Thread: AFL is back for 2008 !!!

THE PIES LOST

That would mean the CROWS won - the wife will be happy

All the best

Wayne

Originally Posted by Barra1

And would the "experts" on The V8 Series be all ex-drivers themselves.

The sports of football, rugby union, rugby league, cricket, tennis, golf and the indeed V8 Series racing, rally racing and Formula 1 are not about whether one has competed or not, it is about participation.

A participatant can be active on the field, court or circuit, or in a support role or as a spectator.

That is the beauty of all sport. Each facet of participation requires all other facets to make the sport.

And sport - participation in sport - makes everyone equal.

As a sports competitor at a national level I valued the opinions of the support team and the spectators.

Spectators? Because without the spectators we had no sport - and most spectators had never competed in the ring - but they had an opinion and they are as important to the sport as the competitors.

Don't believe me? - well how long would the V8 Series last if no-one turned up and no-one really wanted to read about the results? Pretty simple question and a very obvious answer.......

I have never played a game of Australian Rules Football or Cricket and yet I am a very passionate advocate/supporter of both games but is my opinion/passion weakened because I have never played these games.

I study the strategies, I study and understand the rules and I endeavor to understand the pysch (Ron: that is NOT the spelling - help please) of the players. Most importantly I relish the passion I have for the contest and revel in the glory achieved by the team I support whether it be Carlton, Manly, The NSW Blues, Waratahs, Wallabies, Socceroos, FoMoCo or the much-recently-misaligned Australian Cricket Team.

Don't dismiss a sport because you happen not to be a fan. Many times I hear - "It is a silly game - I don't understand the rules" - well hello - are you listening to yourself - need I say more.

The real question is whether you understand the challenge of the contest - and that is sport - irrelevant of the code, field, court, circuit, ring - for this is the arena of the contest.

Even though you quoted the entire post you managed to edit the entire meaning of it by highlighting 2 lines.

The thing I was pointing out is that even though I have played aussie rules at a club level as a youngster and I do understand the rules I still get tired of the BS that a lot of the dead heads that think they are experts of the game and they think that getting into arguments over what should have happened and what one player should have done and what he was thinking blah blah blah LIKE THEY KNOW.........It's all crap.

I dont bother following the game as I think it has become too commertial and it's more about money and how they can bend the rules to get around salary caps etc etc and less about the actual game which used to be good.

Now when someone gets hurt on the field they can sue the player/team they were up against.

I dont go around saying what the drivers/teams should be doing with the V8's, I just enjoy watching it and if I get the chance I go and see it live which I wouldnt waste my money on with AFL.