Terrible idea.
Most years by rd 17 you barely have percentage separating 4-8.
You really want to punish a team in 8th that could still finish in the top 2?
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Most years by rd 17 you barely have percentage separating 4-8.
You really want to punish a team in 8th that could still finish in the top 2?
May as well bring back the place kick while we're at it!
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I'd take it one step further - push in the back, where it happens in the process of a tackle, should not be a free kick. Unless you're full on spear tackling them in the back, I see no reason for it. If it's dangerous, call it a dangerous tackle, but by default the "in the back" free kick shouldn't exist as it rewards diving.
At the very least, it should be treated the same as ducking. Ducking a tackle is a legitimate strategy to avoid being tackled, and players are free to use it, with umpires (in most cases) no longer giving frees where they have evidently ducked.
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AFL players struggle to multitask at the best of times, why not make it easier on them? I can envisage a David Mundy extending hes career a further two years without the unwarranted stress of the need to bounce the ball.
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i was having a discussion with an amateur league umpire the other week and I asked if its in the rulebook to still use a placekick. he had no idea
guess you can.
Im surprised a showy type like Riewlodt late in a winning GF hasnt tried it fir the LoLs
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They sjould bring in a rule where if you kick a goal you get the ball and restart from the oppo goal square.
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Chris Mainwaring famously did a dropkick in final qtr of 1994 on the wing
nah dont like that at all - thats like rugby league where, as far as i am aware, its the only sport in the world where after you score YOU get teh ball back and its not a 50-50 back in middle or starts with opposition. terrible idea
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If they want to fix the fixture the only way to genuinely do it, is to have 17 games a year, with teams alternative home and away so that over a 2 year window every team has played every opponent at their home ground and at their opponents ground.
Then to pad out the fixtures, have 5 extra matches per season. Those 5 extra games are drawn at random, and they keep those games over the two year window.
I.e Essendon draws Collingwood as one of those 5 games, which means Essendon plays Collingwood 4 times in two years as opposed to 2 times in 2 years.
Then after the 2 year cycle ends, they redraw those 5 random end of season games, with teams who had just played ineligible to be matched again.
Let that cycle go 3 times (6 seasons) and then start again.
Then to pad out the fixtures, have 5 extra matches per season. Those 5 extra games are drawn at random, and they keep those games over the two year window.
I.e Essendon draws Collingwood as one of those 5 games, which means Essendon plays Collingwood 4 times in two years as opposed to 2 times in 2 years.
Then after the 2 year cycle ends, they redraw those 5 random end of season games, with teams who had just played ineligible to be matched again.
Let that cycle go 3 times (6 seasons) and then start again.
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All this prison bar guernsey talk I actually think on looks of a guernsey Ports V looks a million times better.
The PBs looks fugly.
Anyway I get its tradition etc but yeah.
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The PBs looks fugly.
Anyway I get its tradition etc but yeah.
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What’s special about it now?
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The whole day.
Not saying the coverage is bad. But what’s special about Collingwood and Essendon?
Having the same two teams is holding it back. If we really want it to be the “biggest home and away game”, a grand final rematch would at least guarantee some emotion.
At the moment it’s a regular game between two average sides. Doesn’t really do the build up justice
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A grand final rematch can't be played at the MCG every year, Also it's not about having the 2 best teams it's about the day and Essendon and Collingwood add to it and make it what it is, they draw a crowd without fail and people watch without fail.
A grand final rematch would take the focus away from Anzac Day.
And given a grand final rematch is usually a big game in its own right, it gives the AFL an extra high-rating game to sell to broadcasters.
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Not adverse to it being random, but I would probably prefer it just to be set in stone. You play every team the same amount of times over X years, just rinse repeat.
Alternatively games against opposition you play twice is only worth 2 points. Takes the gaming the fixture out of it.
Does anyone watch who wouldn't already watch any random game that day?
I mean, I don't really know anyone except Essendon and Collingwood supporters who care about it.
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I'm fine with Essendon Collingwood as ANZAC day, as they are pretty much guaranteed to get 90,000 at the G and have an atmosphere to the game. If it was randomly drawn or a rematch of a grand final I don't think it would have the same feeling about it. Can't see people getting the same level of hyped if it was GWS vs North on ANZAC day.
The one which annoys me is Richmond Carlton to open the season. Make it either a grand final rematch or the same as the NFL where the reigning premiers host the match to raise the flag. Funnily enough this method has been done in three of the last 4 seasons with Richmond
The one which annoys me is Richmond Carlton to open the season. Make it either a grand final rematch or the same as the NFL where the reigning premiers host the match to raise the flag. Funnily enough this method has been done in three of the last 4 seasons with Richmond
Then make it the two highest ranked vic clubs from the previous year.
neutral supporters care about good games of football. They couldn’t care less if it’s Essendon and Collingwood.
Meh. ANZAC Day has been made the event it is by Essendon and Collingwood working with the RSL. Essendon and Collingwood deserve it unless the RSL decide it’s time for a change.
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Melbourne vs Bulldogs for example may get 50k 60k if they're blessed with perfect weather and MCC fill up.
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Been years since I watched the EssvCol ANZAC game. They've either one or both been ordinary for some time, and I've grown weary of the AFLs shameless self promotion and attachment to the occasion. As an event it's become very 'meh' to me.
Maybe it's because every other game over the weekend, the AFL has tried to mooch onto the event and leeched its special? The traditional ANZAC-Eve match?
Maybe it's because every other game over the weekend, the AFL has tried to mooch onto the event and leeched its special? The traditional ANZAC-Eve match?
