LeeToRainesToRoach said:There are very few 'accidents' in football now and it's been that way for some time. Player A gets hurt -> Player B must pay...
At some stage the powers that be have to say enough or it's a runaway train and Australian Rules just becomes a hybrid version of soccer and basketball.
Personally I like the gladiatorial aspect of our game and want it to remain. Getting hurt is a ramification of playing Australian Football. It's a tough game.
If you don't like the threat of that, then play another sport.
Unfortunately that choice is exactly what a lot of soccer mums a doing and is why our sport is bending so much to try and hold back the dam wall but it's changing the face of our game no doubt and makes me long for another time.
The bump is already dead. The tackle is now on the agenda. Soon you'll have to approach a marking contest with kid gloves in case someone gets hurt..
The line creeps every year as to what players are suspended for when other players are injured.
I totally understand why.
The contestants in Australian Rules can get hurt but that's football or it's something else that's not.
I know I probably just sound like an angry old man but I'm sick of the sport being tampered with.