AFL failed with an inadequate ban for Richmond Tigers Noah Balta; The referee’s error did not skirt the crows of Adelaide against the Gold Coast Suns

If Balta had committed the same act against someone on a football field instead of outside a pub, the court would have banned him for half a season. The fact that this assault took place outside of a pub on a concrete driveway should be a non -mitigating aggravating factor.

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“Your honor can see that (the victim) becomes completely in flight and travels one meter or a meter and a half,” the prosecutor Jason Tozer told the court.

“It is only pure luck that his head has not made contact with that cement.”

Last week, the head of the FL Andrew Dillon said that the AFL did not stop before Balta’s sentence. “We worked with Richmond and we are comfortable with the suspensions and suspensions that Noah served … we are comfortable with the point where Richmond landed on that,” said Dillon.

Maybe they are just players that the AFL worries.

Forget which penalty in the end impose the courts, the AFL had the opportunity to show the leadership here and has failed sadly. Balta’s suspension should have been extended.

Rankine error not the difference

Izaak Rankine should have been paid in the last minute of Adelaide’s match against Gold Coast, or a free kick to have been faced before while marked the ball. It was one or the other. AFL admitted that the UMP made a mistake.

Most likely Rankine would have scored something from a kick from that point close to the border. Given his ability and knowledge of the ground (like ex sun), it would probably have been a goal, but also a point would have leveled with a minute.

Of course, the memories will immediately blackmail on the seat two years ago that the AFL also admitted that later it was a mistake that cost Adelaide a victory against Sydney, who, in turn, cost them a place in the final.

But before someone becomes too conspiratory for the injustice of the great Adelaide, he considers the moment in the second quarter when a punishment kick should have been absolutely paid against Mark Keane by Adelaide for launching the ball to Jake Soligo at the top of the Gold Square Gold of the Gold Coast. It was a clearer error than Rankine moment. The Suns would certainly have kicked a goal.

Gold Coast clearly had the best on refereeing calls of the day, but to dwell on this or Rankine’s decision fails the point.

Gold Coast had six more shots on the goal, and seven others inside the 1950s in what has not so far been the best game of the year, it was a window on two teams that, even at the beginning of the season, seem very likely to play end. It is tempting to say that they will surely play finals, but this is Gold Coast, so we cool our jets.

This game was the first taste of the ending of the finals. There was a period in the third quarter in which the pressure evaluation for both teams was in the red area, well above 220 (and not, not asking for a definition of evaluation, but the rankings have been accurate for some time what the naked eye tells you in the games).

It is rare that both teams are going to that level. There was no time or space in this game.

Gold Coast has been able to win despite having lost the authorization number, which is rare for them. Most of them, they could do it because the arrival of Dan Rioli and John Noble gave them the race and creativity that provided different ways to win the games.

Adelaide was excellent around the ball. Rankine had 10 authorizations on their own, who were more than Rowell and Noah Anderson, while continuing his development from a small midfielder who hits the pinch to a half that sometimes rolls forward.

The crows have significantly improved for Isaac Cumming, James Peatling and Alex Neal-Bullen, but their greatest change compared to last year is the return of Riley Thilthorpe. Last year injured, he returned stronger and better. His return makes the crows forward the best of the FL.

His verbal comparison with Mac Andrew, who began in the last minute and continued after the siren, has done for the theater and will add spices in the round 19 when these teams play each other.

Thilthorpe got the better of the day, but Andrew won the most critical last minute marking race and his team won the day. And Andrew made it known.

The siren should have been the stop of the garbage speech, but it seems that it is no longer the case of football these days, as Ken Hinkley showed in the final series of last year.

These two fighters will play each other for the next decade. There will be enough time for Thilthorpe to get his answer.

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In a sense, even if Gold Coast won, the forward crows have given a pointer where the Suns forward Jed Walter and Ethan Read will be two more years.

This was the best game of Walter, more for the five brands and the presence he had compared to the three goals he kicked. But he is still only mentioning the player who could be. While reading has a huge potential, it is further back than Walter.

On the contrary, Thilthorpe is showing himself within the week among the most dominant great attackers of the game, even if Jesse Hogan has offered a small reminder Sunday afternoon that there is still an order of cobblestone among the strength.

The saints impress, the alarm of the door

The meaning of Sunday’s victory over Port Adelaide cannot be overrated for St Kilda.

Cesipiti in Adelaide in the opening round, now they have won three games in a row. Previously, they had won only three of the last 19 games in Adelaide Oval, where their average loss margin was 45 points.

And Port had won 14 of the last 15 against the saints.

They scored nine goals in the first half and led by five goals when Port came to them. Suddenly, it seemed that the saints had lost the ability to score, and it would not have been surprising if the momentum had taken them in the last quarter. But the saints showed maturity to close the demons of history.

Without Max King they had an honest race from Mason Wood. Mitch Owens was intelligent and Jack Higgins is just an intelligent footballer who always seems to find the right points.

Although the victory was significant for the saints, the meaning of the defeat was alarming for the port. They were second at the end of the last season at home and in line, but now I am absolutely drifting.

Just two months ago, they launched St Kilda in the pre-stage. How is their succession plan now?

Hard love for the debutant Eagles

It seemed the moment, in 2006, when Alastair Clarkson, then coaching Hawthorn, left the defender inexperienced Zac Dawson on Anthony Rocca of Collingwood and the great country pushed him around and scored eight goals.

Sunday, the GWS Coleman Jesse Hogan medal kicked nine … in a debutant.

“I thought Sandy Brock had really defended herself quite well, but their class, the supply and her talent were a bit too much for us sometimes,” said the West Coast Coast Andrew Mcqualter.

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“You could put Stephen Silvagni on him in the backline, and he would still have kicked some of them today.”

It was a hellish debut.

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