Quote from: sligeach on July 12, 2008, 10:42:27 AM
I mean theres no comparison to days players for physicality ? Look at this clip.
http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=mc9VY7BKKCw
The first tackle on Ned would have been a red card today.
Now THATS football. Rough, tough but fair. Not this falling over shite and crying about it for 10 minutes. Just grab the ball and give proper shoulders and fight your way through.
The players from 2000 wouldn't last the physicality, they'd be trampled into the ground.
Oh and by the way. Anyone else think the quality of the kicking was far better then it is now ?
Proper shoulders? There wasn't a proper shoulder in that hold clip! I suppose you think its good that an amateur players would go out to decapitate someone like that. People have to go to work the next day. That kind of cowardly act was atrocious when the Aussies tried to do it!
I firmly believe that, despite all the negativity around our games (most of it coming from the media who complain about every single game), the players are a lot better. And there's no way the players were more skillfull then, would you have seen the likes of Mulligan's goal in the 70's? People say the kicking was a lot better, but they didn't even try to kick the ball into space. It was just a matter of catching the ball, turning and kicking it as log and hard int he general direction of the other goals. hardly much skill in that?