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2016 AFL Season Discussion

Amazing.
I was watching Swans - Tigers from a corporate box inside the G, and my heart was pounding the whole match
(So was the heart of the crazy Sydney fan in our box)

Ben Griffiths played his best game as a Tiger with 5 goals, and you could've even said Lloydsy did as well.

That was amazing.
 
How many weeks do you guys think Tom Jonas will get? And, how many do you think he should get?

It's just been graded intentional, severe impact and high contact at the MRP; the three highest gradings for each of the categories. For comparison, Steven May's bump a few weeks ago was graded careless, severe impact and high contact; he got four weeks plus one extra for a bad record.

Given that I think he'll probably get six weeks. I don't think there's been an incident graded like that since the start of the new gradings system, so it's a bit hard to say for sure. I think six would be about right, especially given how careful everyone is (and rightly so) about protecting the head now.
 
So they went in looking to have Intentional downgraded to Reckless, only to end up with the AFL prosecutor flat out calling Jonas a liar.

Jonas had earlier argued he didn't intend to strike Gaff but had been caught in two minds between bracing for contact and attempting to spoil as he closed in on the Eagles' midfielder during last Saturday's clash at Adelaide Oval.
The 25-year-old told the Tribunal he had taken the "soft option" of protecting himself and the forearm he raised was intended to protect his body from impact in the collision.

Jonas will spend seven weeks out of football, with the Power having a bye in round 14, returning against North Melbourne in round 17 at Etihad Stadium.

"One thing I'm sure of is I didn't intend to make contact with him like that," a contrite Jonas told the Tribunal.

"I regretted it immediately and I felt terrible.

"It's a little bit embarrassing. I took the soft option and was scared for my own safety.

"At no time during the incident did I have the intention of striking Andrew Gaff in the neck or head and hurting him."

Jonas's argument was dismissed by the jury of Hamish McIntosh, Shane Wakelin and Emmett Dunne, who deliberated for seven minutes before settling on their penalty.

The final ban was one-match shy of the seven-week penalty recommended by AFL counsel Jeff Gleeson, who accused Jonas of reconstructing the truth.

"It's a human response to convince yourself that you didn't intend to do what the evidence shows you did," Gleeson said in his case against Jonas.

He said the jury should reject the defender's evidence that he had intended to spoil and braced for contact at the last minute.

"That doesn't leave many other palatable alternatives ... at the last minute he intended to strike," Gleeson said.
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Well, just like that...we are half-way through the Home and Away season!

I've seen this done elsewhere, so I thought we could try it: describe your team's first half of the 2016 season in NO MORE than five words.

I'll go first, with my Hawks: "Just hanging about the place" :-)
 
Matty76 said:
Well, just like that...we are half-way through the Home and Away season!

I've seen this done elsewhere, so I thought we could try it: describe your team's first half of the 2016 season in NO MORE than five words.

I'll go first, with my Hawks: "Just hanging about the place" :)
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Eagles: "Can't quite beat good teams." :(
 
Western Bulldogs captain Bob Murphy has this afternoon confirmed that he will play on in 2017!

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Great news in my opinion, for both the Western Bulldogs and the competition in general.
 
Josh Jenkins from the Adelaide Crows has written a column comparing the media access of AFL players to that of NFL players in America.

http://www.espn.com.au/afl/story/_/...ess-similar-nfl-hard-knocks-says-josh-jenkins

Apart from it being a very well constructed argument and a terrific read, I would love to get the thoughts of everyone on the subject. Would an "AFL Hard Knocks" sort of thing work? Would the fans embrace it, or use it as further ammunition against players?
 
@Matty76 I would watch something like that every week.
How awesome would an AFL Hard Knocks be?

Oh, and while looking at that article, I saw this article, also by Josh Jenkins about what the AFL can learn from the NFL draft.

http://www.espn.com.au/afl/story/_/...-nfl-draft-introduce-live-trading-picks-start

What's everyone's thoughts on that article, and what the AFL can do to improve the draft overall?

For starters, no offence to Bombers fans who have followed the team through the bad times this year, but they don't deserve the #1 pick this year. I think the Bombers pick, assuming it'll get 1st this year, should be demoted to 10th pick and the other 9 teams that didn't make the finals get moved up a spot.

I also think that a draft lottery is the way to go, with the top 3 picks drawn out between the teams that failed to make the finals (1st gets 25% of the odds to get 1st) and the rest of the picks going down in season record order.
How awesome would it be, and how nervous would fans be if a lottery was held live from Etihad Stadium (or in any suitable destination) 1 month before the draft? How intense would scouting be from then onwards? I would love to watch a lottery in the AFL, and I'm sure many fans would agree with me.

I also would like to see the Academy draft system gone.
Call me unfair, but it just makes the draft a lot more predictable when you know a team is saving points to wait to take a player (i.e. Callum Mills last year)

If anything, the northern clubs should get a compensation pick at the END of a round that an academy player is selected (so if GWS have 3 academy players selected by other teams in the 1st round, they get three picks at the end of the round as compensation).

Thoughts?
 
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