TD RD20 Thread

[Old Spice]

Some excellent suggestions coming through here. I say we draft a document with our proposals and seek support on the main board.

For me, I'd like to see a leopard included in the centre square ball up. If a player is taken out by a leopard slap, the interchange bikie is allowed to enter the fray on his chopper, wielding a feather duster. If he makes the opposition captain giggle within a 5 minute burst, thats a MEGA GOAL.

 

[joxstrap]

For me, I'd like to see a leopard included in the centre square ball up. If a player is taken out by a leopard slap, the interchange bikie is allowed to enter the fray on his chopper, wielding a feather duster. If he makes the opposition captain giggle within a 5 minute burst, thats a MEGA GOAL.

It seems so obvious now that you mention it, I can't believe I didn't see that before. Of course, a MEGA GOAL would have to be worth millions of points so as to keep people interested - low scoring affairs are notoriously bad for viewer numbers. It also encourages players to go for the MEGA GOAL where ever possible.

I think we should take some of these suggestions to the main board, because the game is quite clearly languishing with poor attendance numbers, record low memberships, low tv ratings, and the game is quickly losing it's appeal particularly with the child, teen, adult and aged demographics.

The other suggestion I have is that there should be large sections of the ground, known as the launching pads which would be constructed of trampoline like material, located mainly around the outside of the 50, but also in hopping range down the field. Players could, in theory, hop the length of the field from pad to pad. directly around and between the pads you could have some softish ground to land - it would be a marvelous spectacle with higher marks than ever before, bigger mid air collisions and unique goal scoring opportunities. They complain the game is too fast, I complain it's too low.

 

[DaVe86]

If Pies get their goal-kicking right before September...then we will win the flag.

 

[Old Spice]

I'm with you there, absolutely. The jumping goal then becomes the 'Joal' and is worth 800,000 points.

The checkside is starting to make me yawn, so boring. I want to see the introduction of the reverse checkside pony. This involves running backwards, hands in the air like ralph macchio and then a jaunty kick. The performance will be judged by a team of eastern european gymnasts and points awarded accordingly. Ribbon work is always highly rated.

A team should aslo be able to choose a war monkey, elephant or bear to sit on the interchange and to ride onto the ground when three pairs of sox have dropped down.

 

[Pie eyed]

If Pies get their goal-kicking right before September...then we will win the flag.

Agree 100%.

We excell in every other aspect. Even our implausibles, are in the upper limits.
Accuracy is the Rosetta Stone as far as Collingwood are concerned.

We all know it in our guts and can really only hope it comes together when we need it most.

 

[Old Spice]

Agree 100%.

We excell in every other aspect. Even our implausibles, are in the upper limits.
Accuracy is the Rosetta Stone as far as Collingwood are concerned.

We all know it in our guts and can really only hope it comes together when we need it most.

Ahh, I beleive we were discussing launching pads and reverse checkside ponys.

 

[joxstrap]

The checkside is starting to make me yawn, so boring. I want to see the introduction of the reverse checkside pony. This involves running backwards, hands in the air like ralph macchio and then a jaunty kick. The performance will be judged by a team of eastern european gymnasts and points awarded accordingly. Ribbon work is always highly rated.

Drawn H&A games would be a thing of the past with the introduction of the reverse checkside pony penalty shootout.

I'm drawing up the dossier as we speak, anyone got Demetriou's email? What is the plural of Dugong? I'm working on a new interchange steward system which my preliminary testing indicates would lower the potential for infringements by half.

 

[Pie eyed]

Hence my reference to the "implausibles".

 

[Old Spice]

Are you thinking what I'm thinking Jox? A moat around the boundary line with a few tributaries snaking across the ground. Bench players can paddle onto the ground on blow up bananas.

They can't grab either of the balls unless they hop onto terra firma, and once they have taken possession have to kick the ball and do a horsie into one of the mega pools within 5 seconds, or the ball is returned to the opposition banana player closest to their goal.

 

[The Magnificent Seven]

I'm going to repeat this with Robert-Walls-like stubbornness and tenacity until it makes it through...

MULTIBALL!

 

[joxstrap]

Are you thinking what I'm thinking Jox? A moat around the boundary line with a few tributaries snaking across the ground. Bench players can paddle onto the ground on blow up bananas.

They can't grab either of the balls unless they hop onto terra firma, and once they have taken possession have to kick the ball and do a horsie into one of the mega pools within 5 seconds, or the ball is returned to the opposition banana player closest to their goal.

