~SeanE

Not so much the game in itself - and I'm talking Australian Rules Football here, not that Soccer stuff or the lunatic lets-all-run-into-each-other game that the yanks play - that's OK. Its the way the media/TV flog the thing to death for 9 months of the year.

I remember when football season went from May to September and there would be a story about the team lineup during the 6.00 oclock news sport section on Friday and then a 2 hour Football show on Sunday about Midday analysing the games from the day before...AND THAT WAS IT!

NOW though, it's 7 days a week, and headline prime time news if a player so much as gets a sniffly nose for a day or so as they analyse what will happen to his team that week (answer - NOTHING! They'll replace him with someone else fo that week and the game shall be played as normal!!!)

On Sunday we have the analysis of the games the day before, on Monday the analysis of who will be in front of the tribunal for doing something bad and who was injured and how that'll affect next week (see answer above), on Tuesday the tribunal, Wednesday guesses as to who will be in the team lineups, Thursday the team lineups and analysis plus "THE FOOTY SHOW" goes to air at prime time that night for 2 fracking hours when basically they have nothing much to talk about, Friday may have a game or two on to fit them int the season, and Saturday is regular game day. Sunday it starts all over again!

Of course this is just the basics. We have the pre-season season during summer (after only 2 months of relief) called the NAB cup, and then they get going on the regular season now In March and not May as before. Then there's all the PR footy-player-does-charity-gimic-pats-terminally-sick-kiddie-on-
the-head crap in between everything else...and the odd scandal of married-player-bonks-stripper/best-friends-wife, or player-does-drugs-and-gets-tap-on-wrist-instead-of-the-
five-years-in-jail--anybody-else-would-get

Bloody hell, it can't end soon enough for me here.

/end rant

cheers
Sean