Jack Stevens
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Umpires calling players by their first names. They're not their mates. It comes across as very amateur and bush league.
Minor things that annoy you about the game
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What about holding the ball?
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I still can't believe how often you hear commentators say a player "marks the ball at its highest point".
The ball goes 10 metres in the air. How the hell is the player marking it "at its highest point"?
Of course, what they mean to say is that the player takes the ball at the highest point of their leap. But they're idiots who can't form sentences, despite literally being paid to speak. So they get it wrong. And it gets repeated.
It's like the peanuts who describe a player as "looking laconic" when they run or kick. Brayshaw is the serial offender. Do you not know what words mean?
The ball goes 10 metres in the air. How the hell is the player marking it "at its highest point"?
Of course, what they mean to say is that the player takes the ball at the highest point of their leap. But they're idiots who can't form sentences, despite literally being paid to speak. So they get it wrong. And it gets repeated.
It's like the peanuts who describe a player as "looking laconic" when they run or kick. Brayshaw is the serial offender. Do you not know what words mean?
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Not a minor annoyance at all. I cancelled my seat at KP because of this. Especially bad in night games, simply can't see what's going on
It's gotta be the only sport where players names are used so much. Like when the umpire tells you to give the ball to "Fred" because it's his free kick. Can you just waste more time by saying to the umpire, "I don't know who that is" ?
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Wham a player has a post match interview and the interviewer is chomping at the bit to tell them how many touches they had. Cringe
Please. The VRC has started allowing "no socks".
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Western should revert to Footscray
Greater should be dropped from GWS
Greater should be dropped from GWS
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Ruck free kicks. Absolute chook raffle
Marks are still paid for chip kicks under 25 metres.
we didn’t adopt 17-5 cos the football public is too effing stupid to understand it.
we didn’t keep Waverley.
you can’t just choose your seats when you book online.
paul couch is still not in the hall of fame whilst Anthony stevens is.
the modern stands at the mcg dont have the old dark cavern feel of the old Olympic stand.
kicking the ball on the ground after the game.
we didn’t adopt 17-5 cos the football public is too effing stupid to understand it.
we didn’t keep Waverley.
you can’t just choose your seats when you book online.
paul couch is still not in the hall of fame whilst Anthony stevens is.
the modern stands at the mcg dont have the old dark cavern feel of the old Olympic stand.
kicking the ball on the ground after the game.
That’s a good point, we don’t call it greater Geelong. Why can’t it just be western Sydney.
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Agree. Even worse when they call them by their nicknames. Should be team name and their number.
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If it’s a legal tackle, and the one tackled lifts their arm up to make it ‘too high’ it’s play on or holding the ball, not too high.
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Players being awarded with holding frees for fumbling or just dropping the ball as soon as they get tackled.
The stats obsession during analysis I find incredibly tedious and shallow-minded. There are 3-400 possessions for each team in a game - of which more than half are uncontested and about 12-15 will actually go through the goals. I could play on the wing in the AFL and probabvly get 15 possessions in a game - mainly because the opposition would ignore me and tag other more important players (to be honest, me doing my usual 30-metre up-and-unders is probably a net benefit to the opposition).
The stats can then be combined and twisted in a myriad of ways so that 'Player X became the first ever to have 20+ disposals, 5 tackles and change his shorts 3 times in a game since 1956' becomes lauded as a major achievement, rather than a statistical quirk.
I get that media commentators need to sound intelligent in their analysis, and the sheer volume of such discussions must inevitably mean there are ever-more desperate attempts to create ever-more trivial talking-points (and thus get their own names mentioned), but, my god, most of it just degenerates into self-referential meaningless drivel.
The weird thing about Greater Western Sydney is that no one in Western Sydney used that term. The only time you ever see it is in government planning documents.
I wanted them to be called the Western Sydney Serpents and to have a mostly green guernsey and I stand by that as I think it would have worked well.
Channel 7 Saturday night commentary team how do they pick 2 duds to call
