Crowley to the tribunal for pinching?
Thoughts?
Good tagger…yes…good player…probably not!
Personally i dont like what tagging has become and how it affects the game, definately makes it less exciting. Would be good to get other peoples opinions on this. Every club has a tagger, but there are a lot of different types of taggers between the clubs.
Dog act if Crowley did pinch.. He isnt a tagger.. Ling was a tagger who actually hunted the ball himself & still tagged his opponent, Crowley just looks at his opponent & does not care if he doesnt win a possession. How was that first hit on Harvey not a free before the game started?
Guess it depends on which side you support Soprano.
Did he pinch or not!!Harvey said he did,Crowley said he didn’t. He said she said.Who do you believe?
Good tagger for sure, a good players, yes I think he is.Not a great player but a good player.He does what the coach and team require of him every week.To me that makes him a good team man and player.
You know that the opposition are worried about your influence on the game when the player you are playing on tried to turn the tables on you Ablett did it against us.He tried to rough Crowley up early. Didn’t work.
Scotty Thompson and the Crows tried it. Didn’t work.Crowley knows he has them in his back pocket when they respond like that.
Maybe other taggers have to look at getting the bit of mongrel in them that Crowley has in his game.
It is not just taggers who influence games but players who can rough up and intimidate the opposition.I remember that the Eagles made Woosha into a human cannon ball.He became a feared player for his physical intimidation.Now that was fearsome,the fact that he would smash you physically.
And now here we have a grown man and a senior player complaining that he got pinched!!!What influence did Harvey have on the game on Sunday!!!Zip Zilch Zero.And who is the culprit for that!!!Ryan Crowley Tagger extrodanair.
I would like to know why the sook that complained to the umpire, hasn’t been sanctioned for pulling Mzungo’s hair at least that was caught on TV.
So Crowley was fined on hearsay and the MRP sanctioned him on probabilty, ffs anyone thats played enough footy knows that you get welts on your skin from being tackled and finger nails raking across your body Crowley is going to fight it, if he gets off its going to make Harvey look a like a lying sook.
I think he sooked anyway.A player with that much experience should have just laughed at Crowley right from the start.He gave Crowley the ammo to continue.
I can remember the same gut getting in the faces of others at times after kicking goals.As I said before father time catches up very quickly,maybe he has snuck in on Old Boomer right now.Being a champion doesn’t make you immune to the bangs and crunches of football.
Exactly Anchorman…Boomer says one thing…Crowley says another. Really cant punish Crowley if there is not footage.
There is always going to be taggers in the game nowadays, it is a good tactic, why wouldnt you want to quell the influence of the opposition teams most damaging player. I just think that it is getting to the point where these players are actually not even good footballers and it is making for less entertaining games.
Agree with Terror on the Ling call, Ling was a great tagger and player, he usually just played one on one footy and it was a fight for the ball. Where as Crowley is playing one on one footy, but it is a fight for the opposition not to get the ball rather than him getting it.
Crowley was close to being dropped and delisted had Lyon not turned him into a tagger, so I argue that he isnt a good “player” but obviously an effective tagger.
I would like to see the Umpires start to penalise these “play the man” taggers, it happens all the time, the exciting players cant run at the ball and it is making the game less exciting to watch. By all means a tagger can tag, but the tactics which are being used by some are definately not within the spirit of the game. Needs to be stamped out.
Now we go to the tribunal for pinching???
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Dermott Brereton doesn’t think he breaks the rules.He said he has watched hours of Crowley vision and sees nothing wrong with the way he plays.
Ling was a very good player but it must also be remembered that he had a much better back up of players to support him that what Crowley has.
Crowley was a tagger before Lyon came along it is just that Harvey didn’t use him in the same way as what Lyon does.I remember Lyon making a very very ordinary player in Clint Jones into the premier tagger at the Saints.Jones was an ordinary player to say the least when he tried out with the Saints.
I guess it depends on who you support as to whether you like him or not.
The panel decided to side with the Harvey point of view.They took his word against Crowleys.I guess if you are a legend it makes your voice more listenable than a battlers.
They based in on probability rather than evidence!!!How can they find him guilty with no evidence!!!
Taggers these days are more run with players, used to limit the oppositions free space at stoppages and while on the move to space. Less likely someone will use you when you have a tagger directly on you or in your running space. Crowley mentally breaks his opponents down where they give up on working harder and return by trying to be more physical hence taking their mind off the game. The 3 umpires get a great opportunity to see taggers at stoppages and are quick to pay anything illegal like holding mostly but blocking and knowing where to stand is what Crowley does best.
the only thing you can do with taggers is run them down.
There probably needs to be an ump that solely watches taggers because chances are lots of them get away with blocking. It is part of the game and I don’t dislike a good tagger nor do I dislike Crowley but I have no doubt every game a tagger cheats here and there and gets away with it.
Pinching is for women. It’s a dog act we should leave with the King of Dogs Josh Carr.
Crowley should get off.
Of course he should,they have no evidence.
Still smarting over The Carr smash at the Eagles are we Shwab?
Cant believe Crowley didnt get off, what a joke.
I think I could be Anchorman, just a little 
well what would you expect it was a Kangaroo court.
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Harvey was pinched 300 times!!!
Maybe Crowley was smitten on him.
That should have been enough for the panel to throw it out 300.
A total injustice has been done.No evidence.