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Authored by: Josh Davey
on Thursday, May 03 2012 @ 09:29 pm ACST

Lets hope we don't see a dimpled ball. Its all part of the fun of playing in the wet and trying to play with ball that refused to stay still.

One of the problems in our climate, is balls (especially the cheap ones) taking on water and becoming horrendously heavy and bloated (ruining your ball for future use), even after dubbing.

AFL researches its balls

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Thursday, May 03 2012 @ 10:28 pm ACST

One thing I don't miss about cold winter night training (where cold means around 5 to 10 deg C in Adelaide) was smashing the thumbs on a wet old soggy bloated footy, so from that viewpoint synthetic would be nice.

But you'd want them to fly through the air the same way, and certainly AFL 9s synthetic and dimpled footies are not as good through the air. Much lighter and get affected by the wind and if you kick them too hard they don't travel so well either.

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