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I don’t think being two down is as much of an issue with the shorter games.Great game. Can't believe St Kilda choked from 44-8 up with Fremantle having 2 down.
I don't even know if it was a choke. They just took the foot off the pedal completely in the second quarter, their pressure was nowhere to be seen. Freo got their confidence up from that.Great game. Can't believe St Kilda choked from 44-8 up with Fremantle having 2 down.
well we had Jimmy Bartel doing that for awhile but he was rarely useful imo.That makes me think we need an ex-umpire or ex-MRO doing special comments.
Well it is Jimmy Bartel.well we had Jimmy Bartel doing that for awhile but he was rarely useful imo.
...for Port or the Crows. Nah but seriously looks like a jet already and hopefully they can keep that young core intact.Izak Rankine is going to be some player
Reduce interchange to 20, 5 a quarter and it'll revert back to good footy.
We won't see forwards pushing up to the defensive arc because they'll be gassed with limited interchange. The best midfielders will be playing 95% game time with resting forward
I'm not sure the AFLW comparison holds, given ball movement is also much slower. I would expect 16s at AFL level would see movement to and use of space much more effectively than in AFLW. Yes, it would increase the incentive to fitness, but perhaps also incentivise other qualities to capitalise on quicker ball movement. The scratch matches from what I've seen are total circle work from the moment following the first clearance, and are admittedly not treated as seriously as senior-grade, but suggest to me 16s might be a midpoint between tactical congestion and AFLX.
As an aside, a month or two back you were talking about clubs feeling they didn't necessarily need a state league reserves setup. Do you know if the experience of scratch matches has reinforced or challenged that?
Have you been watching the U18 TAC cup? This is the rule they have introduced a little while back. They also have another rule where at least 5 players from each team must be in one half of the ground. This rule is in place for whenever there is a stoppage/ball up/throw in.
From reports I've seen this has lead to more traditional positional type play.
If we take more than 4 players out may as well make it soccer. It would just be a sprint and a lot of physicality taken out.I know what you are saying but you are only taking 4 players out of it. I think it will be need to be a bit more drastic if that is the way it goes.
As far as scratch matches go I do know everyone is looking closely to see how it goes. So far I am not hearing any negative comments.
If we take more than 4 players out may as well make it soccer. It would just be a sprint and a lot of physicality taken out.
Also need to play more day games...dry football especially in winter in QLD. Obviously money/prime time rules. And of course this year is an exception as we have to play all these QLD games
The irony being soccer has been successfully dealing with the balance between congestion and ball movement for 70 years now.If we take more than 4 players out may as well make it soccer. It would just be a sprint and a lot of physicality taken out.
I think the fundamental rules should be uniform top to bottom, but you'll never get the same game top to bottom because professionalism inherently changes what is possible on a sports field. This happens in every sport but Australian football is the only one that seems to have a complex about it - I figure because we have recent (and, importantly, televised) memory of a tactically-naive amateur sport as the pinnacle of the game.Do these ideas translate to local footy and either way is there a problem if they don't?
I get there are already significant differences in the way AFL is played to local footy because of fitness levels (and ability) but do we want .to risk a scenario where it disconnects and effectively becomes a different game? Is that the risk with 14 aside or very different rules?
Fremantle are a side that could really become good quickly.
Hamling, Pearce and Logue are really good tall defenders, Luke Ryan can intercept as well as anyone, and then Young, Wilson and Hill can be really effective off half back.
Fyfe, Cerra, Brayshaw, Serong and Tucker are a good inside core that can rotate forward as well, and then Bewley, Aish and even Conca or Colyer on a wing can provide good run. Darcy and Lobb are a good ruck combo, both of whom have shown a bit inside 50.
Then up frot you have Taberner and Hogan along with Lobb/Darcy, Schulz, Walters and Sturt as a POD. A 22 of:
Logue - Hamling - Ryan
Wilson - Pearce - Young
Aish - Fyfe - Bewley
Schulz - Hogan - Taberner
Walters - Lobb - Sturt
Darcy - Brayshaw - Cerra
Hill - Serong - Tucker - Conca
Can seriously challenge teams in 2022 or so if Fyfe and Walters continue playing well.
I agree. Not something I want to see but if taking numbers off the ground was the way to reduce congestion in the game then it would have to be 14 a side IMO.
Interesting points from Jake Niall article proposing that a flexible fixture could be used in future, whereby allowing AFL to fixture more entertaining games in prime slots. Clubs then may ‘encourage’ coaching staff to look to play more entertaining brand to attract sponsorship money.The irony being soccer has been successfully dealing with the balance between congestion and ball movement for 70 years now.
Yes, in that the schedulers are bad at projecting who will be worth watching and we get *-ups like that drab Carlton season where they got tonked every week in prime time.Interesting points from Jake Niall article proposing that a flexible fixture could be used in future, whereby allowing AFL to fixture more entertaining games in prime slots. Clubs then may ‘encourage’ coaching staff to look to play more entertaining brand to attract sponsorship money.
The fixture fix: Get dull Hawks off Broadway
During the bye week before the 2019 finals, the Western Bulldogs met with Channel Seven and made a persuasive pitch for more prime-time slots in 2020, on the grounds that they played an attractive brand.www.theage.com.au
Or perhaps we have a sport where the governing body has been so intent on out performing its rivals it tried to manipulate outcomes at every turn to create great TV content - rather than risk the game working itself out over time.I think the fundamental rules should be uniform top to bottom, but you'll never get the same game top to bottom because professionalism inherently changes what is possible on a sports field. This happens in every sport but Australian football is the only one that seems to have a complex about it - I figure because we have recent (and, importantly, televised) memory of a tactically-naive amateur sport as the pinnacle of the game.