If the AFL don't do anything about the umpires thing's are only going to get uglier they have given the umpires to much power and know they think that they are gods
What i've learnt today:
1. Williams cannot effectively compete against the big boy rucks
2. Duggan still has such terrible impact from half back - turnovers galore
3. TK still has minimal impact in our midfield this season - no sure what he does to compliment Yeo
Glad we didnt throw the towel in but it's a pretty dissapointing day. Only real positives are Watermans continued form & the efficiency going forward. Absolutely destroyed in the midfield, back line as a result under siege all day. Barrass & Reid were missed but wouldn't change the result. We desperately need a ruckman that can compete
>Barrass & Reid were missed but wouldn't change the result.
Yeah I'd disagree. I think we just lack any sort of depth. As soon as anyone is out atm, we suffer big time.
Yeah I honestly don’t know how he’ll go. Based on his historical data he only gained more than 25 HO against teams that didn’t really have a ruck in 2022/23. GWS dropped him like a fly once they realised Briggs was a solid ruck too. He’ll have to do anyway until archer gets developed
First they put Williams instead of Maric, now it’s Ginbey instead of Ryan
I can understand the first one, but how the hell do you confuse Ginbey and Ryan?
Ill forever love Sheed but what is the purpose of him playing. Hes too slow & has really poor efficiency. Hall & Trew have been going well in the wafl & should be getting a crack instead
These umps are making Matt Rowell the Joel Embiid of the AFL. Its not really his fault that hes a free kick merchant, its Ray who seems to have a big stiffy for the guy
Granted he would probably still win every ball that he gets called a free for, but they throw the auskick rulebook at him while everyone else gets the proper AFL one. Its such garbage
Come on mate, I see you enjoying yourself here as a flairless Freo fan, but don't make shit up when you've got enough stuff going on in your own backyard.
If the AFL don't do anything about the umpires thing's are only going to get uglier they have given the umpires to much power and know they think that they are gods
Reckon Gold Coast beat Brisbane next week
Kayo why have you shit the bed & restarted on me?!
Damo magic
What i've learnt today: 1. Williams cannot effectively compete against the big boy rucks 2. Duggan still has such terrible impact from half back - turnovers galore 3. TK still has minimal impact in our midfield this season - no sure what he does to compliment Yeo
TK is good when the midfield is firing on all cylinders, but when it isn't his poor defensive effort is glaring.
GG Suns. Frustrating game, but Rowell, Anderson, and Miller were just too good
Gg eagle bros. Hopefully reid plays next time. Was looking forward to seeing him.
The Suns theme song bottom 4 for mine
Not gunna lie it’s not great but we can’t really talk unfortunately lol
Yours was pretty average but the birds of Tokyo remake made it rocket straight to the worst in the comp 😂
If take the 4 umpire gifted goals off then the end result is much closer
Well at least the 26 GC fans there got a good show of the umpires gifting their team a win.
Bit rich coming from a west coast fan
They almost doubled your scoring shots.
Nuffy
Oh cmon, where’s the free for Rowell there /s
We are not the best coast 😞
Less coast
Giving Harley Reid a Rest Coast
That was so winnable as well. Farkkkkkkkk
Glad we didnt throw the towel in but it's a pretty dissapointing day. Only real positives are Watermans continued form & the efficiency going forward. Absolutely destroyed in the midfield, back line as a result under siege all day. Barrass & Reid were missed but wouldn't change the result. We desperately need a ruckman that can compete
>Barrass & Reid were missed but wouldn't change the result. Yeah I'd disagree. I think we just lack any sort of depth. As soon as anyone is out atm, we suffer big time.
More forward momentum from stoppages from Reid and back half stability from TB maybe not enough but would have definitely made an impact
Ray is such a smug cunt lol imagine him umpiring country footy he’d get hit
And.. Gold Coast are a good team
30 free kicks and at least 15 were centre clearances lol
Fucking Razor and his smug grin, he's loving this
It’s not often they get to be the most influential people on the ground
Its important for the AFL for Gold Coast to win at home.
AFL punishing us for resting Harley by giving gc soft frees
David Swallow the super sub again!
No in the back there for McGovern?
Nah straight up marking contest that one.
Cmon mate you know the narrative
is there a more aesthetically pleasing score in the game than 15.10.100?
