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borderbarry wrote:I dont think they should change the distance of a kick or of running with the ball, but they should enforce them better. How often do you see a player run further with the ball than a recent kick, bearing in mind they should be the same distance. Also they should make that distance to include the man on the mark. Too often you see mark paid when then ball has traveled to just beside the man on the mark.
Also this kicking backwards crap. Something should be done about that. Even in the Grand Final Hawthorn had control of the ball near the end of the match and just chipped it around for a couple of minutes. There must have been eight or more backwards kicks involved. I would setting a limit on how many backwards kicks there can be in a piece of play to say two, then the umpire calls them play-on.
Why should the side with the ball be penalized because the side without the ball wont push up to an opposition player?
Dave McNamara wrote:Reading their history is interesting. They weren't always a happy team at Hawthorn...
Bill Walton was appointed captain-coach of Hawthorn in 1922. He was however refused a clearance by Port Melbourne and as a result spent the season playing for them, while coaching Hawthorn during the week. Twice that season, he had the unusual situation of playing a VFA game against the club that he coached. In one of those matches a Port Melbourne teammate had to be restrained from striking Walton over Walton's vocal support for the player's opponent...
The Mayblooms, as they were then known became the perennial whipping boys of the competition. Hawthorn had an almost casual attitude towards playing football and, lying remote from major industrial areas and consequently devoid of the business or political patrons available to Carlton, Richmond and Collingwood,[7] were not able to even pay their players the match payment then allowed by the Coulter Law...
You simply wouldn't believe the Bill Walton story except that it's true!!!
The rest of Australia can wander mask-free, socialise, eat out, no curfews, no zoning, no police rings of steel, no illogical inconsistent rules.
They can even WATCH LIVE FOOTY!
borderbarry wrote:I dont think they should change the distance of a kick or of running with the ball, but they should enforce them better. How often do you see a player run further with the ball than a recent kick, bearing in mind they should be the same distance. Also they should make that distance to include the man on the mark. Too often you see mark paid when then ball has traveled to just beside the man on the mark.
Also this kicking backwards crap. Something should be done about that. Even in the Grand Final Hawthorn had control of the ball near the end of the match and just chipped it around for a couple of minutes. There must have been eight or more backwards kicks involved. I would setting a limit on how many backwards kicks there can be in a piece of play to say two, then the umpire calls them play-on.
Why would anyone even contemplate making the umpires job even harder than it already is. They can't cope now.
The Saints are under review, will it make any difference to the underachievers ?
Dave McNamara wrote:Reading their history is interesting. They weren't always a happy team at Hawthorn...
Bill Walton was appointed captain-coach of Hawthorn in 1922. He was however refused a clearance by Port Melbourne and as a result spent the season playing for them, while coaching Hawthorn during the week. Twice that season, he had the unusual situation of playing a VFA game against the club that he coached. In one of those matches a Port Melbourne teammate had to be restrained from striking Walton over Walton's vocal support for the player's opponent...
The Mayblooms, as they were then known became the perennial whipping boys of the competition. Hawthorn had an almost casual attitude towards playing football and, lying remote from major industrial areas and consequently devoid of the business or political patrons available to Carlton, Richmond and Collingwood,[7] were not able to even pay their players the match payment then allowed by the Coulter Law...
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