Correct Dr Spaceman,Dr Spaceman wrote:Correct.matrix wrote:the point goal means nothing
we lost by two goals
Hawkins shot was in the 2nd quarter. The only real time it can make a difference is when scores are tight at the end of a game.
And people have to understand that if the correct decision had been made, everything that happened after the goal was awarded would have been different. The ball would have been kicked out rather than taken back to the centre and bounced. Every passage of play would have been different to what we witnessed on that day. Even if the end result had've been Geelong by 4 points you can't simply deduct 5 points from their score. The Saints may have won but similarly Geelong may have won by an even bigger margin.
We all travel down a unique path in the 4 dimensional space-time continuum.
You obviously know that because you wear a white coat and clearly your doctorate is in Relativity.
Once you reach a decision point - like was that a goal or a point? - you then go down totally different paths in the spacetime continuum.
So that means
Instead of
- Geelong (incorrectly) getting 6 points
- the ball going back for a centre bounce from which Geelong get another goal
- and later on Goddard breaks his collar bone
- and Dawson deflects the ball to Scarlett's body who then toe-pokes etc. etc.
The following happens
- Geelong (correctly) get 1 point
- we get the ball to kick back in
… and then ….
….
????
- who knows?
- nobody can say
- we could have won easily
- or just won
- or a draw
- or Geel could have won by 5 goals
- no-one can know or say.
All we can say is that on this space-time path
- there wouldn't have been those 5 extra points
- there wouldn't have been a goal kicked from a centre bounce
- Goddard wouldn't have broken his shoulder
- the Dawson spoil/toe-poke wouldn't have happened
Write you own script.
But without those extra 11 points (5+6) and no Goddard shoulder or Scarlett toe-poke
I would have fancied our chances.
