Yep I agree that the game itself isn't the spectacle it once was. The defensive and "scared" tactical coaches that want to "limit the damage" have bred a generation of foot soldiers too afraid to make a "clanger" and taking the easy (backward) options. The game is so like soccer these days (uncontested chanins of passing, keeping posession, drawing defenses out with multiple cross ground passes etc...) that the scores resemble soccer scores too. (I'm waiting for a nil all draw)
So paying more to go and watch this tripe takes some resolve. Yet being a supporter means you go what may.
Whilst I enjoy watching the kids coming through, getting back to a more contested (forward looking, attacking) form of footy would do a lot to entice people back to the game. That and a relaxing of the "contact rules" that resemble soccer and netball in their over indulgent conservatism....let the game flow and stop protecting the actors, divers and whingers. Celebrate the hard men of the sport once again.
So paying more to go and watch this tripe takes some resolve. Yet being a supporter means you go what may.
Whilst I enjoy watching the kids coming through, getting back to a more contested (forward looking, attacking) form of footy would do a lot to entice people back to the game. That and a relaxing of the "contact rules" that resemble soccer and netball in their over indulgent conservatism....let the game flow and stop protecting the actors, divers and whingers. Celebrate the hard men of the sport once again.