What would happen if....

[TheCerealKillee]

What would happen if a player is has kicked the ball for a sure goal, but it hits a bird or a UFO or something and it stops short.

Would the umpires count it as a goal?

 

[Cohzee]

Doubt it. The ball has hit umpires before and they didn't call it a goal.

 

[Jaeger]

If the ball doesn't go through they cant pay a goal.

So my guess is, the ump would call 'play on'.

 

[ChuckNorris]

The bird would probably be injured.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

If it hits the bird but still goes through, is it "touched"?

 

[Quinz]

If it hits the bird but still goes through, is it "touched"?

Deliberately rushed, free kick in the goal square.

 

[Zeke]

If it hits the bird but still goes through, is it "touched"?

If it was a magpie, the AFL would probably invent a way to fine us.

 

[Speck]

There must be a rule? Might have a look as I'm curious.

 

[Sttew]

What would happen if a player is has kicked the ball for a sure goal, but it hits a bird or a UFO or something and it stops short.

Would the umpires count it as a goal?

It happened many years ago at Geelong when a spectator threw a piece of fruit at the football kicked by Doug Wade. What was a dead set goal was sent askew for a behind

 

[Power King]

If the ball remains in play, play on.

If the ball bounces through for a goal, very interesting question. Maybe yes since it didn't touch an opposition player, but maybe no because if it hits the goal umpire before going through i believe it isn't counted as a goal.

 

[theyellowsash]

on the umpire thing i think that in the laws of the game they count as a post. stupid i know but thats why they get called a behind.

as for things happening mid flight, i seem to remember hearing of tiger player years ago kicking a ball that was going straight through the middle, but the ball exploded and one half hit a post so it was called a behind. cant remember details though. so ide say if it hit a bird it would be called play on.

what should happen is that if it was clearly going to go over the line give the player a free kick from where they kicked it from, if not ball up from about the spot it hit the bird.

 

[Fevola99]

Nathan Bock hit a bird last year didn't he?

 

[DarkPhoenix]

It happened many years ago at Geelong when a spectator threw a piece of fruit at the football kicked by Doug Wade. What was a dead set goal was sent askew for a behind

If true: One in a million throw, got to give him that, would of been escorted out if he tried it before hand and missed.

 

[Headless]

6 weeks for the bird for bringing the game into disrespute.

 

[Rob]

If it was a magpie, the AFL would probably invent a way to fine us.

Yeah, you blokes really cop a harsh deal from the AFL every year.

 

[Longy413]

Free kick against the bird for an unrealistic attempt to mark.

 

[theyellowsash]

Free kick against the bird for an unrealistic attempt to mark.

despite it actually nearly marking it

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Free kick +50 to the opposition because the bird didn't enter the ground correctly through the interchange gate.

 

[TheKITC]

I've played a game at Sandringham one day where the footy was kicked into my teams forward line, the full back had made better position and was going to take an easy mark on our full-forward.

Except the footy hit a seagull.

It dropped into our full-forwards arms who was 2 or 3 meters out of position but was still awarded the mark.

Dobbed a goal from 10 out to put us in front in the last qtr.

Handy.

 

[footyfreak]

Nathan Bock hit a bird last year didn't he?

gold

 

[FootyJunkie]

if it was a seagull, it's Williamstown's way of saying, we want in the big league

 

[flight23]

Nathan Bock hit a bird last year didn't he?

pay that

 

[Roo Ted]

Surely, the medi cart would be brought onto the ground, a multitude of medical staff would mill around attending to the patient and then the cart would rush off the ground and head straight to a waiting ambulance......Thoughts???????

 

[Amber Guzzler]

on the umpire thing i think that in the laws of the game they count as a post. stupid i know but thats why they get called a behind.

as for things happening mid flight, i seem to remember hearing of tiger player years ago kicking a ball that was going straight through the middle, but the ball exploded and one half hit a post so it was called a behind. cant remember details though. so ide say if it hit a bird it would be called play on.

According to the laws of the game:

4. The Football
4.1 Dimensions and Weight
Unless otherwise determined by the AFL, a football shall be of a
symmetrical oval shape and conform to the standard size of 720–730
millimetres in circumference and 545–555 millimetres transverse
circumference and be inflated to a pressure of 62–76Kpa.

So if it explodes, then I suppose it's no longer the ball, so it's no longer in play.

 

[cammo78]

It happened many years ago at Geelong when a spectator threw a piece of fruit at the football kicked by Doug Wade. What was a dead set goal was sent askew for a behind

also happened to James Cook at 3/4 time in the 1997 preliminary final...was surprised more wasn't made of it at the time, the commentators mentioned it once and moved on. could have had something to do with the fact we had a "match winning lead" at the time.

not sure it was a dead-set goal, though, as he was kicking from the boundary line.