Non Lions Discussion 2019

[bungalow_bill]

Who’s going to win the ball on the inside for Essendon?

They still don’t have that big bodied contested mid.

Will be interesting to see how we play the G without any recognised outside runners in the midfield or defence.

Deven Robertson would be pretty handy for the Bombers

 

[Dalions]

Deven Robertson would be pretty handy for the Bombers

Too Bad, So Sad!

 

[Section 5]

Who’s going to win the ball on the inside for Essendon?

They still don’t have that big bodied contested mid.

Will be interesting to see how we play the G without any recognised outside runners in the midfield or defence.

Found this image.
A different way of looking at ground sizes.But it is dated May 2013.

 

[Mr Ripper]

Never realised Manuka's borderline VFL Park size!

 

[rangatangtang]

Who’s going to win the ball on the inside for Essendon?

They still don’t have that big bodied contested mid.

Will be interesting to see how we play the G without any recognised outside runners in the midfield or defence.

Agree they are going to struggle to put up a team at this point and the positives currently being touted are that McGrath and parish have been going good. But they were alreadybgood and coughed up heaps of opportunities. Theyre clearly not the answer.

I think we should play Rich up the ground more, on the left wing/center rotating outside/inside with clug, to assist with this need for us this year. He has good pace, tackles/contests marks, and can needle passes to 30 out like we need or can go the long kick for home on the run from the left forward flank or chf.

This would see us getting more quality, deeper inside 50s more often.

We would still have Witho, Answerth, maybe Jack Payne, Birchall who are all good kicks to provide that booming kick out of hb or chiseler kick to switch across to start our rebounding play

The best out of Starc, Cox or Ah Chee would provide that running spark hopefully.

We are going to obviously have to work much harder as a team to not let teams like eagles, tigers bulldogs and pies move the ball through the midfield their way, lock it in our half and just overwhelm with quality delivery from everyone to much deeper targets.

 

[Brett C]

Found this image.
A different way of looking at ground sizes.But it is dated May 2013.

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This was from last year on foxsports

UTAS Stadium - 175m - 145m
TIO Stadium - 175m - 135m
GMHBA Stadium - 170m - 116m
TIO Traeger Park - 168m - 132m
Adelaide Oval - 167m - 123m
Cazaly’s Stadium - 165m - 135m
Optus Stadium - 165m - 130m
Spotless Stadium - 164m - 128m
UNSW Canberra Oval - 162.5m - 138m
MCG - 161m - 138m
Jiangwan Stadium - 160m - 136m
Etihad Stadium - 160m - 129m
Mars Stadium - 160m - 129m
Blundstone Arena - 160m - 124m
Metricon Stadium - 158m - 134m
Gabba - 156m - 138m
SCG - 155m - 136m

 

[Section 5]

This was from last year on foxsports

UTAS Stadium - 175m - 145m
TIO Stadium - 175m - 135m
GMHBA Stadium - 170m - 116m
TIO Traeger Park - 168m - 132m
Adelaide Oval - 167m - 123m
Cazaly’s Stadium - 165m - 135m
Optus Stadium - 165m - 130m
Spotless Stadium - 164m - 128m
UNSW Canberra Oval - 162.5m - 138m
MCG - 161m - 138m
Jiangwan Stadium - 160m - 136m
Etihad Stadium - 160m - 129m
Mars Stadium - 160m - 129m
Blundstone Arena - 160m - 124m
Metricon Stadium - 158m - 134m
Gabba - 156m - 138m
SCG - 155m - 136m

Yes i saw that article.
I just liked the format in the coloured image.
It is hard to get your mind around sizes quoted in text.
If only someone could come up with an interactive map done to scale and colour coded.
I am not asking for much but it is Christmas.

 

[Section 5]

Regarding my previous post on ground sizes i did find a site that calculated the area of the MCG.
According to their calculations it is 17,720 square meters.
For all you mathematicians out there (not me) this is the formula.

Area of an Ellipse
The area of an oval shaped “ellipse” can be calculated using the following mathematical formula.

In the above example we used 3.142 as our approximate value of Pi.
Area of the MCG Oval
As an example of the Area of an Ellipse, let’s calculate the Area of the MCG.
(See previous Data Table in this post for the dimensions of the MCG).
The Boundary to Boundary Length is the shorter dimension value of 141 m.
To get the “Short Radius” Length, we need to divide 141 by 2.
This gives a result of “a” = 70.5
The Goal to Goal Length is 160m.
To get the “Long Radius” Length, we need to divide 160 by 2.
This gives a result of “b” = 80
Area of MCG = Pi x 70.5 x 80 (where Pi = 3.142)
Area of MCG = 3.142 x 70.5 x 80
Area of MCG Oval = 17 720 square meters.