In the scheme of things, losing a GF is no more prestigious than losing a Prelim. Unless I’ve missed them I don’t see too many losing GF reunions.
Westerns had a 20 year, Prelim reunion last year or the year before.
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In the scheme of things, losing a GF is no more prestigious than losing a Prelim. Unless I’ve missed them I don’t see too many losing GF reunions.
I agree with you. The only thing about making a GF is that you get an extra week of excitement and hope and dreams of glory.
After that it's all gone. As a supporter losing a GF feels 1000 times worse than losing a PF.
My previous post was just an ironic joke
Westerns had a 20 year, Prelim reunion last year or the year before.
Yes we didDid we dodge a bullet by Carlton taking Dow?
The kid has jets, but plays like a chook with its head cut off.
Looks like Atley Mk2
The persistent f***ing around with the rules of the game and the way in which coaches coach the game is irrevocably changing the game.
What's happened is coaches have realised that the most effective structure is to defend an 80m box around the ball. And as Rick said in his latest piece, that the best source of scores is turnovers, the closer to your goal the better. The counter to all that is a low risk possession game in the dangerous areas of the ground. Which gives the team without the ball even more time to zone up. And the cycle continues. 6-6-6 is just like any other rule change - a few weeks of chaos before it gets worked out.The persistent f***ing around with the rules of the game and the way in which coaches coach the game is irrevocably changing the game.
Scores are trending downwards. Umpire involvement seems move prevalent than ever before. Players get no where near 100 goals a year anymore.
No mate.
No, no, no, no, no.
It's the other way around.
The coaches ****ed up the game resulting in a majority of the rule changes.
The AFL are responsible for the OH&S, and heightened penalising that comes with the disneyfication of the product.
I have put some thought in to the way the 6-6-6 rule has failed it's intended purpose, and I have concluded that due to the superior fitness and regimented tactical approaches to the modern game, nothing short of radical change can fix it.
Do you want to see something approaching football in it's purest form? Then you're going to have to do something along the lines of removing the half forward and half back flanks from the field altogether, and having 14 men on the field (4-6-4).
What was the intent of the 666 rule change?
To ease congestion and, I believe, lead to higher scoring.
It's marginal in the first and an abysmal failure in the second.
10 years ago the first 4 rounds saw 100 points kicked by a side 29 times.
The first 4 rounds of this year and that has happened 13 times. This is with an additional game a round.
The persistent f***ing around with the rules of the game and the way in which coaches coach the game is irrevocably changing the game.
Scores are trending downwards. Umpire involvement seems move prevalent than ever before. Players get no where near 100 goals a year anymore.
We don't have state of origin under some premise of player safety. Yet we have whatever the f*** AFLX is.
Fantasy football impacts the way that people who are actually invested in the game view it. The purpose of fantasy football broadly is to get people to watch more games as it ups the investment factor in the games being played.
The football media is full of ill informed leeches, that chase ambulances and impact footballers lives looking for a story.
Football was a sport.
Football is consistently becoming less sport and more sports entertainment. With the ideal behind it shifting to simply be, separate fans from their money, everything else is secondary.
The state of the game is shocking.
Maybe I'm just old, but I mean I'm only 38.
I don't get Stewy Dew. If zombies were around he wouldn't get eaten because evolution avoids the sick and dying. Make no mistake about it - Dew is obese at needs to lose weight or risk a premature death.I hear the Suns warm up by running laps around Stewie
Agreed. You should always dig your boots in when it comes to the opposing 17 clubs.Yep, it's going to happen one day. Until it does though, I'm happy to dig in the boots.
Yep 100%. It's made the game worse. Soft, over officiated, and now teams play keepy-off to avoid turn overs. It looks horrible. Worse than Malthouse's 2010's style of sticking to the boundaries.What's happened is coaches have realised that the most effective structure is to defend an 80m box around the ball. And as Rick said in his latest piece, that the best source of scores is turnovers, the closer to your goal the better. The counter to all that is a low risk possession game in the dangerous areas of the ground. Which gives the team without the ball even more time to zone up. And the cycle continues. 6-6-6 is just like any other rule change - a few weeks of chaos before it gets worked out.
What's happened is coaches have realised that the most effective structure is to defend an 80m box around the ball. And as Rick said in his latest piece, that the best source of scores is turnovers, the closer to your goal the better. The counter to all that is a low risk possession game in the dangerous areas of the ground. Which gives the team without the ball even more time to zone up. And the cycle continues. 6-6-6 is just like any other rule change - a few weeks of chaos before it gets worked out.
I was thinking about this last night but only went as far as removing one back/forward flank combo at first (or one player out of the middle, perhaps the centreman) then another after a decade if things went the way they were.
So down to 17 on the field then eventually down to 16.
Or else remove the interchange and go back to the reserve system we used to play with as kids/in the 70s. Or at least cut the number of interchanges back to under 50.
The VFA did 16 on the field in the 80s and the AFLW does it. It didn't lead to higher scoring/less congestion in the long term in the VFA, and the women's game is different enough that it's hard to use as a comparison.So down to 17 on the field then eventually down to 16.
The point is, you funny peeps are currently poking s**t at the bums across the road from your very own cardboard box FFS and it's a really piss poor look. You seem to have been Brad-washed into think we've done something of note the last ten odd ******* years.
Coaches are so fixated on being low risk that whatever the rule change, they will find a way to ne even more low risk.The VFA did 16 on the field in the 80s and the AFLW does it. It didn't lead to higher scoring/less congestion in the long term in the VFA, and the women's game is different enough that it's hard to use as a comparison.
BUT ...
If I'm coaching 16-a-side I'm sacrificing structure away from the ball long before numbers at the contest. Less outlets = potentially even more congestion especially with the fitness of modern midfielders.
Would take Scott, Thomas & LDU anyday over Dow & Rayner.
Nek minnet , Rayner kicks an absolute beauty. He will be a beast if he gets his tank up.
Are they ever!The Lions are getting reamed by the umpires