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Promised 3yo and 7yo they could watch the grand final, then realized it was at 730pm. First half in our lounge room is shaping up to be more dangerous than the 1945 bloodbath.
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I think we can all agree that the true winners on #AFLGF day were the people who don't like football and like to call it "sportsball" or whatever.
I am just saying that as an impartial observer with no skin in the game whatsoever that it is probably for the best that this year is over and we can all agree to never, ever speak of it again.
Years from now we will look at the record books and our grandchildren will ask "Grandad, why is there no entry for 2019?" and we will simply say, "Well Billy, it was super weird but it rained for an entire year so nobody played football at all and there was no Grand Final."
Good morning on Grand Final day of the AFL's male football competition.
To quote Manning Clark again. It's a day where 'a strange infirmity' strikes many 'many of the inhabitants of Melbourne, and indeed of the whole of Australia'.
MK
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To quote Manning Clark again. It's a day where 'a strange infirmity' strikes many 'many of the inhabitants of Melbourne, and indeed of the whole of Australia'.
MK
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But before getting to the almost always pathologised passions of footy barrackers, I want to chat a bit about the contested origins of the game.
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A quick note on origins first.
Rather than engage in the seemingly never-ending quest to definitely prove certain origins, I'm more interested in the way debates about origins point to the powerful meaning a game like Australian Rules has.
MK
Rather than engage in the seemingly never-ending quest to definitely prove certain origins, I'm more interested in the way debates about origins point to the powerful meaning a game like Australian Rules has.
MK
I get that people feel affinity for the players at their club, but Crows fans getting shirty about players leaving is so weird. If ever there was a season that sent a clear message that big changes are needed, we just had it. And you want big changes while keeping the same list?!
We need speed and youth. The last 2 years we tried to keep a window open by pushing on to maintain the list that made the 2017 GF. 2018 was cruelled by injury, which probably hid the fact that we were too slow to compete in the modern game in 2019.
Fans complained about Pyke's 2019 style, but it's all he could do. We had to play a possession, key position style. We couldn't have 30-year-olds in free-flowing midfield footraces with 20-year-olds over 4 quarters. These days, a lack of flexibility is too easily shut down.
