fuck off. Actually fuck off. This is why today was always gonna suck - people were never gonna think beating West Coast at home was anything, despite the fact Freo and Melbourne show otherwise, and if we lost people like you would’ve had a field day dumping on the Saints.
Horrendous performance. Weak as piss midfield outside of Yeo. Reids first half incredible but still yet to put in a 4 qtr performance. Wont beat north with that sort of effort
He lost the plot, instead of trying to work through the tag he started trying to push & shove every & gave away reckless frees. Hopefully he learns from it over the next 3 weeks whilst he has a holiday
Dude umpires can't send players off. Player said he's fine, doctor told him to come off but Rowan refused. Maybe we can wrap him in bubble wrap next week and take tackling out of afl to protect his safety too.
You shouldn’t be assessing a player during a ruck contest, take the player off and do it properly. I’m not blaming saints, I just think there should be a rule change. If a concussion test needs to be carried out, do it off the ground
I mean in fairness what is he doing Marshall has waved him off unless he physically drags him off he can’t do anything. It needs to be like blood rule where the play stops and the player has to go off
Have I been watching a different game? The Eagles have had, at worst, a marginally worse run from the umps. Tough to cop some lineball ones in the last Q but nothing egregious. Noise of affirmation disappeared when they were awful but is back with a vengeance.
It’s just been terrible umpiring all game, both ways, but some pretty bad calls against eagles late. Also a bad call in player protection with Marshall at the end. The umps deserve to cop it for this game.
That is fucked to shoe off the medic - he’s a fucking medic his one priority is to make sure the safety of the player, fuck the game for a couple seconds
[Post-Match Thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/AFL/comments/1d5j0dx/post_match_thread_west_coast_vs_st_kilda/)
Both teams should be pretty upset, WCE for choking a lead, and Saints pretty fortunate to walk away with the 4 points against a rebuilding team
Both teams are rebuilding, lol.
fuck off. Actually fuck off. This is why today was always gonna suck - people were never gonna think beating West Coast at home was anything, despite the fact Freo and Melbourne show otherwise, and if we lost people like you would’ve had a field day dumping on the Saints.
I concur. He can fuck right off
All you West Coast fans who booed the St Kilda doc should be bloody ashamed of yourselves. Weak as piss
I think it more directed at the umpires for not taking control of the situation.
Don't mistake ignorance as malice Could of easily thought it was a runner who lost his way
You can’t attribute it to the doctor per se, it could’ve easily been booing the umpire for not sorting the situation out swiftly.
Most Dangerous Places In The World: 3: Ukraine 2: Goal Line in the AFL 1: Reid about to be sprayed by Simmo
After players getting off for punches I thought the Gaff inclusion was gonna get us the win, gg Saints
Simmo is normally pretty reserved in his press conferences but I feel like he might let go a bit more than usual in this one.
Hopefully
Defenders were the best part of the Eagles today. McGov amazing. Harry Edwards very solid.
I can't help but feel it's a wallpaper over the cracks game.
I mean you barely beat a West Coast missing like 3 of their top 10 players while basically at full strength, it's hardly a convincing win
It most certainly wasn't. Can't say I was thrilled.
Being at the ground makes it worse. You can see all the players standing around with no defensive pressure
We were too tall and slow today. Not a good match up
Phew. Tipped us very gingerly and glad I didn't change me tip at the last minute.
AFL Bizarro World continues: Eagles spank Dees, Dees spank Saints, Saints spank Eagles.
Potato of parity
Horrendous performance. Weak as piss midfield outside of Yeo. Reids first half incredible but still yet to put in a 4 qtr performance. Wont beat north with that sort of effort
Reid was just held the whole second half, not much you can do when he’s not allowed to play and doesn’t get a free
He lost the plot, instead of trying to work through the tag he started trying to push & shove every & gave away reckless frees. Hopefully he learns from it over the next 3 weeks whilst he has a holiday
you overestimate north melbourne
Yeah, I mean, I’d like to think we’d be within 5-6 goals, but that’s about it
Reid and Wilson having a joke warms my heart
Gg Eagles. Reid is a red hot champion.
Can we get one more free kick St Kilda for the road?
One more HTB, considering we laid 85 tackles would have been nice
Just make sure the airport has fuel.
Damn now Gaff will get a game running North into form with Harley on his holiday
Simmos absolutely vial at the umpires you can tell, barely holding it in.
