I can’t wait to hear BT trying to pronounce some of those names.
terminal case of mba brain
We could send the Essendon team to the Olympics to represent Aus and we’d still not make the finals.
We’d make it and then get belted by 65 points in the first final by Norway
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And then Iceland Cricket and San Marino will use social media to try and play against us.
Is that that railway game? Truro?
So, we haven’t even got through the practice games before the AFL changes the rules of a new rule they just introduced
From news.com.au
AFL football boss Greg Swann has definitively closed a loophole to the new ruck rules.
Sydney ruckman Brodie Grundy raised eyebrows with a fascinating centre-circle tactic that earned him a free kick in last Thursday’s Community Series match against the Giants.
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Grundy coaxed GWS counterpart Nick Madden into ‘illegally’ crossing the centre-circle line — which ruckmen are forbidden to do under the newly-introduced rules — resulting in a free kick to the star Swan.
Last week, Swann said the league hadn’t anticipated players exploiting the new ruck rules in the clever manner Grundy did.
“It’s probably one we didn’t contemplate, but anyway, we’ll have a look at it and see where we go,” Swann told SEN Breakfast last Friday.
Well, unfortunately for Grundy, that loophole has been officially closed by Swann and the AFL brains trust.
“We’ve looked at that, and he (Grundy) got a free for that (last week), but there wouldn’t be a free (going forward),” Swann confirmed on AFL 360 on Monday night.
“If you don’t jump, and you want to … (do) the stooging, you can stooge, but it’ll be play on.”
With the winner to go on to play the winner of the Andorra vs Equatorial Guinea blockbuster.
novelty joke sport
just script the games, add product placement, and be done with the charade
They need pluck a duck to select rule change of the week
I just chanced upon the 1973 Richmond v Collingwood prelim final. Oh, how simple things were then. Out of bounds on the full = free kick; otherwise throw in. Insufficient intent? No. Last touch? No. If you had a proper chance to get rid of the ball and didn’t, then it was a free for holding the ball. Otherwise, ball up.
The introduction of the Rules Review Committee or whatever it’s called is the worst move the league has ever made. Every single one of the rules they’ve introduced or “interpreted” has been for the worse. Stand rule? Ridiculous. Protected zone? Ridiculous. Just a whole lot of bullshit.
The moves that protect a player’s head from being hit are good. But does that mean that a tap on the shoulder deserves a free kick? No.
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And the rules were brought in to make the game faster and more enjoyable for the fans……the game is worse than I can remember.
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kindly get ■■■■■■ dave
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At this point I’m convinced these jokers change rules just to give themselves something to do when the time comes to inevitably invent a new rule to close the unintended (and unthought about) consequences of the last rule change.
The game is absolutely crap to watch now. I’d thought it was just the crapness of Essendon, but no… on the rare occasions I watch a neutral game they are equally as garbage…
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Completely agree. I watch NRL all the time rather than AFL as it is almost incomprehensible. Different interpretations, chumps that are no good, commentators that suck and now on pay tv.
Are you talking about NRL or AFL. Same could be said for both
The stand rule is the biggest wank of them all. Hate it.
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NRL is better to watch on TV than AFL in my opinion.
Some light reading if you need help to sleep. AFL annual report
A few of our players would be hating these new drug rules coming into place.