AFL 2019
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2019:
Interesting stat noted last night. While there was no positive impact on scoring, there was a serious reduction in around the ground stoppages. meaning that the 6-6-6 might be freeing the game up. It certainly looked that way in the games i watched, but it will be interesting to see if we have a meaningful change in June when the weather is shit.
Can you please explain to a simpleton what this 6-6-6 rule is and what it has replaced?
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2019:
Interesting stat noted last night. While there was no positive impact on scoring, there was a serious reduction in around the ground stoppages. meaning that the 6-6-6 might be freeing the game up. It certainly looked that way in the games i watched, but it will be interesting to see if we have a meaningful change in June when the weather is shit.
Can you please explain to a simpleton what this 6-6-6 rule is and what it has replaced?
At the restart of play, each team must have:
Six players stationed in each of the 50m arcs and centre square zone, including
- One player inside the goalsquare.
- Four midfielders inside the centre square with the two wingmen stationed along the wing.
The idea is it gives the midfielders more time and space to clear the ball from the bounce. So far the opposite appears to be true - everyone is neatly marked.
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@antipodean Cheers! Where as before you didn't need to be in any particular zone at restart?
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2019:
Interesting stat noted last night. While there was no positive impact on scoring, there was a serious reduction in around the ground stoppages. meaning that the 6-6-6 might be freeing the game up. It certainly looked that way in the games i watched, but it will be interesting to see if we have a meaningful change in June when the weather is shit.
Can you please explain to a simpleton what this 6-6-6 rule is and what it has replaced?
Up until last year, you could pretty much set your team up at a centre bounce how ever the fuck you wanted. Pack the midfield? Throw everyone forward? Throw everyone back? Go for it. It led to midfields being packed with approximately 100 players within 30m of the ball, and AFL games developed in to a set of rolling mauls
SO this year, you need to have 6 in your forward 50, 6 in your back 50, and s6 in the middle, with 2 on the "wings". And the ground has opened up. However strangely it did not reflect that on the scoreboard.
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@antipodean Cheers! Where as before you didn't need to be in any particular zone at restart?
Yeap, you could flood it.
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2019:
@kiwiinmelb said in AFL 2019:
I remember after 2 rounds last year , collingwood had lost both games and were being written off ,
They ended up being one kick away from a premiership ,
Just like the NRL, its more of a marathon than a sprint ,
Heaps of twists and turns to go
yeah, i sort of have this idea that some teams target round 1 for a statement, put a heap of planning and prep in to that one game. While the guys with ambitions in September are focused more long term.
I've watched a replay of the Lions, they were really bloody good. Smashed them in the midfield, forwards created enormous pressure, while the backs were able to get the team out over and over again. Great performance.
I worry we will now be expected to smoke North, and what that does to young heads.
What I’ve noticed with young teams , not sure if it’s mental or physical or a bit of both ,
After a good start they seem to struggle maintaining a high standard for the length of a season, they quite often hit the wall somewhere and then it all falls apart, All part of learning .
When I look at Richmond, their last two seasons were very different , 17 they were just thereabouts, kept in touch with the top 4 , nothing too outstanding, then got on a roll in the last 2 months .
18 they went out of the blocks hard , almost seem triggered by the talk they might suffer a premiership hangover .
Then ran out of gas towards the end , peaked in June , not September. -
Crows = Warriors
Well. That was a better result. Swans not picked for much this year though?
A graphic came up during the last quarter (which was the only bit I watched) that had all the commentary "experts" picking Swans at around 7th-9th.
Same panel all had Crows in the 8, two actually had ghem winning (idiots).
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Geelong have had a good first 2 weeks. Melbourne not so much. This is a flogging.
Good on the Saints today as well.
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Lions!!
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Bulldogs with a 9 goal last quarter to come back and win against Hawks.
Some dodgy umpire decisions, but still a huge result.
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Suns got up today as well. Kicked a million behinds but most importantly the last 4 goals
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2019:
Geelong have had a good first 2 weeks. Melbourne not so much. This is a flogging.
Good on the Saints today as well.
Saints looked a million bucks in that first half. Then Bombers came back.
Just watched some footage of the Bombers walking off at the end, and a Bombers jersey comes flying down from the stands...
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@ACT-Crusader said in AFL 2019:
@mariner4life said in AFL 2019:
Geelong have had a good first 2 weeks. Melbourne not so much. This is a flogging.
Good on the Saints today as well.
Saints looked a million bucks in that first half. Then Bombers came back.
Just watched some footage of the Bombers walking off at the end, and a Bombers jersey comes flying down from the stands...
Bomber fans read too much of their own press
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This is not what should really be said as the only comment about the AFLW on this thread but
Erin Phillips is not just a phenomenal athlete, she is also a fox.
There are a couple of good sorts floating around the league actually.
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2019:
This is not what should really be said as the only comment about the AFLW on this thread but
Erin Phillips is not just a phenomenal athlete, she is also a fox.
There are a couple of good sorts floating around the league actually.
What else are you going to talk about? Their 60m punts or speckies?
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@antipodean said in AFL 2019:
@mariner4life said in AFL 2019:
This is not what should really be said as the only comment about the AFLW on this thread but
Erin Phillips is not just a phenomenal athlete, she is also a fox.
There are a couple of good sorts floating around the league actually.
What else are you going to talk about? Their 60m punts or speckies?
well at least by the end of the season teams could actually score points. Some of the games from the early rounds...
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@mariner4life I gave it a go. Melbourne v Collingwood. Fine day. Good crowd. 3 quarter time. 11 vs 2 !!!
Looked like midget rugby (that's what we called 6 and 7 year olds back in the day), a moving gathering of players. Umps threw the ball in from 20 metres inside boundary line. Having said that, sure equal pay please! -
@mariner4life I gave it a go. Melbourne v Collingwood. Fine day. Good crowd.
That's what astonishes me; the crowds are bigger than you'd expect accounting for family members of players and a few lesbians. Are the tickets still free?
