Robbo comments on the unintended consequences of regulation and how it might effect recreational fishing.
So I did the AFL’s Fan Survey…
May 25, 2013 by 6 Comments
And oh boy was it intriguing! Leading questions everywhere! Didn’t get asked about the frequency of rule changes. Didn’t get asked about rule interpretation either. Sliding rule? Nah. Score Review System? What is that?
Crio’s Question: Bending the rules
December 10, 2012 by 10 Comments
Crio wants to know what rule change in any code would make your sporting life better in 2013.
No Oliver, you may not have some more. Eighty will do.
October 16, 2012 by 5 Comments
Another off-season, another fundamental change to the way football is played, says Adam Ritchie. Considering how great our game it, it sure does seem to be tinkered with a lot.
Olympic objectivity, deliberate or otherwise
August 14, 2012 by 7 Comments
The Olympics can draw out many emotions, but to me this year, I actually found them to be… ‘strangely refreshing’. I took a bit longer than normal to get warmed up for the games this time. Perhaps it was because I went to Sydney and to the Vancouver Winter games, whereas this was always just [Read more]
Keep The Rules The Way They Are
August 18, 2011 by 2 Comments
(An ode to Kevin Bartlett and the Rules Committee) by Michael Viljoen (Sung to the tune of Just the Way You Are – B. Joel) Don’t go changing the rushed behind rule We’ll try to keep the ball in play, Mmm Sometimes I fumble across the goal line Disguised in my own [Read more]
Thank You Hawthorn
July 21, 2011 by 7 Comments
I was not a fan of the AFL rule change prohibiting the deliberate rushed behind. Not a fan at all. If I was in the front bar of Cramers in Preston I’d go so far as to exclaim to no-one in particular that it’s akin to social engineering as far as I’m concerned. It’s a [Read more]
A rushed point for an April Fool
April 6, 2011 by 1 Comment
By Michael Viljoen The morning of April 1st I received an alert from one ‘Yellow and Black’ football blog uncovering the surprise news that the iconic Richo (following the trend of Geoff Huegill, Ian Thorpe, and Pauline Hanson) was preparing his own comeback, to hopefully act as a foil for Jack on the Tigers’ forward [Read more]
How The Footy Almanac saved football
April 4, 2011 by 46 Comments
The Footy Almanac has saved football. The Richmond footy club almost saved footy a few years ago, but here at the Almanac we’ve done it properly. The Tiges almost saved footy when they lost to Geelong by 157 points one Sunday evening in May, 2007. At a time when the Swans and West Coast had [Read more]
AFL Rule of Law
August 20, 2010 by 6 Comments
With the current season not yet complete, Adrian Anderson is already floating thought bubbles about rule changes for next season. Here we go again, it seems. So ingrained has this ritual become it’s possible to forget a time when constant tinkering with the rules wasn’t a given. Before we had Rules Committees, Umpires Directors and [Read more]
Changes
June 24, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Watching little of the World Cup ( it’s on at work so it hard to avoid ) has got me thinking about how a few changes would enhance the spectacle, not only of soccer, but many other sports as well. So I’ve put a couple of ideas down for your degustation outlining what I feel [Read more]
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