To Bounce or Not to Bounce?

[one-eyed]

What do you think should happen to the centre bouncedown?

There's a push to have the bounce scrapped and just throw the ball up.

Throw it up, say coaches, sick of the bounce
Adrian Lowe | April 21, 2008

FALL-OUT from the wayward centre bounce at a crucial stage of Saturday night's clash between North Melbourne and Collingwood continued yesterday with Richmond coach Terry Wallace and former AFL umpire Derek Humphery-Smith saying the ball should have been recalled and thrown up.

Wallace said he was in favour of the bounce being retained to start each quarter, but then the ball should be thrown up.

"In the situation of last night, there should at least be a call-back," he told Triple M, saying that if there was such a call-back, the ball should be thrown the second time.

"You shouldn't have circumstances and situations that are that ridiculous in a game of footy. Throw it up and let us play it in an even playing field."

http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/news/coaches-sick-of-the-bounce/2008/04/20/1208629737239.html

[Fishfinger]

The EFL have scrapped it starting this season. Others will probably follow.
Then umpires coming through to VFL and AFL won't have the skill. I think it's doomed.

Some ruckmen prefer the bounce because they are good at reading it and gain an advantage.

[mightytiges]

Sad if it goes. It's an unique part of the game and like the oval ball makes the game unpredictable. All that should happen is bounces like that should be recalled as the occasional throw-in is. Throwing it up all the time will turn ball-ups into basketball tip-offs favouring the taller ruckman.

[tigersalive]

So . . . I was thinking  . . .

We have that big circle around the little circle in the middle now now for a reason, why cant we add another to it?

I bounce is bad but not THAT bad if it lands near the edge of the big circle.

If the bounce of the ball lands outside that big circle, it's atrocious so make that the standard and call it back.


Thoughts?

[Mr Magic]

Scrap it.

[DallasCrane]

So . . . I was thinking  . . .

We have that big circle around the little circle in the middle now now for a reason, why cant we add another to it?

I bounce is bad but not THAT bad if it lands near the edge of the big circle.

If the bounce of the ball lands outside that big circle, it's atrocious so make that the standard and call it back.


Thoughts?

Tend to agree TA......
iirc umpires already have the ability to recall bad bounces. In fact I would suggest that they have the ability to stop the game and bounce the ball whenever they darn well please.
If it unfairly benefits one side, just bounce it again you morons.

[mightytiges]

So . . . I was thinking  . . .

We have that big circle around the little circle in the middle now now for a reason, why cant we add another to it?

I bounce is bad but not THAT bad if it lands near the edge of the big circle.

If the bounce of the ball lands outside that big circle, it's atrocious so make that the standard and call it back.


Thoughts?

Don't mind it TA. You would hope though that commonsense would apply first. That bounce was bleedingly obviously bad (not that I cared seeing the result of it lol).

[tigersalive]

So . . . I was thinking  . . .

We have that big circle around the little circle in the middle now now for a reason, why cant we add another to it?

I bounce is bad but not THAT bad if it lands near the edge of the big circle.

If the bounce of the ball lands outside that big circle, it's atrocious so make that the standard and call it back.


Thoughts?

Don't mind it TA. You would hope though that commonsense would apply first. That bounce was bleedingly obviously bad (not that I cared seeing the result of it lol).

Same, made happy indeed to see the Pies lose and my tips go +1.