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I, for one, blame Ross Lyon for only one team scoring over 100 this weekend, GC/Melb being 120 points combined, Port scoring 30 points in three quarters etc.
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I'm not sure what you were watching but our game was a disgusting watch. I don't reckon I'll be watching footy in a couple years.It was close all game, Gold Coast repelling constant Melbourne attacks. The pressure and tackling was pretty crazy, I admit if it didn’t finish like it did, it wouldn’t of been a standout game, but it was a pretty decent contest. I’ve been impressed with the way Gold Coast has gone about it this year. They clearly don’t have the cattle but they’ve shown more heart than a majority of teams this year
Yet the game was on the verge of extinction in the mid to late eighties-an era everyone raves about.. strange but true.
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.
Not that this makes a better game but the fact is that there is not a single team in 2019 that would not smash the best team from 1989. Tactics, skills and fitness are way better in 2019 than they were 30 years ago.
Not that this makes a better game but the fact is that there is not a single team in 2019 that would not smash the best team from 1989. Tactics, skills and fitness are way better in 2019 than they were 30 years ago.
Or your phone didn't have access to the crazy amount of distractions that it does now?I do find myself zoning out when a game is on not involving my teams and picking up my phone. I don't remember it being that way. Weather it's because the games are less exciting or if I just don't care as much as I've gotten older, I'm not sure.
This.
Having rewatched some of my favourite games that I saw in the 70's recently, a team from back then would be nothing but witches hats. Zoning used to happen, but only because they were too fat and unfit to run up and down the park constantly (plenty of the smoked, a few would be playing with a hangover etc). You'd think the witches hat's might try to square the ledger with a bit of rough play, but the team would look like an Auskick team in comparison and would be intimidated by the size and muscle of the current teams, (193cm was monster size and ruck material back then).
It’s all relative to the era, if those players in 1989 had the same fitness and tactics then what do you think would happen.
Skills are very questionable if they are better now.
The teams in the late 80's early 90's did not pay as much attention to their 18 to 22 players like they do now. They put all their focus on their top 10 players so while the top 10 players of any team 30 years ago would have been quality in terms of pure skill, the bottom players in the best 22 would be a lot better now than they used to be, by a huge margin as well.
Also I am somewhat suspicious of all the supposedly "best of all time" players that played in that era. There is no way there can be that many amazing players in that short span of time. I think quite a few players in the Carey, Ablett, Dunstall, Lockett, Silvangi, Williams, Matthews and Materia were not as good players as a lot of people like to remember them as.
The teams in the late 80's early 90's did not pay as much attention to their 18 to 22 players like they do now. They put all their focus on their top 10 players so while the top 10 players of any team 30 years ago would have been quality in terms of pure skill, the bottom players in the best 22 would be a lot better now than they used to be, by a huge margin as well.
Also I am somewhat suspicious of all the supposedly "best of all time" players that played in that era. There is no way there can be that many amazing players in that short span of time. I think quite a few players in the Carey, Ablett, Dunstall, Lockett, Silvangi, Williams, Matthews and Materia were not as good players as a lot of people like to remember them as.
There are 207 games a season not including the preseason.
They won't all be blockbusters.
The ignorance highlighted here. There was not 22 players on a team then. Having 22 players has actually made a huge difference on game as it has turned the bench into something it never was meant to be. Incredible how ill thought out some comments are of people never watching footy then. You had 20 players then and the 19th and 20th on bench were virtually seen as back up in case of injury and not really a rotation system it been bastardised as now we have 22 a team.The teams in the late 80's early 90's did not pay as much attention to their 18 to 22 players like they do now..
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?
Then blame the real cause of the issue. The coaches.
How were they wrong in trying to find a way to improve the game from the way the coaches have tuned it into a game of congestion?
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.
Exactly and that is their job and is what they should do.
However that is the very reason they should not be listened to because while they talk about caring for the game they actually couldn't give a rats tossbag about the game.
Rubbish.
Congestion isn't worse, its been **** for years.
The less interchanges you have the less congestion because players can't run up and back as often.
How does making kick ins easier lead to more care to not turn it over?
The coaches are to blame and always will be because they are the ones that dictate how the game will be played because they train the players that way.
Why do you think players sit in meetings all friggen week?
In the 70's and 80's clubs recruited footballers with football brains not athletes to be taught how to play football. Nowadays champions are rated on how far they can run, and god help me if they can use both sides of their bodies, they would be called freaks. Back then most teams half back flankers were as good if not better than the Rances of today.The teams in the late 80's early 90's did not pay as much attention to their 18 to 22 players like they do now. They put all their focus on their top 10 players so while the top 10 players of any team 30 years ago would have been quality in terms of pure skill, the bottom players in the best 22 would be a lot better now than they used to be, by a huge margin as well.
Also I am somewhat suspicious of all the supposedly "best of all time" players that played in that era. There is no way there can be that many amazing players in that short span of time. I think quite a few players in the Carey, Ablett, Dunstall, Lockett, Silvangi, Williams, Matthews and Materia were not as good players as a lot of people like to remember them as.