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What were the stats for their away games Unka?

dunno to be honest...be interesting either way i suspect

selwoods free was very soft indeed. but why did the north defenders not attempt to spoil when nic nat took his mark 5 deep? school boy stuff.

joan trieste wrote: selwoods free was very soft indeed. but why did the north defenders not attempt to spoil when nic nat took his mark 5 deep? school boy stuff.

...and why didnt they milk the clock and give a few options after that North defender took the mark with 40 secs left on the clock....DUMB FOOTBALL

UNKA2 wrote: Ohhh and on the umpires at Subi.

In their 22 home games in 2011 and 2012 the frees for and against WCE at Subiaco were :

For 531. Against 399.

30% more free kicks for West Coast over those 22 games.

....now its not as though they have been the top team over this period, so why the inbalance?????

Incompetent umpires Unk. That's why it's called home ground advantage I guess.

Interesting comments about the game - would love to talk to someone who is neutral. I was unable to watch or listen, so had to follow it on Mark McGuanes AFL.com site. He didn't seem to have a real problem with the umps being biased (he's a Victorian isn't he unk . Still, I should be able to watch in on Foxtel sometime and make up my own mind.

If anyone of you lot actually watched the incident with Selwood you will see the contact was actually made to his head, so a free was rewared & the corect decision was made.

Hey Unk im surprised you havent commented on your own game where in all the same play in the last term Krakouer firstly clearly took the ball through for a point...play on,secondly he then got tackled and imo holding the ball....no to high thirdly in the same incident way beyond his mark umpire allowed him to play on...Goal!!
You lose by a kick!!!
Guess the game wasnt at Subi and didnt involve the Eagles so not worth commenting on!

I will admit that I only watched no more than 10 minutes of the game. In that 10 minutes and it wasn't 10 contiguous minutes I saw a blatant hold of a North player without the ball on the wing. how an umpire could not see that when there were only two players within cooee of the ball and a completely unimpeded view is beyond any human's capabilities. The free kick awarded to Selwood in the last minute was indescribably soft and certainly in the context of how games are umpired these days total unjustified. With respect to the current trend of players initiating contact to their heads in my humble opinion the powers that be should deliver an edict to all clubs and players that they have four weeks to eradicate such behaviour. After that four week grace period any player indulging in such play should be suspended for one game for a first offence, and for each subsequent offence the period of suspension should be doubled to 2 games, 4 games, 8 games and 16 games for 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th offences. It is a blight on the game and is analgous to soccer's diving.

As to the more general but very salient point do the Eagles get a good run with the umpires it is an unequivocal and unambiguous yes.

As for NicNat it speaks volumes of him as a person and he still looks terrible in blue and yellow.

30years - you missed a goal Geelong got earlier in the game when Enright also didnt go back behind his mark so those decisions evened out