The following submission is an opinion piece, the opinions of the author do not necessarily represent those of WFN.
I went to see the Cats v Doggies footy the other night. I quite enjoyed but ever since something has been nagging at me leading to sleepless nights. Sunday night was wet and cold but I saw a good contest between two teams which ended in an expected win for my team.
I saw the two teams line up in fairly traditional positions for the centre bounces and then most of the game play in one half or even a quarter of the ground (I don’t know how the junior coach manages to expect the young footballer to play in position, when they see their AFL heroes roaming all around the ground!). I saw lots of touches or possessions, mostly handballs. I saw lots of kicking, mainly short, often backwards or sideways which reminded me of soccer (true footballω).
I saw some long kicking mainly kicking out from goal and to score goals and points. I saw a lot of kicks along the boundary almost to touch – I almost expected a rugby line in instead of the boundary throw in. At the boundary throw ins, I saw almost all the players gather with almost more holding, blocking and tackling than a gridiron melee – any minute I expected to hear someone yell out the numbers 21, 96, 69 for a set play.