There is no such thing as Freedom of Speech in the AFL anymore! Can AFL press conferences get any more boring?

Part of the problem is that the bottom feeders (aka sports journalists) will pick up a scrap of news and regurgitate it into something that people might find foul or offensive. And then the public react to this and this creates a backlash against a coach, club, and the governing body which is the AFL

Think of it this way:

1. The AFL and clubs need the public's $$$s

2. The journalistic bottom feeders also need our $$$s

3. For those bottom feeders to get their $$$s they simply need the public's attention and interest

4. Whether the public's reaction is good or bad makes no difference to the $$$ those bottom feeders make... But it does make a difference to how many $$$s a club and the AFL makes.

Its mainly the media's fault and also partly the public's fault because parent's these days don't wanna take responsibility for how their kids are brought up!

This is the reason why I'm starting to follow the VFL and country footy more, the board needs to sack Demitriou (I'm not even sure if I spelt his name right) before the AFL gets any more political, hire bloody Dermott Brereton as the CEO of the AFL and it should free the problem up.

In all seriousness Demitriou must go, the wog is doing nothing for the AFL but making it richer, bring in someone who doesn't take $3.5 million every year and someone who will let the game be.

I'm also pretty much pissed that the AFL decided to bring the sub rule in, the AFL were selfish and just didn't listen to the supporters or the coaches and players.

I liked James Kelly's comments ... "I won't say the Ziebell decision was a mare because I'd get in trouble" .. or something like that. Hard to pin him on that :-)

But it is crazy. How Chris Scott didn't observe that we were hammered in the umpiring against the Swans a few weeks back and it is ludicrous to have a visiting team walking a kilometre through the freaking BAR to get onto the field ... that pretty much says there's a gag!

Great managers ASK for criticism and react properly to it. They encourage intelligent discussion and intelligent criticism.

Unfortunately times have changed and whether we like it or not, we have to live with it unfortunately. The once great game of AFL will never be the same like it was decades ago. A game with freedom of speech and less boring conferences.