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Geelong supporter from halfway around the world since 2009.
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To me, what this whole episode makes abundantly clear is that we still don’t actually know Jack SCAT about concussions and brain injuries in general. We know a fair bit anecdotally and epidemiologically (which is to say about the average of large groups) but essentially nothing about individual cases. Maybe one guy’s head is heavier (Patrick Dangerfield?) and therefore doesn’t rebound much through the collision. Maybe another guy’s intracranial fluid pressure is higher which buffers shock transmission to his brain. But instead of an actual ability to assess individual situations, we have one one-size-fits-all procedure which is the best we have given the AFL’s desire to keep its nest feathered protect the players.
AFL issue Power 'please explain' after concussion controversy as pair both fail SCAT5 test
And yet you are here reading and commenting.
AFL issue Power 'please explain' after concussion controversy as pair both fail SCAT5 test
Speaking as a Geelong guy, I have mostly *not* been enjoying their footy.
Six Points: Unsung heroes driving Pies to glory, Eagles set a benchmark, and 2023's best sub performance
For somebody who grew up watching American football, the answer to your question is clear to me: If you want tackling, but don’t want people in defenseless positions, pay holding the ball *right away* when somebody is tackled. While the game wants to give people a chance to dispose of the ball after they are tackled, the defenders have to pin their arms. And if a players arms are pinned, he or she is defenseless in that tackle and then often enough, heads *will* get bashed into the ground.
Right now, the game wants to have its cake and eat it too. You just can’t do that.
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He was sacked from the Lions’ den a good while ago…
AFL News: Challenges galore after week of MRO carnage, Pies fears over Sidebottom injury
It seems to me that demoting/omitting umpires is a great way to make it even harder to persuade people to umpire. I’d suggest having one field umpire per week get a chance to make a video for the AFL site, explaining the contentious calls he made/missed. That would be a chance to (1) educate the public about what the umpires are looking for; (2) admit their stuff-ups; and (3) give them a bit of an identity so that they can be seen as humans and not just as unreliable robots in fluorescent yellow who can be pilloried without consequence. I’d add that the AFL doesn’t make things any easier for them with their constant fabrication of rules-of-the-week; consistency is better for everybody: fans, players and the umpires themselves.
Six Points: There's one way to stamp out floppers, 2023's dirtiest act, and enjoying the most even season in years
Well, I sure had to look that reference up; that must have been another, long-lost, black-sheep branch of the Scyphi. So, I guess he gets a pass; didn’t they deserve it? Actually, for me, “Scyphus” is just a part of an elaborate chain of puns that grew out of somebody’s pronunciation of my initials, meandering into Latin along the way (thus, which initials don’t even share any of the letters in “scyphus…”) on a side thread on an investing message board a quarter-century ago.
AFL News: Van Rooyen verdict in, Clarko savages 'shameful' Hawks racism investigation
I think Stewart’s role as an on-field coordinator, particularly of a defense that started off short a couple of its regulars (Henry & Kolo) was particularly felt. Tuohy seemed to have taken over some of that after Stewart went out, but it wasn’t the same for sure. De Koning is young still and obviously Ratugolea needs a fair bit of direction still. Close particularly and to an extent Miers and Stengle didn’t seem to have their regular defensive influence, either. And, with Stewart, De Koning and Stengle all off the ground for fair stretches and the game being played end-to-end, I think the Cats collectively running out of legs in the 4th quarter contributed disproportionately to the defenders’ issues. I expect Blicavs back in the back line next week to shore things up both physically and organizationally.
AFL Round 1 Power Rankings: Hot Pies, Carlton cold, Crows cooked, Port hits the spot
US Australian Football fan here. In the US, the national network TV and radio broadcasters have nonaffiliated play-by-play callers, and further, the play-by-play callers are lifetime broadcast professionals (à la Sandy Roberts or Anthony Hudson) rather than former athletes or other team-affiliated people. The “color comments” (special commentary) are uniformly former athletes, but I can’t remember any of them who ever show a team bias, perhaps because US players get moved around so much they understand that they are commodities and don’t have so much team loyalty. The principal exception is for college football, where the color guys’ school loyalty is always clear and regularly annoying.
Because our media markets are so big, we often have local TV and (always) radio broadcasts for each team; those are the only ones with affiliated commentators. So if you are, say, a Washington Nationals baseball fan, you get the same set of Washington Nationals commentators for every Nationals game, but only if you are watching the Nationals broadcast on the Nationals home channel in Washington DC.
The tyranny of the commentator who calls their own game
At a Cat person, I thought the umpiring was uniformly pretty poor. There were certainly a couple of obvious howlers called against Port, but I also saw a number of bad ones against the Cats, too. So, bad, but not one-directionally so. Or so I thought, looking determinedly through one eye.
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