The Battle Rekindled

So the lull is over, years have passed, seasons have been completed, premierships won and lost, families and waistlines expanded, and still they don't learn. As has been witnessed in recent months the exodus has commenced. Like all great pilgrimages of the years this one will bring movement, change tears and joy. Fights will ensue, mettles tested, character tried, and ultimately battles will be won. You can see the writing on the wall rugby league fans. Yes that squiggly stuff is writing. If you could read it you would know it says "The end is nigh". Greats are switching. Lines are blurred. (So much so that Graham Yallop or whatever his name is has got a new set of specks). The time is coming where youngsters in NSW and QLD no longer grow up chasing a roundish flat plastic thing, but rather spend their Saturday arvos kicking the pigskin around the yards and streets, and experiencing the true joy of the best game in the world.

The fight recommences.

The I$rael Issue: Dollars and no sense

Good luck with Issy AFL!

The boy hasn't kicked a ball further than 23 metres and has no idea about positioning in AFL. It's ok though because he has "watched a few games while I was down in melbourne". I have a few mates that Demetriou should be offering billions to going by that logic.

I wonder what the best player in the game of AFL Mr. Ablett thinks about this bloke who has never laced on a fumbleball boot being paid 1 and a half times his salary...? Sort of says something about the AFL though doesn't it.. They are willing to pay the most for a super athlete produced by Rugby League to do morning soundbites on Nova & MMM in Sydney and coaching clinics (warning to all young girls hoping to attend these clinics: Be careful, pregnancy might ensue. Warning to parents of said young girls: Be careful, AFL hierarchy may back AFL players & release information about your daughter eg. "She said she was older, our players swear") and perhaps even play third grade fumbleball in Penrith. OUCH, that's gotta hurt the pride of real AFL players... I wonder if they would be thinking, "Man that rugby league must be a tough sport if they can produce this guy and our bosses are saying he is worth more than Ablett, Judd, Brown or Didak.."

The Reality of things

This will be an ongoing subject I suggest, and just to warm ourselves up a bit I couldn't resist a link to this little snippet of wisdom. Something that is easily forgotten, and for me being away from Southern and Western States for 10 years, is that Rugby League does not even register on the radar of sports fans down there. Aussie Rules, while not the no.1, is on the radar in NSW and Qld. We will discuss this at length I suggest.........

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegrap...016360,00.html

Lull Before the Storm

This week I'm sick. Crook as a dog. S@#tting through the eye of a needle. Energy down for meaningful posts. When searching for what caused it, I look no further than Wednesday night 7:30pm. Absolute crap and its not totally passed yet..............

Be back when I'm right again. The cats are on tonight so that should see me through.............

Bum Sniffers V Aerial Ping Pong: 'BEST'

Bum Sniffers V Aerial Ping Pong: 'BEST'

'BEST'

Why the hell do you need to pick four or five 'Best' players at the end of every match? In following on from my previous post, in which I drew attention to the excess size of the AFL field, I would like to put forward the following notion:

The reason why the AFL - apart from in the Grand Final - cannot pick one 'Best' player is simply because the ground is too large. As the evidence begins to mount, it would surely be only the most stubborn ping pong supporter who would deny this.

Come on, really, if you can't pick just one player for best on ground because you couldn't see the other half of the field... What point is there of continuing this debacle.

Commentator 1: "Boys who do we think was best out there tonight for the Lions?"
Commentator 2: "Well I could only see 35% of the field from where I was sitting, and even then I could only make out the runners (waterboys for league supporters) as they were wearing fluoro shirts. I guess I'd have to give it to Power, and maybe Black, oh and Bradshaw he was good as well, headed up the clangers and he grabbed a few hard balls, and oh, his 'passing' (for the uninitiated, in AFL, a pass can be a kick as well....) was great out there today. Oh yeah, I forgot, the ruckman, whats his name, I forget, you know the one who only ever goes up for the tipoff, like in basketball, except in basketball they actually do something after the tipoff? He was good too"
Commentator 1: "So should I draw a line through a couple and let's just say, the whole team was best? "
Commentator 2: "Well yeah, that's how we normally do it don't we?"

So, just to rehash;

1. Crowd all listen to radios so they can keep up with happenings in the other, not visible, part of the field.

2. Best on Ground is given to multitudes of players. Seriously, they can't ALL be best.

3. Substitutions - unlimited. Did I hear somewhere that 92 interchanges/subs/whatever you call them was the record? 92??? If that isn't an indicator that the field is too large then I don't know what is.

So in conclusion; If the halfwits that run the AFL can't even get the field size right, what possible hope is there for the game.....?