Dusty getting pinged for holding the ball when he tries to create play, while Carlton players continually deliberately walked into tackles cuddling the ball,making no attempt to get rid of it. I reckon Hewiit did that about 8 times for 8 ball ups.As always you could go through a game and pick numerous decisions to complain about.
My 3 gripes- Dusty getting pinged for holding the ball when he tries to create play, while Carlton players continually deliberately walked into tackles cuddling the ball,making no attempt to get rid of it. I reckon Hewiit did that about 8 times for 8 ball ups.
And then Carlton kicked the ball about 5 mtrs 10 times and got paid a mark, we did it a few times too. Then suddenly a kick to Vlastuin in our forward 50 is call too short. That is another rule the umps pluck out occasionally.
And my 3rd was the deliberate against Taranto. It went sideways off his shin while he was begin tackled. Ridiculous. But then players, from both teams are allowed to walk the ball over the line all night. Again, like the holding the ball, it is clearly a direction given to umpires, but it leads to players who do intentionally take the ball over getting away with it, while others, with no intention to go near the boundary line are pinged.
The one that bothers me is Dusty get pinged for the fend off....fair enough, it's prior. Last night there were as many instances where a Carlton player would spin into the tackle and be brought down, by the rules, that is also prior as you are attempting to evade. What happened to the trumpeted B Scott "harder on the HTB" call from last year?