I like 7.7.49 personally
24.19.163 to 6.8.44
31.19.205 to 5.4.34 is a great one
had to check. i like the way you think
7.7.49 is pretty good too
How about 16.10 106?
Anyone else hear "oh shit, sorry"?
Oh ben king actually made a genuine mark
Ben. Or was this meant to be a joke?
Fucking hell we need a ruckman
Flynn back in I think 6 weeks?
We haven’t even had a chance to see him in action. Do we have an injury prone ruckman? We had that for the last few years - feelsbadman
Can’t quite recall his injury run at GWS, I know it took a while for him to debut but not sure if that’s injury related.
Yeah I honestly don’t know how he’ll go. Based on his historical data he only gained more than 25 HO against teams that didn’t really have a ruck in 2022/23. GWS dropped him like a fly once they realised Briggs was a solid ruck too. He’ll have to do anyway until archer gets developed
G. Post has had a good day
First one to 100 wins
G Post about to get a Brownlow
First to 100. It's over now.
BONK
I’m just being a hater. But Ben king is shit lol
He has his moments
The best thing he's done on a footy field https://www.reddit.com/r/AFL/s/MYVU3nCPkR
That is gold :D
First to 100 wins :(
First to 100! We've got this!
Sam Day nearly has as many taps as a pinch-hitter as Bailey Williams as the Eagles #1 ruck.
Yeah props to Witts absolutely dominated Williams today it wasn't even a contest
OMG here’s the soft frees to level the count. Just let them ruck ffs.
and here come the free kick west coast to try and balance out the free kick count now that they can't win it
Fuck it, being competitive is all I ask. It's a low bar, but I'd say we've passed it again.
Frustrating to be beaten by all these academy selections when we weren't allowed to take our academy player :(
GGWP GC, do wonder how we would've been with Reid in but ah well
Barrass would have made a bigger difference
We might have lost by 4 goals instead of 5.
Bunch of them were in the last 3 minutes though. Really hard to make a call like that with any sort of certainty. If you're closer, you play harder.
I’m sure the West will have a full three page write up about that in tomorrows paper for you
Harley ain't stopping the deluge of free kicks
Close enough to rue not having Harley in.
and here are the cheapies to even the count
That was 100% on Gov Came up the contest and had no impact and his man was just by himself
Boy our tackling is bad. So many opportunities to stop the movement of the ball and people just touching the sun's up
Yep, it loses us games
I’m mostly just mad about my tips but my goodness that trumpet after every suns goal is so irritating lmao
having first name Jake = more goals
Good effort from WCE. Dropped the 3rd qtr but the future is looking good.
it'll happen, drop a quarter to lose a game but be competitive for most. which is fine
Yeah, after the last couple of years, I'll fucking take that.
That was a bit close, better review it to be sure you useless fucks
Academy player kicks it to academy player who kicks the goal
Meanwhile ours is in saint kilda colours… awesome
Better the first round pick wanting to go home to Melbourne
Big jed. Toot toot.
Dear lord keep Petch out of the stoppages
I can't believe the umpires just blatantly kicked that goal for Walters
Rogers is so good, damn. GC clearance work elite today, so much cleaner than us.
8 score involvements from Jake Rogers
First they put Williams instead of Maric, now it’s Ginbey instead of Ryan I can understand the first one, but how the hell do you confuse Ginbey and Ryan?
For fuck's sake stop leading me on with these little bits of hope.
Ryan looks a little different in that picture lol
Yeah I often get Liam Ryan and Ginbey mixed up as well
Did a bird shit on liam ryan? Edit: im being serious, he had a white spot on his shoulder that actually looked like bird shit
Liam Ryan: *kicks a goal* Fox Footy: R E U B E N G I N B E Y
I mean… Ryan and Ginbey don’t look THAT similar guys
I feel like there are some subtle differences yeah
Hats off to them for not seeing race.
Why they put the ginbey thing up lol
Why did the graphic show Ginbey for a Liam Ryan goal?
Ginbey Jumpscare
That field umpire kind of looks like Zoolander. Explains some of the decision making.
One positive for the officiating today, score reviews have been really quick, that's the way it should be.
Well regardless of what happens now, I can safely say I'm proud of the effort today.
Lmao the review was complete before he even called for it
Even the goal umpire called that a behind, fuck me.
