Who would win - 196cm or over team vs 180cm or less team?

[WillHayward]

Ha, yep.

Everybody bags the umpires because their Brownlow “is just a midfielders award”.

No, every award is a midfielders award.

Well coaches seem to value them highly.

Most people would say Bont is the best player in the comp because he can do all the small guy midfielder things and he's massive in size. Makes him a rare best. As much as we might like to think there are hundreds of Bonts out there, there aren't.
He's unusual. And that makes him most people's number 1.

But he's not playing in the > 196cm team.

Butters and Gulden would be hard to combat.

 

[SSSSSS]

Why doesn't that happen now and coaches just select an all talls side?

Because they are sheeple and not tactical geniuses like me.

Also they should kick it farken long.

 

[Fadge]

Shorter team would simply run the talls off their feet.

 

[peetoo]

It depends how umpires rule the ruck contests

 

[WillHayward]

It depends how umpires rule the ruck contests

That's way too high brow

 

[Cleansweep17]

So why not just do that in a normal game then?

Cause the tall guys have to be put against the other tall guys so they don’t get destroyed in the marking contest.

 

[WillHayward]

Cause the tall guys have to be put against the other tall guys so they don’t get destroyed in the marking contest.

But what if U went all talls and then kicked to the size mismatch?

Are U saying if one side went all tall the other team would go all tall?

I don't believe that would happen...

 

[RAPPA]

None of the shorts play tall but some of the talls are bloody agile and would have the capacity to play small imo.

 

[Jugada]

Tall team would win pretty comfortable. Any time they got possession the chances of getting out marked as they went forward would be really low. Just kick it from pack to pack and the smallies would have none.

A lot harder for the shorter guys to just having to continue to fast play all night and keep the ball moving. That sort of play is a lot more susceptible to turnovers

 

[Cleansweep17]

But what if U went all talls and then kicked to the size mismatch?

Are U saying if one side went all tall the other team would go all tall?

I don't believe that would happen...

Has Tom Stewart ever gone on Maurice Rioli Jnr? No he gets put on Tom Lynch or somebody with similar height.

 

[Guardian Hawk]

So why not just do that in a normal game then?

Why doesn't that happen now and coaches just select an all talls side?

Are these serious questions?

The reason it doesn't happen now is that the oposition are also allowed to select tall players. These tall players can effectively force a contest and bring the ball to ground, at which point shorter players are required for speed, agility and ground level skills.

In a scenario where the opposition can only select sub 180 cm players - then of course an all tall team can be dominant by farming the ruck and playing keepings off in the air. It's a tactic that could work in this strange hypothetical but of course would not be advantageous in real life where the opposition can pick a balanced side, including talls.

Would certainly be fun to watch - as the smalls could tackle in the midfield, win the ball back and use their speed and spread but once the talls end up with the ball, they can kick high to advantage and effectively keep it away from the smalls.

I suspect the talls would win. Even just seeing the result of games where a team has no recognised ruckman has often resulted in a thrashing. Most talls at AFL level are also not slow anymore and the closer you get to goal, the less space there is (for the smalls to utilise). Even when the smalls win it in the middle I think the talls would likely win it back on the half back or full back line and then be able to kick high to marking targets and retain possession more often than not.

Picking smalls with a big leap - to force a contest/spoil it back down would be important to their chances.

 

[MadMaxx]

Who would win a game out of 18 Cyril Rioli's and 18 Adam Goodes?

 

[The 747]

Who would win a game out of 18 Cyril Rioli's and 18 Adam Goodes?

Well you've got your Riolis and your Goodesys......