I am getting very tired of players getting tackled the moment they get the ball, have their arms and the ball pinned to their body and instead of calling for a ball up straight away the umpire waits for an eternity, then pulls out a holding the ball decision because the player being tackled didn’t wriggle their arm about enough.
And then of course a minute later, someone will take on multiple tacklers, get caught and the umpire will wave their arms in the air “play on”
In years to come, an AFL CEO (ehh sociopath) probably won’t even know what a football is.
I remember once hearing that prior to making high street fashion for chavs and waif like supermodels, Burberry started out 100 odd years ago making tents for the British army. In 100 years the AFL probably won’t have anything to do with footy, they’ll be a political party who owns the big four banks and manufactures pr0n. It’s Orwellian.
Their egos have us about three years from them simply saying, “oh by the way, from next year it’s AFLX only. That’s what you’re all playing from now on. We think it’s such a great game, and so do you. Enjoy.”
They’ll use it as an excuse to rectify fixture problems. Oh and to employ those two circus blokes standing on each other’s heads which is Gil’s Wolf of Wall St box to tick.
Or how about when the guy kicking out after a behind’s been scored, runs the full 18 metre length of the goalsquare before he kicks out without bouncing the ball and gets pinged for running too far?