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Solemn Sloth posted:i'm having a zooper dooper right now, how many points do i score A several game suspension from your MCC membership
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Chairchucker posted:I still don't 'get' AFLX. 20Twenty cricket makes sense as a way to make a boring as hell sport somewhat interesting, but AFL is already fast paced enough. Agreed, the first 10 minutes of most footy games are usually the worst parts until the players find their rhythms
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At the very least it'll be entertaining to see the AFL try to explain away the obvious train wreck that AFLX is going to be.
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Periphery posted:At the very least it'll be entertaining to see the AFL try to explain away the obvious train wreck that AFLX is going to be. They'll blame it all on the players I'm sure
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Chairchucker posted:I still don't 'get' AFLX. 20Twenty cricket makes sense as a way to make a boring as hell sport somewhat interesting, but AFL is already fast paced enough. They're trying to find a way to make people give a poo poo about the preseason. It's sort of worked in that people are talking about it. It probably won't work because no-one's gonna watch that poo poo anyway.
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Chairchucker posted:I still don't 'get' AFLX. 20Twenty cricket makes sense as a way to make a boring as hell sport somewhat interesting, but AFL is already fast paced enough. It's to come up with and popularise a form of the game for overseas where they don't have large ovals and 44 skilled/interested participants.
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So the AFL are being poo poo again. https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/je...1d22-1517981243 quote:THE AFL has sent an extraordinary memo, calling for AFLW coaches to adjust their tactics this weekend in order to reduce congestion. https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/br...23daf2bbb35b935 quote:Carlton captain Davey on Wednesday said the Blues understood the AFL’s take, but declared that the players are “here to win games” and will do “whatever we need to do to get over the line for that particular game”. http://www.theage.com.au/afl/womens-afl/afl-talks-to-aflw-coaches-over-defensive-tactics-20180206-h0uxds.html http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...40c67ebca6b965d http://girlsplayfooty.com/2018/02/the-afl-has-no-respect-for-coaches-players-or-the-aflw-as-a-competition.html quote:... etc. So they've issued these 'guidelines' to follow and if they are ignored they might introduce zoning in round 3. Mid-season. Just gently caress everything up by changing rules and forcing teams to play a certain style of footy despite them recruiting a strong backline or whatever. If they introduce mid season rule changes this will also upset the results of the season since the first two games will have been played differently. Despite all of this 35 goals were kicked in round 1, 7 more than round 1 last year. drunkill fucked around with this message at 06:52 on Feb 7, 2018 |
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Feb 7, 2018 06:35
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Maybe low scoring has something to do with the fact that our new last touch rule vastly reduced the number of forward 50 stoppages? No, it’s the coaches who are wrong.
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Feb 7, 2018 06:43
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gently caress sake, why don't they just turn it fully into WWE and script matches if they want it to look and play out a really specific way.
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Feb 7, 2018 07:06
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The AFL is totally not corrupt guys
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Testekill posted:The AFL is totally not corrupt guys Imo this isn’t evidence of corruption but incompetence
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Solemn Sloth posted:Imo this isn’t evidence of corruption but incompetence That they're incompetent at corruption too
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I want to know more about this David Rath bloke and his "expertise".
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Feb 7, 2018 07:50
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The AFL do some dumb poo poo but they’re honestly one of the least corrupt sporting governing bodies I can think in Australia or otherwise. Not sure how many in here follow soccer closely but they leave the FFA for dead for example.
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That's so exceptionally loving stupid.
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King Pawn posted:That's so exceptionally loving stupid. Yet completely inline with what you'd expect from the AFL.
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15 minute quarters are one of the reasons why the scoring is garbage. You have literally half the game time of the mens league. Double that score and suddenly two of the four games have reasonable score lines.
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As was said before as well, this league is kind of 120 years younger than the male counterpart - they're not going to have everything nailed down just yet. Also AFL House is full of morons.
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Feb 7, 2018 15:18
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Nutsngum posted:15 minute quarters are one of the reasons why the scoring is garbage. You have literally half the game time of the mens league. Double that score and suddenly two of the four games have reasonable score lines. Seriously, was there any real desire from the players or coaches or teams to shorten quarters like that? Or make the footy a half size smaller? Or put in the loving idiotic boundary changes? Heavens forbid AFL House just let the girls plays the game. It'd almost be worth keeping AFLX around if they kept all the stupid rule changes confined to that and left the real matches alone.
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Feb 7, 2018 23:52
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That's bullshit from the AFL. I loving hate the way they introduce rule changes that literally change the way the game is played in order to achieve a specific outcome, which inevitably isn't what happens because that outcome isn't conducive to winning matches. Now they're just straight up telling clubs "lower your chances of winning so the game is prettier". And while I'm at it, I know I'm not the first to say it, but gently caress the last touch out of bounds rule. For the last few years I've been detailing incredibly lovely scenarios in which that leads to an unwarranted free kick and what do you know, we got to see almost all of them in the same match with Brisbane vs Crows. And it's made even worse in a league with weaker skills than the AFL mens league. They should get rid of that rule from this week forward and issue a public apology for being loving morons.
