Kicks for goal after the final siren

[AndrewP6]

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Yep and it was one of the most enjoyable days of footy I've experienced. Johnno's last quarter was epic!

That was incredible - the season I returned to going to the footy, after many years of watching from a distance. My seat was at that end of the ground too.

[boydogs]

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Will Minson v Richmond to draw, when Lake marked & faked an injury?

[Scraggers]

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Will Minson v Richmond to draw, when Lake marked & faked an injury?

I don't think that was after the siren though ... I think there was 90 secs (or so) to go in the game. I remember Nathan Brown celebrating then realizing it was a draw.

[ledge]

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My favourite, not sure if it was after the siren but i remember Peter Landys call
"Beasley sends out the word".
Beaser kicked the goal to beat Collingwood after intercepting a pass from Gubby Allen and Jimmy Edmond telling Gubby what a dill he was.
Beating Collingwood by 100 points doesnt beat defeating them by less than a goal.

[Bulldog Revolution]

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Jeff Whites goal that cost us finals, was before the siren right?

[Bulldog Revolution]

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Gubby Allan across goal to Beasley?

[Bornadog]

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Gubby Allan across goal to Beasley?

Beasley's kick was before the siren.

[comrade]

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Jeff Whites goal that cost us finals, was before the siren right?

I took a girl to that game. Jeff White put me in a shocking mood so I barely spoke for the rest of the night.

Fair to say, she wasn't impressed.

[boydogs]

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Jeff Whites goal that cost us finals, was before the siren right?

Yeah pretty sure.

[Drunken Bum]

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Beasley's kick was before the siren.

Watching that just reminded me how much i miss the days when every player on the ground wasn't within 5 meters of the ball, yeah the skills and athleticism and professionalism have all improved a lot but the game itself has gone backwards because of it imho

[jeemak]

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Watching that just reminded me how much i miss the days when every player on the ground wasn't within 5 meters of the ball, yeah the skills and athleticism and professionalism have all improved a lot but the game itself has gone backwards because of it imho

The ball definitely moves unhindered from end to end, but clips like those are riddled with stupidity from players and umpires alike just like they are now.

I started watching football consciously and seriously in 1991, and I can honestly say I've been happy to watch the game evolve as it has over those years, away from the point I started from.

I really like that the game keeps moving on, and I like how different types of players are the beez knees one or two years in a row only to become almost obsolete in the three or four years afterwards. I hate the tampering with the rules of course, and I can't help but think the game would be so much better if the AFL just left it alone, to evolve by itself.

[boydogs]

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I can't help but think the game would be so much better if the AFL just left it alone, to evolve by itself.

I can't see how things like deliberate out of bounds could have been removed without a rule change. We're the only sport I can think of where out of bounds results in a neutral contest, and not a turnover. With the tactical side of the game what it is today, every close game would end with 10 consecutive boundary throw ins.

[jeemak]

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I can't see how things like deliberate out of bounds could have been removed without a rule change. We're the only sport I can think of where out of bounds results in a neutral contest, and not a turnover. With the tactical side of the game what it is today, every close game would end with 10 consecutive boundary throw ins.

Though if you look at deliberate OOB these days it's designed to make players kick to their opponents out of the backline, and not benefit from safety in a neutral contest.

Teams forward press, and leave no option for defenders under pressure other than kicking the football to a free opposition player or seek refuge in the boundary line. There's not many things in football that infuriates supporters more than kicking the football to a pressing player unopposed 85m out from goal, but it happens all the time.

Each and everyone of us would have been taught that football is a game of "keep things off" when we were growing up, and part of that was seeking the boundary line as a point refuge.

The boundary line might seem a strange point of refuge compared to other sports, though none of those other sports have decisive forward movement as a result of free posession like the AFL does. Soccer (due to defensive organisation, unless in the scoring third), rugby, et al have to go backwards to go forwards, and aren't comparable to the AFL.

[The Coon Dog]

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I'm sure there are threads for rules & such forth, this is about goals after the final siren.

[jeemak]

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Yeah sorry TCD, you're right.

The game versus Brisbane is one of my first clear footy memories from when I was a kid. I would have only been 8 years old at the time, and even then I thought the situation was ridiculous.

Poor old Johnno. Towards the end of his career he was being maligned by just about everyone that didn't go for the Bulldogs (and some that did) and these misses didn't help his cause. I was pretty dirty on his effort against Norf, I thought that was a very gettable shot irrespective of the pressure.