Dutchy wrote:Went to the game Friday night and it was interesting watching the crows tactics across the full ground. Now everyone was having a go at Laidley for his chipping tactics but who made them do this???? CROWS! they had their whole 18 players in the Roos forward 50 everytime...Dont blame the Roos blame the Crows, if they opened up the game it would have been more appealing
Exactly right. Although this style is winning games I think the coaches have a responsibility to encourage an attacking brand of football and the AFL rules committee have a responsibility to preserve what is great about our game. I think almost all SANFL coaches encourage attacking football which makes it great to watch and I am glad the rules, or the way the umpires interpret them most of the time, have not gone the way of the AFL.
I went to the Crows/Kangaroos game on Friday night. Best thing about it was the fireworks.
If 48,000 people were there to watch the Eagles/Central game a fortnight ago or the Port/Eagles game a week ago and the media coverage was the same and each game had fireworks and all were neutral supporters and you asked did they prefer the SANFL game or the AFL game, I would be surprised if 40,000 didn't say they prefered the SANFL game.
The truth is that going to watch the Crows is not so much about the football as it is about the event, hype and atmosphere. I think I'll stick to watching the Crows on tv for the rest of the season. I can at least drift off to sleep during the boring bits.