Players today are soft and can't kick far???

[branedotorg]

Yeah back in my day we smoked, kicked shanked torps and belted blokes when they weren't looking like real men.

Shorts aren't as tight either, maybe there's an extra 10m in a flattened testicle?

 

[mehow2g]

Either that or the ball has changed.

 

[queensberryrules]

I agree with the astute bloke that said too many athletic types are ruining the game. Who wants to watch the 2 abletts, dangerfield, koota, jezza the original, jezza current, matera, barrot, price, ryan, buddy, dusty, fyfe, cripps, duck, richo, riewoldt, dench, blight, stynes, TD, coleman, etc ad infinitum.

What good have athletic players ever done for our game?

 

[Dazzler9]

Who are all these athletes with no skills? Maybe I'm just spoilt because of the team I follow, but all I see are highly skilled footy players with an ability to run all day. The cliche of modern footy players being athletes and not pure footballers is a nonsense as far as I can see.

 

[Damon_3388]

Better runners seem to get picked over the more talented.

This stopped happening in the draft like 10 years ago.

 

[Dazzler9]

I mean, Dusty is an athletic type. Just quietly I reckon he handles the skills of the game pretty well too.

 

[Happy Mastenator]

They can kick far if they have to, but the days of kicking it as long as you can blindly to a contest are gone.

You’ve never seen me play masters footy.

to be fair. As long as I can, when it comes to kicking, is now about 30m.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

They can kick far if they have to, but the days of kicking it as long as you can blindly to a contest are gone.

Yes. Instead of kicking blindly to a contest, they now kick blindly straight to an opponent standing on his own.

 

[HTT]

I actually think - I have nothing to back this up other than visual anecdotal evidence mind you - that players drop-punt the ball a lot further these days. Even little Gary's hamstrings don't stop him from potting goals from outside 50 with the accurate method.

A perfect torp goes further than a perfect drop punt
But (when going for distance) an average drop punt goes further than an average torp.