Mega Thread Port Forum 'General AFL Talk' Thread Part 10

[RussellEbertHandball]

IMO the AFL need to seriously consider looking at the latest technology in artificial turf.

Artificial turf is crap for Aussie rules. You are doing all that running on a cement base. Plus who wants to be cut up when you fall on artificial turf. Some blokes in gridiron wouldn't run much more that 2kms in a game.

You need heat to get into the soil, worms, and roots to grow deep, a metre or so, even two, to grow grass properly. That's why 200 mm of grass, soil and sand on a concrete base will never work.

The best solution is to cut away that concrete base and put soil into the hole that is now the car park. But the AFL wont give up that revenue stream and the convenience of all those car parks its staff have.

If you could add a metre of soil onto the concrete base, then put then down 200 mm of turf, that might work, but you probably would have to put up supporting pillars under the concrete base to take the extra weight and the playing surface probably is higher than the first few rows of seating.

 

[Burton89onegoal]

Reminds me of this

Who was the player that injured his knee? Was it Chris McDermott?

 

[Far Kern]

As much as it sucked, 2018 will hold us in good stead this year, because there will be times when we need to play a possession based style against teams that think the way to beat us is by matching pressure.

And part of what I was thinking last night is that even if you’ve figured it out and know what to do, it still takes time to perfect the execution.

 

[ROBBBO]

Heard Brad Crouch and/or Bryce Gibbs injured, tipped Adelaide with no confidence, they should still win

 

[GremioPower]

Reminds me of this

Who was the player that injured his knee? Was it Chris McDermott?

Artificial turf is way better now.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

As much as it sucked, 2018 will hold us in good stead this year, because there will be times when we need to play a possession based style against teams that think the way to beat us is by matching pressure.

I thought up to the end of the GC game in China the new game style we used in 2018 work reasonably well and tied in closely with what we were told at the members convention of how it would work.

After that it sucked. Don't know if it was mainly because the opposition studied us and knew what to do against us, or we just became crap and slowed down too much, or some other reasons. I agree that at times we should play like we did for part of 2018, especially when the oppo have done all their planning for us to play flat out and we can then switch up on them.

 

[crafty_bernardo]

Wonder if this will be swept under the rug



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[LFC2010]

Grimes offered a week for an elbow. Lol vfl.

 

[ROBBBO]

Wonder if this will be swept under the rug



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Wow

 

[El_Scorcho]

Artificial turf is crap for Aussie rules. You are doing all that running on a cement base. Plus who wants to be cut up when you fall on artificial turf. Some blokes in gridiron wouldn't run much more that 2kms in a game.

I definitely agree that existing technology isn't quite there yet, but surely there is an enormous demand in sports like soccer and gridiron for something better. Eventually they'll have artificial turf that behaves like grass and every major stadium in the world will use it.

Until then I totally agree that the carpark has to go, or alternatively be dug out lower so the amount of dirt can be much, much thicker.

 

[ROBBBO]

Grimes offered a week for an elbow. Lol vfl.

About right id reckon, didnt seem to do any damage

 

[afl2004]

Jack out for a month

 

[Coobk001]

Reminds me of this

Who was the player that injured his knee? Was it Chris McDermott?

What the hell, I did not know this happened! We played a SOO game in Canada, wow.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Artificial turf is way better now.

It might have improved but players don't want to run 15km on a cement base.

Kane Cornes talked about this the other day and I have heard others talk about it in the past and how hard it is on your legs. He said he didn't like playing there.

It's hard to believe that if 200 mm of grass, soil and sand doesn't provide enough cushioning, that approx 100 mm of artificial turf will do a better job.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

My deepest sympathies to the people of Canada for having to put up with KG.. no wonder it hasn't happened again.

 

[LukeSA]

Jack out for a month

I read that he could be out for 8 weeks.

First time since round 9 2009 that Richmond have been without both Rance and Riewoldt.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Reminds me of this

Who was the player that injured his knee? Was it Chris McDermott?

I lived in Toronto at the time and knew the game was being played (The Foster's Cup final between Collingwood and Hawks was played the week before in Toronto). The 24 hour sports channel, TSN, that had the VFL coverage, didn't show it.

I feel for those Canadians who tuned in to the local Vancouver station who had to listen to KG.

 

[OneGreatClub]

Heard Brad Crouch and/or Bryce Gibbs injured, tipped Adelaide with no confidence, they should still win

They were saying last night on SEN that in the Crows good years of late they had minimal injuries to key players.

 

[Boxx]

I read that he could be out for 8 weeks.

First time since round 9 2009 that Richmond have been without both Rance and Riewoldt.

Well, one things for sure... he won’t be back in 2 weeks - so that’s good for us!

Adult bones take 6-8weeks to heal fully from a fracture, so I’d expect him to be playing with a brace in 4 weeks or so. Jacks issue is that it’s his right hand, so his grip during his ball drop may be affected by a brace not to mention his marking.

 

[Kiss from a Rozee]

I’m really not sure getting rid of the car park under marvel stadium would be a good idea. There isn’t nearly enough parking around that area to deal with that many people driving in.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

What the hell, I did not know this happened! We played a SOO game in Canada, wow.

State league game, not SOO. The Vic clubs weren't going to release their players to play in this.

 

[Magus]

Why do we never hear the regular tenants of Docklands complaining about the surface? The Dogs, North, Essendon, St. Kilda don't suffer injuries more than any other team.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Cox 1 week for this ...

 

[Grave Danger]

Reminds me of this

Who was the player that injured his knee? Was it Chris McDermott?

If that was State of Origin there must have been a 100% boycott of Western Australian and "Southern" Australian VFL players.

 

[Coobk001]

Cox 1 week for this ...

Oh wow, seriously the games getting soft.

I'm getting so sick of seeing players go down from soft bumps, all because they weren't protecting themselves.

It's like a vicious cycle, we penalise people for these supremely minor things, and as a result this leads to players not bracing for contact, as if we were actually training our players to lack awareness and not protect themselves.