Visy Park goal posts

AK43 · **Joined:** Wed Apr 06, 2005 7:01 pm **Posts:** 1030

Back on to the important stuff - I've always wondered why the outside posts are shorter than the inside ones. There was a case a few years back, can't remember the teams, where a dodgy point or out on the full was called in a game decided by a point. Surely having all 4 posts the same (taller) height would help in this situation?

bluedog · **Posted:** Sat Oct 05, 2013 1:09 am

AK43 wrote:

Back on to the important stuff - I've always wondered why the outside posts are shorter than the inside ones. There was a case a few years back, can't remember the teams, where a dodgy point or out on the full was called in a game decided by a point. Surely having all 4 posts the same (taller) height would help in this situation?

Agree.

George Harris · **Posted:** Sat Oct 05, 2013 6:31 am

My 2 cents...

Thought the #believe initiative was great.

Could easily revive it for our 2014 finals campaign.

Blue Sombrero · **Posted:** Mon Oct 07, 2013 12:41 am

DocSherrin wrote:

cimm1979 wrote:

I don't know if it would help but if the purpose of a lot of training is to re-create game day conditions then those posts should be identical to the match day posts.

I concur. It's a valid point. I'll make a note of it. Will make for a good ice-breaker when I chat to the President.

While you're at it, ask him to put then six inches closer together. That way on match day they'll be further apart and we shouldn't miss so many!

DocSherrin III · **Joined:** Tue Mar 29, 2005 2:09 pm **Posts:** 17423

Good news! The goal posts will be changed this summer to be AFL regulation height! Trublu and I will be taking the credit for any improvement in goal kicking in 2014

camel · **Posted:** Wed Dec 18, 2013 11:55 am

And if it gets worse?

Kouta · **Posted:** Wed Dec 18, 2013 12:01 pm

Then it will still be Barker's fault...

AGRO · **Posted:** Wed Dec 18, 2013 1:09 pm

DocSherrin wrote:

Good news! The goal posts will be changed this summer to be AFL regulation height! Trublu and I will be taking the credit for any improvement in goal kicking in 2014

Look forward to you and Trublu taking Levi for extended goal kicking practice after training then.

:wink:

DocSherrin III · **Joined:** Tue Mar 29, 2005 2:09 pm **Posts:** 17423

camelboy wrote:

And if it gets worse?

Surely not! The goal posts will be converted into point posts and new goal posts are on their way.

zeecfc · **Joined:** Thu Nov 26, 2009 9:44 pm **Posts:** 1021

Good logical thinking folks! Like the story of NASA spending millions on developing a pen that works in zero gravity when the Russians just took pencils.

Kaptain Kouta · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 12:41 pm **Posts:** 63509

zeecfc wrote:

Good logical thinking folks! Like the story of NASA spending millions on developing a pen that works in zero gravity when the Russians just took pencils.

Cosmonauts ended up with graphite dust in their eyes though.

zeecfc · **Joined:** Thu Nov 26, 2009 9:44 pm **Posts:** 1021

Kaptain Kouta wrote:

zeecfc wrote:

Good logical thinking folks! Like the story of NASA spending millions on developing a pen that works in zero gravity when the Russians just took pencils.

Cosmonauts ended up with graphite dust in their eyes though.

Yeah, fun story but they both have been using pens for a while now.

camel · **Posted:** Sat Mar 22, 2014 7:04 pm

trublu wrote:

I've offered wondered if the reasons for our poor accuracy in front of goal was dude to the height difference of the goal posts at Visy Park compared to the goal posts at every AFL ground.

The goal posts at Visy Park are the original height they were before the AFL introduced much higher goal posts to help goal umpires with their decision making.

Time for a bump, I noticed this when I was at the ground last weekend. The posts aren't even close to the same height as they are at Etihad, for example.

Our goal kicking let us down a few times in R1 and while all teams can be afflicted by inaccurate kicking it seems to be an ongoing issue for us and it would be great if we were able to make some inroads into improving our goal kicking across the entire list.

camel · **Posted:** Sat Mar 22, 2014 7:05 pm

DocSherrin wrote:

Good news! The goal posts will be changed this summer to be AFL regulation height! Trublu and I will be taking the credit for any improvement in goal kicking in 2014

As noted, this hasn't happened yet, the posts are still too small. What's the go?

DocSherrin III · **Joined:** Tue Mar 29, 2005 2:09 pm **Posts:** 17423

camelboy wrote:

DocSherrin wrote:

Good news! The goal posts will be changed this summer to be AFL regulation height! Trublu and I will be taking the credit for any improvement in goal kicking in 2014

As noted, this hasn't happened yet, the posts are still too small. What's the go?

Martin Shannon had it on his 'to do' list. I've a meeting there on Tuesday morning so I'll find out.

DocSherrin III · **Joined:** Tue Mar 29, 2005 2:09 pm **Posts:** 17423

The posts are still on the agenda, but were put on the back-burner due to the initial cost which were considerably more than first thought. Will still be done - but there's a few things which rightly took precedence.

camel · **Posted:** Thu Mar 27, 2014 12:02 pm

Thanks for following up.

Although, once again, it seems to be another example where the basic fundamental requirement to kick accurately for goals is treated as a secondary issue.

Not just by us, but all clubs.

Megaman · **Posted:** Thu Mar 27, 2014 12:25 pm

Cant afford to alter the goal post heights; times are tough..

DocSherrin III · **Joined:** Tue Mar 29, 2005 2:09 pm **Posts:** 17423

camelboy wrote:

Thanks for following up.

Although, once again, it seems to be another example where the basic fundamental requirement to kick accurately for goals is treated as a secondary issue.

Not just by us, but all clubs.

I can see where you're coming from but the bigger issue with me rather than the delay is not recognizing this in the first place. But it's not too far away. Things do take a long time down there and it's very frustrating - but it's just the way it is at the moment. It's not the only project that has taken too long to complete.

grrofunger · **Posted:** Thu Mar 27, 2014 6:23 pm

Megaman wrote:

Cant afford to alter the goal post heights; times are tough..

utterly ridiculous isn't it?

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