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One reason for umpires voting is that behaving like Diesel Williams towards them gets you zero votes. Not a bad thing so I would add a umpire veto to a player getting votes from coaches.
Disclaimer: I hate Carlton.
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I came up with a small 3-a-side game but haven’t coached since. It would be good for an outreach program. It uses fold-up laundry baskets instead of goals so a bit of a hard sell. The idea is to use a pitch with goals 10 m apart and 10 m wide, with a 5m arc behind the goals. The idea being that you can pass behind the goals to score from behind and negate goal tending. All restarts are with both teams at their goal lines.
The games are best played with passes splitting defenders and team mates running onto it. The idea is that the passer is like a the boss and teammates blue collar workers. All passes are brilliant. If it goes pair-shaped, it’s the workers fault. Brainwashes them to think about where to be, not where they want the ball.
I had been playing more regular small-sided games as the kids rocked up in dribs and drabs and I thought that it was better than letting them kick balls at the goals before we could start warm up exercises. Very small fields to avoid full pace running. It’s also an easy game to play with only 6-10 people and you could start a new game as two more were dropped off. Good for instilling that passing is half the game to kids.
The other thing that I wanted to use it for (but with only just enough kids for the two teams, never tried) was to have bench players playing this, with some parents to make up numbers, instead of sitting on the bench.
Like I said, never went back to coaching to try it out but confident that once you get the kids over how unusual it is, it would be popular.
A seven-point plan for the A-League to get out of the financial doldrums
Optus can always advertise for free games to get the punters interested. They can then see what they miss out on every time they open the app.
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“You’re a substandard human”
I will not read your garbage if you can’t tell the difference between an argument of whether it was unavoidable or avoidable when making an effective tackle, or blood lust.
It's rugby league, not the Thunderdome: You're a substandard human if you think Suaalii should've avoided send-off
I get it if it’s in the rules that the tackler needs to tackle low enough to cover any slight drop, or head flying forward into something, but I can see the tackler getting hurt more often if he assumes that the refereeing will stop him from getting hurt.
Maguire fumes at ref over send-off call but Suaalii cops HUGE ban for horrendous hit as Hammer hat-trick nails record win
I’m not a league fan but it’s pretty obviously wrong. Sualli turns his head to protect his own head before Walsh slips and drops. Walsh does not when he slips.
This is a problem in the AFL. The emphasis is all on the tackler to make the tackle safe that things are becoming worse. Bet you that in the dinosaur days, Walsh would have looked after his head. Effectively? Not sure but he did nothing when he realised that he had slipped. In the AFL, they deliberately put their head in danger to get a kick.
It’s too hard for an umpire to make the call on the field and you can’t suspend someone for getting hit but maybe a week off to do some self-preservation training.
Maguire fumes at ref over send-off call but Suaalii cops HUGE ban for horrendous hit as Hammer hat-trick nails record win
It needs a stadium within walking distance of the city centre. Port Adelaide’s fortunes turned dramatically after shifting from a 5 minute drive from PA to a half hour train trip to the city because it makes for a great day out.
The design is dumb. It hardly rains in Hobart. It’s in a rain shadow. A half bowl design would work better. Maybe even a east-west orientation with either early afternoon or night games and just a steep southern stand and open seating to the north, a little like the Ad Oval.
The AFL should lead the way in proposing better-value, cheaper stadiums - without having to rely so much on the taxpayer
Does anyone remember the big announcement of betting corruption rife in Australian football codes? How big a nothing burger was that?
I suspect that there is something to this. Where there is smoke, there is fire. It’s just that sometimes the fire is a kid playing with a magnifying glass.
Albanese asked to intervene as former Dees doctor drops bombshell over players dodging drug tests
Before the rubber bladder, football was just a maul. Even called a melee in Europe, as in hammering as a group through your opponents. The maul and scrum are well and truly a nod to the past. League, Association football (soccer), Sheffield rules (AFL) and Gaelic have ditched it. NFL sort of keeps the tradition.
Rugby has to keep it but professionalism has meant that it’s not the same as it was. AFL is based on Sheffield rules because Rugby was for boys, as in men playing like that would be too brutal. And this was when someone like Genia could play in the front row. Now, a 110 kg man being able to run a 100 m in less than 11 s on the wing is not a novelty anymore.
Being a bit cheeky when there was a myopic referee has turned into an afternoon in front of a whiteboard learning how to get away with bending the rules. The rules need to adapt because of this but not to make actual Rugby obsolete.
Whatever rule changes there are, it can not result in the game becoming League with token scrums and mauls.
WR's mooted law changes are great - but show there's a hell of a lot wrong with rugby in 2024, and that sucks
Too much baggage and the Left like to attack the man. It really is a stupid comment, as if it’s as simple as people get elected on policy.
'Choose a better date': Cummins wants Australia Day moved as CA chief sledged for 'bizarre' trainwreck interview
And thus other readers could not see that a person’s argument was not valid.
You are cut from the same cloth.
'Choose a better date': Cummins wants Australia Day moved as CA chief sledged for 'bizarre' trainwreck interview
country that did not give its Indigenous people the right to vote or include them in the official population for nearly another century.
You might detest the date but I suspect more because of propaganda rather than thought out clearly. Only two Australian States and the NT didn’t give them the vote until the mid 20th C. The Constitution was written so that those who didn’t get the vote were not counted for constitutional purposes, that is, those states got less representation in Parliament. And it was only those who were wards of the state. Those who complain that they couldn’t vote before 1968 are people who could have voted in WA, Q and NT in 1900. Its the sort of history that doesn’t get to see the light of day in any debate so it’s not just the hijacking of institutions that is irritating. The date is something that is barely worth a lighthearted conversation and becomes so decisive because some people need to look like they are fixing things.
Cricket can’t solve Australia Day conundrum - it’s not up to sports to make tough decisions for governments
No because, as many Aboriginal leaders have argued, it doesn’t fix anything.
I’m turning jingoistic because I’m starting to hate, with a passion, my betters who I couldn’t trust to clean toilets properly.
Is the illiteracy problem that is rife in some communities going to be fixed by lamenting the first fleet bringing the need for literacy?
'Choose a better date': Cummins wants Australia Day moved as CA chief sledged for 'bizarre' trainwreck interview
No they don’t. They like to pretend that there was a conversation and everyone concurred.
I remember getting on The Conversation and making someone look silly. The whole thread was deleted instead of my comment being moderated, which wasn’t necessary.
'Choose a better date': Cummins wants Australia Day moved as CA chief sledged for 'bizarre' trainwreck interview
58% of Australians don’t want a change. Cummins can have his opinion but hijacking institutions to force a change is not on.
I never took it seriously. Organised a cricket game and a picnic for foreign researchers on the day once and that is it. Off to a local supermarket chain to stock up on flags and going full bogan this year
'Choose a better date': Cummins wants Australia Day moved as CA chief sledged for 'bizarre' trainwreck interview
Stupid statement about if you don’t like it then don’t watch. There are sports that I need to pay to watch because they don’t raise enough revenue through advertising, and are a better chance to develop wide viewership. Soccer lovers don’t watch the A-League because it’s so much lower than the top European leagues and don’t get this much hate for stating the obvious.
COMMENT: It's time for the AFL to decide whether they actually care about AFLW