Oppo Camp Non Geelong football (AFL) discussion 2021/2022

[And_ROOS]

What's with the betting apps having a mates mode?

 

[Cataholic]

Gaff/Brayshaw

Oh yeah.....

 

[catempire]

What's with the betting apps having a mates mode?

Harnessing the power of peer pressure.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Nice whiplash from Cotchin. Little bitch.

 

[And_ROOS]

Swanettes getting absolutely washed here.

 

[Cataholic]

Nice whiplash from Cotchin. Little bitch.

Did you hear what Garry Lyon said??!

'He (Buddy) is lucky it's Cotchin because any other player would've gone down like a sack....... ' or words to that effect.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Ominous. Tigers getting an armchair ride like 2017-2020. They could challenge with this standard of umpiring.

AFL has to get attendance numbers back up somehow.

 

[Phipppppa]

Swans been on top last few minutes.

 

[Drunkcat]

Footy is getting so soft

 

[Cataholic]

Footy is getting so soft

Well, they've gone all out to remove the physicality, punish the incidental contact, and eliminate any emotion so there's little backbone left in the game.

 

[Drunkcat]

No yelling at umpires, no touching players who don't have the footy, pushing players is being a bully,

 

[catempire]

Will be so fun for Tiges to choke this.

 

[calder_daddy]

If your bored, have the footy on in the background and head over to the Richmond GameDay thread and read live.

A good read

 

[Cataholic]

Good grief.

50m penalty for that !!

 

[catempire]

#LOLTIGERS

 

[Phipppppa]

If your bored, have the footy on in the background and head over to the Richmond GameDay thread and read live.

A good read

They aren’t happy after that goal. Very funny to read.

 

[calder_daddy]

They aren’t happy after that goal. Very funny to read.

A lot of ducks on that thread

 

[Cataholic]

A beautiful OOTF by Dusty

 

[Phipppppa]

I wanna be the first to say this so I can get the kudos.

I’m calling a draw.

 

[Cataholic]

Heads gonna explode on the Richmond board

 

[calder_daddy]

I wanna be the first to say this so I can get the kudos.

I’m calling a draw.

I reckon tigers won’t kick another and swans will kick 2 more

Heads gonna explode on the Richmond board

Too late

 

[Baudolino]

Well, they've gone all out to remove the physicality, punish the incidental contact, and eliminate any emotion so there's little backbone left in the game.

The problem is though that the gradual sanitisation of the game is a story of dozens of rules changes that have incrementally made the sport more soft, rather than one or two major, standout changes that could be easily reversed. Each of the rules, policies and philosophical approaches that have changed have some kind of rationalisation behind them that sounds reasonable, and overturning any one of them requires advocating for the embracing of the idea that the sport should have more rough edges or more physicality or that there might be some intrinsic value in "negative" emotions such as crowd booing or demonstrative protesting of umpire decisions, none of which officials are prepared to openly state.

The umpire dissent rule is a perfect example of why it's difficult to overturn these rule changes once they're put in place. It puts opponents of the rule in a position in which they have to advocate in favour of something that is ostensibly negative. Which is next to impossible to do in a politically correct environment. The arguments against the rule rely on the fact that removing the ability for players to remonstrate dilutes the emotion and passion from AFL, but since this is an intangible that cannot be quantified, those in favour of the rule are able to riposte with something along the lines of "that stuff has nothing to do with the game itself" as a sort of trump card line, and even though I find that argument dumb, it has the quality of seeming eminently reasonable and appropriately modern in its commitment to focusing on playing the sport in the fairest and most positive way possible. Basically, the issue is that with a lot of these rule changes designed to make the game less physical or more sanitised, once the rules are in place and have become the new normal, anyone who is against them is by default seen as some uncultured Neanderthal.

 

[Phipppppa]

I reckon tigers won’t kick another and swans will kick 2 more

Too late

I wouldn’t be too sure. Only a kick in it now.

 

[Baudolino]

This is a ripping game

 

[catempire]

The problem is though that the gradual sanitisation of the game is a story of dozens of rules changes that have incrementally made the sport more soft, rather than one or two major, standout changes that could be easily reversed. Each of the rules, policies and philosophical approaches that have changed have some kind of rationalisation behind them that sounds reasonable, and overturning any one of them requires advocating for the embracing of the idea that the sport should have more rough edges or more physicality or that there might be some intrinsic value in "negative" emotions such as crowd booing or demonstrative protesting of umpire decisions, none of which officials are prepared to openly state.

The umpire dissent rule is a perfect example of why it's difficult to overturn these rule changes once they're put in place. It puts opponents of the rule in a position in which they have to advocate in favour of something that is ostensibly negative. Which is next to impossible to do in a politically correct environment. The arguments against the rule rely on the fact that removing the ability for players to remonstrate dilutes the emotion and passion from AFL, but since this is an intangible that cannot be quantified, those in favour of the rule are able to riposte with something along the lines of "that stuff has nothing to do with the game itself" as a sort of trump card line, and even though I find that argument dumb, it has the quality of seeming eminently reasonable and appropriately modern in its commitment to focusing on playing the sport in the fairest and most positive way possible. Basically, the issue is that with a lot of these rule changes designed to make the game less physical or more sanitised, once the rules are in place and have become the new normal, anyone who is against them is by default seen as some uncultured Neanderthal.

I don’t know if I’ve ever both agreed and disagreed as vehemently with the same post.