Now let me get one thing straight here. I am not a big Aussie Rules supporter. I played the sport as a kid (several years with Bangor Tigers) but never had a fascination for the sport much beyond that. But watching the St Kilda vs Melbourne match today had me horrified at what has happened to the rules.
Here's the scenario; you have a ball high up in the air with two opposing team players under it to contest the mark. There's some grabbing, pushing and shoving as both players have their heads up anticipating the ball. Now one of the guys get the mark but thanks to some (quoting the commentator here) new AFL rules introduced this year, any contact between players contesting a mark shall be penalised. Why not just get it over and done with and give them all tutoo's? Make them perform Swan Lake or something. Seriously what is happening to our society? To top things off, if a player only touches an umpire, I mean simply to make contact not delibrately, then they'll be fined and have match bans placed on them.
A guy sues a local council because he dived into a natural sandbar and breaks his neck. He gets awarded millions too! It's a natural surrounding. It's not like the council built it. Life savers, warning flags and other such devices are only there help. But we BLAME them when something goes wrong. Is this kind of mentality slipping into the sporting world too? State of Origin football use to mean something when you knew there'll be a fight guaranteed. You knew that when players were that charged up there was nothing staged about it. But players get such a hard time from the press when involved in donny-brooks that they wouldn't even dare take on another player toe to toe in fear of fines and ridicule. We are living in such a sissy society now where we have non-contact contact sports. I pledge to you to help... toughen up our society. Lets weed out the wimps out and shut 'em down.
3 comments:
Haha, maybe thats why AFL isnt such a popular sport? You\'d spend half your time learning rules at training! :P
your 31 and your only just now realising that our society is full of wimps, cowards and idiots... and besides, most afl players are pussies, back in the old day the afl players copped a good wack and got up straight away to continue the game.. none of this lying around shitand no, u cant save society... its doomed to fail and fall
if no one does anything about it nothings gonna happen but if people get out there and do something then you can change society. The band the living end began small but now they have had a huge effect with their politically aimed songs.
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