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Fremantle players leave the field the AFL Round 03 match between the Fremantle Dockers and the Adelaide Crows at Subiaco. Slattery Images
The first lesson is that AFL should stop playing the man. For some reason entirely beyond me, you go years without hearing about umpire contact, and then suddenly there are a whole clump of incidents.
The AFL horribly botched the Greg Williams episode and have fumbled their way through the issue ever since.
If a player is guilty of physical contact (striking) with an umpire, he should be banned for life. Either the player is guilty or he isn’t.
A week’s ban and fine is neither here nor there, and doesn’t really serve any purpose whatsoever.
Sport is contested between Team A and Team B – it shouldn’t be influenced by external factors such as one team being penalized because one of its players accidently ran into the path of an umpire.
Carlton took its case all the way to the Supreme Court. The AFL should be wary of raising the ire of Eddie.
Cream has Risen
Even at this early stage of the season, Geelong, St Kilda and the Bulldogs look like the teams to beat. Who will join them in the top four? Can anyone displace them from the top four?
Freo – Oh Oh
It seems popular to be bashing the Dockers, so if you can’t beat them, join them.
Simply put, they are a massive waste of their potential. If they were totally uncompetitive, no one would have expectations. But they fought back terrifically against the Crows, only to lose it at the end.
Close heart-breaking losses seem to be their specialty.
Their drafting history can bring you to tears. Their latest ignominy is moving heaven and earth to bring Trent Croad to Subiaco, only for him to leave after two years and win a premiership medal with Hawthorn.
They are in danger of quickly becoming an irrelevance and the biggest joke of a team in Australian professional sport.
How long? A very long time in Football
North Melbourne will be thrilled to have this week behind them. The kerfuffle which was Chickengate culminated in them losing to Hawthorn, making it two successive losses for the Kangas.
It’s one of those ironies of sport in today’s day and age that you can’t attract publicity when you are trying to promote something good, but when something bad happens, everywhere you turn there is a camera.
North gained more column inches last week than they did in the whole of last year.
D-Day looms for Richmond
At this stage of the season you can either look a lot worst or better than you are depending on the draw you’ve been given.
Hawthorn are an example of the former, Port the latter.
There are no two ways about it; the eyes of the football world will be on the Richmond-Melbourne match this weekend to see how the Tigers do.
This is Terry Wallace’s Grand Final. If they lose to what is the worst team in the competition, Wallace’s position will surely become untenable.
That’s if it wasn’t already.
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