3 hours ago, ucanchoose said:

Does anybody know the crowd figure last night? Thursday rainy night and looked like 15k where there. I love Thursday nights on the tv but would hate to have to go to a game then

State Government is sure to offer a roof if not an adjoining roofed stadium. Geelong are special.

PS: Where did the phrase "lasso free" come from. You'd think we could avoid yet another Americanism (dictionary suggests it was originally South American)

Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by Diamond_Jim

26 minutes ago, John Crow Batty said:

The AFL should have forced Geelong to standardise their ground dimensions to be in line with other AFL approved playing surfaces when Kardinia park was redeveloped. Is currently the extreme outlier to every other AFL ground in the country with its enormous length, narrow width, ruler straight outer wing and deep tight pockets. This gives the home side an enormous unfair advantage. Geelongs winning percentage is 84% at home where a normal home ground should be nowhere near that extreme.

One of the quirks of our game JCB is that they will play games for premiership points on grounds of any old shape or size. Norwood Oval where they play at Gather Round is 5 metres thinner than Kardinia Park and is sausage shaped, like the Western Oval was back in the day. North Hobart Oval where the Tassie side played last week is 10 metres thinner than Kardinia Park and 20 metres shorter. The SCG is also a short ground. Way back in the 1980's Hawthorn played Essendon for 4 points at the old Gabba when it was pear shaped and still had a greyhound track around it. Even the ground that the Giants play on is pointy at one end.

7 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Where did the phrase "lasso free" come from.

From a Ted talk?

1 hour ago, sue said:

Totally different. If you toe poke it through for a goal it would be intentional. I'll ignore hair-splitting arguments about a rare accidental toe-poke through the goals.

The whole point of the lasso rule is to remove the difficulty of applying intention.

1 hour ago, mauriesy said:

The whole point of the lasso rule is to remove the difficulty of applying intention.

And the commentators are arguing about players intenionally knocking it out to avoid a free being paid against their team....