OPINION: The AFL ignores the perils of mistaking change for progress
blue? Ring 1800-AFLAllTheTime. First three callers win a cured ham and 2,000 tickets to the AFLX."
Georgia Linnell tweet: Can't wait for another vote in 12 months on whether or not we should change the AFL Grand Final start time, only so Gil can make another announcement about how they will stick with tradition. There is that delusion of possible perfection; the self-defeating notion that warts and quirks can be eradicated by statute without diminishing the charm that made the game great.
Stand in those zones; don't sneeze near the player granted a 50-metre penalty. And if a player twitches at a vital stage in a game and the contest is decided by a technical infringement? "So if you had it your way the captains would still be calling the free kicks and there would be no centre square," they sniff, mistaking the game's slow evolution for the current panic-stricken alteration craze.
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