(07-14-2024, 10:05 AM)Thryleon date Wrote:I've never been more convinced that removing prior will be a mistake. The game is a terrible spectacle for it and wait until everyone gets on board. You'll have have players dropping the ball as they're tackled everywhere.At times today in the VFL, there must have been moments when they had 5 or 10 ball ups in a row and had not moved 5 metres, just awful.
It looks bad and it is bad.
People forget how crap the footy was to watch in the Malthouse era, stoppage after stoppage around the boundary line, people stopped going to the footy, crowds fell, thankfully that footy is gone and the crowds are back.
We want the ball moving, we want to see players run and spread, bounce, lead, mark, with the player attacking the footy protected. We want the ball picked up and used by hand or foot, we don't want it shuffled along the ground stoppage after stoppage.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"