FFS!

Posted on March 31, 2014 by KG

‘CHILDREN will be banned from playing to win, keeping score and best and fairest awards under Australia-wide changes to junior football ­developed by the AFL.
Thousands of junior footballers in up to 150 leagues will be forced to play with no scoreboard, ladders or match results under the shake-up designed to promote participation rather than competition….’
That’ll really help prepare them for life in the adult world, won’t it?

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13 Responses to FFS!

  1. GW says:
    April 1, 2014 at 01:32

    Actually, yes, this is preparation. This is socialism applied to sports. You can have equality of opportunity (capitalism, small government) or equality of outcome (socialism, big government, “social justice”). The two are mutually exclusive. This is all just prepping your children for life under big brother. The people who are doing this ought to be shot.

  2. Darin says:
    April 1, 2014 at 02:53

    Just wait till they get to unionize,then they can lay around on their asses and get paid for it.

    http://nypost.com/2014/03/26/watch-out-ncaa-college-football-players-given-right-to-unionize/

  3. Contempt says:
    April 1, 2014 at 03:18

    :shock: Since several decades or so, children’s sports have given “trophies” to winners and losers. Must not hurt the little darlings self esteem, you know. Understand pUtin will be awarding a nice gold trophy to oBowa very soon. :roll:

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  5. Findalis says:
    April 1, 2014 at 07:55

    Then why play in the first place.

    • KG says:
      April 1, 2014 at 08:00

      Exactly.

      • Findalis says:
        April 1, 2014 at 08:51

        As kids we would run around outside playing games of our own making. Got plenty of exercise and fun. Never bothered by a score. Winning didn’t matter, fun did.

        We have taken that from our kids. How much poorer they are.

        • KG says:
          April 1, 2014 at 08:53

          :shock: You just contradicted your previous comment, Findalis.
          And perhaps winning didn’t matter to you and your friends, but it certainly mattered to me and mine. It mattered a lot.

          • Wombat says:
            April 1, 2014 at 09:49

            Said the Gazelle to the Cheetah, “Does it matter who is fastest?”
            Replied the cheetah, “no, it matters only who is slowest.”

            Something we in the first world are going to find out the hard way, and sooner than we’d think.

          • Findalis says:
            April 1, 2014 at 12:01

            Winning didn’t matter in a game of stickball or handball between friends. Just playing for fun and do annoy the adults was enough.

            • Wombat says:
              April 1, 2014 at 13:00

              What we’re talking about here is representative team sports. Every Saturday or Sunday morning. Townsville vs Villstown. Under7’s, 9’s, 11’s 13’s.
              You’re talking about on the spot “take turns picking your players” games. I don’t take well to the psychotic attitude of the few frothing-mouth little-league dads that treat baseball light a pit-fight but an important lesson in growing up is that there’s times and places where you have to give 100 percent, and the only way you get 100 percent is to have an incentive.
              In life, we call it winning and loosing.

            • Findalis says:
              April 1, 2014 at 13:34

              @ Wombat

              When I was growing up girls couldn’t play in Little League.

  6. Mathew says:
    April 1, 2014 at 11:07

    I have a feeling this will backfire on the AFL, if they want boost their numbers and fans, this sort of stupidity will only ensure that good teams will get irritated with crap like this and go somewhere else.

    Besides if this is how the junior leagues will be playing how do you suppose they’ll choose who gets to play in the big leagues, i mean if no one knows the score, who knows who’s actually worth anything and who’s just a slacker. Just wait till some asshole parent decides to sue because junior didn’t get picked, discrimination, racism etc. Good luck AFL.