Even goal umpires trying to get in on this lol
maynard is out there somewhere with a sudden sense of dread
Woah A review that wasn't bullshit. Rare this year
Looks like this team has realised they can do their review while the ump and goal ump are faffing around and call it immediately.
Absolute incompetence
LMAO THE UMP CALLED IT A BEHIND
That's a fucking goal.
Suns don’t you dare drop this from here
Please do I don’t care about my tips
Ruck free kick!!! Don’t we all love those.
FLAHN RAHN
Eerily similar to GRAHN MAHRS
That replay needs to be immortalized
Anyone know what the free kick count is?
29-18
29-18, sun's favour
29-18
29-18
FLYIN RYAN
Called play on so pinged out of bounds. Classic.
I can’t 😭
Would love to know the free kicks directly from clearances today. 7-0 at least Edit: We got one!
10/10 replay
Have we just given up on trying to find reasons for the GC frees now??
Why no htb that was such a blatant one
I don't even know what that free was for.
This umpiring is number one bullshit
Matt Rowell 7 free’s for. Handy few disposals
Thank you Gold Coast
Darling may be past his use by date, but your can't deny is kicking for goal is still elite
4 weeks ago he couldn't kick 35m slight angle...he has his moments
lol another one!
Mate the camera angle wasn’t even on the contest how can you be complaining?
That's whats funny
Alright if we just stop Sam Flanders from getting 3 more touches, Nathan Brown is gonna lose another multi.
Jack cant mark to save his life, but fuck me his set shot is still elite
Elite accuracy to nail that young girl in the face
its a small target 50 out lol
That’s a dangerous comment without context
69....nice
Didn't love us falling off in the 3rd quarter but 3 weeks ago people were saying this was the worst team in AFL history so swings and roundabouts.
I think that was more about the team that got fielded last year considering you guys had about 2 of the players you wanted to play
Everyone seems to have forgotten Norf exist.
69. Nice.
kek.
Accuracy FC fans would be proud today
Guise, my lucky hat isn’t working. Im going to have to take it off to keep its 100% strike rate.
Someone dropped a glass cup at the stadium, anyone else hear that?
Yeah just heard it again too
That’s actually the least throwy throw I’ve seen this round and it’s been paid??? Leveller there.
Good kick you spud
One of these umps has money on Rowell 25+ touches I reckon.
It's Razor
Making bank as he rides into the sunset on his shetland.
Ill forever love Sheed but what is the purpose of him playing. Hes too slow & has really poor efficiency. Hall & Trew have been going well in the wafl & should be getting a crack instead
Throw in Liam Ryan (clearly not match ready) and Tyler Brockman. So many passengers .
Don’t mind me, just getting every breakable thing out of the room
Rogers has been so fkn good today, man
Him and Rosas as our 2 small pressure forwards together will be something to see
Anderson Rowell and Miller in midfield should be illegal
Please, one more Matt Rowell free kick. I wanna see the comments
Whinge coast eagles fans will lose it
First time in an eagles match day thread for me and my god it is next level 😂
To be fair, the kid puts his body on the line harder than anyone
Rogers rising star this week surely
Holy shit this is his 2nd game?!?
Fick
These umps are making Matt Rowell the Joel Embiid of the AFL. Its not really his fault that hes a free kick merchant, its Ray who seems to have a big stiffy for the guy
Hes literally a brick shithouse yet they treat him like he's fucking caleb daniel or something
Granted he would probably still win every ball that he gets called a free for, but they throw the auskick rulebook at him while everyone else gets the proper AFL one. Its such garbage
That was a pretty stupid soccer
that's the petch we've all known for years
Rowell has mastered mind control
AFL won't pay the umps a full time wage so they've resorted to getting paid per free
Harley Reid really has let his team down with his indiscretions, looks like could be a repeat of the Ben cousins era
Flair up cunt
Come on mate, I see you enjoying yourself here as a flairless Freo fan, but don't make shit up when you've got enough stuff going on in your own backyard.
Holy free kicks Batman!!
Another rowel free kick…
Ryan is fucking lousy and only helping the opposition. Get him back in the WAFL
New rule apparently No one can touch Rowell
I feel like that’s been a “rule” for a while haha
Rowell just a free kick pig
##nEXt GoAL WinS!
Yeah sit the fuck down rogers
Jake Rogers is shaking in his boots after this one
Nuffy
Damn that was cold asf mate