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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Brian Cook - "Premiership Within The Next Five Years"
Last post by LP -FWIW, if I recall correctly around the time Cook arrived, we were being bullied by the AFL Media, mostly BT and Ch.7 CheatsFC TV, because we were accused of playing boring football nobody wanted to watch or commentate. They called for the AFL to bar us from prime time.
I recall a presser when Voss come out and stated his intention was specifically to get a more exciting brand.
Step forward to 2026, the AFL have basically ruled heavy lifting slow moving inside Mids like Cripps out of the game, redundant with the swipe of a pen! We are in fact now playing a drastically different more exciting game style, chaotic with wild swings in scoring both for and against, using a list that isn't really suited to that style. Yet we are again being told we aren't worth watching and they want us banned form prime time.
The only consistent claim from the AFL Media critics is the claim nobody wants to watch us, we are boring, and they want us banned form prime time coverage.