could someone explain the push in the back rule to me? i mean, i know it's been shaken up recently with the hands in the back thing, and the falling forward in a tackle, but i thought they were ADDITIONS to the rule. in yesterday's game the only time a push in the back was paid was if it involved either hands in the back or the bloke falling forward in a tackle. lynchy gave grover a solid elbow in the back and grover fell forward. push in the back in my book, not in the AFL book. an eagles bloke goes for mark of the year by flattening a dockers player with a boot and drops the mark. push in the back in my book, not in the other book. these weren't the only times, but the only ones that stuck.

also, when is an incident behind the play, and when do these incidents not affect anything? josh carr was grabbed by the shirt and dragged to the ground while the eagles were running the ball up the ground. nothing. a dockers defender brushes an eagles player on the chest [at least that's what the umpire was signalling] and the ball moves from the eagle's half back flank to the eagles forward line quicker than you can say "what's that signal for?"
i thought i knew the rules, but clearly i don't.

Neither do the umpires.
They seem to be still having difficulty with
'push in the back rule'. Interpretations of it anyway.
Apparently I had heard you can push with forearm(s) which can extend to elbows which can get nasty,
and which the umps will let go.
For a while there it was like; ' they've got their money on the eagles.'
Tackling someone and falling forward (with momentum) is often
penalised as 'push in back', but then it can depend (or it would seem) on how they both land.
If I am wrong, someone else please explain.
I didn't see Josh get dragged, but then, didn't see much behind play when trying to interpret commentators lack of ........
Still would like to know about the 3 fifty metre penalties
against us. one was for mouthing off as usual.
Dunno what the other two were for.

Almost as bad as the wrestling or tusselling ( don't know why, but that word makes me squirm), like that which went on between Brad Dodd and some little Eagle bitch in the goal square right in front of us yesterday. Both players going 50/50 at it...umpire turns around, saw Dodd apparently the aggressor...Eagles player cries "he hit me"..free kick,and resultant goal, Slime. Surely umpires should learn at umpire school not to be sucked in!

when someone has the ball and is tackled and spun a full circle isnt that holding the ball,it happened to curr yesterday and play on ,last week we got pinged for the same thing three or four times ,wish they would get it right

There also seemed to be a couple of times when there was a chse for a loose ball, A docker is in front but just before he gets to the ball he is pushed right past it (pushed squarely in the back), no whistle. They would have been frees if it was a defender pushing a forward attempting to mark a ball, but because it is a loose ball on the ground in the middle of the field, it is play on. Is that correct?

I'm just happy to see One Punch is still brawling with the Egirls. Good on ya Brad, you are a legend!!!

The most blatant one was Waters attempt to mark by putting his sprigs in Chopper Mayne's back.He dropped both Chopper and the ball and it was"play on"!!

Yep that one looked pretty obvious to me. There was also a moving off the line while over the boundry line after a free kick that should have been penalised too.

and the one in the third quarter i think - where 41 for the egirls pushes 211 out of the marking contest right in front of our goals at the city end.