Ross Lyons shakes up the game

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  • Lucky Knickers
    Fandom of Fabulousness
    • Oct 2003
    • 4220
    #1

    Ross Lyons shakes up the game

    In the article in Real Footy today Lyon suggests a game of 2 x 45 halves.

    Maybe it is about two 45-minute halves. We're throwing up a lot of different options but it's the one, for a long period of time I've thought, it'd be explosive and electric and it wouldn't just become that war of attrition,'' he said.
    NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! Don't mess with the footy. It is superb as it is. The best bang for your spectator dollar in the world.
    The 4 quarters only adds to the excitement and spectacle.
    Tags: game, lyons, ross, shakes, Swans, sydney
    • cruiser
      What the frack!
      • Jul 2004
      • 6114
      #2
      They need to leave the fracking game alone! Enough of rule changes. This idea really sucks.

      There's also an online poll in the Herald Sun asking whether the AFL needs to slow the game down. NOOOO!!!
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        • goswannie14
          Leadership Group
          • Sep 2005
          • 11166
          #3
          These @@@@wits need to stop messing with our game.

          Over the years the greatest changes to the game have come from natural evolution.

          They want to slow it down now after speeding up and had the big mouthed stupidity to bag us for playing slow, ugly (premiership winning) football.
          Does God believe in Atheists?

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            • liz
              Veteran
              Site Admin
              • Jan 2003
              • 16844
              #4
              Not sure that Rossy's maths is up to scratch. At the moment, the actual playing time is 4 x 20 minutes, which is less than 2 x 45 minutes. If all he is suggesting is that teams don't play "time on" that could just as well be achieved while leaving the quarters as they are.

              Or does he want to tire the players out more just by taking away their quarter time breaks? Surely taking away those breaks while leaving playing time similar (or slightly longer, with his "solution" would make the games more attritional and less explosive???

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                • laughingnome
                  Amateur Statsman
                  • Jul 2006
                  • 1624
                  #5
                  Originally posted by liz
                  Not sure that Rossy's maths is up to scratch. At the moment, the actual playing time is 4 x 20 minutes, which is less than 2 x 45 minutes. If all he is suggesting is that teams don't play "time on" that could just as well be achieved while leaving the quarters as they are.

                  Or does he want to tire the players out more just by taking away their quarter time breaks? Surely taking away those breaks while leaving playing time similar (or slightly longer, with his "solution" would make the games more attritional and less explosive???
                  Huh, I didn't even think of that. It opens the game up to be rorted by time-wasting iof that's what he wants. And if time-on exists in his 45-minute halfs that means an average half of 67.5 minutes (a 20 minute quarter lasts around 30 minutes). Alternatively he may mean 45-minutes with time-on, which equals playing time of 30 minutes a half, a total of ONE HOUR PLAYING TIME. Hell no. No freaking way no.
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