A couple of ripper phrasings from Patrick as he continues to highlight the failings of the AFL hierarchy:
Already morons within the game claim AFL football is soft, no more physical than netball and basketball. They point to rule changes that have been introduced to restrict head and neck injuries, the hands-in-the-back rule in marking contests is considered effete. They are the rants of the brain dead.
And a little further on...
Then, worse, any sort of contact is acceptable against a player who does not even have the ball. While Akermanis and Ladson had just touched the ball when collected, poor Colin Sylvia was simply in pursuit of an opponent when Josh Kennedy ran the length of this year's Stawell Gift to bump Sylvia and break his jaw.
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