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I was at the game, my mate would have loved to use his membership to go but he's undergoing intensive chemo treatment for blood cancer and wasn't up to going. More on topic regarding Giants stadium, I found the reserving of a seat frustrating because it didn't give me any opportunity to choose...

How so? Did you actually read the proposal or just react to an idea you don't agree with?

Here's how I'd do it: Split competition into 3 sections with 6 teams each, then divide each section into 2 groups of 3 teams. Each team plays the other teams in their section H&A, for 10 games, one group from each other section just H and the other group from each other section only A. The...

Goals With Style is my team.

This would make alternating non-sectional teams H then A across seasons much more difficult and doesn't ensure teams play each other at least 5xA and 5xH every eight seasons, and the off-field equity benefits that flow from doing so. Under the system I suggest you know years in advance. Moving...

How would you feel if your team made the finals having played double ups against 5 other finalist only to have a team finish above you that played the last 5 teams on the table? Is that fair? Reasonable? Acceptable? What if you finished on equal points? With less than 5% difference? Sure, its...

Kayo Sports is a wholly owned subsidiary of Foxtel, offering everything currently available on Foxtel, seemingly including AFL and NRL on screens below less than 7 inches. So, how is that going to work? Doesn't the 'tel' in Foxtel refer to Telstra? Or, did they sell their share?

The Cricket Australia app just asked for a Kayo Sports log in to watch the WBBL match, I wonder whether the AFL app will too? No buffering issue with Cricket Australia app, about 5 secs behind live TV coverage. On the same TV box having chronic buffering issues trying to watch through Opera...

The general context of my statement is merely a change in the current scheduling to a set rotating conference system. For me it would see each team play each other team H&A 5 times over 8 seasons and non-Victorian team interstate on an alternating basis. This was a reply to a 'No hope'...

No change of teams in involved for what I'm suggesting.

It took the VFL 45 years to re-balance the schedule after 3 teams were introduced in 1925 to take it to 12 teams, so I still hold out hope, eventually, something might be done. No doubt it will take a significant change in AFL hierarchy thinking, of course the AFL was born out of financial...

Spot on! That's pretty much the system I would like to see adopted. Each team plays every non-paired team 5 times H&A over two cycles (8 years), alternating H & A in non-divisional years.

Highly unlikely, especially if you have rolling rather than set divisions. This is the only real argument against divisions, the simple solution is a Divisions Table, all inter-divisional matches are added to the division of the teams involved in the same as each team on their divisional table...

You're probably right, unless someones looking for cheap, big bodied, mature defender depth. Injury played a part, did his ACL in 2014, then again in 2015 and by the time he recovered others had taken his spot.

Should a team that plays double ups against the teams finishing 14-18 have a higher ranking going into the finals than a team that doubles up against 5 top 8 teams? Even when they end finish on equal points? When there is less than 10 % diff? That's the extreme example of the unfairness of the...

Can you give me an example of what you mean? The McIntyre Final 8 system was specifically designed to ensure all GF combinations were possible at the finals start of the finals series, i.e. 1v8 can be the GF, even though they play in week 1 of thew finals, similar isn't possible under the...

I think the fairest first week of finals is the previous: QF1: 4v5 QF2: 3v6 QF3: 2v7 QF4: 1v8 Especially considering the finals rankings are based on unbalanced schedules and positions are often decided on %ages. Of course the unbalance schedule, where no two teams play the same schedule...

Subs were originally brought in to reduce the disadvantage, subs becoming interchanges increased the disadvantage again, more so as interchange use escalated. So, one interchange became purely a sub, but some didn't like limitations associated with a sub. I think the best compromise solution...

To get more you need to give more. The AFL love bragging about having the biggest TV deal, and they're not likely to give it up easily, so they're going to have to keep giving more. Internet advertising is eating into TV revenue, meaning even more is likely to be needed.

Was it a throw? Yes. Was it illegal? No, because he didn't use the throw itself to dispose of the ball. A different story if he didn't touch the ball it touched anything else. It is only illegal to throw the ball if it is done to dispose of the football. Although I agree that finishing...

I prefer the idea of a hybrid bench, I think its has a bit for everyone. 22 players still selected for match, at the start of each quarter 2 bench players are nominated as interchange, and the other 2 becoming substitutes. Only the 2 interchange nominated players can be used for interchange...

I believe the following law would make it illegal, because it is a form of lifting. 15.11 FREE KICKS – GENERALLY 15.11.1 When Awarded A Free Kick shall be awarded against a Player or a Team where the field Umpire is of the opinion that: ... (c) a Player has lifted a Player or climbed on the...

Discouraging players from contesting for the ball in the air, one of the most fundamental parts of Australian rules, doesn't sound like the right way to go. Making a contest to at least get the ball to ground, is often talked up these days. All the defenders need to do is tap it down and they...

Precisely why the rules need to be changed to make forcing a stoppage much more difficult. The relative ease of forcing a stoppage is at the heart of the congestion issue. Grab the ball as you're being tackled, easy stoppage.

Well deserved. Definitely a significant addition to our defensive structures. We've gone 5 from 6 with him in, and I don't think that's a coincidence. Hopefully has a long and distinguished career with GWS.

I believe the rule was brought in after a player did climb onto his team mate's shoulders for an after the siren shot a goal, I can vaguely remember seeing footage of it.

Murder = intentionally killing somebody and has the highest possible penalty Attempted murder = trying to kill somebody but failing has the middle possible penalty Manslaughter = killing somebody without intending to do so and has the lowest possible penalty In both murder and manslaughter...

While the outcome does impact sentence, intent is the larger factor: murder sentence > attempted murder > manslaughter.

Jezza (The Other) to replace Jezza. His player bio describes him as: "A tall forward who can play deep in attack where he can be difficult to stop with his strong marking ability. Is athletic and balanced but also possesses a high degree of mobility away from goal." Sounds like what we want to...

Just because a rule change was made with good intentions doesn't mean it can't have unintended negative consequences. Before the no prior rule was introduced, were players able to just dive on the ball to force a stoppage? Did players take possession of the ball knowing they were about to be...