Lyon calls for 45 minute halves

[BlueVeins]

Has to be one of the worst ideas EVER

Agreed! And 45mins? Yes Ross, shall we make the ball round too?

 

[Jeebus]

silly

 

[crownie]

one of the worst ideas i have ever heard

 

[Total_Juddshanks]

If you think football is ugly at the moment, wait until you have seen it played in a shorter time frame. Flooding, zoning and all that ballyhoo would become infinitely more effective and more common in shorter games, because it would be easier for teams to get their entire squads running from one 50m arc to the other for the whole game.

People need to realise that 'reduce the toll on players' and 'speed up the game' is code for 'increase coaches' ability to flood and zone the game into extinction.'

 

[seanoff]

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport/a/-/afl/7077090/saints-coach-calls-for-shorter-afl-games/

I always thought we could look at something like this or that Football would eventually move in this direction.

Alternatively I also thought maybe even 2 halves of football with each coach having the right to call 1 or 2 five minute timeout's. Would lead to closer games as timeouts can be used as they are in basketball and NFL to halt a teams momentum when they are on a roll.

NO.

the NFL is brutal, yes even with the padding, absolutely brutal. It's brutal because the players have plenty of rest and can operate at full capacity for the time they are on the field. It would be much less brutal if they had to play with 11 guys and some substitutions for the whole game.

So if the AFL went to two 45 minute halves with unlimited interchange, what makes, him or you think that the intensity of the contest will lessen. my arse. it will get more intense, there will be more injuries and the speed will be ridiculous. the collisions will be NFL brutal, without the padding.

the physical impact will increase. he hasn't thought this one through.

on shorter games. the crowd numbers don't seem to warrant any lessening of the time of the game.


much more likely is that interchanges will be reduced so that players actually get fatigued and slow down.

 

[Spluff]

I could understand reducing the length of quarters (not by any dramatic length, 10 minutes at the very max), but not just reducing the game to two halves.

 

[Pie eyed]

You've confused Ross Lyon, coach of StKilda with Garry Lyon from the Footy Show.

Honestly???
You're have to be shitting me if a current coach is proposing this stupid idea?

Apologies to Gary Lyon in that case, there is someone else stupider. Go figure...

 

[pacemaker]

No this is a bad idea

 

[scout]

And maybe we can reduce costs by 25%, including tickets prices and Lyon's pay.

 

[kosifantutti]

Alternatively I also thought maybe even 2 halves of football with each coach having the right to call 1 or 2 five minute timeout's. Would lead to closer games as timeouts can be used as they are in basketball and NFL to halt a teams momentum when they are on a roll.

You want to take the worst aspect of American sports and inject it into Australian football.

Close games of basketball are turned into snore fests by endless timeouts in the last couple of minutes and the game doesn't even resemble what has happened in the first three and a half quarters.

 

[Gooka]

I've got an idea - leave the game as it is.

 

[Byron_Clanger]

No way, if I want to watch soccer then I'll watch soccer

 

[Adz]

How bout Lyon focus on winning a flag. Cause right now he has achieved nothing to be making these kinds of statements.

 

[Notorious_29]

I could understand reducing the length of quarters (not by any dramatic length, 10 minutes at the very max), but not just reducing the game to two halves.

This, halves is just plain stupid.

 

[Collingwood 4 eternity]

Seems fair , Seems equitable

But if we reduced last years Grand Final Scores buy 25% , St Kilda still loose buy 9pts

Final Score would have been Geelong 60 pts to St Kilda 51 pts , instead of Gee 80 to St K 68.

 

[fishguts]

And on the other side of Lyons arguement, how many more injuries would be caused by playing 45 high intensity minutes with out break?

 

[footyman]

He can't be serious...

I'd rather see each quarter reduced slightly than see a game reduced to two 45 minute halves.

 

[Rough_Edges]

My god Lyon

Usually so astute but WTF is this?

 

[Dojo]

Can't we just leave the game alone? Please?

 

[Haggis McHaggis]

What a ****ing moron.

 

[Brad Roo]

1. Limit the interchanges (20 per match) and introduce 2 subs to compensate for injury.

2. Call play on for kicks that travel less than 20 metres.

The game will slow down, longer kicking will return, contested marks will return, true rovers will return and one on one duels will return.

We will all be happy again.

Pretty simple really.

 

[Brad Roo]

I've got an idea - leave the game as it is.

No.

They need to introduce rules to counter the stupid rules that turned the game in to rubbish in the first place.

- 20 interchanges per match.

- Kicks less than 20 metres are play on.

 

[kosifantutti]

Seems fair , Seems equitable

But if we reduced last years Grand Final Scores buy 25% , St Kilda still loose buy 9pts

Final Score would have been Geelong 60 pts to St Kilda 51 pts , instead of Gee 80 to St K 68.

We could reduce preliminary final scores by 50% and you are still more than six goals off being good enough to play in a grand final

 

[LET ME TALK]

Calm down he's just thinking out loud.

Never happen. i agree we need to cap the interchanges or maybe just let them cap themselves??

 

[DivideandMultiply]

No.

They need to introduce rules to counter the stupid rules that turned the game in to rubbish in the first place.

- 20 interchanges per match.

- Kicks less than 20 metres are play on.

Not sure if serious?