05-14-2018, 03:12 AM
(05-14-2018, 03:04 AM)LP link Wrote:It's not temporary PaulP, it has always been part of football, sport, war, politics or just about any other organised conflict. You target the leaders!
My sons been a captain of footy teams on and off for years, and he's one of the smaller players on the field like Murphy. What enables him to contribute consistently are the actions of team-mates not the opposition. The opposition are always into him!
Things change and evolve. There are many things that were done in AFL/VFL footy before that are no longer possible.
And AFL footy isn't war - it's a multi billion dollar entertainment industry with highly trained sportspeople pretending to be gladiators for our collective entertainment.
The AFL is essentially a glorified mates competition - plenty of these guys go to school together, grow up in the same street, go to draft camp together, play on the same team before changing over, marry each other's sisters, rent houses together etc. You think they sit in the change rooms planning war ?
I'd like to see specific examples of the great recent teams (Hawks, Swans, Cats) repeatedly selecting one player to target for the whole game with this sort of carry on.
It's low brow - get it out of the game.