So your agreeing . Seriously I'm not going next week.
Pretty much.
Basically, I'm a traditionalist in the sense I see massive changes as a bad thing. I hate rule changes.
I also stand by the thrust of my argument about how we got here, and also how we'll never get back to some Gold Standard of ye olde footy.
But I'm not happy with footy right now.
Last night was disgusting.
I'm now seeing a reset. Tactics have adjusted again, and defence is winning. We're back to the Flood of 2004/2005.
All the tactics surrounding absorbing pressure and rebounding are beginning to fall apart.
Teams aren't spreading at the moment.
Teams who play on are being punished.
Because teams have removed their forwardlines there is nothing to attack to.
I think tactics will change again, as coaches will see they need to stretch the game again. But we're in for some shitty footy until they figure that out.
Look at us, we step off our mark to attack and get nowhere. And half our 'dash' is defenders who are running and kicking us into turnovers.
We have a lot of teams that try to score off their defensive arc, and it's getting bloody hard to do that. We rebound from even deeper allowing oppositions to dominate inside 50's (usually).
I haven't looked but I bet Coast to Coast goals are dropping right off across the League. And they only came to prominance from the quick kickin changes.
Footy took a long time to get over those flooding tactics in the 00's. They had to allow fast kick ins etc. And ironically I think the umpiring has brought us back to this shizen state.
The ball only moves now when umps close their eyes and let throws go, or when they pay holding with bugger all prior.
More umps = more frees = resets = more thinking time. More delays while they ceremonially point to where they'll run after a bounce/throw up etc.
*sigh*
Maybe if players just started kicking straight from set shots coaches would be rewarded for putting them in range of the goals.