Yup, exactly as I see it. A small herd of dugongs would patrol the water interchange - they are perfectly placed so to do given their intelligence and brilliant eye sight. I think having a balancing beam ala gladiators starting at ground level 30m out from goal going to 10 feet tall 20m out could be a good way to win back the gymnastics fans once so loyal to the AFL - bbbbbbbalancing goal!!! 400,000 - 1,000,000 points available depending on how far along the beam you are when you take the kick.

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Sherriff, multiball is on its way, and I'd encourage as many of you as possible to write in to the AFL lobbying for this obvious change to be implemented. Too much time has passed.

 

[Old Spice]

That's spooky, but I guess the water interchange was always going to happen. Can't stop progress.

I've posted some of our thoughts on the main board in a new thread for game innovations.

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?p=18657004#post18657004

 

[The Magnificent Seven]

That's spooky, but I guess the water interchange was always going to happen. Can't stop progress.

I've posted some of our thoughts on the main board in a new thread for game innovations.

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?p=18657004#post18657004

Hmmm... reading through the list I'd be tempted to say you've been flicking through the back catalogue of 'Its'a knockout'.

Billy J Smith honking the airhorn to start quarters? Fiona McDonald as the roving inane interviewer? Replace AFL teams with local APEX groups and clad them in yellow, blue, red and green skivvies?

 

[Old Spice]

Hmmm... reading through the list I'd be tempted to say you've been flicking through the back catalogue of 'Its'a knockout'.

Billy J Smith honking the airhorn to start quarters? Fiona McDonald as the roving inane interviewer? Replace AFL teams with local APEX groups and clad them in yellow, blue, red and green skivvies?

A man with that much charisma needs to have his middle initial announced. What an amazing man. Aaah, what happened there, a real shooting star that lit up our nights, neigh, our hearts.

That siren made a beatiful sound didn't it? Nhgyeeeeeh.

 

[Quicky]

Pros:

• Great Team Effort

Cons

• Reid's Injury - Who will play CHB?​
• Terrible Goal Kicking need to kick better then that During the Final Series​

Hopefully we does get big heads after this win​

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I think they are some good points you make TD.

It really was a great team effort. We were really good at the clearances which put Geelong on the backfoot and gave us a platform to build our game on. When we lost possession we were ferocious as a unit in our tackling within our high forward press. This really stifled Geelongs run and stopped them from moving the ball quicky. In turn this allowed our defenders to zone back and do the job they are so good at. It was a really pleasing team performance and I don't think anyone can really hold their heads down on their efforts. And thats all you can ask really.

On Reids injury while it's unwelcome atleast we get the opportunity to get some match conditioning into Brown who I suspect will spend a bit of time on Hille.

Can't agree more RE: our kicking. Hopefully we can take Lloyd up on his offer to help out Cloke.

 

[Snag Breac]

TD, Reid's injury was certainly a con, but in one sense it was also a pro, because we still beat the best, even after losing a key player early - which underlines your team effort observation. The victory under those circs must be a great confidence boost to the boys.

Hoping we can minimse the goal-kicking problem by spreading the scoring load right across the team as we've been doing to date. That even contribution may yet save our skins.

 

[shawthing09]

^^^ To be fair to Geelong I would rather have been in our spot with a defender short, then be in theres with Hawkins as back up ruck. He was simply insipid.

 

[Optimax]

^^^ To be fair to Geelong I would rather have been in our spot with a defender short, then be in theres with Hawkins as back up ruck. He was simply insipid.

Hawkins is rubbish

Apart from being a huge teenager, i'm not actually quite sure what there is to rate him. He is an ok mark, decent kick for goal (accuracy and distant), as well as being slightly over weight still, treacle slow, and has a smaller vertical leap then our leroy.

And geelong want us to believe he is a saviour forward, my ass

 

[smiddaz123]

Yeh, could be a case of dominating the under age competitions because of his size. Recruiters would surely see through such a thing though, so there much have been something to have him rated so highly.

If only the Father Son rule was introduced a year earlier. Geelong would've used their first pick on Hawkins instead of Selwood.

 

[surfer1]

anyone know why Rusling isn't playing this week

 

[TradeDraft]

anyone know why Rusling isn't playing this week

Injured

 

[surfer1]

Injured

Dave what and when

 

[Pie eyed]

Injured

Not on the injury list and trained yesterday.

 

[Swooop]

Dave what and when

He suffered a near fatal case of rubberbandum snapperitis

His legs were found trying to have a kick on the half forward flank, whilst his arms were waving around in the back pocket.

His torso was last seen trying to nod a ride on Punt rd after training