Variations of Australian rules football

of bounds are given as a free kick, I’m now convinced that the lunatics have taken over the asylum. The AFL believe that the new rule has been a factor in the free-flowing style of play. Well! I don’t know which code they are watching, but it is obvious the new free flowing play is purely from the reduction in interchange rotations,( which should go down even further) not for the insane out of bounds rule. Just ask Vlastuin, if he’s allowed to answer? This is a statement is from one of those smug AFL administrators who stated; “A strengthening of the deliberate out-of-bounds rule has been partly credited for the free-flowing football on display in the opening two rounds, and said the umpires could have been even stronger in their adjudication.” (AFL.Com.au) Take your hand off it mate.…

Do you like or love to play sports? If you do, how about soccer? Well, I know I love soccer. I love soccer because I really like to run, I love most of all sports, I’m good at it, but most of all… it’s soccer. Quickly! Run around in circles, your life depends on it! Soccer. Yep, that’s soccer. I’m not going to lie. Soccer is dangerous. Maybe not as dangerous as football or hockey, but still pretty dangerous. Go for the ball and kick it in the other team’s goal. Seems pretty simple, doesn’t it?…

In the Journal of Sport and Social Issues, William J. Morgan posed that, “sport is an essential instrument of the social order to be used to promote economic and political agendas” and in a larger sense that, “this sport ideology is but a reflection of the larger, ideological hegemony of advanced industrial society” and “a reflection of the prevailing economic order” (Morgan 1983). Through this work, I intend to argue that this prevailing economic order can be viewed through the lens of the…

6, I was serving hot dogs and canned drinks to the hungry players in the canteen, and updating the scoreboard for each new goal. Since age 6, I was roped into endless games of jack in the pack and kick to kick with my brothers. At age 6, the thought of playing football never crossed my mind, not ever. It was not until 6 years later my local club introduced an U’15s girls football team. I was 12 at the time, and 4 years later I was still playing and saw the growth and recognition of the game – 3…

Pastor Sir Doug Nicholls contributed a great deal to Australian society, he was a person for all people not just for the Indigenous community. After his football career ended he devoted his life for the advancement of the Indigenous community. His work as a pastor, social worker and later in political life demanding audiences with people like Sir Henry Bolte convincing them of the needs for greater support. Adam Goodes is the individual I will be comparing with Doug. Both individuals had the…

the Essendon Football Club (Essendon) found by the Court of Arbitration (CAS) to have breached clause 11.2 of the Australian Football League (AFL) anti-doping code as a result of their part in the Essendon supplements saga in 2012. Hibberd, along with 33 other past and present Essendon footballers were “sanctioned with a period of ineligibility of two years as of 31 March 2015”. Currently, Hibberd is serving a provisional suspension from all competition expiring on 13 November 2016. As a result…

Melbourne is connected to the rest of the world based on the information shown on your graph. From looking at the graphs it can be seen that Melbourne is connected with the rest of the world. Task 7: Data Comparison Compare and contrast the data collected by our class with the data provided by Tourism Victoria and Tourism Australia. You may like to present your comparison in the form of a table, a Venn diagram showing similarities and differences, or in a paragraph. Similarities Differences •…

Indigenous Australian youth still face many challenges growing up in contemporary Australian society. This essay examines the challenges Indigenous youth face growing up and the main cultural influences. Specifically exploring the ways in which Indigenous youth today are interdependent to both white culture and indigenous culture. Also including reasoning behind continuous marginalization and stereotyping of Indigenous youth while growing up in this day and age. Examples of Indigenous youth from…

meeting human and social needs. One of the shortest definitions of marketing is “meeting needs profitably.” Whether the marketer is Procter & Gamble, which notices that people feel overweight and want tasty but less fatty food and invents Olestra; or CarMax, which notes that people want more certainty when they buy a used automobile and invents a new system for selling used cars; or IKEA, which notices that people want good furniture at a substantially lower price and creates knock-down…

Even if the fabulous Brotherhood was a reality, there still remained the difficulty of finding one's way into it. He told her of the strange intimacy that existed, or seemed to exist, between himself and O'Brien, and of the impulse he sometimes felt, simply to walk into O'Brien's presence, announce that he was the enemy of the Party, and demand his help. Curiously enough, this did not strike her as an impossibly rash thing to do. She was used to judging people by their faces, and it seemed…