Rnd 3 POST GAME Discussion - North v Sturt

[robranisgod]

So Crane expects to walk off the ground straight towards the North bench, abusing a North player who has done the right thing in the opposite direction to what he should be and not cop a serve? Christ, I know I gave him a serve. Could get very ugly if players decide to start chasing other players to their opposition's bench. I'm sure Crane would be very embarrassed with his crying when he sees the tackle on replay too.
I had an awesome view of the whole thing out the front of the glass taj.
No one jumped the fence but don't let a bit of misdirected hysteria stuff up a good story.
Phil Herden made a mistake when he said that in the commentary and by the subsequent pause and then comment about a North official you could tell he realised his mistake.

Wedgie, really. As Clinch has come off the North runner with a blue compression bandage on his leg has come out to him and said something, then as Crane is walking off the runner has moved towards Crane and mouthed off at him. Only then has Crane moved towards the North bench to take issue with the runner. Maybe your clubs' onfield discipline needs to extend to your runner also. Crane has nothing to be embarrassed about mate, he's recieved the ball, turned around and been run into with a poor tackle that's collected him high. It's up to the tackler to make sure the tackle is legal, Clinch didn't, and it should've been a free to Crane. What is embarrassing is the call by some that it should be paid holding the ball! Cranes had no prior opportunity to get rid of the ball before being tackled.
More embarrassing is the North player ducking into a stationary Luke Panozzo in the last 1/4 and milking a free and the umpire falling for it. Have a better look at the footage.

Have you watched the vision yet. It was a perfect tackle around the hips where you are supposed to tackle. A clash of heads has nothing to do with it being a poor tackle. It was one of those things that happens in football.

And I agree that Shannon ducked into Panozzo. That too was a poor decision.

[CUTTERMAN]

Watched it many times and I still think its a free any day of the week. If they were both going for a loose ball and clashed heads then that's different, but its a tackle that went wrong and resulted in high contact so it's a free, end of story.
I note that you've stopped on your holding the ball nonsense though.

[robranisgod]

Watched it many times and I still think its a free any day of the week. If they were both going for a loose ball and clashed heads then that's different, but its a tackle that went wrong and resulted in high contact so it's a free, end of story.
I note that you've stopped on your holding the ball nonsense though.

Holding the ball every day of the week. He had prior opportunity he turned into the tackle, that is where the heads clashed.

As a matter of fact I showed it today to a good ex-league umpire who thought that it should have been holding the ball.

It is Crane's head that contacts Clinch's so how is it possibly a tackle that goes wrong?

It is simply a player not being aware of whose around him.

[CUTTERMAN]

YOU ARE DREAMING.
And just as well that umpire isn't out there anymore, we've got enough stooges out there already.

[The Sleeping Giant]

All I know is Crane got smashed, and it was a good day at the footy.

[robranisgod]

YOU ARE DREAMING.
And just as well that umpire isn't out there anymore, we've got enough stooges out there already.

You have obviously never played the game. I'll leave it at that. It is no good even trying to use logic with someone like you. I'll just leave the forum.

[The Sleeping Giant]

I've noticed cutterman doesn't really like the physical nature of football.

[CUTTERMAN]

YOU ARE DREAMING.
And just as well that umpire isn't out there anymore, we've got enough stooges out there already.

You have obviously never played the game. I'll leave it at that. It is no good even trying to use logic with someone like you. I'll just leave the forum.

Funny, they were my exact thought concerning you!
So many assumptions.

[The Sleeping Giant]

Geez Clinchy nailed Pearce. In Clinch's defence, Pearce was all over the place like a deer on ice.