Totally agree - I cant help but think there's a lot of rose tinted glasses about the old days. I've been watching football for nigh on 50 years in paddocks like victoria park, windy hill, Moorabbin and the junction oval. I watched games between a crap fitzroy and a terrible richmond. Games where the players ambled between stoppages and it was like grown-ups playing kick to kick where there was zero thinking involved. For me, that's the 'real' past people seem to want and I don't get it.
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It's official, Hocking and the AFL are dumb-arsed, half-baked clowns who are trying to stuff the game
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Yep l'm with you blokes.... there always has been and always will be *smile* games of football.
I reckon the only bloke in the media I've heard consistently say that it's no longer like the good old days when you only saw 1 replay and an hour of highlights, is Jimmy Bartel.
Obviously he's not that old, but still old enough to remember not every game was a football masterclass!
These days every single bit of play has half a dozen cameras fixed on it and as is the way of the world, negativity not positivity gets more clicks!
Sheedy needs to concentrate on how to get the PEDs program up and running again at Essendon.
Throwing the ball is not going to help them. Help them Obi Wan Kenobi you're their only hope.
They are ignoring the fact that all sports have undergone massive change over the past 30 or so years as more money has moved players to professional, more money has made the stakes higher and more technology has had a huge impact on the way games are played.
30 or 40 years ago players practised kicking/marking/handballing/spoling and did fitness work. strategy involved dropping your ruck back, or someone in the hole in front of the full forward, and scragging and whacking the opposition gun rover.
no amount of rule changes, other than reducing players pay to return to part-time footballers, reducing the money on offer for winning- prize money, membership and sponsorship, and getting rid of most coaches, will return the game to what is once was, and it is foolish to try.
True - but not even sure thats enough. I've still got mates playing ammo's and they've figured out the press, defending in the front half, defending space wins games. I don't think we can unknow what we know - the game is what it will be, unless you do something like introduce hard netball style zones.
I honestly believe reducing interchange rotations significantly or even playing with 21 instead of 22 will go a long way towards opening the game up.
The game became more professional at the same time we increased bench numbers in the 1990s and it altered the game significantly. Players became fitter than ever & they got more time to rest.
Common sense says that leads towards congestion.
The game became more professional at the same time we increased bench numbers in the 1990s and it altered the game significantly. Players became fitter than ever & they got more time to rest.
Common sense says that leads towards congestion.
Watching a game from 97, and it does seem to flow a bit better. The main reason seems to be that less frees are paid across the board. In their constant tinkering with the rules to ‘fix’ perceived problems, mostly invented by a lazy knee jerk media monster, they’ve actually succeeded in ruining the game by forcing it to be over adjudicated.
Interesting that Sheedy was wearing some sort of promotional top, so whatever he was being interviewed for no doubt there was an earn in it ... occupies all 3 steps on the podium in the self promotion stakes imo.
It's a good point you make David.
Fox Footy just replayed the 1986 Vic v WA state of Origin game where it was 140 odd each and three points the difference.
A cracking game of footy and lots of individual brilliance on display, but as a game I'm not sure it was better than what we see today, in terms of skills and the way the game was played.
Yeah I agree with a lot of what you say, I suppose I just react to the rose coloured glasses we get in the media about how good footy was back in the day.
When I was a kid school yard footy was everyone on the ball - looks a bit like that at AFL level now.
I don't think you can put the fitness genie back in the bottle. They can now run all day and that is a permanent change with professional footballers.
The idea of zones really pisses me off as it is a very basic feature of Australian Rules that players don't have to play in positions. The centre diamond was only introduced in the early 70s, before that there were no restrictions. Australian Rules is uniquely exciting in part because of the freedom to roam on a very large playing area.
There must be strategies which can open the game up a bit more. Certainly the way the game is adjudicated is making this worse, the amount of time they stuff around for a ball up is patently absurd and counter-productive. As is the way they let packs form to see if the ball might somehow get extracted.
One of the problems I see is that coaches will play it safe while trying to sort out the impact of constant rule changes. There is less room to experiment when the ground is shifting under you.
Funnily enough more Richmond flags is my preference too!
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Is that the one at Subi where Mark Mitchell played so well? I watched a couple of these a few months ago and there was one game where he was amazing.
Skills are far better today,
I think Brodders is right to point out that all games have changed with increased professionalism, increased coverage and, no doubt going with the increased coverage, increased ability for coaches to analyse footage of games to sort out strategies. The analysis possible now with so many cameras is light years away from what they had until maybe 25 years ago.
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Surprise surprise.......favours the scats, nobbles the tigers surprise surprise
Should always look these things up with my memory for names - aah Michael Mitchell. He was great.
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Lack of sophistication led to more contests and more risks taken. And that's where the game was better in the past, regardless of skills.
The modern game is about the coaches controlling as much as they possibly can. Less a case of individuals playing on the edge than the group ensuring the game follows a pre-determined script.
The game is a victim of its own (initial) simplicity.
I'm just wondering if all these people complaining about the state of the game ever watch Richmond games?
Geez, even in the games that we lose, you see those periods where the Tigers ball movement is just a thing of abject beauty.
Been watching some of the "classic" games on Foxtel recently, and even the showcase State of Origin games.......kinda crap.
Those "great" sides would have their arses handed to them by the 2017-20 Tigers.
If people don't want to watch *smile* truck teams like Ess and Nth Melb play rubbish football, I don't think they should be forced to.....
Geez, even in the games that we lose, you see those periods where the Tigers ball movement is just a thing of abject beauty.
Been watching some of the "classic" games on Foxtel recently, and even the showcase State of Origin games.......kinda crap.
Those "great" sides would have their arses handed to them by the 2017-20 Tigers.
If people don't want to watch *smile* truck teams like Ess and Nth Melb play rubbish football, I don't think they should be forced to.....