Barrassi: AFL ugly

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I admire the blokes honesty.

RON BARASSI has described modern football as ugly and called on the game's rule-makers to fix it.
Barassi said many games look like the kids' football matches played during halftime breaks, with too many players crowded into one area of the field. "We've got to make the game as good as possible to watch and I don't think we're doing that," Barassi told a Melbourne radio station football forum. "Ask yourself is it good to watch when you've got two-thirds of the 36 on the field within a quarter-acre. "It's too crowded. It's just kids' football." Barassi also called for changes to ensure a clean centre bounce. He said players encroaching on the bounce are turning it into a "jungle". But Kangaroos coach Denis Pagan told the forum he wouldn't change any of the game's rules at the moment. "It's the best game in the world. Why would you want to fiddle around with it? You'd only muck it up," he said. AFL operations manager Andrew Demetriou said any rule changes should be made carefully, without resorting to knee-jerk reactions.
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[G@v]

They changed the rules to clean up the centre bounce back in the early 70's when the diamond, later centre square was introduced. How they would stop congestion in other area's of the field is beyond me. Maybe they'd have to think of some kind of zoning rule.

 

[pepe]

barrasi is a fair dinkum goose,he comes out with the most ridiculous statements ,but on this one i have to agree with him,the game has lost me in recent times.

 

[Garbage]

just another egotistical ex-footballer/coach that hasn't had their name in the paper for a while so he thought he'd say some crap to get it back in. it was the trendy thing to say early in the year and it hasn't been shown to be true - until then he is just another senile old fart from another era. pagan knows what he is talking about and is up with the times.