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Actually, they played 17 in Melbourne. If you count Cardinia Park as Melbourne. In 2012, even though they lost the GF, Hawthorn played 17 games at the G. Melbourne sides get it easy as far as travelling is concerned. The 4 sides who travel the most as far as distance are; Eagles, Freo, Suns & Lions. Swans, GWS, Port & Crows do not have as far to travel. But some of the fixturing has been intriguing. Swans played seven years straight in Perth and for two of those years they played two games there with no return at home.
Is it an equal playing field? People will say yes because Melbourne teams do not have a home ground. But they actually do. For instance three premiers, two multiple premiers, play home games at The G. Since 1990 20 out of 31 premiership have been won by Melbourne teams. Of those premierships 10 have been won by The G home game teams and three by the Cats, who play all their marque games there. Interesting stats.
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These new interpretive laws are giving me the shits. Why do young people have to complicate everything. By the way to me Scott & Co are young people. Footy is a simple game. Since McLachlan came to power, the AFL has changed the wording of many of the rules. Made the wording more interpretive, not less. In fact, the wording was deliberately made that way by our game administrators for years so as not to confuse the umpires and players, many of whom in the early days could not read and write and were from uneducated backgrounds, manual laborers. They were made simple. This made the umpires job just that much easier.
I believe the umpires are set up for failure due to the way the rules are now written. They are incredibly complicated. I have a degree in writing and I look at the rules and think, ‘why are these rules written in such a complicated manner?’. Then I realise, they are written by an academic or somebody with a degree. They are formulated by a committee. If you want to either complicate something or just make it go away, give it to a committee. The umpires are on a hiding to nothing. Maybe due to that, or just really terrible coaching, the umpiring has suffered over a period of time. The standard has dropped dramatically from that of the 1990’s and early 2000’s. If the AFL wants us and the players to respect the umpires they need to implement four strategies;
1. Make the rules clear, easy and uncomplicated
2. Get the most comprehensive coaching and analysis team together.
3. Stop denying that mistakes are mistakes.
4. Make umpiring professional.
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