Nicknames now need to be changed
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I’ve changed my views on this. Why not a live weigh in of every player of every club? Like a really long draft / biggest loser event?
Listed heights are often lies (e.g. Jobe was 194 before we realised he was a midfielder).
Weight would fluctuate more than height, but not sure if there is more lying about it.
It’s actually more of an issue at lower levels, where it’s already much harder to find out the size/nature of your opponents.
He prefers Two Litre Peter.
Not clear if volumes will be banned as well.
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Boxing should be banned coz they get weighed on screen. Shame on them. The biggest guy should be able to fight the smallest.
I don’t trust the player weights coz they don’t update often. Maybe a few times in a career. The Essendon website can’t even put player photos up so I doubt they pay much attention to the player profiles. Jaiden Hunter has been on the list for 7.5 months and still doesn’t have a mugshot.
Ok. If we are throwing out things that are completely unrelated to the discussion.
Golfers should publish player weights, cos I just want to know. How heavy was John Daly? I have a right to know dammit (and by ‘right’ I mean self-given)
Next they’ll start banning strawmen!
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I think they should replace the weight figure with whether they follow other clubs on Twitter, Insta and Facebook.
Would help commentators talking rubbish instead of actually…
You know…
The commentating the game…
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Its a professional sport (apparently) and height and weight should not be an issue to published. Seriously snowflake central. Is there legitamitely a player who gives a toss? If so, how embarrassing for them. If its a player who wrestles with their body image and every time they step on the scales, or read the record, they get into a panic, then see a shrink and consider a new job. And during draft, height/weight ratio important as paints a picture as to their physically development entering system for us fans to gain some insight. What, they think we see 100kg next to a name we going to shame them? No one cares. If they come back from off season looking like they enjoyed the all you can eat buffet on the cruise ship a bit too much, then they might, as a result of their proffession, attract the odd picture and comment, albeit media and/or supporters. Just coz someone has an idea whilst holding hands singing Kumbaya to each other with crayons in hand does not mean it has to come to fruition. Where does this crap come from? Beam me up Scotty… please!
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So the players shouldn’t care.
Why is it so important to you? And with that, why is it more important that you know than it is to them that it is private?
My goodness what a joke this is. Professional athletes ffs.
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I just told you, im a fan of a proffesional sport so height/weight ratio is an important measure of the size of a player. Just their size. Ill spell it out… plsaers profile reads 200cm, weighs 100kg, ok, big solid unit, sounds good. 200cm weighs 80kg, a way to go. How on earth is that an issue?
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It isn’t. I get that you just want to know.
But it doesn’t actually impact on anything, apart from you knowing. It doesn’t actually change the need for a player to add or lose weight, or add strength or endurance. All of that becomes apparent in the outcomes.
I mean just on this forum we get players copping it for being sticks, or overweight or complimented with absolutely zero mention of their actual weight. In fact those comments are based on photos alone, with the actual figures being pretty quickly dismissed. Cox is 94kg? ‘Nah he is a stick’. Stringer is 92kg? ‘Nah he is fat’.
Clubs will still be very aware of the physical development a player needs, and have access to the figures.
I just don’t get why people would be so angry about this. It is something so minor to us as supporters. It actually has no bearing.
everythings fixed then, well done AFL
Some people are angry as they fed up with crap like this being suggested. Some supporters IMO out of line at times re discussion on players sizes etc, gets too personal, thats not the issue here, the issue here is AFL removing a key aspect of a players profile from the system and its simply ridiculous. So where does it end? Dont list their height? It does have a bearing as indicates a players size, you know, the key aspect of mass that enables a player to contest at the top level, match up without getting polaxed thus important to know as a fan. We not getting their home address FFS, just a guide as to whether they eat their weetbix.
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Tbh, it seems to me that it likely is the issue.
I don’t have a problem publishing my height and weight, but that doesn’t mean nobody else should have a problem with it either (even professional athletes)
I’m not sure the call of ‘find another job’ is a reasonable solution either.
I naturally lean towards a person, any person, having a right to privacy (though exceptions around conduct, conflict of interest in public office etc) that is far exceeding the publics right to knowledge.
I just don’t see the issue here. But that’s just me.
Nobody will give a fark in a months time.
It’s not that big a deal.
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It’s not that big of a deal i agree, but how much of this kinda b.s does society have to put up with? People are over it, is why it’s blown up out of proportion.
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