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Quantum Shart posted:Where the gently caress did I say he was anything approaching good?! The fact that you’d take him over Titus. I really enjoy Titus’s tweets but in anything more longform I find him a harmless bore. That puts him miles ahead of an actively harmful dinosaur like Newman who knows exactly who he is hurting and decides to do it anyway.
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Quantum Shart posted:Holy gently caress you guys are deep core mining your own sphincters to get polemic on bad AFL persons yikes Sam Newman is a shitstain on humanity. Titus O'reilly is a sometimes funny, never proofreading AFL comic, with the added benefit of him being a Melbourne supporter who will suffer publicly when they Melbourne their way out of contention over the next 5 years (I'm guessing)
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Quantum Shart posted:Holy gently caress you guys are deep core mining your own sphincters to get polemic on bad AFL persons yikes  you'd really have to dig deep to find examples of Sam Newman's racism and transphobia and... he did it on the show? About football? Whoops!
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Holy poo poo are you guys seriously trying to position me as defending Sam Newman?! That's a curvier proposition than Carlisle's spine.
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Quantum Shart posted:Holy poo poo are you guys seriously trying to position me as defending Sam Newman?! That's a curvier proposition than Carlisle's spine. You're really insistent on digging your heels in here, huh? Stuck on defending a bad position and accusing everyone else of being too uptight about it... It kinda reminds me of someone....
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Quantum Shart posted:Holy poo poo are you guys seriously trying to position me as defending Sam Newman?! That's a curvier proposition than Carlisle's spine. Dude, you were the one who started it with suggesting Newman is better than Titus. Step away from this thread for a while.
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We need AFL: N/V and AFL: Game Day threads like the other sports. I'll stick to game day, cos this thread delves into political views and off-field poo poo way too much.
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Quantum Shart posted:Holy poo poo are you guys seriously trying to position me as defending Sam Newman?! That's a curvier proposition than Carlisle's spine. Quantum Shart posted:I'd take Sam over Titus tbh
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realbez posted:There’s only like ten of us though I don’t think we deserve more than one thread Yeah I don't want to have to click through multiple threads, please don't make more
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If you want just game day chat, just go to the end of the thread on a Friday morning during season proper. All we have at this time of the year are dumb arguments about footy politics, punctuated by AFLW
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My favourite soft drink is Passiona
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The only time we've spun off a thread was for the finals one year and I think most people ended up sticking in the main so it didn't really work out. I found it discombobulating myself. I don't even mind the fantasy stuff being in the main thread any more and if we can talk about that we can certainly talk about the dumb stats stuff that I do.
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https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/afl-scraps-expensive-led-screens-after-brief-trial-20190306-p5128q.htmlquote:✕ Solemn Sloth fucked around with this message at 08:10 on Mar 6, 2019 |
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Pick one up for my local club, they could use one. I bid 1$
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I propose that a club uses a mirror for their board and they then use that to direct the sun into the eyes of the opposition players. This would be inline with the AFLs dominant policy of "worst/stupidest option".
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quote:Despite the AFL spending nearly $5000 per board and waiting weeks for delivery from overseas, it’s understood the screens won’t make it to the home-and-away season, after it was found that they can’t be seen in the sun. I didn't know the Betoota Advocate was doing sports satire these days.
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Somehow I totally missed the whole "we're doing LED screens" thing until this weekend and I still haven't figured out why. What are they supposed to replace? Are runners not allowed to speak now?
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No runners on field during play. They can only come on after a goal and must be off the ground by the centrebounce.
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cmndstab posted:Somehow I totally missed the whole "we're doing LED screens" thing until this weekend and I still haven't figured out why. What are they supposed to replace? Are runners not allowed to speak now? No but if they're not allowed on the ground except after goals or whatever it might be difficult to get a message out.
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People have said its simply a matter of telling interchanging players to carry a message but that isn't going to help much if it's a forward and the coach wants to change a defensive structure. It might be asking a bit much to expect a player to take on board a bunch of instructions specific to them, and then a bunch more for their other team mates too. There might have been a handful of times across over 200 games that a runner got in the way of play and even then it is doubtful any of those incidents affected the outcome in any meaningful way so once again the AFL has come up with the solution to a question nobody was really asking.
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$5k a pop for a screen that doesn’t work lmao. Just use a whiteboard hahaha I loving love the afl
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gay picnic defence posted:People have said its simply a matter of telling interchanging players to carry a message but that isn't going to help much if it's a forward and the coach wants to change a defensive structure. It might be asking a bit much to expect a player to take on board a bunch of instructions specific to them, and then a bunch more for their other team mates too. Nah it’s good they banned runners. Teams (Sydney) were using them to block space. It happened more than once (Sydney), which is too many times.
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I'm glad they're getting rid of runners, now they just need to cut away the bounce and father son rule.
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Chairchucker posted:I'm glad they're getting rid of runners, now they just need to cut away the bounce and father son rule. Hey settle down there buddy
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Maybe I missed it, but other than the occasional "runner gets in the way of the play" thing which is usually a free kick anyway, what were runners doing that was so bad that they need to be prevented from being on the field?
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A runner killed my pa.
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Blocking/filling space. They don't have to be in the way, but being in the background of a players vision they can easily force someone to kick in another direction thinking that area isn't empty enough. It always happened during kick ins, runners standing just outside the 50m arcs filling space while slowly walking to the boundary. You don't see it much on tv but when you're sitting up high at a game you see runners dicking around all the time. Good decision to remove them. Instead of using boards (or in addition) a fix would be to remove the interchange cap and let players come off for 2 minutes for a rest and instruction.Why should the interchange be capped at 90 or whatever it is? let it be 150 and watch players get less tired when they can come off the field for awhile.
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drunkill posted:Why should the interchange be capped at 90 or whatever it is? Periphery posted:This would be inline with the AFLs dominant policy of "worst/stupidest option".
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drunkill posted:Why should the interchange be capped at 90 or whatever it is? let it be 150 and watch players get less tired when they can come off the field for awhile. The point of bringing in the interchange cap was that they wanted players more fatigued because it would result in less flooding and more open play
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racing identity posted:The point of bringing in the interchange cap was that they wanted players more fatigued because it would result in less flooding and more open play Which is also the point of the 6 6 6 rule, and the third man up rule, and a bunch more rules/reinterpretations that the coaches worked around in less than half a season because they're considerably smarter at football than anyone who has ever worked at AFL house
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Fatiguing players to stop flooding is dumb, they won't stop flooding they'll just prioritise fitness over skills when recruiting players.
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Chairchucker posted:Fatiguing players to stop flooding is dumb, they won't stop flooding they'll just prioritise fitness over skills when recruiting players. Sorry but you're overqualified to work at AFL house
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I never understood why they didn't just hand out big fines post match to teams (Sydney)
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Chairchucker posted:Fatiguing players to stop flooding is dumb, they won't stop flooding they'll just prioritise fitness over skills when recruiting players. Which means they need to put in higher training volumes during pre season which leads to more injuries which apparently means they need to shorten the preseason.
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Solemn Sloth posted:https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/afl-scraps-expensive-led-screens-after-brief-trial-20190306-p5128q.html Reminds me of the gently caress up in the NFL when Microsoft tried forcing Surface tablets down the throats of all the teams. The teams hated them and the commentators kept on calling them iPads, pissing Microsoft off even more (and probably annoying Apple as well)
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You Am I posted:Reminds me of the gently caress up in the NFL when Microsoft tried forcing Surface tablets down the throats of all the teams. The teams hated them and the commentators kept on calling them iPads, pissing Microsoft off even more (and probably annoying Apple as well) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhHjHCDrfAA
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