Spot on was spot on, Piss off the interchange, which was tailor made for lazy , dumb players & coaches, train the players for endurance, not create musclebound meatheads who are tearing everything due to carrying more muscle & weight than their bodies were meant to naturally handle.Get centres who are agile with a bit of skill,& not de facto second rowers, get rid of the flat standing negative attack using the sideways shuffle in order to break the line & replace it with standing deep, creating space & running onto the ball at pace instead of endless block plays. The interchange was the precursor to all that is crap about the game & was bought in under the guise of player welfare by the power brokers at the time whose club rosters stood to benefit by it. Coaches need to shoulder the blame as they devise tactics that may be a means to an end, they are against the spirit of the game (think wrestling, chicken wing,diving & taking out legs when player held stationary by other tacklers) and like sheep they all follow. It all came home to me staying at a hotel with the family last year, the kids had Foxtel on (which we don't get) & they were watching classic games from the 80s (think classic skills of Kenny, Ella, Mortimer, Lamb, Rogers, Sterling etc) & my youngest boy said " Dad, when did league become shit!. That came from an 11year old who had played footy since he was 7 & was already being coached to hold players down in tackles by a coach who was doing what all the other negative coaches were doing.
