BUT fair dinkum I didn't expect to see ring a rosie again. And the umpires/rule comittee are killing the once great game I knew as football - Just Ridiculous - I have to ask myself is that passionthat has burnt for so long finally starting to dim - I am afraid it might be.
ALL in ALL the lowlight - BY A LONG WAY of the weekend was the footy .... I LOVE the TIGERS and allways will, and still have hope as allways for the season ahead and will be shouting myself hobehind.
BUT THE UMPIRES AND THE RULES COMMITTEE ARE KILLING THE GAME I ONCE LOVED AND I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT 
At least you got to enjoy most of your weekend CUB.
I’m as frustrated with our game as you are and I’ve written page after page about it and none of it makes any difference. Sometimes I think it’s just habit that keeps me following the game, otherwise it would seem easy to just give it away. It’s definitely not the game that holds my interest – just Richmond.
I don’t understand all the tactics and all the rest of it, but you can tell good football when you see it. And a lot of the games we see are boring. It’s either an arm wrestle or basketball. All this, as you describe, ring a rosie stuff is just mind numbing to watch.
My belief is that changing the rules doesn’t change anything. The reason for that is because, ultimately, the coaches call the shots and are responsible for the way the game is played and how it looks. So regardless of what the rules are, coaches find ways around them. Changing the rules only changes the integrity of the game and therefore can do long term damage to it.
It would therefore seem obvious, and logical even, to just LEAVE THE RULES ALONE because they are not the cause of the problem.
But no, the game is run in knee jerk fashion, and between the coaches, the rules committee and the AFL, the game now resembles basketball, netball, soccer, grid iron and anything else that’s out there, anything but Aussie Rules that is.
Polly Farmer was on 3AW a few seasons ago, and he commented that the problem with the game was the coaches. The 3AW host(s) dismissed his comments as all but nonsense.
... watched a little bit of essendon brissie, but really couldn't give much of a stuff about other teams these days.
Know what you mean there. My first few seasons in Melbourne, I would go to 1 or 2 neutral games each year. The last time I was half interested in going to a neutral game was 1999. Just doesn’t interest me like it used to. These days, it’s difficult enough to muster enough enthusiasm, at times, to watch my own team, let alone another couple of teams playing boring football.
Maybe they’ll all wake up some day soon.
