Recent content by Gibbke

The AFL stats book they release every year designates games as day, twilight and night, or at least they used to twenty years ago when twilight was much rarer. They had them in the head to head stats...seemed like they had an official stance...

I'm interested in what this does to the classification of day, twilight and night games... I call any match played before 3:20pm a day game, between 3:20 and 5:00 a twilight game, and after that a night match. If it's before midday, it's a morning match, even if it started at 11:59! The...

Deloraine percentage 30, Scottsdale 11, both winless after five rounds...some spasmodic bursts of good footy in the last decade from the Roos, none at all from the Magpies... If they get thrown into the pit with North Launceston next year, it could be pretty ugly... Four team comp. Only South...

The war created havoc with lower leagues. Burnie were leading the ladder undefeated after R3 in 1940, but didn't have a team at all the next week because they all joined the army! Comp was disbanded immediately. Wynyard were on top of their league by a street, 1941 I think, but the army...

Mine is all about Tassie. The mission is every score of every game ever played in the state in the one place. If it's Top Tier - TFL, NT, NW or rep, it gets the full treatment - 4Q's, venue, attendance, date, winner and margin, goalkickers and full teams...the only thing missing from your...

Four team comp. You know that South would be able to get themselves up to par, and the best facilities in the country part of Northern Tassie are at Longford, plus you know they'd want to get back on top if it was viable for them...the first sixty years of both the NTFA and TFL looked like...

Were you there? I've just got back home to FNQ after spending the week in Tassie, and was based for the last few days right next to KGV until this morning. Was thinking of going to the TCA just to get a footy fix last night, being the only live game on...!

Two completely different scenarios. WSC was born by frustration with archaic boards demanding sacrifices and professionalism from players and not giving anything back. The ramifications of those years totally transformed cricket, unrecognisable from what it was only a decade earlier, and while...

Cricket things that annoy me...f###, where do I start... 1) The Mankad is a legit dismissal. Every argument against it is bullshit. 2) T20. 3) CA. 4) Bilateral ODI series. 5) 2 test series. 6) Super overs. 7) People using the term "spirit of cricket" to justify their own self serving biases...

A little disappointed in the jumper, but the above are probably right, they'll tweak it... The red needs darkening, kinda like the paint job on the cheap Gibson ripoff Aria doubleneck I bought decades ago...supposed to be the deep burgundy Jimmy Page had on his, but it had more in common with a...

It's gas, isn't it?

I've got a gut feeling about the Saints this year...

That's the only match that doesn't follow a strong top team home advantage rule. Bearing in mind this thread is about concessions influencing the naming of a premier, show me where that's influenced the result of this single game...? Like I said, nothing is stopping interstaters from winning an...

I would have been all over this a year ago. Then we had the referendum, and I gave up on Australia, knowing amongst many other things that threads like this would appear again...with the same embarrassing responses...

King Island would be uncompetitive. These days, they play around a dozen a side, with open registrations in case a visitor who says he played footy once visits that weekend...! If you were ranking the leagues, the numbers seem to show that the tiers below the four big comps stratify like this...