No Oppo Supporters OPPOSITION OBSERVATION XXXIX

[Tiger_4_Life]

Interestingly I believe he had a pretty severe concussion last year, missed several weeks and didn't regain his early season form at all.

Yeah he seems to fly in the first 2 mths. Be interesting to see what happens

I think Geelong are about to prolapse

 

[Tiger_4_Life]

We were bloody cursed.
Richo in 1995.
Imagine him in that team.

WE could be on 16 flags now.

Imagine Lockett in our team at the time,AFL did and they could not poach him out of Punt Road quick enough.
CFL.

Lockett would've been incredible. Mcg new Southern stand roaring. A young Richo working with him.

In another universe perhaps

 

[lllscroatlll]

Lockett would've been incredible. Mcg new Southern stand roaring. A young Richo working with him.

In another universe perhaps

it definitely happened somewhere in the omniverse

 

[Tiger V]

the stand rule era will be looked at as the worst era of football in the modern era

got Scats a flag, mission accomplished.

 

[Tiger V]

WTF is going on, i found myself applauding Karen Cornes. I'm so confused.

 

[Downtown06]

WTF is going on, i found myself applauding Karen Cornes. I'm so confused.

 

[tigersnag]

Of the four players out of Geelong side last night, Hawkins is the same age as Riewoldt, Cameron’s the same age as Lynch and Dangermouse is the same age as Cochin. Geelong’s collapse is just a couple of years behind us. Base on that Scott will be gone mid next year and two months later he will be the Tassie Devils new coach.

All their best players are over 30

Their kids are shit.
Only Holmes, De Koning are decent.

Dark days ahead at the Cattery. Lovin' it

 

[Karp3_dm]

hopefully the corns article is the beginning of the end for STAND STAND OUTSIDE FOIIIVE OUTSIDE FIVE SYAND STA>>> PLAY ON UHHHH NO 50 50 50! STAND MOTHAFYCKAHHHH STAAAAANNDDDD!!!

Link to article?

 

[SunshineBoy]

Scats to get 2 picks inside top 30 as compo for Dangerfield to Adelaide

 

[SunshineBoy]

Oh dear spot fixing in Australian sport A League players arrested , surely that can’t be true it’s Australia

Three soccer players arrested over alleged match-fixing involving yellow cards in Australian league

Football Australia says three A-League players have been arrested for alleged betting corruption after police claimed they manipulated the number of yellow cards they received in games last year.

apnews.com

 

[JAKLAUGHING]

Very Vanilla now...in fact, it's boring Vanilla now! An 'Eskimo-pie' of vanillaness...a carton full of it!
It's a freaking blizzard...a fecking snow storm of vanillaness...oh for a smidgen of chocolate now and agin!
The interesting and engaging characters and personalities of the game has shifted onto the Coaches and Medja personalities...a very poor substitute...never eliciting laughter but total derision..."if he kicks it now, we win"...!
Oh, my sad lament for the old white Goal Square...the suspense of seeing the full-back's foot over step the white line on kick out! Oh glory be...the drama of it all! Then the bounce of the footy in the oppo goal square...be still my beating heart!
The Goal Umpire...resplendent in white coat and hat...demanding respect with their adjudication of correct calls on goal shots and scores! Always correct and never doubted...the formality of their dance between the posts in delivering their fingers of verdict...delivered promptly and much faster than Uber-eats!
Only now is his premier position of adjudication been uprooted and subverted by the TV camera and Arc...Vale!
The Brownlow subverted and perverted to become a mid fielders medal...not Rucks, not Backmen, not Forwards, not rovers!
Four Umpires is a blight on the game...two makes sense!
The very similar game styles on display...fast break...kick...mark...no physicality!
The Old Boys Club insistence on rule changes without trialling in the VFl...is unrestricted hubris!
Let us Fans 'stand' for the sad passing of this once great game...hi jacked by the mighty dollar!
The Gambling monies shared by the AFL Clubs.
The massaging of "Rules" either by direction or incompetence...throws this once great game into boring chaos!
Vanilla and Vale!

 

[Mr Unbelievable]

OMG!

The stats that show why the AFL should undo Hocking’s rule changes​

Kane Cornes​

AFL columnist
May 16, 2024 — 12.02pm
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In 2019, the AFL’s newly formed competition committee, led by then league football boss Steve Hocking, introduced nine rule and interpretation changes.
Some of the biggest figures in football tried to turn back the clock by putting players in three zones at centre bounces to achieve a significant change in the look of the game.

Carlton captain Patrick Cripps had a word with the umpire earlier this season.CREDIT:AFL PHOTOS
The six-six-six model, as it is now known, forced players into dedicated starting positions, if only for a few seconds after the centre bounce.
Also, players were no longer required to kick to themselves to play on from the goal square during kick-ins. The man on the mark had to stay 10 metres back from the goal square; now it’s 15 metres.

Hocking’s think tank had a clear objective. To counter defensive coaches playing “not to lose”, the competition committee wanted an aggressive style of play with free-flowing football, and ease and speed of ball movement. It wanted more one-on-one contests.
In 2021, Hocking doubled down on this approach with the “stand” rule. The player on the mark could not move laterally, becoming a statue as soon as an umpire called “stand”. Any move before “play on” leads to a 50-metre penalty.

The aim was to speed up ball movement and generate easier scoring chances.
However, these rule changes have failed. Completely.


