Today's standard

[Brett Angell Delight]

….i’m a big believer in ‘street football’ truly engineered the quality of yesteryear. It’s not rocket science, if we weren’t in school we were playing footy. We honed our skillset with a ball stuck to our feet for 10 hours a day. We loved it, we became talented.

Taking control of a football on uneven streets or ‘ollers’, endless completion against your mates. Nowadays, it’s Academy football for the few a couple of nights per week, TV and computer games the rest of the time. Clubs take youngsters and make it feel like they’re doing parents a favour when they should be treating it as a privilege.

The quality is not as good from the top of the game to the bottom. The reasons are obvious.

Some boomer nonsense this, mate.

Footy players today are 10x the athletes they were in your sepia-toned, horse-drawn day. The game is quicker and played with far more skill.

I know change is confusing as we get older, but anyone who is of the opinion that the game has massively declined from the point when players had nicknames like “Chopper” and had 7 pints of stout and a pack of woodbines after the game can get in the bin, frankly.