saintal wrote:spell_check wrote:Rik E Boy wrote:I think the modern game is not that bad but for me the purest football was played during the 1990's, not the 60's and 70's but older fans will tend to decry the current game while evaluating the past with rose coloured glasses.
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REB
True, because this had the right mix of skills and pace before flooding really took hold.
This.
I know they are considered ‘classic’ games, and don’t represent the norm, but you only have to watch some of the old games from the 90s that Channel Seven show on their second channel to be reminded of how good the sport was back then.
And even then, when Rocket Eade had seeded the deed, I think footy up to 2001 or thereabouts was still great footy because there was no chipping around and about 20-25 interchanges per team per match. I taped the Freo/West Coast derby from 2000 on Foxtel once, and you can see the way footy as it should be played. Continuous, no going backwards footy, classic match.
