by therisingblues » Tue Jun 06, 2017 5:54 pm
saintal wrote:I gather this happens routinely in the VFL and doesn’t raise too many eyebrows, but an example of a player sitting out the final term to rest up for a likely promotion the following week (5 day break for him if he plays). For the record, Collingwood kicked the final 3 goals to win by 14 points.
http://www.saints.com.au/news/2017-06-0 ... for-recall
Maybe because there are so many reserve teams in that league that the culture is a bit different. It might be more like a reserves comp that has a couple of genuine teams in it, rather than the other way around.
That said, this type of thing really shits me.
It is exactly the sort of thing most of us warned of when the reserves were proposed. Of course this sort of thing is always going to happen in a reserves team, and if the comp the reserves are playing in is a genuine comp, then it becomes a COMPROMISED genuine comp.
There are still nitwits out there that do not understand the impact this sort of shit has. Basically they are all so happy and snuggly with their AFL, they cannot (or do not WANT to) see the damage caused to those around them, as their blinkered world becomes just that little bit more happy and snuggly.
Having a happy, snuggly place for all their reserves players to play together... ahhhhhh, like a nice toasty fire on their pampered, slippered feet, while football a grade below basically loses meaning.
I'm gonna sit back, crack the top off a Pale Ale, and watch the Double Blues prevail
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