A crazy idea...

[Corkintheocean]

May have already been said but opposition team would purposely infringe on a member of the circle early on in the tactic. Circle member infringed upon would be forced to take a free kick and all other players moved away. Possibility of relinking circle in this scenario would be almost impossible and if you ensured you infringed upon the worst kick in the team there is still a chance they would miss once they took the shot for goal.

Edit to add if you kept on infringing upon the circle as soon as it formed then they would be unable to move up the field quickly enough to score in time.

 

[mjr_42]

What rule prohibits a player from lifting a teammate up in the air rugby union line out style...?

This one:

Rule 15.10.1
A Free Kick shall be awarded against a Player or a Team where the field Umpire is of the opinion that:
...
(c) a Player has lifted a Player or climbed on the shoulders of a Player from the same Team. This Free Kick shall be taken by a Player from the opposing Team where the infringement occurred or where the football is at the time of the infringement, whichever is the greater penalty against the offending Team;

 

[pantskyle]

Wouldn't work. It takes 1:01 to get from one end of the field to the other to take a shot at a guaranteed goal.

 

[Franc de Borges]

In similarly stupid fashion, if you held the lead late in the game you could get all 18 players to shepherd scrum-style in a mini circle around the ball until the siren went.

 

[Farang83150]

You should have asked Gareth Keenan or Dwight Schrute (of Schrute farms) they'd know the answer!!

 

[Franc de Borges]

Here's one for you.

What happens if, say, Buddy Franklin lifts Cyril Rioli up into the air while Rioli has the footy? Are opposition players allowed to tackle Franklin? I wouldn't have thought so. Does Rioli have to bounce the ball while Franklin runs 50 metres towards goal? I wouldn't have thought so. Is there a rule against carrying your own teammates towards goal? It wouldn't surprise me.

But suppose there weren't. Imagine the possibilities...

The mental image is something to behold.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

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[Franc de Borges]

Wouldn't work. A 17 player circle would just result in a circle around that circle from the opposition players, and the battling circles wouldn't go anywhere.

A better idea is for the player taking the kick out to quickly give it to a team mate when nobody is looking, who then puts it under his guernsey. The player taking the kickout then walks behind the goals to pretend to look for a new ball to use. Everyone thinks that the play is stopped but the player with the ball is secretly creeping closer to goal to win the game.

Two slight problems. Unless Stewie Dew comes back it'd be pretty obvious and he'd need to bounce it every 15 metres.

 

[Andrew Mc]

Here's one for you.

What happens if, say, Buddy Franklin lifts Cyril Rioli up into the air while Rioli has the footy? Are opposition players allowed to tackle Franklin? I wouldn't have thought so. Does Rioli have to bounce the ball while Franklin runs 50 metres towards goal? I wouldn't have thought so. Is there a rule against carrying your own teammates towards goal? It wouldn't surprise me.

But suppose there weren't. Imagine the possibilities...

There is a rule that disallows this, but in any case there is no reason why an opposition player couldn't hip/shoulder Franklin, sending both Franklin and Rioli crashing to the ground.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Two slight problems. Unless Stewie Dew comes back it'd be pretty obvious and he'd need to bounce it every 15 metres.

If the umpire doesnt know who has the ball he can hardly ping him for running too far

 

[Suspense]

This one:

Given the scenario

If someones having a shot after the siren why don't 4 or 5 players line up on the goal line and have as many players as possible on their shoulders? With the rest of the team blocking for them.

would the umpire award the free after the siren on the goal line?

 

[City Search]

Given the scenario

If someones having a shot after the siren why don't 4 or 5 players line up on the goal line and have as many players as possible on their shoulders? With the rest of the team blocking for them.

would the umpire award the free after the siren on the goal line?

yes he would

 

[Franc de Borges]

What would happen if Team A had a shot after the siren in the GF when they trailed by say 9 points. The goal is kicked but a player from Team B, thinking they'd won the flag, punches the ball away in jubilation after it sails through (Jarrad Waite style).

Would a free be paid to Team A for time wasting (as is the case in normal circumstances), resulting in a second kick for Team B from the sqaure to win the flag? Or is the game 'dead' after the ball crosses the line initially?

