Crowds may be down but television rating are through the roof, more people are actually watching our game then ever before.
Every team plays a structured game nowdays but we've seen some amazing tries and attacking football this year. Modern defences are to good and gone are the days when you can throw it around and hope for the best.
Line the coaches up and tell them to stop playing structured is to tell them to stop winning, ain't going to happen
Seems like people are prepared to be couch potatoes & go through the monotony but they're not prepared to part with their hard-earned $$$$ to watch it at the grounds--I don't blame them as it's pretty poor value overall.
There are occasional glimpses of brilliance,true, but bash & barge,runs from dummy half with no real intention,hit-ups with no creative intention etc;make up a HUGE % of any match one cares to watch.[maybe 85 to 90%???!!].
There needs to be extreme radical changes if the game is ever going to restore its tumbling stocks as true RL entertainment-----after all;when it's all boiled down it is just sport!
I am still a diehard Sths supporter & have been since the early 50s[I went to the SCG as a 10 yr old in 1955 to watch Sths defeat Newtown in the GF]--& I'll always be one.
But I have also been a diehard supporter of the SWANS since their arrival in Sydney & I love the game--the Swans now have 50,000 members & GWS is starting to build strongly.
So RL needs to watch itself!!!!