Opinion 2019 Non Crows - Watts love got to do with it? #pick1herewecome

[Elite Crow]

Port being kissed on it, Melbourne will be missing a few.

Torn, hate seeing Port win but Melbourne losing could help us if we are pushing for top 4.

 

[Dixie Normous]

Wow.

By the way, getting back to timeouts, how many non American sports use them?

One that I know of - Team Handball.

First played in late 19th century in Denmark. Invented by Nicolaj Ernst in 1897 in Nyborg, Denmark. In team handball, one sixty-second time-out per half per team is allowed. Time-outs are called by the head coach by handing a green time-out card to the match official, and can only be called when the team is in possession of the ball

 

[BRL121]

Typical output from the most over-rated player in the game.

McGovern lowest ranking points for either team in match: 37.

 

[Brenton Davy]

Didn't they lose both their games?

1 and 1

 

[footy4ever]

Shiel gets a fine only. I thought there was a get tough policy on deliberate gut punches.


Wait - prominent player in big Vic club. My mistake. That makes it ok.

 

[feenix67]

Volleyball and handball off the top of my head...

Edit: just googled it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-out_(sport)

Amazing that you haven't been gunned down for your obvious error... Volleyball is a sport originating in the USA

 

[Huntercrow]

Jack Watts kicked a bagful in the last pre-season. How'd that work out for him?

But Jack is an idiot.

 

[rocket18]

Port being kissed on it, Melbourne will be missing a few.

Torn, hate seeing Port win but Melbourne losing could help us if we are pushing for top 4.

Appropriate use of torn!!

 

[kirky]

Hmmm, so as a council rate payer, I'm contributing to Port.

 

[pjcrows]

Don't say that over on the Blooz board.

Overdosing on the Kool-Aid over there...

I don't need to visit their board. I see enough Blues fans in our threads!

 

[kirky]

Isn't there interchanges during a game?

Why can't messages be relayed via this medium as well as runners after goals?

Surely, players communicate with coaches whilst on the interchange.

 

[FR0GGY]

Get rid of the runners and get messages put up on the big screen from the coaches. Far more entertaining.

 

[MRB37]

Port being kissed on it, Melbourne will be missing a few.

Torn, hate seeing Port win but Melbourne losing could help us if we are pushing for top 4.

Melbourne bat pretty deep on key defenders (albeit inexperienced ones) and Dixon won't be back for Round 1 I don't think, so it's probably workable.

 

[TexForPM]

This is why we have 2 captains now.

To handle the in game instruction that runners are usually responsible for.
It's a good move.


Are we arguing that Americans invented timeouts?
They did.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

Port being kissed on it, Melbourne will be missing a few.

Torn, hate seeing Port win but Melbourne losing could help us if we are pushing for top 4.

Port don't exactly have any power forwards that would make a difference. May obviously didn't play for them last season anyway so the Demons should still be beating teams like Port at home if the they are to finish top 4.

 

[ChilliP]

Port don't exactly have any power forwards that would make a difference. May obviously didn't play for them last season anyway so the Demons should still be beating teams like Port at home if the they are to finish top 4.

Not playing for them last season is not really relevant since they essentially swapped Jesse Hogan for May and will play port with neither.

 

[the universal]

Melbourne bat pretty deep on key defenders (albeit inexperienced ones) and Dixon won't be back for Round 1 I don't think, so it's probably workable.

It's not as if Dixon is a world beater at the best of times, even less so coming back from injury.

 

[FAITH]

Look, perhaps I was too subtle:

I'm not going to spend my time feeding your weird addiction to bad faith arguments. If you want to have a prolonged dalliance around what is or isnt American, find someone else.

My arguments are never bad.

 

[tinman]

This is why we have 2 captains now.

To handle the in game instruction that runners are usually responsible for.
It's a good move.


Are we arguing that Americans invented timeouts?
They did.

Super nanny invented time outs

 

[pjcrows]

Port being kissed on it, Melbourne will be missing a few.

Torn, hate seeing Port win but Melbourne losing could help us if we are pushing for top 4.

Melbourne by 60.

 

[mattymac]

Can coaches stand on the sidelines with megaphones?

I would not be against carrier pigeons

 

[Large 1]

For all those Port supporters who continue to try and argue that the Crows should be paying 2 million dollars a year at AAMI, I just found out some interesting information during the week about Alberton Oval.

Port pay the Port Adelaide/Enfield Council around 100k a year for Alberton Oval.

The breakdown is along the lines of 20k per year for use of the oval, 40k per year for the car park area which has been converted to the Port Club and also 40k to the Council for the license to play SANFL games there.

The Council apparently do all the upkeep and maintanence on the ground which apparently costs the councils around 200k a year.

So how does football park cost 10x Alberton for upkeep? Could it be that the $2m was plucked out of someone’s arse? Or it was the running cost when football was actually played at the oval and maintenance and cleaning needed to be performed every week for 6 months (albeit with every second week being cheap as only 5 people attended the ground).

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

So how does football park cost 10x Alberton for upkeep? Could it be that the $2m was plucked out of someone’s arse? Or it was the running cost when football was actually played at the oval and maintenance and cleaning needed to be performed every week for 6 months (albeit with every second week being cheap as only 5 people attended the ground).

Maybe the cleaners were booked for decades thinking football would always be played there?

 

[Large 1]

Interesting to see the noise around runners and some players and teams wanting the old rules re-implemented. It's the younger, more inexperienced teams that will be affected more, especially when scores are tight and games are on the line. Let's see if the AFL stand their ground on this one.

What is the rules with using radios in AFL?

The players have a GPS behind their head, surely you get a GPS with abut in radio and speaker that can be used to communicate with the players, so each player can be communicated with directly. The idea of a runnier is pretty archaic.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

What is the rules with using radios in AFL?

The players have a GPS behind their head, surely you get a GPS with abut in radio and speaker that can be used to communicate with the players, so each player can be communicated with directly. The idea of a runnier is pretty archaic.

Do we really want Campo, Doc and Harty talking to our players the whole time?