Visy Park goal posts

trublu · **Joined:** Fri Sep 28, 2012 11:12 am **Posts:** 915

I've offered wondered if the reasons for our poor accuracy in front of goal was dude to the height difference of the goal posts at Visy Park compared to the goal posts at every AFL ground.

The goal posts at Visy Park are the original height they were before the AFL introduced much higher goal posts to help goal umpires with their decision making.

Big Kahuna Boot · **Posted:** Wed Sep 11, 2013 8:52 am

..we should narrow the gap between our goals post by a third, and then practice goal kicking.. ..hey, hey..

cimm1979 · **Posted:** Wed Sep 11, 2013 10:01 am

trublu wrote:

I've offered wondered if the reasons for our poor accuracy in front of goal was dude to the height difference of the goal posts at Visy Park compared to the goal posts at every AFL ground.

The goal posts at Visy Park are the original height they were before the AFL introduced much higher goal posts to help goal umpires with their decision making.

I don't know if it would help but if the purpose of a lot of training is to re-create game day conditions then those posts should be identicle to the match day posts.

Must have some steel suppliers as sponsors, get it done.

George Harris · **Posted:** Wed Sep 11, 2013 10:08 am

Forget the steel suppliers, let's build them out of recycled cardboard. We have a sponsor who could sort that out.

DocSherrin III · **Joined:** Tue Mar 29, 2005 2:09 pm **Posts:** 17218

cimm1979 wrote:

I don't know if it would help but if the purpose of a lot of training is to re-create game day conditions then those posts should be identical to the match day posts.

I concur. It's a valid point. I'll make a note of it. Will make for a good ice-breaker when I chat to the President.

cimm1979 · **Posted:** Wed Sep 11, 2013 10:11 am

George Harris wrote:

Forget the steel suppliers, let's build them out of recycled cardboard. We have a sponsor who could sort that out.

Do Visy supply Aus Post with its cardboard post tubes?

Could get Ahmed involved as well.

camel · **Posted:** Wed Sep 11, 2013 10:41 am

DocSherrin wrote:

cimm1979 wrote:

I don't know if it would help but if the purpose of a lot of training is to re-create game day conditions then those posts should be identical to the match day posts.

I concur. It's a valid point. I'll make a note of it. Will make for a good ice-breaker when I chat to the President.

We've got Carlton goal posts, @#$%&! the rest!

limestone · **Joined:** Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:37 am **Posts:** 770

camelboy wrote:

DocSherrin wrote:

cimm1979 wrote:

I don't know if it would help but if the purpose of a lot of training is to re-create game day conditions then those posts should be identical to the match day posts.

I concur. It's a valid point. I'll make a note of it. Will make for a good ice-breaker when I chat to the President.

We've got Carlton goal posts, @#$%&! the rest!

never gets old

cimm1979 · **Posted:** Wed Sep 11, 2013 12:26 pm

limestone wrote:

camelboy wrote:

DocSherrin wrote:

cimm1979 wrote:

I don't know if it would help but if the purpose of a lot of training is to re-create game day conditions then those posts should be identical to the match day posts.

I concur. It's a valid point. I'll make a note of it. Will make for a good ice-breaker when I chat to the President.

We've got Carlton goal posts, @#$%&! the rest!

never gets old

Never gets goaled.

Megaman · **Posted:** Wed Sep 11, 2013 12:47 pm

We're finally innovating and you guys wanna just follow the pack??!!

Navy Blue Horse · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 2:39 pm **Posts:** 15848

Big Kahuna Boot wrote:

..we should narrow the gap between our goals post by a third, and then practice goal kicking.. ..hey, hey..

Not as silly as it sounds. Think of Bradman hitting the golf ball with a stump...not a cricket bat, a stump.

DocSherrin III · **Joined:** Tue Mar 29, 2005 2:09 pm **Posts:** 17218

cimm1979 wrote:

Do Visy supply Aus Post with its cardboard post tubes?

Sshhhh!

missnaut · **Posted:** Wed Sep 11, 2013 10:57 pm

Will still be John Barkers fault

dane · **Joined:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:14 am **Posts:** 22357

missnaut wrote:

Will still be John Barkers fault

Surely he has been sacked. #hack

Donstuie · **Posted:** Thu Sep 12, 2013 8:31 am

Navy Blue Horse wrote:

Big Kahuna Boot wrote:

..we should narrow the gap between our goals post by a third, and then practice goal kicking.. ..hey, hey..

Not as silly as it sounds. Think of Bradman hitting the golf ball with a stump...not a cricket bat, a stump.

My thoughts exactly. The game may have come a long way skills-wise in many areas, but when you consider many of the great forwards were from less professional eras, maybe there's something to the old-school methods.

Robert Heatley · **Joined:** Sun Feb 27, 2005 8:04 pm **Posts:** 615

Before we get too carried away, we should check the height of the goalposts Collingwood use at training and copy that.

Adam Chatfield · **Posted:** Thu Sep 12, 2013 12:55 pm

Megaman wrote:

We're finally innovating and you guys wanna just follow the pack??!!

Yeah, don't copy the Pies again :mad:

DocSherrin III · **Joined:** Tue Mar 29, 2005 2:09 pm **Posts:** 17218

Robert Heatley wrote:

Before we get too carried away, we should check the height of the goalposts Collingwood use at training and copy that.

They're AFL game regulation height.

Nick · **Joined:** Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:52 pm **Posts:** 1857

If the new goal posts were any good they'd be contracted.

Lonny Mac · **Joined:** Sun Aug 30, 2009 7:35 pm **Posts:** 105

Just a question .....does anybody know if our guys ever train at night? We play most of our games at night or with the roof closed at Etihad.
I would think training under the conditions you play in would be an advantage probably more than the height of the goal posts.
Can anyone confirm? Its something I've wondered about for a while.

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