Re: Finals Week 1
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:56 am
Couldn't help but have a chuckle at this article positioned near the top of the advertiser website
ADELAIDE left GWS completely spooked in their AFL qualifying final — and a footy legend says it was because of a “weird” illusion.
The Crows’ unusual decision not to link arms for the national anthem before the qualifying final was labelled a genius move by footy legend Dermott Brereton.
The Crows stood with plenty of space between each player as they faced off with GWS across the centre square, while the Giants linked arms as is standard in the AFL.
Hawthorn legend Dermott Brereton described the move from Adelaide as a masterstroke because it gave the appearance that there were more Crows players on the ground because they stretched out over a much greater distance across the Adelaide Oval before the game.
I don’t know if they were trying for a visual illusion,” Brereton told Fox Footy.
“If you have a half a metre between each one of them compared to a team that are linking arms, you spread the line from the boundary to the centre square with the way they line up.
“Perhaps they want the optical illusion that, ‘There are so many of us out here’.
“It’s the old Muhammad Ali, ‘I’m hitting him from everywhere and he’s going to think he’s surrounded’. It’s a little game, but I tell you what, it’s working at the moment.”
Demons star Jordan Lewis described the Adelaide move as “bizarre” and “weird”.
ADELAIDE left GWS completely spooked in their AFL qualifying final — and a footy legend says it was because of a “weird” illusion.
The Crows’ unusual decision not to link arms for the national anthem before the qualifying final was labelled a genius move by footy legend Dermott Brereton.
The Crows stood with plenty of space between each player as they faced off with GWS across the centre square, while the Giants linked arms as is standard in the AFL.
Hawthorn legend Dermott Brereton described the move from Adelaide as a masterstroke because it gave the appearance that there were more Crows players on the ground because they stretched out over a much greater distance across the Adelaide Oval before the game.
I don’t know if they were trying for a visual illusion,” Brereton told Fox Footy.
“If you have a half a metre between each one of them compared to a team that are linking arms, you spread the line from the boundary to the centre square with the way they line up.
“Perhaps they want the optical illusion that, ‘There are so many of us out here’.
“It’s the old Muhammad Ali, ‘I’m hitting him from everywhere and he’s going to think he’s surrounded’. It’s a little game, but I tell you what, it’s working at the moment.”
Demons star Jordan Lewis described the Adelaide move as “bizarre” and “weird”.