Geelong rorting the system

[STPer18]

that would be illegal if there was any rules about grounds.

So in other words completely legal?

 

[Sttew]

It's an odd shaped ground that would be illegal if there was any rules about grounds.

Picking holes in your posts is so easy, particularly on this subject as we all know you have never been to the ground.

There are no rules and that is one of the quirks of Australian Rules. I bet you didn't know when the gam started the oval measured 182m wide and the length of the playing field was determined by the two captains.

Also , your players train on it 6 days a week, no other Victorian club gets that advantage.

6 days a week? You just made that up. In Summer the team trains at Deakin University.

Who's fault is it that other clubs sold their souls by giving away suburban grounds? Not Geelong's. The AFL tried to force Geelong to move to Marvel, but the Club said no.

Having straight boundary lines would be foreign to every footballer in the country.

What difference does a boundary line make? Why expend energy hugging the boundary line when you can play direct, corridor football which is the best brand of football? What is the benefit of playing on oval that is almost a circle?

 

[Sttew]

So in other words completely legal?

It's like saying murder would be legal if there were no laws against it. Classic Aristotle

 

[Aristotle Pickett the3rd]

Picking holes in your posts is so easy, particularly on this subject as we all know you have never been to the ground.

There are no rules and that is one of the quirks of Australian Rules. I bet you didn't know when the gam started the oval measured 182m wide and the length of the playing field was determined by the two captains.

6 days a week? You just made that up. In Summer the team trains at Deakin University.

Who's fault is it that other clubs sold their souls by giving away suburban grounds? Not Geelong's. The AFL tried to force Geelong to move to Marvel, but the Club said no.

What difference does a boundary line make? Why expend energy hugging the boundary line when you can play direct, corridor football which is the best brand of football? What is the benefit of playing on oval that is almost a circle?

Maybe all the grounds should have straight boundaries then?

 

[Aristotle Pickett the3rd]

So in other words completely legal?

Have you ever seen another ground that has straight boundaries and one side bigger than the other?

 

[HairyO]

Apparently Tom Harley's first act as AFL COO was to cancel the audit and organise another trip down the coast for Dillon to apologise for the inconvenience.

 

[Sttew]

Maybe all the grounds should have straight boundaries then?

What two grounds used by the AFL are identical?

 

[Aristotle Pickett the3rd]

What two grounds used by the AFL are identical?

None, but they all have curved boundary lines and are symetrical.

 

[Sttew]

None, but they all have curved boundary lines and are symetrical.

And tell us what impact a straight boundary has on play?

 

[Aristotle Pickett the3rd]

And tell us what impact a straight boundary has on play?

It interferes with game plans and favours the home team who know the dimensions well.

 

[Sttew]

It interferes with game plans and favours the home team who know the dimensions well.

Garbage. GWS has no trouble playing the ground, nor does Fremantle, Brisbane, and Western Bulldogs. If teams cannot adapt their game plans then that's on them. Game plans have to be adapted for a number of contingencies on a week by week basis, but according to you not for ground dimensions?

 

[PhatBoy]

It's an odd shaped ground that would be illegal if there was any rules about grounds.
Also , your players train on it 6 days a week, no other Victorian club gets that advantage.
It's a government funded home ground advantage rort.
Having straight boundary lines would be foreign to every footballer in the country.

Yeah that 20m of straight boundary would just destroy me mentally - like it has you, seemingly - if my job was to kick a football.

How do you know what would and wouldn’t be legal if there were any rules about ground sizes? You complain about anything and everything that isn’t ‘1. Richmond shall be positioned beneath the arse of a God that shits out a premiership cup, numerous high draft picks, and unlimited excuse tickets whenever they go through yet another period where they aren’t in any sort of contact with the top of the ladder.’ We pretty much all know that if KP was the same dimensions as the MCG you’d say it was illegal because of the temperature there because all you do is make excuses. It’s all you’ve got because you’ve spent most of your adult life as a sports fan looking for them. Grow a spine and stop.

 

[PhatBoy]

It interferes with game plans and favours the home team who know the dimensions well.

Yeah must be so hard to combat

 

[PhatBoy]

Glenferrie was narrower than KP so we can make all the Hawthorn wins there null and void at least, that’s one positive we can take from this stunning reveal we’ve been handed by these new findings AP has blessed us with about how footballers from only one team can work out where a boundary is.

 

[Hoops]

but again, I don't get it

2 cups in 15 years is slightly better than the 2 in 18 years expected for the comp average.

what is this perception of 'premiership printing'?

