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You get elderly people who say the best footy has passed us by and they are probably right
Below the knees rule is a ****ing embarrassment
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You get elderly people who say the best footy has passed us by and they are probably right
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Nah not really. Football was still good in the 90's but as soon as coaches started using the press, it started getting really ugly. Now we have way too many players on the ball, free kicks being called for incidental contact and umpires no longer know how to properly call for htb.
Footy isn't completely ruined. You still see glimpses of the old glory days but its getting worse every year.
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Of course they will, but there is always a lag with this. By the time it not only kicks in, but the AFL is actually willing to admit it, it will be too late to stop the slide for many years.
That's the fallacy of the "crowds are up, attendances are at record highs, so everything is alright" argument. Crowd/viewer figures today are a reflection of the game of yesteryear.
Totally agree with this. I have a strong feeling Demetriou will be remembered in a negative light. He deserves it too. Every year he's been in charge, footy has been getting progressively worse.
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The one that Rioli was just paid was far worse than anything we copped
There was no sliding by the cats player, no forceful contact, Cyril steps over him and gets touched on the leg and the ump pays a free
There was no sliding by the cats player, no forceful contact, Cyril steps over him and gets touched on the leg and the ump pays a free
I have no issue with coaches using strategies to try to win more matches. Presses, floods, interchanges, etc, they're all just coaching tricks designed to gain an advantage, within the base rules of the game.
What I don't like is when new rules are introduces to combat those strategies, which in turn produce new strategies designed to exploit the brand new rule. That's just crap and inevitable flies in the face of actual football skills.
What I don't like is when new rules are introduces to combat those strategies, which in turn produce new strategies designed to exploit the brand new rule. That's just crap and inevitable flies in the face of actual football skills.
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And hell, it's not even just about what happened ten years, or twenty years, ago.
Football has basically captured me for life. Pretty much irrespective of how badly they **** up the game, I'll keep watching, because I have a massive emotional investment in my club and in the competition in general. Even if they infuriate me to the point where I am driven away from interest in the game, I'll still follow my club in passing.
They would have to make decades worth of terrible decisions to lose me as a viewer. It doesn't matter how badly they screw their administration of the game up at the end of this season, it won't be reflected in my attendance or my viewership in 2014.
Where it will kick in, however, will be the next generation of footy supporters. Those kids whose parents aren't quite as passionate about the game as their grandparents were, who don't feel as connected to the game as they used to. Those kids whose parents are less likely to take them to a match at the ground, or to spend time talking to their kids about the AFL. Or perhaps, those kids who, that's right, won't actually be watching as enjoyable a product as their parents remember footy being. And they'll find other sports, or other pursuits altogether, to emotionally invest in; and the AFL will never, ever, get those fans back, nor the eventual children of those fans. And that's when the sins from the current generation will be finally revealed.
Aussie rules footy is always going to be a big deal in SA, Victoria, WA, Tasmania. That will never change, no matter how badly they screw up the game. As our populations continue to grow, so will the attendances and TV figures. As the economy continues to grow, so will the size of the TV deals. These are not meaningful measures of the true performance of AFL, and even if they are adjusted to a per capita basis, they are still affected by the extremely long lag process present in all entertainment that is central to our culture. The AFL needs to find new measures to determine how well they are going - perhaps it is time to actually consider the opinion of the viewers, the majority of who hate the majority of changes that have been made in the last decade. Or perhaps they need to speak to the players and coaches, the majority of who also hate the majority of changes that have been made in the last decade.
What they don't need to do is to continue patting themselves on the back because they have a captive audience, and assume that this validates every moronic decision they make. A child could be put in charge of the AFL and the audience figures would still continue to grow.
Football has basically captured me for life. Pretty much irrespective of how badly they **** up the game, I'll keep watching, because I have a massive emotional investment in my club and in the competition in general. Even if they infuriate me to the point where I am driven away from interest in the game, I'll still follow my club in passing.
They would have to make decades worth of terrible decisions to lose me as a viewer. It doesn't matter how badly they screw their administration of the game up at the end of this season, it won't be reflected in my attendance or my viewership in 2014.
Where it will kick in, however, will be the next generation of footy supporters. Those kids whose parents aren't quite as passionate about the game as their grandparents were, who don't feel as connected to the game as they used to. Those kids whose parents are less likely to take them to a match at the ground, or to spend time talking to their kids about the AFL. Or perhaps, those kids who, that's right, won't actually be watching as enjoyable a product as their parents remember footy being. And they'll find other sports, or other pursuits altogether, to emotionally invest in; and the AFL will never, ever, get those fans back, nor the eventual children of those fans. And that's when the sins from the current generation will be finally revealed.
Aussie rules footy is always going to be a big deal in SA, Victoria, WA, Tasmania. That will never change, no matter how badly they screw up the game. As our populations continue to grow, so will the attendances and TV figures. As the economy continues to grow, so will the size of the TV deals. These are not meaningful measures of the true performance of AFL, and even if they are adjusted to a per capita basis, they are still affected by the extremely long lag process present in all entertainment that is central to our culture. The AFL needs to find new measures to determine how well they are going - perhaps it is time to actually consider the opinion of the viewers, the majority of who hate the majority of changes that have been made in the last decade. Or perhaps they need to speak to the players and coaches, the majority of who also hate the majority of changes that have been made in the last decade.
What they don't need to do is to continue patting themselves on the back because they have a captive audience, and assume that this validates every moronic decision they make. A child could be put in charge of the AFL and the audience figures would still continue to grow.