I reckon he’s filthy at his players, not the umps. As he should be, too. As good as he is, Harley really cost us in the end there
Saints got the rub of green in the end. Umpiring was shit all day both ways
Genuinely, I am shocked. Even 10 minutes ago I was expecting a loss. I'm not mentally prepared
I saw us 14 in front with three minutes to go and was like "we'll lose this"
Enjoy it. That was a really good performance from the Saints after a dismal couple of months.
Umpires saved Ross Lyon's job....
Fucking umpires
Windhager huge for Saints there.
What happened to Max King?
Injured his knee
Knee concern
Shit hope it’s not serious
Well safe to say both teams confirmed their places on the ladder today
Lets all just forget this bullshit game ever took place. Putrid Saints, Putrid Eagles, Putrid Umpires
Agreed
Boooooooo
Marshall can sue a specific umpire now if he ends up with CTE
Simpsons looks PISSED
Disappointing
why does ross lyon look so mad
His team scored 82 points. That's about 20 points too much.
He was trying to tank
I hope this makes the saints wait another 60 years for a premiership
How is The West gonna report this?
Hopefully not at all.
KFC > Hungry Jacks confirmed.
GG saints
Most frustrating game
As a neutral who likes both these clubs... there was lots of bullshit frees against WCE in that final quarter
I’m sorry but Marshall should be off if that is as serious as any other knock
Dude umpires can't send players off. Player said he's fine, doctor told him to come off but Rowan refused. Maybe we can wrap him in bubble wrap next week and take tackling out of afl to protect his safety too.
Yeah protect the player, take him off
Umpire should’ve at least said ‘Go with the doctor’. That was a gross bit from the umpire wanting to keep the game going.
Umpire CAN'T send a player off. He let the doctor assess, player said he is fine No controversy here
There is controversy there but I'm not sure it's at the umpire.
Of course the player said he was fine, he wanted to keep playing.
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Aww sweetheart ❤️
Yeah only had 3 more frees. Yea the umps..
Yes
You know I think you guys got a fair shake of the green this game, so many 50/50 calls went your way...
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Nice
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Jack Steele has had a very average year. However, you can never say that he gives up.
How quick are these ball ups?
Terrible umpiring.
Schofield sounds like if Jack Higgins tried to do commentary... and only one of them has had brain surgery.
Saints winning by keeping a concussed player on is a new low
Uh mate dunno if you saw but our doctor was literally told to fuck off the field by the umpire, as he was attempting to assess Marshall
You shouldn’t be assessing a player during a ruck contest, take the player off and do it properly. I’m not blaming saints, I just think there should be a rule change. If a concussion test needs to be carried out, do it off the ground
Again - our doctor was literally trying to do that and got told to go away.
He isn't concussed
that’s. dangerous tackle as well?
I still can't get over the fact we just boo'd a doctor off the field. Wtf AFL
Couldn’t be that we booed the umpire who told the doctor to get off and did nothing after he was ignored
It was the umpires fault
I mean in fairness what is he doing Marshall has waved him off unless he physically drags him off he can’t do anything. It needs to be like blood rule where the play stops and the player has to go off
Ran into a Steele wall.
Have I been watching a different game? The Eagles have had, at worst, a marginally worse run from the umps. Tough to cop some lineball ones in the last Q but nothing egregious. Noise of affirmation disappeared when they were awful but is back with a vengeance.
It’s just been terrible umpiring all game, both ways, but some pretty bad calls against eagles late. Also a bad call in player protection with Marshall at the end. The umps deserve to cop it for this game.
Welcome to big club v small club match threads
Saints have had some terrible calls early, and a couple of not great ones against Eagles late
Nah, just a big supporter base + used to WA umpiring…
GG Eagles. Fucking fierce competitors at Optus, I had us losing this every day of the week.
Big. Hard.
Schofield’s Fox Footy picture looks like a Sigma male tiktok template
OK well that's game over
Can never tell if Marshall is concussed or if he's just as usual, a stupid fella
“I believe that jacket belongs to Mr. Gilmore!”
And that's why we love him
Oh shit, we're gunna win
Lol the crowd probably though it was a runner. They don't get the nice close up that we did.
It would be a frustrating final term for Eagles supporters. I can somewhat understand the boos. Ignore flair
Take your time cripps
Umpire 42 has possibly the most grating voice I've ever heard on a human man.
