games changed now, the mercurial players cant be carried. Always been the scraggers, think mick gafer, didn't they bring in the third umpire for him? Difference now is players need to run both ways now.
back in the eary 90's daicos won goal of the year, kicked a goal while being tackled by keyes tight in the pocket, comentator screamed 3 kicks 3 goals, summed it up well, players like that would be kept on the field for that 5 min burst, didnt matter if they did nothing else. Not today though cant have a player not be involved for 10mins let alone 3 quarters.
thats where I think peds have transformed the game, smooth out the athletic differences, everyones a power runner now, same body shame same size, team attack team defence.
Very true. I think that most of the players running around have 0 awareness, aren't footballers first but athletic people making the most of their athleticism and the game is getting dumber because of it. Not to mention that take lack of footy smarts, x it by velocity and mass (faster + bigger players) = more trouble when players do collide going hell for leather.