Round 15 Winner

The winner of The Chad Medal this weeks sticks out like Julia Gillard's nose, or arse for that matter, it is the AFL. This week's ridiculous decision to suspend Melbourne's Jack Trengove for 3 weeks for a perfectly legitimate tackle on Adelaide player Rodney Dangerfield has sent out an alarming warning that if a stand is not taken soon, the game of football as we know it is fucked.

The AFL has proven over especially the last 10 years that they don't give a tinkers shit about the true football follower, the one that goes to watch their team go in hard, show a bit of shit and see a good and honest physical contest. They are far more concerned with the perception of the game being one which do gooder, hippie, tree hugging, mongoloid, cocksmoking fuckarses consider to still be too barbaric and not the sort of game that they would want their precious little Cornelius playing. So the AFL has continually pandered to this fucking stupid misconception by screwing around with the game to the extent that it's fast becoming unrecognisable to the supporters who grew up with it and subsequently want to hang Demetriou and his gimps by their nuts as a result of their frustration.

Time after time the AFL changes the game, and why? If it ain't broke, don't fucking fix it. They continue to introduce rule changes to the game on a yearly basis which seems to the outsider as nothing more than something to justify their wages. 2.3 MILLION DOLLARS - that's what Demetriou is getting to fuck the game. The constant tinkering with the rules does nothing more than frustrate everyone because a) most true blue footballing people can see no need to change most rules b) the changes are taking away one of the great parts of our game- the fact that it's a physical game played by grown men.People want to see physical clashes and people being rewarded for putting their body over the ball, not rewarding softcocks who try and felch off those who do the right thing. Who wants to see a game full of Matt Connell's? c) by penalising players for going in hard they are risking more serious injury because as anyone who has played the game at any level would know, if you enter a contest at anything less than 100% you are far more susceptible to getting seriously hurt. d) the current rules are basically encouraging players to play for frees, so they are doing so. How many fucking players duck their heads going into a contest these days? It fucking shits me, but they have little other option because that's what the game ( aka AFL ) is telling them the best way to get a cheap free in a contest is. How many head injuries have occurred as a direct result of this, and how many more are going to occur before a Neil Sachse type incident happens? e) by tampering with the game they don't give the umpires the chance to work on getting existing rules right in the first place, so they continually have to keep changing their interpretations of footballing basics ( eg. can any cunt explain the holding the ball, advantage rule, or push in the back rules with any confidence any more? ) thereby making for more inconsistency and frustration for everyone.

The AFL would counter this by saying how better off financially the game is today than previously. The AFL may be but many of the clubs themselves are struggling. And as fucking annoyed as everyone gets with the fucking around with the game, it's still our number 1 winter national sport so people ( myself included ) are still going to watch the game ( only on tv though, crows and powder supporters shit me, fuck me I have to travel to Melbourne to watch my team once a year to gain any sanity from the modified game live )because they still love the sport. The dropping attendances at some AFL games are a better indicator of frustration because I for one, and I'm not the only one, would much rather go and watch an SANFL game than an AFL game because you can still lay a tackle and not get three years in Pentridge. I fear this may not always be so though because of the Crows and Power get ressies teams in the SANFL, which if the AFL wants them to it will get it, will fuck that comp too. Also the salary cap and other financial restrictions which are enforced by the SANFL ( which lets face it is nothing more than the AFL's bitch ) are nothing more than the AFL attempting to make all state league comps on an even keel.

So the AFL are fucking the game like a horny jack russell on a fat sheila's leg yet they are not held accountable, fuck me you can't even say they or their cronies have done a shit job because they will fine you. After the absolutely ludicrous decision to rub Jack Trengove out for 3 weeks a few of his Melbourne teammates voiced their concerns that the decision was completely fucked and they have as a consequence been sanctioned. Even Jack Watts' mum had a crack for fucksake and her son isn't exactly what you would call a hardnut. The only encouraging things to come out of this fiasco are that the entire footballing community has united as one to say it's bullshit and Trengove has said he will continue to play in the same vein. Good on ya kid, stick it up their arses.So the AFL can make any decision they like with no repercussions, as long as the money keeps rolling in everyone else can get fucked. You know what they call that - a fucking dictatorship, with Demetriou as the head and Anderson as the foreskin.Well fuck you Mussolini Demetriou, the quicker the game rids itself of you and your little monkey boy Adrian the better. It's time the clubs and the footballing public united as one and take a stand to fuck you off and reclaim our great game before it's too late.

So the AFL have won The Chad Medal this week. On behalf of all true football followers I sincerely hope I get the chance to present it to the head of the organisation and wring his fucken neck with it.