Australian football is indeed different to any other form of football. It is most beneficial seen “live” to manage to get an appreciation of its differences and the multiple skills involved with playing the game. (Seeing the game on television certainly offers you close ups of the individual skills of the players, the physical clashes, and the umpire’s decisions while the replays provide you with the opportunity to start to see the highlights immediately. As well you have the ability to see the full time clock run down to zero especially in the last quarter).

It is very important to see that Australian Football is played on the largest oval of any football code. It is the longest game containing the absolute most players on the field at any onetime (thirty six in total). You will find nine officials on the field managing the game in a National League competition game.

At a live game, you appreciate how big is the oval; the speed at which the game is played; the amount of running mixed up in game by most players as well as observing the game strategies utilized by each team. Sitting in an excellent position, you are able to observe players who read the game so well which they anticipate where in fact the ball will go and go on to that position to intercept or get the ball to attack. You see and hear the reaction of the crowd. You’re feeling the emotion of the crowd and those of the players in the context of the game.

Different spectators like to watch the game from different position. As a child, I loved to sit behind the goals to watch the high marking of the entire forwards. Others like to see nearby the fence to be near to the physical clashes. For me, now a grownup, I like to sit full of the stand around the center of the oval. This allows me to see the whole game unfold from one end of the oval to the other. (The coach’s boxes are also full of the stand for exactly the same reason).

As an individual who has umpired the game both as a field and an objective umpire, it provides me the ability to watch the umpires doing their job, agreeing or disagreeing making use of their decisions as well as watching their positioning to see if it helps them make correct decisions.

When the game is in the last quarter and the end result is in the total amount you are able to go through the time clock to see the length of time the quarter has lasted and hope whenever your team hits the “front”, the ultimate siren goes.