Mega Thread Port Forum 'General AFL Talk' Thread Part 4

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chiwigi

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Except basketball , baseball , soccer , rugby cricket etc all have dozens of countries playing the sport and a talent pool of 1000's to the tens of thousands as opposed to like the 500 professional and 500 semi professional athletes we have. And if you were to narrow it down to a competitive 23-29yr old prime age bracket we probably only have around 200 as a total pool. That is minuscule as a talent pool when compared to something like basketball and one of like a 1000 reasons why a full on free agency wouldn't work well for our sport.

Not too mention that in those sports

A) they rarely rarely develop the players. colleges and foreign leagues develop like 90% of their talent pools. Can we do that with football?

B) in every other team sport the expected career of an average good player can be 13-18 seasons. Football is more like 8-12 seasons.
Your point makes sense, but it doesn't have anything to do with contracts at all.
 

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So who will the umpires support in Geelong's next game? Will their new rookie revelation get away with scragging Eddie all night? Will Tex be gonged going for the match winner? Somehow I think not. It's only us.
Adelaide won't put up a fight like us so it won't matter

Geelong will go in dry
 

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Get ready for a spike in "play on" calls from umpires for the remainder of this round once the 30 second shot clock has run down. The AFL will do everything to make it look like last nights was no anomaly.
If our cheer squad isn't in the process of preparing it's own clock now for use next Thursday and beyond, then I would be exceedingly disappointed in their inaction.
 

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Get ready for a spike in "play on" calls from umpires for the remainder of this round once the 30 second shot clock has run down. The AFL will do everything to make it look like last nights was no anomaly.
The only other player I can think of in the league that might get close to having the umpire call play on would be Ben Brown who has a long unorthodox yet effective goal kicking routine.
 

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Get ready for a spike in "play on" calls from umpires for the remainder of this round once the 30 second shot clock has run down. The AFL will do everything to make it look like last nights was no anomaly.
No they won't, because they don't have to, because nobody in a position to get noticed complained about it.
 
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