I get it for Bomber Thompson's era, but not the Scott era.

Do you write 9 clubs off before the season starts

 

[BigCats96]

Do you write 9 clubs off before the season starts

Aristotle starts by writing off the 9 teams who have to face the KP boundary. Such a disadvantage that you may as well throw the year away.

 

[captain bloodsport]

Has Geelong considered playing home finals at aami Park? Same dimensions as gmhba, plus you get a bigger crowd. Geelong win, afl win

 

[Elixuh]

 

[Ross]

Pretty sure it was Ken Hinkley who saved footy in 2007 mastering the super attacking footy the Cats played.
The genius who basically created how modern footy is played that everyone else has tried to emulate since (nowhere near as good)

What a legend, a Cats icon....don't know what happened to him after he left Geelong?
Did he go back to coaching local amateurs?

I think Ken was also the man in 2007 who came up with the now-famous Geelong motto of "we exist to win premierships".

 

[PhatBoy]

Has Geelong considered playing home finals at aami Park? Same dimensions as gmhba, plus you get a bigger crowd. Geelong win, afl win

Why? The teams we host at KP rarely seem to make finals anyway so it’s not even known if we’d have an advantage over them.

St Kilda - well who knows
Bulldogs - well they haven’t beaten us in a final since I don’t know when
Port - only beat us in Adelaide and we put a stop to that last year
Crows - not sure we’ve ever hosted them in Melbourne. We should have but the AFL sent us to Adelaide for some unknown reason in 1997
Sydney - well we know how that worked out for everyone last time we played them in an MCG final and they’re not likely to be there anytime soon
Eagles - good luck
Suns - they’ve never played one
Giants - they’re more likely to beat us at KP than they are to beat us on either of their home grounds
Fremantle - they won the only final we’ve ever hosted at KP
North - don’t make me laugh
We are hosting the tigers more lately for some reason. Probably to do with their lack of competitiveness. Don’t think we are gonna have to worry about them for the foreseeable future
The demons have to make the finals first.

We have won something like 7 of our last 10 against the Pies so it seems we know the dimensions of the G ok when we play them.
Same with the Hawks.
The bombers haven’t won a final in how long now?
Carlton are the one team who have made the finals the last few years that are based at the MCG periodically that we have trouble with. They have to make them first.

Over to you, Brisbane.


You’ve really put a lot of thought into to this haven’t you.

 

[captain bloodsport]

Why? The teams we host at KP rarely seem to make finals anyway so it’s not even known if we’d have an advantage over them.

St Kilda - well who knows
Bulldogs - well they haven’t beaten us in a final since I don’t know when
Port - only beat us in Adelaide and we put a stop to that last year
Crows - not sure we’ve ever hosted them in Melbourne. We should have but the AFL sent us to Adelaide for some unknown reason in 1997
Sydney - well we know how that worked out for everyone last time we played them in an MCG final and they’re not likely to be there anytime soon
Eagles - good luck
Suns - they’ve never played one
Giants - they’re more likely to beat us at KP than they are to beat us on either of their home grounds
Fremantle - they won the only final we’ve ever hosted at KP
North - don’t make me laugh
We are hosting the tigers more lately for some reason. Probably to do with their lack of competitiveness. Don’t think we are gonna have to worry about them for the foreseeable future
The demons have to make the finals first.

We have won something like 7 of our last 10 against the Pies so it seems we know the dimensions of the G ok when we play them.
Same with the Hawks.
The bombers haven’t won a final in how long now?
Carlton are the one team who have made the finals the last few years that are based at the MCG periodically that we have trouble with. They have to make them first.

Over to you, Brisbane.


You’ve really put a lot of thought into to this haven’t you.

Aami Park is the rectangle stadium melb storm and the soccer is played at... it's clearly a joke.
you've clearly put a lot more thought into it then I have.

 

[PhatBoy]

Aami Park is the rectangle stadium melb storm and the soccer is played at... it's clearly a joke.
you've clearly put a lot more thought into it then I have.

I know it was a joke. I’m an nrl fan

 

[captain bloodsport]

I know it was a joke. I’m an nrl fan

Chill out, go touch some grass mate

 

[dazbroncos]

Apparently Tom Harley's first act as AFL COO was to cancel the audit and organise another trip down the coast for Dillon to apologise for the inconvenience.

hmm sounds bitter...

Dont be bitter

GO Catters

 

[STPer18]

And we're back after yet another amazing Geelong win! Missed you guys.