Geoff Carr says Karmichael Hunt will get no retirement fund

[Flutterby]

I can't believe that if reports of what AFL are going to pay him (ie $1million a season!!!!), that he is even concerned about a relatively measely 60 grand. Seems odd that Riolo would be making this such an issue.

 

[Anonymous person]

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I just hate it when things are shite due to little technicalities and people refuse to change it! - i.e corner posts!
/rant.

Completely off topic and way out of left field, but I have an idea relating to corner posts. As far as I'm aware it would be within the rules, and could save a LOT of tries.

When you first run out for a half of footy, get your wingers to bend the corner posts right down, facing along the try line, to say a 30 degree angle. Now they've effectively moved the sideline 1m inwards.

Thoughts?

 

[Coxy]

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I just hate it when things are shite due to little technicalities and people refuse to change it! - i.e corner posts!
/rant.

Completely off topic and way out of left field, but I have an idea relating to corner posts. As far as I'm aware it would be within the rules, and could save a LOT of tries.

When you first run out for a half of footy, get your wingers to bend the corner posts right down, facing along the try line, to say a 30 degree angle. Now they've effectively moved the sideline 1m inwards.

Thoughts?

Pretty sure it's the responsibility of the touch judges and ball boys to ensure the corner posts are kept perpendicular.

 

[Flutterby]

Also pretty sure if you were seen to bend the corner posts deliberately to gain an unfair advantage there'd be some kind of ruling against that.

 

[Foordy]

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I just hate it when things are shite due to little technicalities and people refuse to change it! - i.e corner posts!
/rant.

Completely off topic and way out of left field, but I have an idea relating to corner posts. As far as I'm aware it would be within the rules, and could save a LOT of tries.

When you first run out for a half of footy, get your wingers to bend the corner posts right down, facing along the try line, to say a 30 degree angle. Now they've effectively moved the sideline 1m inwards.

Thoughts?

they actually showed a clip on the Sunday Roast of a player doing something similar to that. the corner post was leaning slightly over the touchline, so the player twisted it so it was facing the in-goal area

 

[Anonymous person]

Pretty sure it's the responsibility of the touch judges and ball boys to ensure the corner posts are kept perpendicular.

They never do though [icon_lol1.

 

[Coxy]

Only when it's been taken out in a try effort. They always replace it.

Corner posts are stupid though. They should remain, but only used to assist in judging if a ball goes dead in goal or in touch in the field of play. It shouldn't matter if you make contact with it while trying to score a try.

 

[Professor47]

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Exacto mondo and thouuuuuuuuuusands of people agree. The fact they don't change this rule tomorrow shows how illogical the whole system is.

Anyone who says anything about logistics is deadset kidding themselves. If an organisation can't get around such logistics as these I would hate to see how they tackle more important issues... oh wait - we have. hehe.

 

[diomac]

isn't the argument that he's going to AFL meaningless, since he's off to play Union in Japan first before going to the AFL and the fund was setup to prevent players going to union? ie the fine print of the agreement says you lose all rights to funds if you go play union.

but still it might be interesting to see how the courts would view it, just being in the agreement doesn't mean it'll hold up in court. Australia has pretty strict rules and protections for peoples money.

 

[Flutterby]

I haven't seen the fine print but I believe it says you lose the money if you go to a 'rival code' - not union specifically. If it specified Union, then there would be no contest, he'd have to get the money. Riolo's arguement is that AFL is not a rival code - I don't understand his thinking on that because it is clearly another football code against which RL competes.

 

[Jeba]

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I just hate it when things are shite due to little technicalities and people refuse to change it! - i.e corner posts!
/rant.

Completely off topic and way out of left field, but I have an idea relating to corner posts. As far as I'm aware it would be within the rules, and could save a LOT of tries.

When you first run out for a half of footy, get your wingers to bend the corner posts right down, facing along the try line, to say a 30 degree angle. Now they've effectively moved the sideline 1m inwards.

Thoughts?

Get your own ideas. Phil Gould always told his wingers to do that.

 

[Nashy]

Would it be legal to turn it around?

I mean, when they are leaning away from the field, that's giving the atacking team a couple of inches to move, and sometimes it comes down to tiny amounts of space.

 

[Anonymous person]

Get your own ideas. Phil Gould always told his wingers to do that.

Never saw any do it though, did you? Link or it didn't happen.

Nashy, I've seen a try or 2 awarded where it wouldn't have been had the corner post been correctly vertical. It's ridiculous.

Anyway, back on topic - I hate Khunt.

 

[Jeba]

Get your own ideas. Phil Gould always told his wingers to do that.

Never saw any do it though, did you? Link or it didn't happen.

They did it all the time!!! Early 90's in particular. He talks about it on the Roast whenever they talk about the corner post.

 

[Anonymous person]

O Rly? Wow, I've never seen it. I'm talking full on leaning them over til they're 30 degrees off the ground, not just slight leaning though.

 

[Jeba]

Yeh I know what you mean. There was an example of that earlier this year in the ESL (come to think of it it was probably even less than 30 degrees) and they showed it on the Roast and Gus said he used to tell his wingers to do that all the time.

 

[Coxy]

Yeh I know what you mean. There was an example of that earlier this year in the ESL (come to think of it it was probably even less than 30 degrees) and they showed it on the Roast and Gus said he used to tell his wingers to do that all the time.

Seriously, that's such a touch judge/ball boy fail. Surely someone noticed.

 

[Anonymous person]

As much of a douche as he is, Gus probably knows every rule-bending trick in the rulebook.