Proudly Sponsored By. Club Logo. Home Latest. News Videos Documentaries Photos. Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube. Created By. A partially floating fixture will also return for next season, with the League set to lock in timeslots for only the first six rounds of the year. The timing of the release of the date, timeslot and broadcaster of these matches will continue to be worked through with clubs, venues and broadcasters to ensure the right balance between flexibility and certainty in the constantly changing environment due to the ongoing COVID pandemic.
The team competition will consist of nine home-and-away rounds plus three weeks of finals. All matches will be fully ticketed for the first time as part of the continued progression of the competition and ensuring all venues are COVID-safe.
The full fixture will be released tomorrow, Friday December The changes will see:. The girls have been training hard in preparation for the upcoming season. Jess Low spoke to before training about where she sees herself fitting into the team….
Will Brodie spoke to WA media today after arriving at the club Monday. Watch Brisbane's press conference after round six's match against Carlton. But are games really that much longer? Or have the events of the last 12 months, where quarter lengths were slashed to 16 minutes in due to the condensed season in the wake of the COVID outbreak, led to our minds playing tricks on us? In the three seasons before the global pandemic, quarter lengths hovered around the same sort of mark.
They went from an average of This year, they have moved to an average of That's around 30 seconds longer than what footy fans had grown accustomed to prior to last season. But there's a simple explanation as to why. When quarters were slashed to 16 minutes last year, the gap between a goal being kicked and the subsequent restart was pushed from 45 seconds to 60 seconds.
This year, that has been reduced to 50 seconds. Add that to quarter-time and three-quarter time breaks returning to six minutes, and half-time breaks returning to 20 minutes, and you get your additional time. Overall, that's leading to match lengths that have expanded to an average of That's more than two minutes longer than what we knew in But is two minutes of additional time on the field leading to more injuries and a noticeably longer game?
Or are we simply taking time to re-adapt from the dramatically shorter matches of last season? Throughout , reduced game time meant quarter lengths were on average more than five minutes shorter than they had been in the past Game lengths were subsequently more than 20 minutes shorter Scott emphasised coaches' opinions "shouldn't carry too much weight" but liked the versatility minute quarters provided.
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