Not you specifically WP. It's just that whenever I express my disgust at playing in a rigged competition, with the odds continually stacked against us, while the League continually bends the rules to suit their favourite money-spinners and new toys, there seems to be no end of posters here who jump on me and suggest that it's all our fault.
Maybe therein lies the problem. You see footy as a "business", and I see it as a sport. And in my view, sport should always be fair.
I agree it is ultimately a sport and it should be fair.
But it stopped being just a sport a long long time ago
I still see it as sport hence why I go week after week, buy memeberships year after year, travel interstate because I truly love the game
But I also understand it is a business these days too and to be successful we need to do more that just survive; we need to thrive.
I want us to be as big if not bigger than the Pies but for us to achieve that we need to start being successful consistently on field. There isn't a doubt in my mind that if we were as big as the Pies juggernaut then we'd be getting all the "advantages" that they are....