 

[Viney]

Have joked to people this year that Melbourne should form a human pyramid to block the goals. Could do worse.

Happened back in the late 80's Dogs vs Bears

Beasley was kicking for goal and the bears players formed a pyramid on the mark

 

[Maddo11]

What would happen if Team A had a shot after the siren in the GF when they trailed by say 9 points. The goal is kicked but a player from Team B, thinking they'd won the flag, punches the ball away in jubilation after it sails through (Jarrad Waite style).

Would a free be paid to Team A for time wasting (as is the case in normal circumstances), resulting in a second kick for Team B from the sqaure to win the flag? Or is the game 'dead' after the ball crosses the line initially?

If there's no time left to waste, i doubt that there would be a free kick paid for wasting time.

But anyway, if they're up by the 9 points you used as an example, they'd all be running around celebrating anyway. Who cares if he kicks the goal, or how much they won by, they just won a flag.

 

[pazza]

Did try a play in junior footy once where me as the back pocket and the full back handballed to each other from the kickout to CHF with brilliant shepherding by out team-mates - got a goal out of that play.

 

[MowShow]

How about using this scenario to isolate a mark in the fwd line? i.e there is 1 minute left in the gf (a la West Coast in 2005) and you have possession on the wing and the opposition has flooded your back line so you gather every player (- the kicker) into a huddle with one guy isolated in the centre and you kick to the huddle. Any aggressive contact from the opposition would be 'in the back' (presuming their backs are facing outwards) and would equally allow for a kick on goals.

This is great, form 16 man circle around 1 guy inside 50, the remaining player with the ball kicks it to the middle of the circle allowing him to take an uncontested mark? Would they get pinged for an illegal shep?

 

[wcesam]

Speaking of crazy ideas, couldn't a running player technically just do a mini handball to himself every 15 metres instead of bouncing?

 

[CrowAboutIt]

Here's one for you.

What happens if, say, Buddy Franklin lifts Cyril Rioli up into the air while Rioli has the footy? Are opposition players allowed to tackle Franklin? I wouldn't have thought so. Does Rioli have to bounce the ball while Franklin runs 50 metres towards goal? I wouldn't have thought so. Is there a rule against carrying your own teammates towards goal? It wouldn't surprise me.

But suppose there weren't. Imagine the possibilities...

U just know that if someone was going to bend the rules to win a game it would be Hawthorn.. Ohh wait they already have

 

[SloppyJoe]

Funny stuff in this thread...it just gets crazier and crazier.

 

[CrowAboutIt]

Would make for an epic finish to a GF. One little bloke running around like mad trying to stop the whole other team kicking the last couple goals to hit the front in the dying seconds, going up in the ruck and just tackling like a crazy man..

Be funny if it was vs West Coast n stupidly they didn't knock out NicNat.. They end up losing by 124 points because he just grabs it out of the ruck runs off n kicks the goal haha

 

[Goats]

5 star thread! I've had a good chuckle.

 

[saintsrfreak]

I had this idea when I was playing under 10s

 

[CrowAboutIt]

I had this idea when I was playing under 10s

+1 coach would never let us try it tho

 

[hellfire]

The idea here would be similar to the tactics employed in gridiron quite often when the ball is hidden for just enough time to get through the opposition line, or in this case, an opposition press.

If the opposition impeded a huddle of players without the ball I assume it would have to be a free kick. I assume all 3 huddles would have to lunge to the ground every 10-15 metres or so to hide the player bouncing the ball, otherwise the huddle with the ball would be spotted easily.

If there is a rule that prevents hiding the ball in a huddle of players than this idea fails, but its still a fun topic to think about. It would be nice to see a tactic from left field in an AFL match one day.

Building on this... when a player takes a mark in the backline, all of his team-mates converge around him, and someone puts the ball under their jumper. Everyone on the team then pulls their jumper out with one hand [to hide the bulge ], and pretends to hold the ball under it with the other hand. Everyone then disperses and runs erratically towards their forward line while screaming foreign-language absurdities [to further confuse the opposition]... and then stopping in tandem every 10-15 metres to lie face-down on the ground to "bounce" the ball.