The "king of the kick" must be cringing in the bleachers watching his former colleagues playing the "look at me, look at me" game.
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Buddy Franklin surely wouldn't want to be part of it.
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Remember the days when a game of AFL was about the prodigous punt kick and the breathtaking mark?
Spectacular.
Lifeblood of the game.
Long gone are those days. Now we have the showponies. "Look at me I'm fancy free" until one of the flock turns over the pill.
Today coaches have become obsessed with the run and pass razzle-dazzle.
Trouble is eight times out of 10 the opposition wind up with the Sherrin.
The other night I counted eight Swans players carry the ball from 25-meters out from their own line to within 25-metres of the opposition's sticks.
A kick for goal?
No a wayward final pass.
A pass to a player mobbed by three defenders.
The other side booted clear and two punts later wound up with a six-pointer.
For the life of me what has got into the head of the man responsible for the way his team plays?
Back to the Swans.
Is the only option to masquarade as Sydney Roosters and try scoring with an eight-man running game?
Surely the Swans can back themselves.
Run for 30 and then send it to the moon.
With a stroke of luck Tom Rapley or Sam Reid may get a kick for goal.
And big Buddy may wish he was out there helping to stem the flow of the bleeding Bloods.
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