Opinion The Rules Of Our Game - Kill Me Now...

[ferrisb]

Hate it when two players wrestle for position and the one who gets thrown to the ground wins a free kick.

I understand you can't just shove players around for the sake of it, but in a contest you shouldn't be penalised for being stronger than your opponent...

 

[ferrisb]

I can't think of another sport in the world where rules or interpretations are changed every week.

It's madness

EFA

 

[Stig O'Hara]

Umpires robbed us of at least 17 wins last year.

Only ever played in one game where I reckon the fix was in.

Was playing for Monivae v (a then whitehot) Whitefriars on the Number One oval in 1981 in that College Cup thing.

The Park Orchards boys turned up the night before, hit the piss, while us hay bailers had a quick mass, just so God could keep an eye on us, then we went to bed early.

Anyhoo, out we march........and half of Hamilton has turned up. Umpire is some local who decides it's his duty to protect the good name of the Western District and off we go.

Skinny old me is up against Matt Mclleland (who has been shaving since he was 11, and a total nutter), and I get a couple of easy frees.

Goal, goal.........now the Whitefriars boys are in my ear with "Matty is gunna kill you", and he proceeds to spend the next 80 minutes beating the sheer snot out of me. Coach of Whitefriars is a bloke called Ray Keane, fitness nut, 'nam veteran, and all I hear from the boundary is 'Kill him Matt'.

For some bloody reason the umpire takes pity on me and pays every free under the book, as I am pummelled.

.....anyhoo, game goes on, every 50/50 goes our way. McLleland has decided to go after the rest of the team.

We get home by under a kick, Keaney comes bolting onto the ground, he wants to belt the umpire, he's restrained, a cordon is formed around the umpire........Whitefriars are escorted off the ground.

Then Keaney comes up with "Grab your bags boys, get on the bus, NO SHOWERS" and off they went on a 5 hour bus trip stinking of the mud at Hamilton.

 

[thylacine60]

Keane was a total flog. He had a whistle on a cord he would slap you with. I finished at Whitefriars around 78.

 

[Stig O'Hara]

Keaney was alright.

When big Teasdale knocked Garry Wilson senseless at the Junction Oval in '81????, (Keane was the runner then), out he went and dropped Teaser like a sack of s**t.

 

[thylacine60]

I said he was a flog.

 

[Stig O'Hara]

I said he was a flog.

He was the fitness coach for the Under 19's at the club I played for, always said "Foot-speed, Foot-speed".

First game down at Kardinia Park........on I come, Mclleland is doing a war dance against some poor shmuck, Keaney is the runner and on I come........against Damian Bourke, who proceeds to kick the s**t out of me at the centre bounces. Thankfully i had forgotten shin-guards so the blood flowed freely, and in those days you didn't show pain, as our socks were maroon, you just pulled them up and off you went.

Anyhoo after enough blood for a Monty Python skit, I've had enough...........and end up in the goal square. It's late in the last quarter and the ball comes my way, a mark, the siren goes............woohoo, a kick after the siren in my first game.

Players are around me giving advice like "Kick it straight" and "Don't miss", then Keaney comes up with "Kick through it David", I try to tell him my name isn't David, but we are beyond that.

Anyhoo, in I go, concerntrating hard, kick through the ball.............goal.................and mobbed by my team-mates.

Look at the scoreboard, and by golly it counted............Roys home by 95 points.

 

[thylacine60]

Classic, Numbers.

 

[Chookaradley]

Heard on Morning Glory during the week that a soccer player in Argentina (I think?) got red carded in a game, went off the pitch got a gun and shot the ref. s**t gets real in South America when it comes to football.

 

[Robbo's my hero]

He was the fitness coach for the Under 19's at the club I played for, always said "Foot-speed, Foot-speed".

First game down at Kardinia Park........on I come, Mclleland is doing a war dance against some poor shmuck, Keaney is the runner and on I come........against Damien Bourke, who proceeds to kick the s**t out of me at the centre bounces. Thankfully i had forgotten shin-guards so the blood flowed freely, and in those days you didn't show pain, as our socks were maroon, you just pulled them up and off you went.

Anyhoo after enough blood for a Monty Python skit, I've had enough...........and end up in the goal square. It's late in the last quarter and the ball comes my way, a mark, the siren goes............woohoo, a kick after the siren in my first game.

