Tuesday, April 22, 2014: Perspective.

Perspective. An elusive and intangible concept with which the football media shares a love/hate relationship. As with most things, the turbulence comes back to money. The temporary suspension of perspective aids in the concoction of crises, as we saw with North Melbourne's round one loss - which of course preceded a triplet of victories which re-established their top four credentials.

North Melbourne are an enigma. Against Port Adelaide they showed power and flair; against Sydney resilience beyond their calling. Against Collingwood they showed nerves of wet tissue paper and the skill and execution to match. If you look at the positives, they are a team that can match it with the best; another view suggests they'll struggle to hold their own against the also-rans. It's all perspective.

Fortunately for those long-suffering supporters and their strained eyes, we all fall under the direct-reporting line of a league and administration that understands perspective. The artists and visionaries at AFL house, they get it. The sun may appear as a harmless dot in the sky to us mortals, but Demetriou knows that it's really a hot-burning mess of lava and flames that keeps us alive; whilst also threatening to kill us if we get too close. That's kind of a metaphor, a life lesson on the risk you take if you try to make a decision from too far away - or from the wrong angle.

Which brings us back to perspective, and the unquestionable wisdom of AFL House who have realised that goal line technology might actually require a camera on the goal line; that asking someone in a box 100 metres away looking at footage from 200 metres away to overrule a highly trained and usually quite competent person less than 2 metres away is, at best, an inefficient use of resources and at worst one of the most illogical and irrational solutions to a very small problem in the history of mankind.

Which one is it? Well that's a matter of perspective.


The Monday Tuesday Wrap:
Thursday:
Richmond 106 defeated Brisbane 63
Saturday:
Collingwood 93 defeated North Melbourne 58
Sydney 92 defeated Fremantle 75
Port Adelaide 70 defeated West Coast 58
St. Kilda 81 defeated Essendon 65
Sunday:
Adelaide 137 defeated GWS 72
Gold Coast 86 defeated Melbourne 78
Carlton 119 defeated Western Bulldogs 91
Monday:
Geelong 106 defeated Hawthorn 87

Ladder
Geelong - 20 - (WWWWW)
Port Adelaide - 16 - (WWLWW)
Hawthorn - 16 - (WWWWL)
West Coast - 12 - (WWWLL)
Fremantle - 12 - (WWLWL)
Collingwood - 12 - (LWLWW)
North Melbourne - 12 - (LWWWL)
Gold Coast - 12 - (WLWLW)
St. Kilda - 12 - (WWLLW)
Essendon - 8 - (WLWLL)
Richmond - 8 - (LWLLW)
Adelaide - 8 - (LLLWW)
Sydney - 8 - (LLWLW)
GWS - 8 - (WLWLL)
Western Bulldogs - 8 - (LLWWL)
Carlton - 4 - (LLLLW)
Melbourne - 4 - (LLLWL)
Brisbane - 0 - (LLLLL)