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It sure makes for a great spectacle watching a player shepherd the ball out of bounds when both they and an opponent have plenty of time to take possession, and being rewarded for it with a free kick. It's excellent when a kick to a loose forward is slightly overcooked and ends up dribbling out of bounds and a defender gets a free kick for it. Much more exciting than a stoppage ten metres from goal! I love watching a player put their body on the line in a one-on-three situation in the defensive pocket, win the ball, boot it down the line, only to have it bounce left instead of right and have a free kick result, completely nullifying their sacrifice and effort. Guess they should have booted it into the middle of the defensive 50 instead and hoped it wasn't marked by a forward! It's brilliant when a speedy player gets the ball, decides to take on a defender by running past them boundary side, handballs to the ground to avoid being tackled with the ball, and it goes left and now it's a free kick against. And it's awesome when there is a sudden turnover, the ball is kicked to your closest teammate to goal, and they look forward and realise the goals are 60m away and there are two defenders ahead of them. They can't really expect to run past them, and the goals are too far away. No point going forward because the only options are the ball goes out of bounds and it's a free kick against, or it stays in and they collect it anyway. Bad luck! Nice turnover, though! Guess you should just turn around and kick the ball backwards to a contest instead! Thanks for improving the spectacle, AFL! You loving pills. cmndstab fucked around with this message at 00:31 on Feb 8, 2018 |
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I think the shorter quarters are at least in part because they’re playing in February and are not full time professional athletes?
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Yes, although they moved a lot of games to the evening. They also reduced the length of breaks (because of the 2 mins of time on... yeah) and reduced the number of players on the bench, which could easily be reversed when quarters are back at 20min with or without time on.
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Solemn Sloth posted:I think the shorter quarters are at least in part because they’re playing in February and are not full time professional athletes? Im a oval office who can barely run on two shoddy Achiles tendons with asthma who spends fridays before the game smoking durries and drinking piss and I can still run out 4 x 25minute quarters (no time on warming the bench in the ressies mate) so that excuse is grade A dick beating. cmndstab posted:It sure makes for a great spectacle watching a player shepherd the ball out of bounds when both they and an opponent have plenty of time to take possession, and being rewarded for it with a free kick. This oval office knows whats up.
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I missed most of the discussion since I moved house last week and have finally gotten the net hooked up in the new crib. Sort of wanted to weigh in on the toots but I figured it'd attract too many mansplainers. - From what I can see most of the problem is skill and decision errors; that's not a slight on the women, it's just because with men they basically have a whole development pathway through the youth stages and train 5 days a week for most of the year, whereas before the AFLW was set up we had the women's state leagues which for the most part about on the same level as VAFA, last year's setup was actually pretty rushed with teams being thrown together and not really being given time to cohere. Give them more time to develop those skills and team plans, they'll get better for sure. It'll take a few years to get there I think - we do have to be patient. Although the Carl v Coll game was a bit rough some of the other matches seemed to be better scoring so I think we'll see a general improvement this season over last. Without any dumb directives from AFL House needed. I also reckon the time-on rules need to be the same as the men's league. Maybe still have the quarters 15 minutes, but in actual terms that'll work out to be 21-23 minutes. But they could also easily be 20 minutes without too many problems, except for broadcasters' schedules I suspect. And god the boundary rules need to be switched back to the default as well.
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Just saw that Carlton vs Western Bulldogs in round 4 is the pride game. What a loving joke that Carlton are getting it when they released a statement saying that they were going to pick sit on the fence and not pick sides.
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Testekill posted:Just saw that Carlton vs Western Bulldogs in round 4 is the pride game. What a loving joke that Carlton are getting it when they released a statement saying that they were going to pick sit on the fence and not pick sides. Should have been Carlton v melb to make it even dumber
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Testekill posted:Just saw that Carlton vs Western Bulldogs in round 4 is the pride game. What a loving joke that Carlton are getting it when they released a statement saying that they were going to pick sit on the fence and not pick sides. I guess it depends on how many gay women play for Carlton. If theyre are more then other teams it would make sense.
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Our captain is in a gay relationship with a teammate (from before they were both drafted), is yours? Also the lovely statement from the board was because they didn't get a unanimous vote (probably the old hag jeanne pratt voting no) but the team cares and pushed for this too, I guess. Anyway, gameday! Arnell has been dropped, zero touches last week and didn't run very fast. Might be carrying an injury or something who knows. It might be hard for her to get back into the side given there are no seconds to play in during the season. Dasiy Pearce wrote this good thing too: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/womens-afl/daisy-pearce-dont-wallow-in-aflw-negativity-20180208-h0vskb.html
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Daisy Pearce is cool and good. She took up a similar approach in her segment with Gerard yesterday and you could hear how frustrated she was at the AFL for fuelling this view that the comp isn’t good enough and needs intervention. I want daisy to be able to retire a premiership captain even more than I want jack Viney to
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Not on tv. Cool. Edit. Better homes and gardens, muppets, bargain hunt or wild hogs
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realbez posted:Not on tv. Cool. http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-02-09/aflw-round-two-watch-it-live
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Lightning delay at quarter time. Players are in the room, it is pissing down and then fox footy feed went to static and cut out, listening to ABC and you can hear thunder over the top of the commentary. Super wet game whwn it resumes. Fair number of people there too, some will go home I guess.
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