An increasingly hard sell: just what has happened to AFL football? | Jonathan Horn

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How did we arrive here? Who, or what, is to blame? And is there a solution? Jonathan Horn breaks down the game’s current malaise

In April and May, there was a yawning ache for football. But we didn’t ache for this. We should not be surprised, of course. The game has been tracking this way for some time. It is also being played in the midst of a global pandemic, with cardboard cutouts flapping in the breeze and with most of the players having done bugger all training for two months.

 

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