The rubbish that comes out from the coaches on this, is unbelievable!!
Not surprisingly, a 'Scott' is at the forefront of this dribble.
I have long argued for 'long kicking' to somehow be brought back into the game.
When was the last time you saw a long kick in a modern AFL game??
Who was the last person to 'Torpedo it from the guts'...and who was the fellow before that.??
You'll be a long time finding for an answer to that.
Now, who has eliminated 'long kicking' from the game.?? It certainly has not been the rules committee, or any CEO, or any Umpire.
Its the coaches, and theirr constant need to minimize risk, maintain possesion, and be ruled by 'precision' and 'set plays'..
I'm sure a fellow like Morgan will tell me the game has 'moved on from that' and 'evolved'.
Evolved into what?? Because its ancestor was a far superior spectacle than the 'ho hum' stuff we have now!!
You wanna solve congestion...well ..sink the boot into it and kick it over the congestion.
You wanna see forwards stay in the forward half...well, relinquish the screws and give players the freedom to sink the boot into into rather than position up from the boundary, or switching play, or concentrating on getting the ball to a free player 30m out from goal with short, precise kicking.
You wanna see high flying marks again?. Well ,allow 60 m drop punts and 70 m torps to be done.
I mean, most of the current lot are scared to kick from 45 out these days.! They are looking around for someone to pass off to.
The skill is being lost from the game, the game is being changed by its loss.
The only people that have changed it to a game of short passing and 'keepies off' is the smart a...ed coaches.!!
We just what some free flowing footy, and that simply has to come from free thinking coaches, who aren't afraid to 'let players have there heads'.
At the moment its being dulled into a game of gridiron!