Demetriou wants bad Barry back - RFNews - realfooty.com.au
George Orwell would be proud of Andy's doublespeak in this article!
On Hall - it's hard (near impossible) to believe he wants Hall to ever grace a field again. Certainly he and his rules committee did him (and other forwards) no favours over the years, and let's not get started again on how Hally was treated differently to other players (as openly acknowledged by the head of the umpiring department).
On toughness in the game, if he feels that way, then the message hasn't filtered through to the AFL "empire". Maybe he remembers writing the memo, but forgot that it remains unsigned on his desk.
The rules committee and all the umpiring changes have conspired to put a lot of tiggy touchwood into the game. The toughness still in the game (and there is plenty out there, just ask Teddy!) is there in spite of the AFL, not because of anything it has done.
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