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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?

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.

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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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.

Cant believe Crowley didnt get off, what a joke.
I think I could be Anchorman, just a little

HAHA,
Harvey was pinched 300 times!!!
Maybe Crowley was smitten on him.