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PUNT ROAD END | Richmond Tigers Forum
Ever since the AFL decided to sell AFL Park and build a stadium at the Docklands, football has taken a completely different track.
Those that listen to SEN radio may have heard a debate tonight about the sorts of games that are regularly contested at Telstra dome, and whether playing football indoors was what our Aussie rules pioneers invented it for.
There is no disputing good teams play good football anywhere.
But the chip, chip, stop, start, keepings off game is so conducive at the Telstra Dome it is not funny.
For me it is the ugliest part of football. Some say fights and brawls are ugly, but I know which one I would rather.
Yes players should man up, but they are obviously under instruction not to. So that's not Telstra Domes fault is it?
But the fact that there is no wind or rain at the ground reduces the margin for error significantly. Unforced errors give the game unpredictability,
give the opposition a chance to take possession, makes the game more of a contest.
Maybe it will look a little less skilfull but for heaven's sake those that remember Waverly would have to agree that footy was a contest there, it didn't matter who you played you had a decent chance, as it is at the G.
As we approach this Saturday's game against the Crows some may remember the day we beat the Crows at their peak in Adelaide when "The Geisch" started coaching us. Nobody gave us a hope that day, but it rained!!!!!!!
I would go so far to say that we have more of a chance of beating the Crows at AAMI stadium than at Telstra Dome this week.
Yes I hate Telstra Dome, it represents "laundered", "robotic" football that is dull and almost emotionless.
The fact that it's surface is always slippery, they can't grow the grass, the stadium should face East/West not North/South, you can't walk up to the gate, 50,000 people fit like sardines, players always get injured there, the Bourke street overpass is not big/wide enough to handle everyone leaving at once, it costs more to park your car than get in the ground, there is no atmosphere when there are small crowds...............and the fact that Richmond have absolutely no hope there makes the place an utter joke to me.
Give me a cold, windy day in the open at the G or Waverly when a contest is possible anyday.
Telstra Dome and the Docklands should have stayed just that, a place for ships to empty and load their cargo.
Ross Oakley, you sure have a lot to answer for.
Those that listen to SEN radio may have heard a debate tonight about the sorts of games that are regularly contested at Telstra dome, and whether playing football indoors was what our Aussie rules pioneers invented it for.
There is no disputing good teams play good football anywhere.
But the chip, chip, stop, start, keepings off game is so conducive at the Telstra Dome it is not funny.
For me it is the ugliest part of football. Some say fights and brawls are ugly, but I know which one I would rather.
Yes players should man up, but they are obviously under instruction not to. So that's not Telstra Domes fault is it?
But the fact that there is no wind or rain at the ground reduces the margin for error significantly. Unforced errors give the game unpredictability,
give the opposition a chance to take possession, makes the game more of a contest.
Maybe it will look a little less skilfull but for heaven's sake those that remember Waverly would have to agree that footy was a contest there, it didn't matter who you played you had a decent chance, as it is at the G.
As we approach this Saturday's game against the Crows some may remember the day we beat the Crows at their peak in Adelaide when "The Geisch" started coaching us. Nobody gave us a hope that day, but it rained!!!!!!!
I would go so far to say that we have more of a chance of beating the Crows at AAMI stadium than at Telstra Dome this week.
Yes I hate Telstra Dome, it represents "laundered", "robotic" football that is dull and almost emotionless.
The fact that it's surface is always slippery, they can't grow the grass, the stadium should face East/West not North/South, you can't walk up to the gate, 50,000 people fit like sardines, players always get injured there, the Bourke street overpass is not big/wide enough to handle everyone leaving at once, it costs more to park your car than get in the ground, there is no atmosphere when there are small crowds...............and the fact that Richmond have absolutely no hope there makes the place an utter joke to me.
Give me a cold, windy day in the open at the G or Waverly when a contest is possible anyday.
Telstra Dome and the Docklands should have stayed just that, a place for ships to empty and load their cargo.
Ross Oakley, you sure have a lot to answer for.