Football has changed from the 60's, 70's and 80's but to be honest, having watched that era, I much prefer todays game to that mud-infested kick to kick game.But not the 90's, I take it?
I was overseas for a lot of the 90’s so cannot really comment on that.
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High pressure and expectation levels. You need to be all in. Even then you have to deal with a lot of judgement from the media and public. High levels of list turn over creates pressure on performance. Unless you’re picked every week you’re under the gun.
The main thing is the AFL accredited media…372 people being paid as journalists who have to toe the party line, or it’s off to the Siberian saltmine equivalent of being excluded from access.
Secondly, it’s the AFL Commission
Thirdly, it’s the AFL toadies
And fourthly, they’ve taken the game away from the people who used to enjoy it.
I remember as a kid getting new set of boots, being so proud of them that I wanted to wear them to school and dreaming of all the goals or marks I was going to take in them. Couldn’t wait to put them on because it meant you were going for a kick. For a while there I hated Saturday afternoon because it was the start of the longest time between games. Seven days between now and next week. F*ck, that long? Lots of kids probably felt the same way. After a few years in the professional meat grinder that is the AFL, reckon there’d be quite a few kids who probably can’t wait to take their boots off. It’s not fun anymore. Would leave more than some feeling disillusioned with it all.
These kids have it easy i got accepted but didn’t end up accepting a job as a court registrar you had to three months of a traineeship in 3 courts sounds easy enough but there was the following conditions
1 had to be rural so Hamilton, Wodonga, Wangaratta, Sale, La Trobe, Bendig , Ballarat, Geelong, Horsham, Mildura , Shepparton and Warrnambool
1 had to be inner Melbourne William Cooper Justice Centre, Costs Court courtrooms, Associate judges’ courtrooms, Court of Appeal, Old High Court and Supreme Court of Victoria
1 had to be outer melbourne Barwon, Sunshine, Dandenong, Frankston, Heidelberg and Ringwood
We would get given our assignment go there for a year have to pay for our own accommodation food everything no helping hand. These kids have it so easy
This generation are just soft. They want everything given to them and wont work for it.It will all be OK when we develop robots to takeover and play the game the way it should be played.
Hooked a couple.
Not that hard is it Boot. And I had no bait on the hook.
I remember as a kid getting new set of boots, being so proud of them that I wanted to wear them to school and dreaming of all the goals or marks I was going to take in them. Couldn't wait to put them on because it meant you were going for a kick. For a while there I hated Saturday afternoon because it was the start of the longest time between games. Seven days between now and next week. F*ck, that long? Lots of kids probably felt the same way. After a few years in the professional meat grinder that is the AFL, reckon there'd be quite a few kids who probably can't wait to take their boots off. It's not fun anymore. Would leave more than some feeling disillusioned with it all.I only get to one training per week, and play Saturday mornings, and by late July it's become a chore and I'm sick of it. I can't imagine how anyone handles doing it full time.
Football started going wrong when it got 24/7 coverage. Even post season now has five to ten articles a day, endless radio etc…
I only get to one training per week, and play Saturday mornings, and by late July it's become a chore and I'm sick of it. I can't imagine how anyone handles doing it full time.It's all about the dream, man. $80K + super.
Per month.
Professional sport is a pretty tough gig, and not for everyone. It actually surprises me that more people don't get drafted to the top level and then decide 'this is not for me', and drop back to a lower, more casual level.
You realise how much footballers get paid, right?
You also realise how bad the job market is atm for young people?
There’s your answer.
Professional sport is a pretty tough gig, and not for everyone. It actually surprises me that more people don't get drafted to the top level and then decide 'this is not for me', and drop back to a lower, more casual level.You realise how much footballers get paid, right?
You also realise how bad the job market is atm for young people?
There’s your answer.
You’re making a fairly gross assumption that 18/19 y/olds care that much about money
When you’ve been earning $100 a week at Maccas for 3 years even $300 as an apprentice is appealing lol
I don’t think the game of footy has suffered all that much. It is the coverage of all things that has really become the problem. Previously we all watched the footy on the weekends, caught the highlights then moved on for the rest of the week until the next weekend, which we got wound up for the closer it got to the weekend. Now it is covered almost all day everyday and it gets too much, to the minutest of detail.
I have taken to avoiding the sports pages during the week and missing the pre & post-game coverage. Just watch the games, I even switch off from the break periods (especially half-time) to avoid all the carry on the comms throw out and the drongo reporters they “cross” to from the papers.
What Has Gone Wrong With Football?
Easy - the same as what has gone wrong with most things.
Self-serving media making their own news and pushing their own barrows.
What Has Gone Wrong With Football?Yep that’s right.Easy - the same as what has gone wrong with most things.
Self-serving media making their own news and pushing their own barrows.
And also the people that run various sporting codes pandering to the media for any sort of free publicity, good,bad or at any cost, just to keep their sport at the forefront of the general public’s consciousness.
It’s the AFL driving their agendas through their accredited communications experts. No one can believe anything anymore. Puff pieces, moral crusading, “drugs policies”, expansion and fact they feel the need to be in the paper everyday of the year. If Essendon wasn’t in the league, I couldn’t give a flying fark about it. Hence this upcoming women’s league is a joke until it’s validated by an Essendon team.
Also, while I’m at it, I can’t stand in this day and age, it’s acceptable to have a footy show with communication specialists on it or even worse where they out number the footy people on it.
I don't think the game of footy has suffered all that much. It is the coverage of all things that has really become the problem. Previously we all watched the footy on the weekends, caught the highlights then moved on for the rest of the week until the next weekend, which we got wound up for the closer it got to the weekend. Now it is covered almost all day everyday and it gets too much, to the minutest of detail.I have taken to avoiding the sports pages during the week and missing the pre & post-game coverage. Just watch the games, I even switch off from the break periods (especially half-time) to avoid all the carry on the comms throw out and the drongo reporters they “cross” to from the papers.
This is a solid post. It becomes draining and saturated to the point of boredom from time to time.
I wish I was old enough to know football from decades ago where it wasn’t swamped by coverage and irrelevant media knobs basically what feels like 24/7. As your post mentions well, you actually looked forward to footballby the time the weekend rolled around again because it hadn’t been shoved in your face every minute of the day.
There’s no hiding from it. I must admit sometimes I enjoy it, but other days it feels like an endless chain of articles and tweets and you sit back wondering what the **** is the point.
Footy has become better for me since I withdrew a bit from my obsession.
Maybe we’re just all jaded by the saga and the fact our team has been crap for 15 years.
Maybe without the saga and if our team performed then we wouldn’t even have this thread.
The only thing that frustrates me with footy at the moment is the inconsistencies with rule interpretations and umpiring.
Mass media etc etc, who cares, just don’t watch / click / read, simple to avoid.
Maybe we're just all jaded by the saga and the fact our team has been crap for 15 years.Maybe without the saga and if our team performed then we wouldn’t even have this thread.
The only thing that frustrates me with footy at the moment is the inconsistencies with rule interpretations and umpiring.
Mass media etc etc, who cares, just don’t watch / click / read, simple to avoid.
Ah, got it.
I can solve my dislike of things by not participating.