Australian Football Sesquicentennial - No Countdown Clock
This is something that probably should be enforced for all games, but as 150 years of football is celebrated it is a good idea for next year. Get rid of the countdown clocks, on TV and on the radio. Nobody went to a football game 80 years ago and left with the game in the balance because the radio broadcast told them there was only 20 seconds remaining.
Bring back the big clock, with one hand and a yellow and red segment. Only allow the broadcasters to announce how much time has elapsed, not how much is remaining. The game was a lot more exciting when the final siren was unexpected.
While the teams will still be able to roughly determine how much time is left in games, they won't have the exact number which could help the standard of play. Plenty of teams seem to have a specified time that arrives and then the backwards kicking begins. Back in the day they had some idea of how much time was left, and they started to hit the boundary line, but at least they were kicking the ball forward.
This is the final part of the Australian Football Sesquicentennial ideas. It will be interesting to see what they do, maybe they watched the 1969 VFL Grand Final that was on TV recently. Long kicking, plenty of paper on the ground, a huge and vocal crowd, umpires in white, small posts, no 50m line, it was good to see.
Bring back the big clock, with one hand and a yellow and red segment. Only allow the broadcasters to announce how much time has elapsed, not how much is remaining. The game was a lot more exciting when the final siren was unexpected.
While the teams will still be able to roughly determine how much time is left in games, they won't have the exact number which could help the standard of play. Plenty of teams seem to have a specified time that arrives and then the backwards kicking begins. Back in the day they had some idea of how much time was left, and they started to hit the boundary line, but at least they were kicking the ball forward.
This is the final part of the Australian Football Sesquicentennial ideas. It will be interesting to see what they do, maybe they watched the 1969 VFL Grand Final that was on TV recently. Long kicking, plenty of paper on the ground, a huge and vocal crowd, umpires in white, small posts, no 50m line, it was good to see.
