Could this be the answer....

[Toots Hibbert]

...in those crucial match deciding moments for players like Motlop and Ebert?

A bionic limb which is so advanced it responds to mind control!

Picture this:- Daniel Motlop has had a terrible accident and lost a leg. By a miracle of modern medicine he resurrects his football career with the latest enhancement of the bionic limb and becomes the first bionic AFL footballer (yet another first for PAFC!). He has taken a terrific mark in the dying seconds of the game with Port trailing by a few points. The siren goes and Mots is faced with a 50 metre kick on a tight angle....

Background reading

Neuro-Controlled Bionic Arm
The first prosthesis that merges mind and machine

Welcome to the future of prosthetic limbs: true mind control. For the first time ever, an amputee need only think about a movement—picking up a glass, for instance—and the 12-pound Neuro-Controlled Bionic Arm dutifully coordinates the task. Electrodes intercept the limb's residual nerve firings and feed them to a computer embedded in the forearm, which then commands six motors to move the device's shoulder, elbow and hand in unison. Thanks to hand sensors, the wearer can even gauge pressure and fine-tune his grip.
For now, the prototype arm fits just one man, Jesse Sullivan. This year, Sullivan demonstrated the device at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, where doctors are working to refine it. A faster, more durable commercial version should be ready by 2008, but the ultimate goal is a robotic limb that functions as well as, if not better than, its human analogue.

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/bown2005/personalhealth/19e6ee82ea447010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

 

[Sandola]

o brave new world!

I can see us rapidly advancing from cutting off a finger for your sport, a la D. Chick, to being "encouraged" to cut your whole arm off (or in some cases, perhaps -- Richo comes to mind -- your head).

 

[Toots Hibbert]

I've been thinking about this some more.

Lets say the bionic limb is able to receive the nerve signals from another player via a second receptor port. Motlop goes back to take his kick but he notices he's too stressed to think straight. He makes eye contact with noted goal sneak Ryan "Sixty" Willits, a meaningful look is exchanged and Bluto sidles over and leans serruptitiously against Motlop's hip while pointing and pretending to talk. With Bluto's nerve signals now stored Motlop lines up again and bingo! The ball sails through at half post height from beyond the 50 metre arc.

Port have won but it's not over. The opposition team's cheer squad were just across the fence and one has video footage of Bluto's actions. There's a media storm and the AFL investigates. The goal is allowed to stand but a special rules committee is set up to analyse the implications of such behaviour. What arguments could those in favour and against such tactics mount?

 

[spookism]

I've been thinking about this some more.

Lets say the bionic limb is able to receive the nerve signals from another player via a second receptor port. Motlop goes back to take his kick but he notices he's too stressed to think straight. He makes eye contact with noted goal sneak Ryan "Sixty" Willits, a meaningful look is exchanged and Bluto sidles over and leans serruptitiously against Motlop's hip while pointing and pretending to talk. With Bluto's nerve signals now stored Motlop lines up again and bingo! The ball sails through at half post height from beyond the 50 metre arc.

Port have won but it's not over. The opposition team's cheer squad were just across the fence and one has video footage of Bluto's actions. There's a media storm and the AFL investigates. The goal is allowed to stand but a special rules committee is set up to analyse the implications of such behaviour. What arguments could those in favour and against such tactics mount?

Indeed you have been thinking about this for some time, perhaps too long....

 

[Toots Hibbert]

Indeed you have been thinking about this for some time, perhaps too long....

Yeah well come on, contribute! This is like one of those Hypotheticals the ABC used to put on with that expat Aussie lawyer. I've already got an argument both pro and con but I'm waiting for the rest of the brains trust to turn up.

 

[Steve Dore]

Yeah well come on, contribute! This is like one of those Hypotheticals the ABC used to put on with that expat Aussie lawyer. I've already got an argument both pro and con but I'm waiting for the rest of the brains trust to turn up.

Geoffrey Robertson QC.

It would certainly be classed as an PED and therefore not allowed. If you want to play with bots they are a sport in themselves.

Not much of a contribution I know but at least it's something

 

[Sandola]

Just hold everything for six months and the technology will no longer require the two of them to be next to one another. Virtual telepathy / mind swap right around the ground. The logical extension of Craig's headphone experiments.

 

[spookism]

Yeah well come on, contribute! This is like one of those Hypotheticals the ABC used to put on with that expat Aussie lawyer. I've already got an argument both pro and con but I'm waiting for the rest of the brains trust to turn up.

Fair enough then...

if what you said earlier is the case, then I would see them going a step further and all you would have is heads attached to fully bionic bodies programmed to players abilties in their prime - ala Primus 2002, Wanganeen 2003, Tredrea 2004, S. Burgoyne 2006-2010.

And perhaps the heads could be changed over every week with 22 differnet Port Adelaide Power members getting a go....

 

[Toots Hibbert]

Fair enough then...

if what you said earlier is the case, then I would see them going a step further and all you would have is heads attached to fully bionic bodies programmed to players abilties in their prime - ala Primus 2002, Wanganeen 2003, Tredrea 2004, S. Burgoyne 2006-2010.

And perhaps the heads could be changed over every week with 22 differnet Port Adelaide Power members getting a go....

That's like the St Kilda policy of rotation gone mad. Rotating captains, coaches AND players!

 

[Toots Hibbert]

Geoffrey Robertson QC.

It would certainly be classed as an PED and therefore not allowed. If you want to play with bots they are a sport in themselves.

Not much of a contribution I know but at least it's something

That's discrimination against the physically handicapped though.

Why should a person be deprived of living their dream simply because of an injury? I mean lets be serious here, opposition to a bionic limb for an injured player are not going to hold up in court.