Players are around me giving advice like "Kick it straight" and "Don't miss", then Keaney comes up with "Kick through it David", I try to tell him my name isn't David, but we are beyond that.

Anyhoo, in I go, concerntrating hard, kick through the ball.............goal.................and mobbed by my team-mates.

Look at the scoreboard, and by golly it counted............Roys home by 95 points.

This is a classic. More please.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

Stig O'Hara I'm loving this.

 

[HBF]

Heard on Morning Glory during the week that a soccer player in Argentina (I think?) got red carded in a game, went off the pitch got a gun and shot the ref. s**t gets real in South America when it comes to football.

Breakfast with Frank & Ox.
Morning Glory died with Andy Maher & Gaze.

 

[passmark]

I'm really struggling with the ruck infringements.

I can't pick the kicks even on replay.

 

[retreat]

Frequent rule changes or adjustments are not a problem if The new rules are ok....better than some other (cant Say which) game where To change a rule someone has To get arrested first....The real problem is The Quality of The changes that should Not go against The nature of The game...if someone is trying To thoroughly/deliberately do that He should be stopped

 

[zeeCFC]

Watch the replay of yesterday's game. Curnow should have been paid that pack mark. Hawk player clearly chops his arm...reckon they only paid it against us, was shocking. At the same time though our players dropped the ball and had it let go about a dozen times too. The basic rules have been diluted while buzz fringe rules are sought out.

 

[retreat]

Generally if umpires tend to freely interpret a given rule too often The rule should be rewritten so ad To A voi further inconsistente interpretations

 

[ferrisb]

Stig O'Hara & thylacine60

Ray Keane! What a blast from the past (although not as long ago as for you guys).

He was at my school in the 90s. Some kind of honorary head of sports position. I never could figure out what exactly he did, other than yell at the kids.

I still remember stuff like 'get on the bus boys, or I'll rip your arms off, stick em in your ears and send you home as a motorbike'.

I never knew he was a 'nam vet but always suspected. No other way to explain the crazy old soldier routine.

Was an old kook by the time he got to my school. Crazy and volatile but mostly harmless.

 

[ESKIE]

That ******* RULES COMMITTEE. They have to keep themselves relevant so they come up with new ways of ******* the game every season.

Also, the ridiculous interpretations of the 'deliberate' rule. Skilled players who can kick the ball 50-60m ahead to gain ground but then the ball bounces funny and goes out of bounds...pinged. Players who run over the line with the ball...not pinged.

AND ANOTHER THING. ******* goobers who flop around like a gasping fish pretending to be attempting to get rid of the ball...not pinged. Acting skills seem to be more important than football skills these days.

Oh man ... Yeh YEH MEB_

 

[I bleed Blue]

Rules around ruck contests.

Boundry throw in. You hear a whistle... And you literally have no idea which ruckman it is going to go to.

 

[ESKIE]

Didn't think I'd have to tell an Esky to chill...

 

[wackle69]

Stig O'Hara & thylacine60

Ray Keane! What a blast from the past (although not as long ago as for you guys).

He was at my school in the 90s. Some kind of honorary head of sports position. I never could figure out what exactly he did, other than yell at the kids.

I still remember stuff like 'get on the bus boys, or I'll rip your arms off, stick em in your ears and send you home as a motorbike'.

I never knew he was a 'nam vet but always suspected. No other way to explain the crazy old soldier routine.

Was an old kook by the time he got to my school. Crazy and volatile but mostly harmless.

I remember that quote like it was yesterday

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[SBYM]

Terribly difficult game to umpire...AFL's fault.

Generally terribly s**t umpires...also AFL's fault.

I'm no mathematician, but the above variables pretty much make impossible the chances of a consistently high standard of adjudication.

And FMD...if anyone can point me to another professional sport anywhere in the world where mic'd-up umpires/refs/etc literally negotiate with players and explain their decisions whilst referring to said players by their nicknames, I'd be very interested...

 

[SBYM]

Breakfast with Frank & Ox.
Morning Glory died with Andy Maher & Gaze.

Frankie Leach is back on SEN?!?!?!?

 

[HBF]

Frankie Leach is back on SEN?!?!?!?

He sure is.

 

[SBYM]

Frank is the best.