mouthy? It doesn't appear so.
*smile* you umpires and *smile* you AFL
They are making any sort of win impossible now.
We were able to ride the 50 metre penalties and *smile* free kicks against when we were good.
They got us in the final in 2020 but we were good enough to get past that.
But in 2022 they torched us and we have never recovered and now they just take the steam out of any resistance we have.
The non free kick to Baker and the push in the back by Pickett was a disgrace considering there's 4 of them on the ground.
Not sure Fisher has paid us a free kick this year. And he has umpired the Melbourne Stkilda and I think the Carlton game.
We were able to ride the 50 metre penalties and *smile* free kicks against when we were good.
They got us in the final in 2020 but we were good enough to get past that.
But in 2022 they torched us and we have never recovered and now they just take the steam out of any resistance we have.
The non free kick to Baker and the push in the back by Pickett was a disgrace considering there's 4 of them on the ground.
Not sure Fisher has paid us a free kick this year. And he has umpired the Melbourne Stkilda and I think the Carlton game.
This.
If neutral betting organisations set the odds based on historic statistics (of Richmond winning the free kick count) then that is the proof.
Love it.