Not only has there been no significant lift in scoring from centre bounces or kick-ins, but umpiring is more complex and players are more challenged in what should be a simple game.
Most concerning is the reaction of the coaches. If it’s easier for the opposition to score, coaches think more defensively.
The six-six-six rule limits any coach’s ability to make strategic moves during games. It has stymied the advancement of coaching techniques to make the game better.
The AFL will say the rule changes are an overwhelming success. The statistics tell a different story.
In five seasons from 2014-18, teams scored an average of 10.2 points each game from centre bounces. Since 2019 (excluding the COVID-19-affected 2020 season), scoring from centre bounces has increased by only 0.5 points, reaching 10.7 points each game.

Before the rule change, teams scored from a centre bounce about 23 per cent. Today, it is 24 per cent.
The six-six-six rule has killed innovation and unique set-ups at centre bounces.
Tactics such as varying the wingmen’s starting positioning, the use of high forwards on the defensive side of the centre square line, deploying spare defenders to protect a lead or having attacking forwards surge through the centre square – as the late Phil Walsh, a brilliant coach at Adelaide, regularly did with Eddie Betts – are now lost to the game.

Even the ploy of a red-hot forward clearing out the forward 50 to create space for potential mismatches is gone.

All this sacrificed for just an average 0.5-point increase in scoring.
Meanwhile, the umpires are repeatedly stopping play to warn teams for breaching starting position protocols. It is a mess.
St Kilda coach Ross Lyon expressed his frustration after losing to Hawthorn at the weekend, citing restrictions on the use of the runner. He said it hindered his ability to make crucial game-day moves.
Lyon should instead take issue with those who changed the rule book to stifle the strategic creativity and effectiveness of the league’s best game-day coaches.
The new kick-in rule is a resounding failure. From 2014-18, teams scored an average of 3.9 points from kick-ins each game. Since 2019, this figure has fallen to 3.3 points. Furthermore, the percentage of kick-ins resulting in an inside-50 entry improved by just 1 percentage point from 20 to 21 per cent.


The kick-in to inside-50 conversion rate is up from 19 to 22 per cent from the AFL’s decision to push the man on the mark back an additional five metres in 2021. Despite this change, scoring is now marginally below pre-rule change levels.
All this rule has changed is the eagerness of players stepping out of the goal square during kick-ins, to secure cheap, junk possessions and distort the game’s statistical records.

The stand rule continues to be an embarrassment for the game, failing to generate any increase in scoring. The cry of “stand” from the umpires is annoying in the broadcast microphones.

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And how farcical was it to have Brisbane Lions forward Charlie Cameron told to stand on the mark when he was in agony with an ankle injury earlier this season?
The AFL’s implementation of the six-six-six rule and other recent changes have failed to deliver on the promises of enhanced scoring and improving the game’s look. Instead, we have confusion, less creativity from coaches and no meaningful benefit.
The AFL should revisit these rule changes. It should encourage coaching innovation and creativity and making the job of the umpire easier.
Change is not always good.

The most shocking thing about the article is Karen Cornes wrote it and its a good read

 

[chriso11]

Cats looked lost last night without their two main forwards, and the Scums couldn't do a thing wrong. I turned it off just after half time, shocking game to watch. As well as the umps giving everything they could to GCS and nothing to the Cats.

Have the AFL sent the umps this memo, "Make sure the Suns play in finals this year!"?

Even with the umps help Suns are still not going to make it. Dimma can shove his new toys up his arse

 

[tropicaltiger]

the stand rule needs to be chucked out as this doozy was after it became a joke

One of the most significant innovations that came into force in 1973 was the implementation of a painted centre diamond area with 45-metre long sides, with a maximum of four players from each team permitted to stand within the diamond at centre bounces.

 

[lllscroatlll]

Link to article?

it was quoted by tiger of old couiple of pages back brother

 

[smasha]

hopefully the corns article is the beginning of the end for STAND STAND OUTSIDE FOIIIVE OUTSIDE FIVE SYAND STA>>> PLAY ON UHHHH NO 50 50 50! STAND MOTHAFYCKAHHHH STAAAAANNDDDD!!!

Whateley pushed him into it.
Geelong can't win with the current rules so state of the game.

 

[smasha]

CFL crooked to the core.

 

[lllscroatlll]

Whateley pushed him into it.
Geelong can't win with the current rules so state of the game.

theyre not a club theyre a rules cult

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

Dimma still got it love him or hate him now.

Pretty obvious he’d done everything he could with us.

I don't get the angst against him by some.
Bloke is a 3 time Premiership coach of the RFC.

 

[YeOldTiger]

“Absolute garbage”: Blight responds to Cornes’ criticism of 6-6-6 and stand rule

“Kane, that’s crap, that is absolute garbage.”

www.sen.com.au

I dont often agree with Kane Cornes, but he is right on the money with this imo

 

[smasha]

If a NT team came in.

CFL allocate team funding to help out.

Richmond 100 mill.
Other clubs 1 dollar.

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

from scatland

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[tropicaltiger]

 

[Drunken Wookie]

hopefully the corns article is the beginning of the end for STAND STAND OUTSIDE FOIIIVE OUTSIDE FIVE SYAND STA>>> PLAY ON UHHHH NO 50 50 50! STAND MOTHAFYCKAHHHH STAAAAANNDDDD!!!

What a wild swing in the opinion polls that would be for Kane. From villain to hero.

 

[lllscroatlll]

What a wild swing in the opinion polls that would be for Kane. From villain to hero.

lets face it if he was coming out with fangs bared for anyone but us we would be pretty neutral on the bobblehead mofo