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All forcing set players to be in their zones at stoppages will do is make forwards/backs do loving beep tests all game every game. Sprint back to the 50, sprint back out. gently caress AFL house I'd rather take the idiotic old man 'it was better in the 70's' poo poo than these new ideas to 'fix footy'.
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 02:38 |
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All those changes are bad. Make umpires full-time professionals. Give them 100k a year and call holding the ball sooner. Hell they can do training with clubs and officiate practice matches if that helps.
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 02:54 |
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Shmoses posted:lmao he didn’t get suspended for this one you loving dunce. The only people I’ve seen crying that he should have been suspended are a couple of posters in here and the odd Melbourne fan on Twitter. You deserve Melbourne I swear I’m actually aware that he didn’t get suspended by the chook lotto, I am saying he should be, you’re saying he shouldn’t, I’m saying if he doesn’t want to get suspended maybe he should stop striking people instead of relying on the absolute incompetence of the tribunal system to get him off.
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 03:01 |
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Robodog posted:I'd rather take the idiotic old man 'it was better in the 70's' poo poo than these new ideas to 'fix footy'. Aren't those kinda two overlapping circles though? I reckon there is a collective will - from execs looking at TV ratings to footy stars of yesteryear etc etc - to exert some kind of control over something that is incalculably bigger than any one person, and a hell of a lot more complex than a year or two of rule trials make it out be. But of course, to accept this relative powerlessness and complexity would be completely at odds with the demands of the 24/7 hack footy media and various corporate concerns involved in our game. Anyway, that's my hot take.
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 03:03 |
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My hot take is the game is largely fine save minor tweaks such as the application of ruck nominations, protected area, score review, and the absolute farce that is the suspension system. Most of these could be fixed by actually resourcing the loving departments better such as full time umpires, proper cameras, playing every game in front of an empty and sound dampened arena. The types of changes they’re talking about to make the game “more attractive” will result in multiple 100 point thrashings each week as poor teams can’t defend. This will create an even more unequal competition as no one will want to go to Carlton and will seek to leave after their two year draft contract is up if they’ve managed to show enough that anyone else will take them.
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 03:10 |
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if I was CEO of a major Australian sporting league I would simply gather ex-player media figures to complain about how good football used to be and give them the power to ruin the game immeasurably without any testing whatsoever.
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 03:11 |
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Solemn Sloth posted:My hot take is the game is largely fine save minor tweaks such as the application of ruck nominations, protected area, score review, and the absolute farce that is the suspension system. YEah but more goals is more ads so gently caress you
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 03:18 |
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realbez posted:YEah but more goals is more ads so gently caress you This is really what it's about imo. The media creates a false crisis that just so happens to have a solution that incidentally benefits the media that created the crisis in the first place.
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 03:27 |
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drunkill posted:All those changes are bad. Uhhh, no. Clearly that would result in over-training and cause the umpires to become worse at their jobs!
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 03:50 |
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Solemn Sloth posted:My hot take is the game is largely fine save minor tweaks such as the application of ruck nominations, protected area, score review, and the absolute farce that is the suspension system. Seconded. I'd add the advantage rule as well but it actually results in more goals as it currently stands so it'll never be changed.
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 05:06 |
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Five words to fix football: Suburban Grounds and Duffle Coats
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 05:13 |
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Holding the man needs to be paid more, not holding the ball. If you want less congestion, protect top players from having their arms held by VFL tier top ups.
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 06:10 |
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You Am I posted:Seven words to fix football: Suburban Grounds, wide brimmed hats & Duffle Coats Agreed.
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 06:58 |
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Team prior opportunity will, if introduced, instantly become the most infuriatingly officiated rule in the game. Protected area and deliberate out of bounds have got loving nothing on that potential garbage fire.
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 08:08 |
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You Am I posted:Five words to fix football: Cheer Squad Third Quarter Raffle
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 08:30 |
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https://twitter.com/DigiSportsLabs/status/1018678616861954048 I knew those Bombers were suspect.
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 08:38 |
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I blame their PR manager, Stephen Dank Memes.
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 09:14 |
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Wait what's with the twitter purge?
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 09:16 |
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Chairchucker posted:Wait what's with the twitter purge?
