Recent content by Bender571

I don't remember that specific situation, so I can't comment on it, but what you've described isn't necessarily bad. If he doesn't give the hand pass he's given up his prior opportunity and is now vulnerable to giving away a free kick for holding the ball. Handballing to a player under pressure...

Draper has only 4 turnovers this year. He has the lowest turnover average of every Dockers player this year, with 0.57 per game.

But the whistle was before the siren.

They're also the only team to beat Sydney this year. They're a lot better than their ladder position. If they can sort out their injuries I expect that they will cause some upsets later in the year.

Brayshaw loves squeezing a goal through, but hate running into goal

Umps are lifting

Cop that you grub

How many throws are they allowed?

Not like for like but I'd probably bring in Wagner as well, and shuffle the other defenders.

That was actually good that they didn't blaze. Every other kick would have been cut off

"about ******* time" isn't decent????

Should be 13 days. They started round 3 on a Saturday. Plus they had back to back Adelaide games.

They're also the only opponent Port have played against this year that has won a final in the last 4 seasons

With two and a half minutes to go in the third quarter of this Saints game the saints got a free kick then there was a grubby kick forward. The umpire waited 5 seconds to see if the kick would be to the Saints advantage before calling it back. Much more generous than the Aish kick.

I have a feeling that the most annoying thing about the game will be the cover up. I expect that neither the AFL or the media will show the down the ground footage that shows the ball bouncing off Aish, and then subsequently say that the umpires got that wrong and should have called it. I also...