Will I ever understand AFL?

[doug3030]

I don't like guns at al.l
BUT guns in use at an AFL game on the field
Viewed from behind bulletproof glass.
I'm there lol

You support Collingwood, don't you?

[Simplicity]

You support Collingwood, don't you?

I do actually,
But I still have all my own front teeth.
So I have been "told" I'm not really a Collingwood fan YET lol

[rustynail]

Really? Then when a rugby league player is playing the ball after a tackle and a player other than a marker is not back 5 metres and the referee blows the whistle and calls "offside", who is he talking about? Maybe things have changed now as things tend to do, but we used to call it "offside".

Inside the five or inside the ten technically doesn't fill the criteria for offside. A referee will blow it up and call "inside the five" or "not back the ten." To refer to it as offside would be challengable but understandable. Keep in mind, both the five and ten metre rules were introduced to make the game more watchable and free flowing and came in long after the offside rule was introduced.

[doug3030]

Well seeing as it is on a slippery slope to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnTmBjk-M0c

I am going back to the shed. no point in continuing.

[crowie]

I am going back to the shed..

The shed is more fun than sitting behind a computer....always!!!

[doug3030]

The shed is more fun than sitting behind a computer....always!!!

Both have their places. Shedtime is precious but with my back I cannot stay there all day.

I started this thread to find out peoples opinions about why it is not ok to put arms around heads when it is perfectly ok to put knees around them in aussie rules. It degenerated into a "did too" - "did not" argument about whether gaelic football has an offside rule, which in the official rules of he game the word does not even appear. That was of no interest to me so I decided to stop playing. Life is too short.

Cheers

Doug

[Handyjack]

I think I would rather spend some time in the shed than sitting down to watch any form of football whether it be football, football or thugby. (Soccer, Australian Rules, Rugby - any type.)

In AFL the rules change every year, just makes it harder for the casual watcher. Teams used to be 18, then 20, now I think it is 22 but they do not expect the starting 18 to play the whole game! Teams used to wear the one jumper every week, now it is a different jumper every other week. Don't ask me what jumper my team wears, it might be yellow this week or next. Saturday afternoons used to be for League football, now they tend to play at any other time on almost every day of the week. The suburban home ground in Melbourne is gone, only the interstate teams and Geelong might have a true home ground, but then again your team could be playing a home game interstate?

I don't understand AFL.

[rustynail]

Both have their places. Shedtime is precious but with my back I cannot stay there all day.

I started this thread to find out peoples opinions about why it is not ok to put arms around heads when it is perfectly ok to put knees around them in aussie rules. It degenerated into a "did too" - "did not" argument about whether gaelic football has an offside rule, which in the official rules of he game the word does not even appear. That was of no interest to me so I decided to stop playing. Life is too short.

Cheers

Doug

Imagine how boring AFL would be if the flying mark was no longer part of the game.
Contact with an opposing player while in the air challenging for the ball is legal. If you were to use the knees at any other time would be a different matter.

[Sturdee]

Imagine how boring AFL would be if the flying mark was no longer part of the game.

Whether it is part of it or not, IMO the game is still boring. Give me shed time anytime.

[Twisted Tenon]

Both have their places. Shedtime is precious but with my back I cannot stay there all day.

I started this thread to find out peoples opinions about why it is not ok to put arms around heads when it is perfectly ok to put knees around them in aussie rules. It degenerated into a "did too" - "did not" argument about whether gaelic football has an offside rule, which in the official rules of he game the word does not even appear. That was of no interest to me so I decided to stop playing. Life is too short.

Cheers

Doug

Looks like you got your answer now Doug. I was watching Offsiders this morning and see someone playing for the Fremantle Dockers has suffered a collapsed lung after his ribs were broken by an opponent who launched himself at him. Any other thugby or soccer player would have been sent orf for that.

TT

[Twisted Tenon]

Try this

TT

[doug3030]

Try this

Thanks TT, I think that illustrates the point I was making fairly well. Thanks for posting. The only way it could have been a better example is if the impact was even higher and to the head, but I am not wishing that on any of the players, though the day will inevitably come.

Cheers

Doug

[rustynail]

Let those who play the game worry about the rules and the risks. As a rugby player I was well aware of the risks. I am now crippled by injuries sustained from a long rugby career but would not change a thing. The choice was mine and I loved it. I understand it is not for everyone and I respect that, but I think it better to leave the decision making to those involved. After all, they are the ones affected.

[doug3030]

As a rugby player I was well aware of the risks. I am now crippled by injuries sustained from a long rugby career but would not change a thing.

Were you hit in the head often?

[rustynail]

Were you hit in the head often?

What's your point?