Help Dimma with his geometry!

[Foley#41]

From this article in the Sydney Morning Herald (and probably other papers):http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-sport/afl-bye-a-drag-for-angry-tigers-20110529-1fab6.html

Hardwick refused to blame the club's decision to host the game in Darwin - which comes with a financial gain - rather than Melbourne, for the loss.

"You can't use where you play as an excuse for a poor effort, I would have thought," he said.

"At the end of the day you play at a footy ground with four sticks at either ends and the ball's round."

He said Richmond's inferior ball-handling was partly a consequence of a lopsided 89-61 tackle count in Port's favour.

Could Richmond's inferior ball-handling on the night be at least in part due to the coach's mistaken idea about the shape of a football? Perhaps forum members can help put him right before the next post-match press conference. What shape is a footy in fact?

 

[Bojangles17]

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Could Richmond's inferior ball-handling on the night be at least in part due to the coach's mistaken idea about the shape of a football? Perhaps forum members can help put him right before the next post-match press conference. What shape is a footy in fact?[/QUOTE]

I would have thought it was oval

 

[NQTIGER]

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[NQTIGER]

It means we dropped too many marks and missed too many shots at goal......

 

[Spluff]

You do know that ovals ARE round, right? Round doesn't mean circular, it means it doesn't have corners.

 

[Foley#41]

You do know that ovals ARE round, right? Round doesn't mean circular, it means it doesn't have corners.

I'll accept that they're rounded, and in that sense both you and Dimma are fully within your rights to use the term. However, there is another game sometimes played in these parts that has been referred to as the "round ball game", and when he said the ball was round, it jarred with me.

Anyhow, I didn't mean to be mean, I just thought it might be interesting to post the correct geometrical shape of a footy.

 

[Dustin Credible]

It's a prolate spheroid isn't it?

 

[NQTIGER]

Maybe its this one?

 

[Wallaby]

This doesn't have corners.

 

[Wet Biscuit]

Then what's that sharp angled, corner looking specimen on the smaller of the two bottom projections?

 

[CoggaRules]

It means we dropped too many marks and missed too many shots at goal......

I actually thought it was the formula that goes through Brownes head when he is trying to execute a handball...unfortunately he has trouble with 1 + 1 = 2, so the result is what we see...

 

[Roachy8]

I actually thought it was the formula that goes through Brownes head when he is trying to execute a handball...unfortunately he has trouble with 1 + 1 = 2, so the result is what we see...

Big Browne dog apparently is actually an egg-head.

''Him and Andrew Browne are probably the best mates in the club. They both keep hitching rides from everyone else at the club. They say it is because they are saving the environment but they are just tight-arses. And both of them are smart - they both scored in the 90s for their VCE. They are giving big ruckmen a bad name.''​

This is from The Ty Vickery article last week in The rAge.

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/the-getting-of-wisdom-20110527-1f8qk.html​

Thinking toooooo much about his footy perhaps? ​

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[CoggaRules]

Big Browne dog apparently is actually an egg-head.

This is from The Ty Vickery article last week in The rAge.

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/the-getting-of-wisdom-20110527-1f8qk.html​

Thinking toooooo much about his footy perhaps? ​

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Interesting stuff...so we now have Jacko, Ty and Browne..i guess we are building a future political party and here i was thinking we were after a flag, when all we are doing is heading for Canberra.

 

[Greggy]

Round. Being such that every part of the surface or the circumference is equidistant from the center, footy's ain't.

 

[El Tigre]

If you cut the ball in the plane perpendicular to its long axis, it is round, the circular kind.

 

[CoggaRules]

If you cut the ball in the plane perpendicular to its long axis, it is round, the circular kind.

Tipping that Barry Round would have something to say about that, if Round was around.

 

[True Thylacine]

Whatever the shape is hopefully the one used on Sat night was different because for some inexplicable reason we couldnt kick it, mark it, judge it in flight or on the ground and when we did...we fumbled it...dropped it and generally stuffed it up. Fore all the reasons given to our ratshit performance this one stood out like the proverbial dogs to me and I can't for the life of me think why. A team leading the effective disposals suddenly cant even pick the bloody thing up, kicks it along the ground when in the clear etc etc....odd

If anyone ahs an explanation please extend it...I have no idea

 

[CoggaRules]

Whatever the shape is hopefully the one used on Sat night was different because for some inexplicable reason we couldnt kick it, mark it, judge it in flight or on the ground and when we did...we fumbled it...dropped it and generally stuffed it up. Fore all the reasons given to our ratshit performance this one stood out like the proverbial dogs to me and I can't for the life of me think why. A team leading the effective disposals suddenly cant even pick the bloody thing up, kicks it along the ground when in the clear etc etc....odd

If anyone ahs an explanation please extend it...I have no idea

How about this one from out of left field, FTF just got a big boost from the Port Power at $4.30.
I mean if you think of it, had we been a racehorse, there would be stewards inquiries opened up, swabs taken, trainers questioned, you name it they would have wanted to know why. But in footy, we have the good ol' playing in the humidity, fatigue, unprepared(this one is an absolute beauty), and any other lame excuse they come up with.
Unprepared? A unit that has does nothing else on its radar all week but have scouts assessments on upcoming opponents, graphs, data, you name it they have it, and they were unprepared? LMAO....FFS get out of town with that shit.

 

[True Thylacine]

How about this one from out of left field, FTF just got a big boost from the Port Power at $4.30. I mean if you think of it, had we been a racehorse, there would be stewards inquiries opened up, swabs taken, trainers questioned, you name it they would have wanted to know why. But in footy, we have the good ol' playing in the humidity, fatigue, unprepared(this one is an absolute beauty), and any other lame excuse they come up with.
Unprepared? A unit that has does nothing else on its radar all week but have scouts assessments on upcoming opponents, graphs, data, you name it they have it, and they were unprepared? LMAO....FFS get out of town with that shit.

Thats about the only thing that makes sense Cogga...lmao Comapring the week before it just wasnt teh same team....in the dreamtime we were so pure handling and delivering under serious pressure....yet in Darwin couldnt kick it to a target iof our life depended on it. We must have broken the world record for turnovers....and what shat me off was they were all under little or no pressure! Hopefully its just one of those games.....like my golf was yesterday too hahahah

 

[Foley#41]

Big Browne dog apparently is actually an egghead...

That would make his head oviform!

AND THE ANSWER IS:

Speaking purely geometrically, a football is a prolate ellipsoid (with laces).
Go forth and impress your buddies with your superior knowledge of the game.

 

[YellowandBlackBlood]

The first two are 2D shapes while a football is of course 3D.
It's prolate ellipsoid of course!

 

[discofan]

Maybe its this one?

he wanted help with his Geometry not his Triginometry - get it together like your big brother Bob !

 

[The Rusty Trombone]

where

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7 NQ the answer is 7 .

I'm not sure if I told you guys this but I am a janitor down at the local University and I was abused as a child. Currently I am counciled by Robin Williams and he wears a cardigan and has a beard.

 

[Infamy]

Even an oval has rounded edges, round does not mean circle
Also if you look at a football from the end then it is a circle/round

Technically a perfectly round ball is a sphere anyway
For example the Earth is round, but it is not a sphere as it is wider than it is high

 

[NQTIGER]

7 NQ the answer is 7 .

I'm not sure if I told you guys this but I am a janitor down at the local University and I was abused as a child. Currently I am counciled by Robin Williams and he wears a cardigan and has a beard.

The answer is 42..........