Thoughts?

[Syphoncom]

After having a read of the Carlton boards, I've found myself agreeing with what I've thought in the past..

Is it easier to criticise football when you're at home rather than at the ground?

By this I mean football in general, be it your own teams performance, opposition players, gameplay employed by us/them etc - all facets of the game.

I'm not going to take a few comments and generalise, but you do see people criticising Collingwood's gameplay as flooding and boring (ridiculous I know, but an example), of the umpiring during the game.

Personally, I find I generally smash way more stuff at home than I do at the game. I also think it comes from, at the game, being able to see the entire ground rather than follow the vision on a tv. When we had those first ~4 goals kicked against us yesterday I just sat there stunned; at home I would've blown over the third pigs house.

And I definitely think a lot of the criticism levelled at the game from people I've been reading would've been far different had they actually rocked up.

So to sum up: I think I'm far more positive at the footy, anyone else?

 

[Football God]

After having a read of the Carlton boards, I've found myself agreeing with what I've thought in the past..

Is it easier to criticise football when you're at home rather than at the ground?

By this I mean football in general, be it your own teams performance, opposition players, gameplay employed by us/them etc - all facets of the game.

I'm not going to take a few comments and generalise, but you do see people criticising Collingwood's gameplay as flooding and boring (ridiculous I know, but an example), of the umpiring during the game.

Personally, I find I generally smash way more stuff at home than I do at the game. I also think it comes from, at the game, being able to see the entire ground rather than follow the vision on a tv. When we had those first ~4 goals kicked against us yesterday I just sat there stunned; at home I would've blown over the third pigs house.

And I definitely think a lot of the criticism levelled at the game from people I've been reading would've been far different had they actually rocked up.

So to sum up: I think I'm far more positive at the footy, anyone else?

lol! we play an attacking flooding style, while st.kilda plays a defensive style of flood. meaning they just hang back in their backline and we press and show pressure every second while they have the ball. ours wouldnt be boring at all.

 

[mattys123]

So to sum up: I think I'm far more positive at the footy, anyone else?

I think this plainly comes from actually being there, being able to see what is actually happening everywhere, and also not having to put with inane comments from obviously biased commentators.

I hate watching pies games on TV, it drives me nuts, I'm glad we only play 4 away each year (prob 5 next year though) because any more would send me around the bend.

Plus I think the atmosphere at the ground helps, having plenty of others around that agree or disagree, as usually at home you don't have too many people around you.

I think I'm more positive too at the footy then at home, just for the simple fact I can see what is going on.

(Although when Ben Reid kicked that ball away for a 50 penalty, I wanted to kill him, and you didn't see that on TV for about 2 minutes afterwards).

 

[Magnus the Magpie]

The better perspective at the game thing is absolutely spot-on: you can see opportunities opening up (and being closed down) that just can't be done when watching it on TV.

Oh, and there is one other issue: for the most part (and notwithstanding the occasional episode that still causes me to cringe) I try not to make an absolute ******** of myself in front of a whole stack of other people. At home, after retiring tothe room with the spare TV, I feel no such constraint.