If the ear-splitting off-season noise is cut through, there is plenty to look forward to in 2019
Our game has always been noisy. There are no objective football fans, but plenty of zealous ones with loud opinions based on blind faith – has been from the beginning. Today the game is noisier still. Noisy like a circus (where the AFL pitched its AFLX tent) or an insolent argument where the eventual winner simply yells louder than everyone else (the week of contrived debate on a seemingly inevitable made-for-TV twilight grand final).
As Gil McLachlan staggers from one talking point to the next, you feel that with the volume dial turned all the way up next off-season, he may need the LED screens the AFL blew the budget of two country football clubs on to signal messages to those fans who have covered their ears.
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