Now that the cricket is finally over for another summer and the AFL premiership gets under way this Easter we are back to normal.
Especially with the NRL already into round five, and the A-League nearing finals time, while we don’t want to forget Super Rugby, although we try very hard to do so – it’s not our fault the only rugby player worth noting is a former leaguie, Israel Folau.
Anyway, and apologies to our female readers who do not share the boys’ enthusiasm for winter and football.
To us it’s like salt and hot chips, bacon and eggs, Shane Warne and bad hair – if it’s winter it’s football time, in other words, heaven.
We hope this heaven continues for many more years into the future, but there are cracks in the system, so we take a look at the Top 5 threats to our football codes:
♦ Number 1: Designer hair. Watching the footy with me, my wife gives a running commentary on the various hairstyles of the players, and it’s obvious most of them visit the hairdresser before a game. What’s doing, fellas? A lot of layers from bygone eras must be turning in their graves.
♦ Number 2: They are all professional footballers in all of the codes these days – yes, even in rugby, Dorothy – which means they have too much spare time on their hands. And which also explains some of their behavior as outlined in Top 5. Back to digging trenches, boys, if you want to save your future.
♦ Number 3: Paying them too much. No, we’re not jealous of their salaries, but it’s ridiculous that every year the average footy salary seems to go up another 50 thousand. There’s no way this is productivity related. In the long term this will send all the clubs broke and the players will go back to living on the wage from digging trenches.
♦ Number 4: Taking recreational drugs comes from having too much money and too much spare time and that’s why some footy players are on the naughty side. Solution is same as above: don’t pay them so much and get them to have part time jobs.
♦ Number 5: Gambling on footy may bring in a few extra dollars – which probably go to bigger salaries for players – but it’s a blight on all codes. This is the biggest threat to the viability of football, because you can’t possibly stop players from betting, so there goes the purity of sport. I would love to see betting banned.
