Nah, I don't think they are. West coast look a million dollars in Perth, struggled a bit this week though and will sook it up in Queensland again. Cats are up and down, Port are flat track bullies, lions can't kick straight enough, we're just scraping wins together. It really will be a case of just being the team that turns up on the right day
I work from home permanently in the CET timezone so all of these games start at 11.00-ish my time and I have them running on my ipad while I work.
In the evenings I have also been watching our home-and-away games from the last three years at the rate of about a quarter per night.
I am halfway through 2018.
The difference is very noticeable.
Reasons?
The shorter quarters means the players know they can go harder and get to more contests. That bottles it up. And then the lesser teams are finding that their best hope of jagging a win is to get four or five goals up early and try to ride it out from there being ultra-defensive.
And the fact that none of the games are at the MCG with 80,000+ doesn't help either.
If 2021 is going to continue along the same lines, the AFL have to put their thinking caps on here.
It's great that there is footy to watch but it cannot be helping their brand that so many of the games are so unwatchable.
Even the games we win are terrible. Our game v Port has been the best game of the year to watch.
Side note about watching our last three years ... 2018 was our best year by a mile. So ironic that it's the one year we didn't win the flag. Didn't even make the Grand Final.