R20 vs Adelaide | Sat 7 Mar | NOW 5:00pm | Bellevue Gardens Hotel

and the loss was that BS game where we fought like demons and had some tough calls go against us. I was thinking (after I calmed down) and watched other games there too, how hard Hindmarsh is for everyone to go to, including the refs. And I think yesterday that the Hutt Rec was that difficult for Adelaide. Unfortunately, it can't have been much fun in the cold and rain for everyone else either! But it looked ok on tele...

I do enjoy the stadium when I've come down, it has a good atmosphere and is comfortable, but if it means the club makes some money...

We play every team three times in the regular season yeah? So we've got the wood over Adelaide this season and in some real style too.

And it wasn't a "can of beer" it was an empty (or so close to it that it was immaterial) beer can" - I'd just taken the last swig from it - at most there was a fraction of a mouthful left in the bottom... that's why it floated in the wind.

I can understand why he was agitated. From his point of view he would have had no idea that it wasn't thrown intentionally. The first he knew a can came in through the hatch and he looked up and we were all reacting by laughing and saying "Holy shark, did you see that!? It went IN the caravan hatch!" ...like you would when a 1 in a million thing like that happened. 

But to him it probably looked like we were celebrating and that we had therefore tried to lob a can in there.

Then later...

I admit I shouldn't have got fed up with the guy and thrown the second can towards him. 

BUT he'd been standing on the grass between the caravan and the grandstand yelling homophobic abuse, and threatening that he and his mate was going to fudge me up at the end of the game, repeatedly saying "Come down here you pussy and I'll fudging smash you!" for over 5 minutes. He was just going on and on and on... it had got really tiresome, and I had had enough of his carrying on and I snapped.

Not my finest moment there. Luckily I am a useless shot from 12 metres, in the wind, and it missed him.

off topic, but Tegal, how do you manage to have 2 active profile pics?

yeah I have no idea. Very odd. I changed it to the bottom picture a while back, but the old one shows up half the time. 

In match news.

I was impressed by how Boxall and in particular Fenton went.

I thought the back 4 were really good, and Riera in front of them was spectacular - especially in the first 25 minutes where he was a monster.

But I thout Louis Fenton deserves a big round of applause for his efforts at LB.

... AND for his pass from the byline which set up the first goal. Epic.

Illumianti.

illuminati per favor

Dunno.... judging by the pix more like 60W at the most   ... (joke)

Had Adelaide scored in the first half (when they looked more threatening) it might have ended up like THAT game at Hindmarsh we lost in the dying seconds. My guess is that Ernie has worked the guys hard on endurance fitness. And possibly Adelaide guys were not used to the conditions, much like our February 3:2 loss in Brisbane in high humidity.

That's because the lighting at the Rec isn't up to scratch (sh!t joke).

So did anyone show up at the originally scheduled time and get a shock when the game was almost over?

How the hell did Boogarde not get sent?

Was all studs up in my replay....but selective ref decisions...who'd have thought,eh??  ;)

Cos Ben Williams

nah don't think it can be cos Leggy said he was having a great game

Get your facts right. That was at half time.

Turns out all is well with the world. Cappy picked up the flags and banners near the front door and put them with the rest of the fever flags and banners by the kitchen. Yay. Thanks Cappy.

Chiaroscuro?

Say we were top of the league, say we were top of the league...

Saturday in Perth! What a prospect!

Thinking of taking out a second mortgage to back Perth and the draw just to ensure the result.

sorry, sir. My facts stand up...but the inferences were a little unclear...I guess I must have been trolling. bah.

Great idea, everyone put a tenner on perth to win....

2ndbest who is the dude infront of you with premature shirts off? Poor form

no idea.

you should have taken responsibility to control him like I did with an overly enthusiastic first timer visiting from London. Cappy seems a bit sluggish to get his off too.

So JG was called offside here when he is off the pitch Hmm (scored off free kick anyway)

Right-click on the image, and select "view image if, like me, you can't see Joel in the pic Feverish posted above (he's on the right, outsidfe the forum width in my Firefox browser).

Edit: Nevermind, he resized it.

Yeah i noticed this too, but then it got me thinking on how well i know the offside rule. Do you even need to be on the pitch? Would be so easy to blatantly exploit. ie. hang well offside off the field and wait for someone to roll a ball through for you to intercept. 1v1's all day. Surely thats offside?

Where's Chris Kerr when you need him?

Likewise you could stand behind the goal line and try beat the keeper out to any ball that comes his way

Good Green being a bad Green.

It was Good Green.

Dale should know as he gave him a pinkie for it, which he retalliated for at the final whistle.

News's memory > mine

Its as per normal offside rules once he gets involved then he is offside even coming in from off the field of play, interestingly A defender on goal line can not cross the goal line to force an attacker to be offside the player is still judged to be onside even with the defender "off" the field.

Fixed.

What Rori says is correct. Being off the pitch as an attacker or defender does not remove you from the offside equation.

Makes sense.