WTB - i disagree - you said a couple of howlers by the umps wasn’t the difference. It at a time when the game was in the balance the betts howler, followed by the free and 50m pen changed the whole momentum and game and adelaid kicked away a little to give them the buffer they needed. in this game as in the essendon collingwood game, the umpires DID affect the result.
And with Naughton, as good as he was, the richmond defenders were pathetic on him, maybe too scared to give a free kick away after increased scrunity on him after Bev’s comments. Bev’s mind games obviously worked