Hocking, McLachlan and the AFL Board should all resign. Their arrogance in changing the games has resulted in the most congestion, the lowest scoring and the most boring football in a generation.
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Got nothing to do with the AFL it's the coaches. They are the biggest blight on the game.
All they care about is not losing, so they use the safest way to do that, by focusing on defense.
How exactly is the AFL responsible for 30+ players around the ball at all times?
Hocking, McLachlan and the AFL Board should all resign. Their arrogance in changing the games has resulted in the most congestion, the lowest scoring and the most boring football in a generation.
I mean he is genuinely one of the main culprits when it comes to congested, defensive football.Nuffies must be wondering how they can blame this on Ross Lyon
Hocking, McLachlan and the AFL Board should all resign. Their arrogance in changing the games has resulted in the most congestion, the lowest scoring and the most boring football in a generation.
GC 42 and Melbourne 47 as I am watching. This is in the 4th quarter!!!! The commentators are trying to talk up the 'excitement' of close matches but the congestion and scrambled football is awful
Hocking, McLachlan and the AFL Board should all resign. Their arrogance in changing the games has resulted in the most congestion, the lowest scoring and the most boring football in a generation.
It is worse than last year but the commentators are silent. Apparent they were wrong last year with all their summits and panic.
Damn coaches, always worried about winning.Got nothing to do with the AFL it's the coaches. They are the biggest blight on the game.
All they care about in Winning, so they use the safest way to do that, by focusing on defense.
How exactly is the AFL responsible for 30+ players around the ball at all times?
Got nothing to do with the AFL it's the coaches. They are the biggest blight on the game.
All they care about in Winning, so they use the safest way to do that, by focusing on defense.
How exactly is the AFL responsible for 30+ players around the ball at all times?
Agree with 80% of what you said, but the AFL are indeed responsible for 30 plus players around the ball so often.
They stupidly doubled the interchange from 2 to 4 in mid to late 90's and the chickens have come home to roost once the coaches realised you could play the game as 22 v 22 rather than the pure 18 v 18 it was meant to be. They just treat it as flood the other end of ground unless you got complete control and rotate from bench to have your freshest 18 players on field at any time to maintain the ability to congest the field as much as possible. If they did not make the monumental mistake and not remove the ability to continue to abuse the original intention of interchange bench this would not be possible to maintain and more attacking tactics would have time spent in training drills.
Damn coaches, always worried about winning.
I know. I remember their talk was it would extend the playing careers of champs like Greg Williams and Robert Harvey types but they do not foresee it would eventually be abused rather than add to the game as a spectacle. I am still amazed how obvious it is to fix and remove lots of the congestion simply by returning the game to it's real 18 v 18 nature it meant to be but nope, we have this wankfest of spend time trying a zillion other little things to try to undo the mess rather than address the root cause.You are right but i was actually talking about footy these days. Funny thing is that the rule change to extend the bench size came from pressure from the coaches, in particular Sheedy.
I mean he is genuinely one of the main culprits when it comes to congested, defensive football.
21.15 (141) v 9.5 (59)I mean he is genuinely one of the main culprits when it comes to congested, defensive football.