_________________
THEY LIKE TO SEND UP!!!!!!!!

Until each team plays each other the same number of times, the AFL, as a fair dinkum competition, cannot be taken seriously.

He (Mr Swann) said the honour and pride associated with the club's traditional navy blue jumper was priceless.

Ok...I've checked.

https://aflua.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/AFL-Laws-of-the-Game-2024.pdf




Not sure if that clarifies things?????????


Technically, I don't think it should have been a goal, considering it hadn't fully crossed the line.

_________________
THEY LIKE TO SEND UP!!!!!!!!

Until each team plays each other the same number of times, the AFL, as a fair dinkum competition, cannot be taken seriously.

He (Mr Swann) said the honour and pride associated with the club's traditional navy blue jumper was priceless.

Issue is we have a number of players when have missed big chunks of the season, and even pre season in Walsh's case. Lose that base and it can take it's toll. Temporary for some, it can be fatiguing for a period, and then they come good, hard to come back from for others.

I should have added :




The 'ball touching an Umpire or any official' clause is not part of Law 16.2.

_________________
THEY LIKE TO SEND UP!!!!!!!!

Until each team plays each other the same number of times, the AFL, as a fair dinkum competition, cannot be taken seriously.

He (Mr Swann) said the honour and pride associated with the club's traditional navy blue jumper was priceless.

Good to hear from you Jim . You need to get on here more often . Good points for sure , but the same applies to all Clubs and Port had some weary boys also . We aint alone on the fatigue problem . Still say its a copout .

_________________
All my dangerous friends

My biggest problem with the umpiring and the rules is that whatever the umpire says goes. Have a clear set of rules and treat all players equally. Instead I see Port players dropping the ball aka not disposing of it correctly and don't get penalised Cripps does the same thing immediately a free kick. The umpires can do whatever the @#$%&! they want and nobody is allowed to pull them up on it.

The ball hitting the umpire thing changed I think last season. It was a reaction to it happening in a game. My understanding is if it hits the umpire but would have been a goal but for their getting in the way, they pay the goal. Problem is it relies on the ARC to make the call. Which is why you hear him say there was a clear gap before hitting the umpire. Just another quirk of the game. It didn't cost us the game. We did that to ourselves

_________________
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

Losses before wins

_________________
"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds." - Frank Zappa

hard to argue with that. having a lawyer (Laura) in charge of the rules interpretation is the icing on the cake. what makes sense to lawyers is pure confusion to players and umpires. not to mention us fans.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

as BV said, there’s so much grey zone in the rules today it opens up enormous potential for cheating and for umpires to show bias without showing bias if you know what i mean.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Walsh needs an elite chiropractor. i don’t known if he’s consulted any chirps but when it comes to backs Gonstead method Chiros are a class above in my opinion. there’s lists of very average chiros around as well.

i used to have back issues and my Chiro was able to maintain it. he read my back like a book, especially once he’d seen the x-rays. told me i’d had a car accident seven years ago which i had totally forgotten about until the next appointment. he could read the displacement in neck part of spine and the thickness of calcification where the spine tries to bridge to gap due to mal-alignment indicated the time period. classic whip lash injury he said, usually a car crash.

also mid and lower back issues.

i asked him once about back surgery bc a friend who couldn’t even sit at the dinner table was about to undergo it (and his dad used to run the Vic health system) and he said he won’t advise back surgery as there’s very little they can do to improve the spine in surgery. much better to use corrective chiro, more than weekly if in a brutal sport like AFL i’d imagine.

back injury is no joke. i came across a yoga teacher who was training to become a pro skater (constantly falling down concrete stairs etc) and also did a lot of ju-jitsu training. he went to a doctor in his late teens or something and the doctor said his back looked like that of a 40 year old. anyhow he did just three exercises and completely restored his spine in a year or so.

now when i do these exercises once a week even i don’t seem to have back issues at all. and certainly if i get them doing the exercises very day for a week seems to fix it. that or a visit or two to my chiro, who’s a long way to travel to atm.

good spinal care involves not sitting incorrectly, not splotching on the couch, getting in and out of a car correctly. there’s a lot to it once you have back issues.


maybe Walsh knows all this already… but if there’s a 1% chance he doesn’t someone in the club needs to tell him. i know Chiros have a bad rap, and in some cases deservedly so, but some of the better ones in history are truely amazing and even though there’s not much theoretical knowledge to support the possibility of what they achieve, the best manage to achieve incredible successes in all
kinds of ailments that other allied health can’t or haven’t. not to be dismissed if we’re talking my about the viability of potentially the best finals inside/outside midfielder in the AFL


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

walsh is heavy into yoga and pilates. the theory there is, you build up muscle mass around the ailing vertebrae to take the load off them.

i think the criticism on chiro is you can do more damage to discs by cracking/ manipulating/ adjusting the spine. so there's risks.

Also doesn't help that some people prescribe chiro as the solution to all ills ( or at least those that can't be fixed with essential oils)

*hides lavender and patchouli oils and diffuser...

It doesn't. I've had no issue with it having it for years and it's been no issue people over the many decades. Some do prefer the Osteopath though.

With the heavy legs we had 7 blokes who played who missed a significant chunk of the year. Remember that screwing our season back in 2000. They come back but we got run over in the first final after having a big lead killing any chance of a flag. OK when fresh but after a few weeks it catches up. Then you just hope than they come out the other side, much like the Hawks in 2014. All year one strength was the ability to blow sides away, physically and on the scoreboard, in last qtrs. Now we can't come up after one good qtr. Against Geelong, when we crushed them, we just had a couple.

That's because they should be used in combination with crystals

Go Blues

_________________
“Every single element of the Club has to be the best in the league, meticulously and methodically, and only by doing this will we be elite and challenge for number 17.”
Greg Lee

have you had micro-disectomy surgery jim? my ex-wife did and she was told to avoid chiro at all costs.

but there is so much confusing, contradictory info out there when it comes to health.

May be other reasons for that, and there is many, as there is with any disk issue. Muscle imbalance, poor core, crappy feet for starters. People have had those surgeries without going to chiros. Going to a chiro after might be different but doubt it was the cause.