Coaches will do whatever to give their side the best chance for a win, Horse did it and Rutten/Caracella did it tonight. Kept them in the game with a slim chance of stealing it. That's their job.
The AFL has done a fantastic job of giving us a season with COVID19 and states going in and out of quarantine. You can flog them for a lot of stuff but not that.
Agree that game standard has been terrible mostly.
All they achieved was keeping the game going so the cash kept coming. All the rule changes they made to do that, the poor officiating, the poor poor use of their control of the media to bully clubs & players who defy their every demand if control has lef to to it being, without a doubt, the poorest quality of content in decades. They are now involved in a poltical bidding shitshow which almost feels like an auction for the lions, eagles & power to buy a flag.
When the game goes on at the cost of the quality & intergrity of the product - thats not a good result in my eyes