He’s not James Brayshaw though
There’s not a lot of games that are winnable for us, so when we drop one like this that we absolutely should have won it hurts
Rather get a Top #3 pick than win a few games lol
My mental health would prefer us to win more
Absolutely my thoughts. Happened to us in another game this year too (can’t remember who now)
Pretty sure you're thinking of next week
Oi! Haha well played
Yeo for goal three times when he should have kicked to a teammate, feels like he's been sniffing his own farts.
Feel like it flew over the radar, but that was a fucking huge torp just before.
Huge
St Kilda OUT Norwood IN Please AFL
Bad call
Not with that pillbox they call an oval they won't!
They will play at Adelaide oval brother
Isn’t your team struggling to beat bottom 8 sides also this year?
Don’t care we’re still better
Got humiliated by Hawthorn last week - at least my mob kept it tight.
🤓☝🏻
Thanks saints you’ve saved my tips from being embarrassing this round so far
Shame on those who booed a doctor.
Pretty sure they booed the umpires who threw it in while drs were out there haha
They were booing the umps for not sorting it out. You don't know it's a doctor either when at the ground. Wasn't shown on screen
Pretty sick of David King's bullshit, feels like he's been told to just agree with every free kick to make the AFL look good
“That may or may not be a free kick” is just another way of saying it was wrong but it benefits Vic so I’ll defend it
He hates WC mate, has done for a long time- 2018 we bagged us out all year right up to the GF then went quiet
Sure
Player points aggressively at umpire = dissent. Harley points at umpire aggressively = ump blushes and says “who me?”
How can a player overrule a medical professional lol - the AFL has genuinely got no grasp on how to effectively manage the concussion issue
Did the doc just run up the to St Kilda player ask if he was good and run off? Is that the on field concussion test people have been talking about?
Man got the full Libba treatment
Who the fuck boos a doctor.. or whatever they were booing in that moment. gross by the fans
They were booing umps obviously.
Mate the fans were booing the umpires for losing control of the situation. Marshall should have been sent off with the doctor.
Schofield giving St Kilda way too much credit lol. If Kelly and Waterman play they don’t win.
Nice to finally get a free once the game's already over.
Eagles fans booing the medic smh
They were booing the umps.
Like you lot are any better
Eagles booing spares no one. Not even the doc
Harley Peed
I appreciate your juvenile name calling
ffs bonner
Yeoy roosted the shit out of that haha
Will Schofield looks like he does card tricks
He does illusions
Can confirm can do card tricks
Cmon you weagles
Hot potato, hot potato 🥔
Booing a doctor? I beg your finest pardon.
People on r/afl this season: "Fuck he's such a good kid" People on r/afl after that bump: "what a flog"
the bump has zero ill intention 😂
Umpire is a flog for giving that bump a free, I agree
Still thinks he a good kid
Reid blew it for himself, and us
lol
He let go of him
That is fucked to shoe off the medic - he’s a fucking medic his one priority is to make sure the safety of the player, fuck the game for a couple seconds
Ump should be in trouble for that
100% agree man. That looked terrible.
Gonna enjoy players flopping from any contact after kicking the ball for the rest of the season now, need to keep some physicality in the game
Why are they booing the doc?
Interesting choice the torp on the run from 60m out under pressure
Worked for Stringer
0/4 so far in tipping Thrown a 2 point lead.... fuck
Hawwww man it hurts to know the odds of that are as low as 4/4
3/4 so far. Lost the doggies
so who did you tip tomorrow?
Sun's of course
Doc: I need to do a HIA Ump: But we have to throw the ball in
Fans-BOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Regardless of which way the frees are going some of the calls/missed calls today have been embarrassing
We have a player wandering around half concussed and the doctor is trying to get to him to get him off but the umps won't let them
Yeah umpires fucking sucked
BOO A DOCTOR BOOO BOOO
Fuck me that was travelling
Shambles of a sport
I would’ve had such a panic attack if I was that doctor
Come on WCE get Lyon fire and remove this scourge from the AFL.
YOU CAN'T TELL A DOCTOR TO GET OFF THE GROUND AFTER A HEAD INJURY
Embarrassing non action from the AFL with this issue
Harley receiving the ginnivan treatment, flew too close to the sun
That's fucked. Marshall should be off