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Why? Why the constant desire to screw with the core of the game? Why not play with three balls on a rectangular field? Why not remove all centre bounces and just have the umpire promote the latest sponsors, then give the ball to the player who can say the quickest, "Choose the cheesy cheese that triple cheese lovers choose when they choose the cheese, cheese, cheese in the triple cheese at McDonalds"? The AFL needs money? Burned the cash with GC and GWS and stadia and now crying poor? Slowly selling away the soul of the game, bit by bit, year by year, week by week!
Shorter quarters, ridiculous. The players aren't tired enough and covering the ground with ease making most matches this year eye-sores. I can barely watch the game with eyes open, and they want more sponsors? The mentality is all backwards.
Shorter quarters, ridiculous. The players aren't tired enough and covering the ground with ease making most matches this year eye-sores. I can barely watch the game with eyes open, and they want more sponsors? The mentality is all backwards.
RichLeMonde
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Gil is the Milton Friedman of AFL. Naomi Klein should write a book about his tenure. She could call it The utensil Doctrine.
RichLeMonde
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Cash is the only reason to ever do anything, according to Gil
How is Gil, a sports administrator, like a libertarian / monetarist academic economist?
The idea of "never letting a good crisis go to waste" is a pretty much ideologically neutral concept across any reform minded leaders
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Gil can go * himself.
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Was asked why no return to 20 mins for finals gave no reason but said it will stay at 16 mins for finals
no s**t, the AFL broadcasters want it and I reckon so do the players as a majority. I predicted from the start the AFL would use strong TV ratings as the reason and we'd never go back to 20 min quarters.
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It has nothing to do with the 'game going to long' - hell, even this year tv stations are putting in an extra ad each goal. Its all about TV stations getting more ads in - so as usual with the AFL its all about the might $$$$ and nothing else (please the TV stations - get more money in the TV deal)
This year was always going to be used by the AFL to introduce things they would have copped backlash for otherwise - shorter qtrs, night grand final are 2 examples.
Lets use a 20 goal game as an example - each additional ad is 30 sec, so thats an extra 10mins in ads we watch. If we have 18 minute quarters, thats 8 mins of football we save + time on (1 min a qtr) - thats 12 mins a game we save on less football. 12mins less 10mins we save 2 mins a game - im glad ill be home 2 mins earlier......
It has nothing to do with less football as people dont wnt to sit through 20min qtrs, all for tv networks.
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Imagine an AFL led by a person who straight up told all the agenda the next 5 years, no smarmy smart arse answers, no veiled intentions, professional, and looking after punters' interests as well?
Brendan Gale, you are needed.
Brendan Gale, you are needed.
RichLeMonde
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It's actually not. It is a thoroughly elaborated strategy developed by the Chicago School (neoliberal) economists who worked directly with the US intelligence community. Their crowning moment in applying this logic was the introduction of radical neoliberal economic reforms in the wake of the Pinochet coup in Chile. Friedman advised on this directly, even flying over to Chile to help on the ground.
Shock therapy (economics) - Wikipedia
The Shock Doctrine - Wikipedia
Because Gil is using Covid, as Friedman would have advised, to ram through changes that have purely economic motive (night grand final, shorter quarters), while everyone is in a state of shock and willing to accept change they otherwise wouldn't.
One thing I've noticed about the shortened quarters is how much difference an open game is vs a congested/stoppage one. It hadn't really occurred to me before but every stoppage the clock runs 20-30 seconds.
Carlton have been an odd team this year because we've really changed style match to match to respond to our opponent and so this has really stood out more. Games vs Bulldogs and Suns - we opened out completely with very few stoppages. The game felt basically normal length. In other games - the Freo one really stood out in the wet, the game felt like it finished and it was half time (in that match the final score was 40-36).
Carlton have been an odd team this year because we've really changed style match to match to respond to our opponent and so this has really stood out more. Games vs Bulldogs and Suns - we opened out completely with very few stoppages. The game felt basically normal length. In other games - the Freo one really stood out in the wet, the game felt like it finished and it was half time (in that match the final score was 40-36).
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Compromise?
What needs to be compromised?
It's 20 minutes + time on per quarter.
Solid.
I think we agree on this, but maybe I didn't make it clear. They have shortened the game but increased the breaks ie. less football, more ad time, without changing the overall broadcast length.
If this is the reason, then they have failed in the respect that the shortened quarters has lead to fewer goals - and dramatically so in many cases.
Bring-Back-Powell
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As long as games are back in Victoria next year i couldn't care if quarters were 3 minutes.
Exactly right - it is the constant starting and stopping the clock that makes the games last so long. Time on should only be added between goals and for serious injuries. At stoppages and boundary throw ins, the ump should just grab the ball and throw it up/in immediately.
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No one was complaining about the length of quarters pre-COVID and the game has gone to utter s**t with shorter quarters.
Why does anyone think this change is actually required?
Why does anyone think this change is actually required?
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Because wanting shorter quarters is trendy and they think just because the USA are doing it with NFL then that means we have to follow otherwise we will be 'left behind'. In other words people want to appear 'smart'.
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Who is the AFL compromising with? Perhaps the AFL meant, they are compromising the game.
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I don't think you should change the rules mid season, so I'm ok with it being 16 for the finals.
Next year however, what's the point of reducing it, you're just short changing fans, sponsors, etc? Will we see a 10% reduction in our membership fees aligned with this?
We've seen this year that the shorter the game, the lower the scores and the more congestion there is as players have extra energy for defence. Make the game longer if you want the game to be more open, but be aware that because you have too many teams, the gap between the best and worse is large, so there will be more blowouts.
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May be they should bring back AFLX, that was really short and was loved by the fans...oh wait...
It's actually not. It is a thoroughly elaborated strategy developed by the Chicago School (neoliberal) economists who worked directly with the US intelligence community. Their crowning moment in applying this logic was the introduction of radical neoliberal economic reforms in the wake of the Pinochet coup in Chile. Friedman advised on this directly, even flying over to Chile to help on the ground.
Shock therapy (economics) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
The Shock Doctrine - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
The wiki link you sent about "shock therapy_economics" is nonsense. There is no such concept in economics.
The page ties together a range of concepts and events into a single concept but of the economists that have been identified as proponents
1) Milton Friedman, is a monetarist / libertarian economist whose ideas did indeed form a significant part of the ideological foundation of the political paradigm called neoliberalism. Someone has amended the page to note that some critique from the cato institute (a libertarian think tank) says that Friedman was take out of context in the attribution of "shock therapy"
2) Jeffrey Sachs is a new-Keynesian macro-economist who....
The page then goes on to list of overall incoherent set of examples of essentially radical economic reform of very disparate types in a range of contexts (eg post war reconstruction, post communism, hyperinflation)
and then provides a "theory section" which is basically un-referenced pseudo-economics
I suspect it is true that the AFL will seek to make changes it has wanted to previously because the COVID crises gives it the opportunity to do so in what it thinks is the best interest of the game. You can make arguments that the AFL is prone to undervaluing certain non-monetisable elements of the game in its decision making but to call it a "purely economic motive" is a particularly dull comment and to conflate it with Friemanite neoliberalism is beyond dull
As much as I hate it, 2021 will still be compromised by COVID. They will keep the 60 seconds after goals to allow personalised drink bottles to be delivered etc. That will drive the 18 minute time.
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