I prefer the modern game. I love the strategies and the tactics. I also love the evenness of the competition — helped in a big part by the AFL's modern equalisation strategies. And while a run of stoppages can sometimes be frustrating, the excitement (for me) is proportionally higher when the ball finally comes out and the runners spread and the passes fly at speeds you never see in kick-to-contest footy.
Admittedly, I don't really know much about footy, but that's again why I like the modern game: I enjoy trying to work out the thinking, the challenges, the fixes. These are the things that make (modern) footy a smart game. And it's the smarts of it, and thinking through those things, that give me some way of (in a sense) playing the game, seeing as I'm a 98lb weakling who'd struggle to pick up a footy, let alone kick one.
Am I the only one who feels this way?
