Five-time Hawthorn premiership player Dermott Brereton says he doesnโt love the game that he has dedicated his whole life to anymore.
Brereton believes the way AFL is being played now is unenjoyable to watch because of player congestion on the ball.
โI love Australian Rules Football, but I donโt love the game now,โ Brereton toldย SENโs Time On.
"I watch it and appreciate how good they are for what they do but I donโt love it as a spectacle anymore.
"I appreciate their value and their supply, but I donโt love it anymore.โ
The Hawthorn legend says coaches are over-complicating the game and players are becoming robotic.
โWe would write up on the board to have ten tackles per quarter and we never lost a game,โ he said.
โIf you get 40 now you are a low pressure team and that is because you need saturation of numbers around the ball. Thatโs just the nature of the game now. Thatโs the style we have.
โThatโs because we have all the philosophies and all the game styles and all the planning.
โAll these elements of the game that the coaching panels put in at each club because their jobs are at the footy club 60 hours a week to make their team win.
โWe used to have players who would nut it out for themselves.
โIf you took this current game style and immediately swapped it to the 80โs or 90โs style of football where you barely got rotated we would wipe the floor with them.โ
While the AFL has already tried to tackle this issue in the game by lowering the number of rotations, Brereton believes it should be lowered even further.
