What was happening at the boundary throw ins that upset Malaxos?
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Obviously the knob of a reporter from the sunday times didnt know either…he probably wasnt even there.
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It wasnt that craterface Hackdorn was it!! :whistle:
Apparently Symonds had too many hitouts (256) compared to MacDougall (128). Must be the 35 marks to 22 that MacDougall has taken. I must have missed 30 of them but I’ve missed two games so that’s probably it.
Sorry, I’m grumpy this morning and cannot believe Howson still can’t get a game when the only contested mark we can take in our forward line happens in the reserves.
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got agree st…howson not in after after weeks of domination in the ressies and another 10 marks yesterday…chalwell did ok I suppose on debut though…
got agree st…howson not in after after weeks of domination in the ressies and another 10 marks yesterday…chalwell did ok I suppose on debut though…
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This was Chalwell’s second game & it was good to see him have another opportunity. I can only assume that Howson was not played because the Dockers don’t think he is ready for league yet, as I cannot think of any other good reason not to play him in the league. Astonishing that the Sharks dropped their only recognized Ruckman in Symonds given the strong ruck EP have. I wasn’t at the game so I would be interested to know if the Royals chipped the ball around a lot & we bombed it long inside 50. The Royals had 50 more possessions, 54 more kicks & took 108 marks to our 52, yet we had 59 to 43 inside fifties. The narrow loss is a huge setback & we must beat Claremont next week or we will probably drop another game behind the top 4. It really looked like we had a real crack & that is encouraging, given the previous 3 weeks.
Disappointing to say the least!!!
Colts were terrible even with 3 state players back in. But I suppose they were released due to average to poor form in the state games. None were much better for the run to honest. Harsh call but fair I’m afraid. Credit to the EP boys. They played great footy and their foot & hand skills were far superior to ours.
Re the Ressies. I said to someone that the 1st qtr inaccuracy would cost us…even though we didn’t fire a shot after qtr time anyway. I thought Howson did well again and SURELY is a starter next week.
The league boys can only blame themselves with some bad kicking where EP were kicking them when it counted. Youngy’s miss to start the game 20m out 45 degrees. Sheppard strolling into an open goal to put us 3 goals up late in the 3rd, only to see EP kick the last 2 and only be down by 3pts at 3qtr time. Youngy another after the 3 qtr siren (keep in mind Smith kicked one at the start of the final qtr from a similar spot but from deeper in the pocket)…11 point turnaround!!! Duffy running inside the 50 no pressure. Lester-Smith’s left foot snap dead in front just outside the square??? Bad kicking is bad footy, but bad umpiring no-one can help. FARK me I’m not one to bag umpires on influencing a game but they need a serious flogging. The Oakley-Nicholls incident with the umpire standing right there was appalling. He man handled and then threw Schofield down and yet nothing. We had the ball deep in the forward line at the time. Not too mention many other baffling umpire decisions throughout the day. No wonder Malaxos went off his head. Like I said if our kicking was better things would have taken care of themselves.
Hate to say it but Claremont coming up and a loss will make it very, very hard for us to play finals. We’re a game out plus percentage and have played an extra game. Perth in 4th spot and have SF. It could be 2 games out plus percentage and played an extra game.
On another note. Is WC & Freo happy with the state of the ground at Medibank? No rain since I’m not sure when and the inside 50’s at both ends were atrocious. You could see all players all day not at all confident under foot when turning and some cases kicking.
cheers for the write up Rock…Howson won’t play this weekend…don’t forget EF are playing CL in the sticks…no AFL listed player will be risked on a country surface…then a bye the week after that…could be a long fortnight…
sounds like the inaccuracy in front of goals was endemic within the club on Sat…yeah totally agree pup strange Symonds gets dropped v EP rucks…whilst it seems MacDougall competed well against the odds…why play only 1 ruck v Johnson and Lycett?..and is Macdougall even an out and out ruck…I guess with a 3 point loss and lazy kicking for goal playing only 1 ruck wasn’t the centre to EF loss.
big task this weekend…I guess with Cl playing in the bush one could say they could be slightly vulnerable so to speak…saying that EF will have to replace up to 5 players with the listed boys being ‘rested’…Dodd back? Tropiano, Symonds, Hadley and one other no doubt…perhaps Jupp?..surely EF will play 2 rucks v Seaby and Andrews…surely?
Gee cardy haven’t you stayed there before.
Great place.
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Nah mate have a caravan so thats the go if you can get a spot.. Bloody hard in the Dry season. I actually had a look at the Resorts website and it looks bloody good. Prices arent over the top. Like the look of the Bar and Grill.
When doesn’t Malaxos go off his head ???
So does anyone actually know what happened at the throw ins that made stavros so upset?
What was happening at the boundary throw ins that upset Malaxos?
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Obviously the knob of a reporter from the sunday times didnt know either…he probably wasnt even there.
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It wasnt that craterface Hackdorn was it!! :whistle:
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:lol: no it was that smoker malborough or whatever the tools name is.
don’t mind his style…shows how passionate he really is!
So does anyone actually know what happened at the throw ins that made stavros so upset?
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the bird boundary umpire failed a number of times to actually throw the ball in the distance…pretty sub standard to do this a number of times???
the bird boundary umpire failed a number of times to actually throw the ball in the distance…pretty sub standard to do this a number of times???
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Ok thanks for the explanation but surely both sides still had a equal chance and both sides had the same problem? It is a bit the same as having a bad field umpire it goes both ways dont you agree?? I think the losing margin maybe upset the coach and he had to have someone to blame.. If you can get that close you can WIN.. How many errors were made by EF players that could of made a difference..
Dont worry I was pissed off as I picked EF and in the end they should of won.
Your shout mate at the FOXTEL CUP game… Ok I will bring my own. My wife has given me a leave pass. 
Ok thanks for the explanation but surely both sides still had a equal chance and both sides had the same problem? It is a bit the same as having a bad field umpire it goes both ways dont you agree?? I think the losing margin maybe upset the coach and he had to have someone to blame.. If you can get that close you can WIN.. How many errors were made by EF players that could of made a difference..
Dont worry I was pissed off as I picked EF and in the end they should of won.
Your shout mate at the FOXTEL CUP game… Ok I will bring my own. My wife has given me a leave pass.
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I think you will find that those particular boundary throw ins though favoured ep hence why malaxos was not happy…don’t blame him
surely you would expect a proper throw in for it to be fair?
Strange so your saying EP were favoured.. Now the boundry umpire had his back to the play so not him favouring anyone… Now are you saying EP knew about this and positioned themselves so they were favoured? Nah not possible.
Bottom line EF lost the stoppages therefore in the mind of the Coach it was the boundry umpires fault.
All sounds a bit far fetched to me.
Nay cardy it was a deal made by the weagles, the WAFC and opsm to give EP another advantage over the G7, watch out for this weeks ploy, it is great!
simply EF stuffed up at the wrong times…poor kicking is poor football…TBH if EP are top four material and WP are top four material, then EF aren’t that far behind them going on these last two games…and TBH EF are playing shite so good to luck to one and all come finals…
I am not saying the boundary umpire(she)was favouring anyone it just happened when she stuffed up her throw ins ep were in the favoured position…now if they were legitimate throw ins then equal footing regardless where any player happened to be.
Kapish?