Sunday, July 13, 2008
The Reality of things
This will be an ongoing subject I suggest, and just to warm ourselves up a bit I couldn't resist a link to this little snippet of wisdom. Something that is easily forgotten, and for me being away from Southern and Western States for 10 years, is that Rugby League does not even register on the radar of sports fans down there. Aussie Rules, while not the no.1, is on the radar in NSW and Qld. We will discuss this at length I suggest.........
Friday, July 4, 2008
Lull Before the Storm
This week I'm sick. Crook as a dog. S@#tting through the eye of a needle. Energy down for meaningful posts. When searching for what caused it, I look no further than Wednesday night 7:30pm. Absolute crap and its not totally passed yet..............
Be back when I'm right again. The cats are on tonight so that should see me through.............
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
'BEST'
Why the hell do you need to pick four or five 'Best' players at the end of every match? In following on from my previous post, in which I drew attention to the excess size of the AFL field, I would like to put forward the following notion:
The reason why the AFL - apart from in the Grand Final - cannot pick one 'Best' player is simply because the ground is too large. As the evidence begins to mount, it would surely be only the most stubborn ping pong supporter who would deny this.
Come on, really, if you can't pick just one player for best on ground because you couldn't see the other half of the field... What point is there of continuing this debacle.
Commentator 1: "Boys who do we think was best out there tonight for the Lions?"
Commentator 2: "Well I could only see 35% of the field from where I was sitting, and even then I could only make out the runners (waterboys for league supporters) as they were wearing fluoro shirts. I guess I'd have to give it to Power, and maybe Black, oh and Bradshaw he was good as well, headed up the clangers and he grabbed a few hard balls, and oh, his 'passing' (for the uninitiated, in AFL, a pass can be a kick as well....) was great out there today. Oh yeah, I forgot, the ruckman, whats his name, I forget, you know the one who only ever goes up for the tipoff, like in basketball, except in basketball they actually do something after the tipoff? He was good too"
Commentator 1: "So should I draw a line through a couple and let's just say, the whole team was best? "
Commentator 2: "Well yeah, that's how we normally do it don't we?"
So, just to rehash;
1. Crowd all listen to radios so they can keep up with happenings in the other, not visible, part of the field.
2. Best on Ground is given to multitudes of players. Seriously, they can't ALL be best.
3. Substitutions - unlimited. Did I hear somewhere that 92 interchanges/subs/whatever you call them was the record? 92??? If that isn't an indicator that the field is too large then I don't know what is.
So in conclusion; If the halfwits that run the AFL can't even get the field size right, what possible hope is there for the game.....?
The reason why the AFL - apart from in the Grand Final - cannot pick one 'Best' player is simply because the ground is too large. As the evidence begins to mount, it would surely be only the most stubborn ping pong supporter who would deny this.
Come on, really, if you can't pick just one player for best on ground because you couldn't see the other half of the field... What point is there of continuing this debacle.
Commentator 1: "Boys who do we think was best out there tonight for the Lions?"
Commentator 2: "Well I could only see 35% of the field from where I was sitting, and even then I could only make out the runners (waterboys for league supporters) as they were wearing fluoro shirts. I guess I'd have to give it to Power, and maybe Black, oh and Bradshaw he was good as well, headed up the clangers and he grabbed a few hard balls, and oh, his 'passing' (for the uninitiated, in AFL, a pass can be a kick as well....) was great out there today. Oh yeah, I forgot, the ruckman, whats his name, I forget, you know the one who only ever goes up for the tipoff, like in basketball, except in basketball they actually do something after the tipoff? He was good too"
Commentator 1: "So should I draw a line through a couple and let's just say, the whole team was best? "
Commentator 2: "Well yeah, that's how we normally do it don't we?"
So, just to rehash;
1. Crowd all listen to radios so they can keep up with happenings in the other, not visible, part of the field.
2. Best on Ground is given to multitudes of players. Seriously, they can't ALL be best.
3. Substitutions - unlimited. Did I hear somewhere that 92 interchanges/subs/whatever you call them was the record? 92??? If that isn't an indicator that the field is too large then I don't know what is.
So in conclusion; If the halfwits that run the AFL can't even get the field size right, what possible hope is there for the game.....?
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