Agreed. 20 out of 28/9 makes sense.
Problem is you just get this discussion bob up when a good bloke plays 19 and misses out.
Could make it anyone to play a game that season but then you get first year rookie spud that never plays again getting a Premiership Medal.
Wait, the Coach gets the JM medal but also the same Premiership medal as the players?
Am I the only one that thinks that’s stupid as hell?
What if instead of having 153 umpires on the field who can’t bounce, they just had one umpire who can bounce?
Then we might get some consistency in decision making.
That rookie spud still contributed. What if someone does their knee in round 1 and is out for the year, but would have played the full season? They’re getting rid of the sub rule, so keep it simple. If you played, you get recognised. Every team has jobbers that will play at some point of the season.
I think playing 10 games is a reasonable number, that’s about half the season. Could also fine tune it as 10 regular season games or 1 final.
I think what makes a Premiership and the medallion you get on the day so special and so coveted is because it’s rare and it’s difficult to achieve. A lot has to go right individually and collectively to earn one. I’m not sure handing out medals to people, who for any number of reasons, weren’t there on the day, really does anything for anybody.
Fair points.
In my utopian world you have it similar to the Premier League.
14/15/16 strong clubs.
Bigger lists.
Play everyone twice. You must rotate your own squad and might carry one spare fwd/mid/def/ruck for depth.
The Minor Premiership then means something nearly as much as a Major - you are the best performed team over a long campaign under a fair draw.
Then the Premiership Medal is just for those on the day (or anyone that appeared in the finals in the interest of re-opening the can of worms?)
Of course none of that will ever happen.
where do you reckon the idea came from
bang on
the majority of players don’t want it
IMO it is an old hat rule & it is junk. Kickett plays every game but the GF. Pickett debut in GF. A Geelong player misses a GF because of concussion protocols. It is ■■■■■■■ ridiculous.
the majority of players don’t want the medal. Who asked them?
Why are our field umpires too physically weak or too incompetent to be able to bounce a ball ? They should only throw it up when the ground is too soft for it to bounce. And if the ball goes off at a tangent when bounced, that’s just too bad - the very point of bouncing the ball instead of throwing it up is to introduce an element of uncertainty into the procedure.
How many umpires do we need anyway ? Too many cooks spoil the broth and too many umpires spoil the match. One field umpire and two boundary umpires should be more than enough.
Umpires are soft as butter.
the australian football league players association
I tell you what, not that anyone will care or make much fuss about it in the media because it’s just GWS, but they’d have a right to feel pretty miffed by the way the AFL handled their Mad Monday shenanigans vs the contrasting way they’ve handled the Geelong antics.
The AFL went ballistic at the Giants and multiple players got suspended and fined.
Geelong dress up as Kneecap, which has incensed the Jewish community, put up Brokeback Mountain posts which some have construed as homophobic, and another post that was verging on sexist with Bailey Smith’s comments re: our old mate C@ro.
But this time around when it’s Geelong?
Just let the club put out a “sorry we won’t do it again” statement and she’s all sweet. No suspensions and no fines.
Yeah, it’s a new administration now and of course nothing is identical but the difference just 12 months apart is stark.
Old Teflon Geelong strikes again.
Any suggestion that players who dressed as Kneecap should be punished, or that it was even controversial, is nothing more than an attempt to silence players from speaking out against genocide in even the most oblique way and should not be used to try and make a petty point about Geelong.
Them doing so doesn’t offend me one bit.
But rightly or wrongly it seems to have upset a bunch of Jewish people associated with the club and their community leaders and they have voiced their displeasure.
I’ll leave it at though cos I know it’s an emotive topic which no good will come of here and one I’m not invested in.
Point was the contrast in the way the GWS one was handled vs the Cats, even discounting that particular one if you wish.
Until Kneecap start protesting against Boko Haram or any other non white group causing atrocities they and Bob Vylan should shut their ignorant arses up and read a ■■■■■■■ book. No one talks about this active and realistic genocide do they. Anyway…..no more bounce hey? Great news
Yeah the killing of Christian’s in Nigeria gets next to no attention, which is really poor, but other religions seem to control the western media despite being a fraction of the size globally and in the west, it’s a really strange dynamic.
On Geelong, they do get away with things that other clubs don’t all the time. I’m not sure what it is, are they scared of Chris Scott coz he calls out their ineptness, is it the relationship with Steve Hocking? It’s weird. To be honest I’m not a big fan of any AFL overreactions, but it’s the double standards which annoy me.