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 09:18 |
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Twitter should be purged from this universe
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 09:30 |
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Daniel Howe currently arguing that the trip that broke someone's leg should be classed as "medium impact". Not even Tom Hawkins could pitch that to a tribunal of Shmoses and You Am I
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 09:49 |
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richmond is the only club to have less twitter followers than club members
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 09:50 |
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snaeksikn posted:richmond is the only club to have less twitter followers than club members Also teeth
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 10:14 |
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quote:O'Farrell suggests that a knee reconstruction, a compound fracture of the leg or a career-ending injury are examples of a higher case of impact. He says that is in no way trying to denigrate Fisher's injury. Also being struck by a meteor is a higher impact, as is the execution method used in North Korea utilising an anti-air gun, and the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 10:18 |
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Or being hit with a crow bar or an iron bar of some description
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 10:26 |
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weird defence
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 10:54 |
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realbez posted:weird defence He's trying to argue that it was medium impact, which means a fine instead of weeks
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 10:57 |
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Howe about that, 5 weeks.
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 11:09 |
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drunkill posted:Howe about that, 5 weeks. Only 3 weeks, that's added to the 2 weeks he got for punching Cripps
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 11:13 |
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drunkill posted:Howe about that, 5 weeks. You should get a job at the herald sun! 3 weeks extra is better than I thought. At least he can play if we make the finals.
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 11:20 |
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I like when players get up on the witness stand and tell a story that is immediately and easily contradicted by high definition photographs and video of the incident
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 11:26 |
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NTRabbit posted:I like when players get up on the witness stand and tell a story that is immediately and easily contradicted by high definition photographs and video of the incident Like Richard Douglas?
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 11:56 |
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Also lol James Harmes requires surgery on his hand because of a kicking in danger by Geelong which didn’t even get a free
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 12:02 |
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Solemn Sloth posted:Also lol James Harmes requires surgery on his hand because of a kicking in danger by Geelong which didn’t even get a free This happened to Jordan Lewis so no mention of it in the media https://twitter.com/gmacca1983/status/1020642915943559169?s=20
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 12:09 |
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realbez posted:This happened to Jordan Lewis so no mention of it in the media No worries, a minute left in the contest, 2 points the difference, no way would actually paying a blatant free kick in the centre circle impact the result
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 12:15 |
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NTRabbit posted:One guy, three guys, five guys, the number isn't the issue, the problem is that like everything about the AFL it's based on picking an outcome advantageous to the corporation, and then working backwards through loosely constructed systems to create the appearance of a logical forwards pathway. Nutsngum posted:You sound stressed. Perhaps this program of being blindfolded in the desert might help relieve your woes? No, NTRabbit is right about this one. It's been plainly obvious for all to see for years that the AFL, literally, decides what outcome they want from any given situation and then works backwards to find a justification for that outcome. They've done it over and over and over again for as long as I've been watching footy. You'd have to be blind to miss it.
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 12:23 |
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cmndstab posted:No, NTRabbit is right about this one. It's been plainly obvious for all to see for years that the AFL, literally, decides what outcome they want from any given situation and then works backwards to find a justification for that outcome. Yeah the match review system is pretty obviously not above board. You only have to look at the things guys have gotten off for in prelim finals to see that.
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 12:36 |
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All of these changes to alter the look of the game is just complete amateur hour, you look at all the major sporting codes around the world and just shake your head at the garbage the AFL administration come up with. Maybe the AFL could look into funding the development of KP players, masking them less of a rarity, giving every club the chance to have players that can actually put a score on the board, rather than the 18 midfielders on the ground who are all too exhausted to kick properly. By having high quality talls on the ground they're less likely to crowd the ball, see the NM Swans game the other week as a great example
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 14:16 |
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Maybe the AFL should open it's arms to foreign players instead of distancing themselves from them with the odd one slipping through to keep "the nuance of the game" from becoming unaustralian. Or just stop loving with the rules and let the game evolve on it's own, this is a product of changing the rules every SINGLE loving YEAR. It wasn't broken but, "boyoooo we really need to speed this poo poo up!"" Remember the frog vest super sub? Yeah. gently caress the AFL.
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# ? Jul 24, 2018 20:46 |
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The rule changes really strike me as employees/a department at AFL House justifying their existence
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