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Football => View from the Outer => Topic started by: Judge Roughneck on July 17, 2014, 12:11:49 PM

Title: Proposed new rules - are the purposely trying to destroy the game?
Post by: Judge Roughneck on July 17, 2014, 12:11:49 PM
Under the rule – which has been floated in the past – a player cannot take possession if he goes to ground; he would be allowed only to knock it on.
A free kick would be paid against the player who took possession when he dived on the ball – without anyone tackling him.


Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/afl-may-pick-up-on-gaelic-rule-to-cut-congestion-20140716-ztsbe.html#ixzz8hAB4lfx0


Wtf
Title: Re: Proposed new rules - are the purposely trying to destroy the game?
Post by: tony_montana on July 17, 2014, 01:38:39 PM
and then they wonder why crowds are going down... People just needed a trigger - it was the variable pricing but even if they scrap that people will continue to leave the game, bc overall its become a crappy game to watch due to all the tinkering they did over the past 10 years
Title: Re: Proposed new rules - are the purposely trying to destroy the game?
Post by: dwaino on July 17, 2014, 03:04:25 PM
Quote from: tony_montana on July 17, 2014, 01:38:39 PM
and then they wonder why crowds are going down... People just needed a trigger - it was the variable pricing but even if they scrap that people will continue to leave the game, bc overall its become a pooty game to watch due to all the tinkering they did over the past 10 years

Yep. My interest is currently on a knife's edge as it is.
Title: Re: Proposed new rules - are the purposely trying to destroy the game?
Post by: Diocletian on July 17, 2014, 03:33:30 PM
How much more out of touch can these clowns be? Soccer people must be licking their lips.
Title: Re: Proposed new rules - are the purposely trying to destroy the game?
Post by: Yeahright on July 17, 2014, 03:56:25 PM
Don't think people who start to find footy boring would go to soccer  :sleep :sleep
Title: Re: Proposed new rules - are the purposely trying to destroy the game?
Post by: Diocletian on July 17, 2014, 04:50:10 PM
Quote from: Yeahright on July 17, 2014, 03:56:25 PM
Don't think people who start to find footy boring would go to soccer  :sleep :sleep

A better analogy would be Rugby Union, either way, it's a bit like saying people who follow footy would never watch Test Cricket.  Different sports with different expectations.
Title: Re: Proposed new rules - are the purposely trying to destroy the game?
Post by: Penelope on July 17, 2014, 07:40:28 PM
my guess would be they've taken the idea from gaelic footy, which has such a rule and is a fast free flowing game.

may as well ban tackling while they are at it.
Title: Re: Proposed new rules - are the purposely trying to destroy the game?
Post by: Judge Roughneck on July 18, 2014, 12:07:04 PM
Quote from: Yeahright on July 17, 2014, 03:56:25 PM
Don't think people who start to find footy boring would go to soccer  :sleep :sleep

Quite the stereotype.

Title: Re: Proposed new rules - are the purposely trying to destroy the game?
Post by: Hellenic Tiger on July 19, 2014, 06:34:58 PM
People's disenchantment in the game to only rise.

Footy mums, greed and an administration driven on driving the game from the common man and making it unrecognizable have unabatedly destroyed this game.
Title: Re: Proposed new rules - are the purposely trying to destroy the game?
Post by: one-eyed on August 01, 2014, 04:35:44 PM
Rhett Bartlett ‏@rhettrospective twitter:

'Improving the rules of Australian Football' from 1936.

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https://twitter.com/rhettrospective/status/495074687483793408/photo/1