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Look at GWS vs St Kilda in round 1
It was pissing down before the game and still both teams scored well.
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Rules The new man on the mark rule is utterly ridiculous.
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It was pissing down before the game and still both teams scored well.
Today's game might not be that high scoring, but the ball is always moving, it feels like no side really had proper "control" at any point.
One thing for sure you really need runners on the G more than ever.
One thing for sure you really need runners on the G more than ever.
The new rule, combined with the 50m "play on" rule they brought in a year or two ago makes for an interesting combination.
Today we saw Jiath run about 100m and bomb long toward goal without having to take a single bounce. It was exciting, but it didn't seem right somehow.
Today we saw Jiath run about 100m and bomb long toward goal without having to take a single bounce. It was exciting, but it didn't seem right somehow.
He hasn't played on until he ran his first 50m. Not sure he ran any/much further than 15m after that point?
I don’t think the poster was suggesting he did anything against the rules, more that the rules allowed him to do something unnatural within the game
Vlastun is very very underrated. Imo give it time they’ll adjust.
Maybe I'm in the minority here but I would rather see a tight, low scoring game decided in the last quarter than a high scoring game where it's over before half time. I fundamentally don't see what's entertaining about watching a team smash through goals like the Harlem Globetrotters in what is effectively an uncontested game. I suspect that if the thrashings continue these new rules will start to look less smart.
Also they HAVE to come up with a fairer system for playing on. It is hopeless to depend on the umpire calling it to avoid a 50.
Also they HAVE to come up with a fairer system for playing on. It is hopeless to depend on the umpire calling it to avoid a 50.
The coaches will halt the scoring soon enough.
Yep your in the minority.
Easy fixed. Don’t lose the contest or give away a free kick and you’ll have a say in the next passage of play. Lose the contest or give away a free and you’ve lost the right to have any say in the next passage of play.
I'm actually keen to see the return of the super athletic, zero skills, can't kick to save himself, completely mad full back.
North didn't need Josh Walker holding his own in a pack and getting an intercept mark or spoil they needed a guy with pace and aggression to run right through Bruce when he was on a lead.
Hey if teams get so bad at team defending the scoring might go up so much we can bring back all the defenders dirty tricks. Hartigan tried to bring back the ear massage today.
North didn't need Josh Walker holding his own in a pack and getting an intercept mark or spoil they needed a guy with pace and aggression to run right through Bruce when he was on a lead.
Hey if teams get so bad at team defending the scoring might go up so much we can bring back all the defenders dirty tricks. Hartigan tried to bring back the ear massage today.
I'm in the minority by liking games that aren't over by half time?
As for 'easily fixed', some rule changes will tend to lead to bigger blow outs. This may be one.
and sometimes it is bad to create a situation where a clearly inferior team has a "chance". I mean look at soccer, where an inferior team can win because of one really good or lucky shot at goal, even with the other team basically dominating the rest of the game. Not sure we would want that in AFL.
So it’s going towards more uncontested football which is what the AFL want.
No one that loves the purity of what this game is meant to be wants more uncontested footy.
Less congestion and more contests is what we want.
They still got a long way to go to fix up plenty of the mess they made of changes in last couple of decades.
You just had that with all the ultra defensive tactics keeping scores ahem like soccer my team one of the best examples of it. We brang the game to a dour slog where by even when dominant only ever in front a few goals, a single lapse in a quarter often saw our lead eroded or taken.
Was boring as bat s**t to watch too.
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That’s just a bad game plan and a lack of good forwards though. The best teams didn’t lose like that.
It just blows my mind that for so many years there has been introductions of new rules to speed the game up and it’s had the reverse effect. So they just keeping making new ones to point where it’s quite a different sport now.
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If you guys are happy with 18 v 17 , which is what happens when a player stands on the mark, then good luck to you.
I dont care what effect it has had on the game, its still wrong and still ridiculous to me.
But Im beyond letting this s**t worry me excessively now days.
Have at it.
I dont care what effect it has had on the game, its still wrong and still ridiculous to me.
But Im beyond letting this s**t worry me excessively now days.
Have at it.
I am not sure all the rules have been brought in to speed the game up over the last two or three decades.
My problem is the ones that not good for the game have no been removed for most part.
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