An open letter to Gillon McLachlan

New AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan. Picture: Jay Town. Source: News Limited

DEAR Gillon, Just a quick note to say congratulations on your recent appointment.

Great to see some commonsense prevail at AFL House and a South Aussie given the controls of our great game.

Despite the great work Andrew has done during his time as "Top Dog" it's fair to say the game needs some serious attention at the moment.

With this job comes great responsibility and not just to the top end of town. We are sure you are well aware of that, but given we are going OK as a football state at the moment and given we are also boasting the best venue in the country, we thought it was an ideal opportunity to run some ideas past you for your perusal.

Please don't take for granted all of the mums, dads and kids that this game was built for.

Sometimes we appear to get overlooked when the big decisions are made and we all reckon the game's in a bit of a mess.

Not that it's an issue for us here in SA!

The Power is absolutely flying and a rough chance to win it and don't you worry about the Crows, their second part of the year will be as good as any and a top six spot is not out of the question.

But we all reckon it's about time our voice got heard and while the game is still great it just needs a bit of a tweak here and there.

Yes, yes, yes we hear you and yes we did see the Anzac Day clash at the G and a couple of other beauties but it hasn't been the best start to a season and the confusion on ground with the umpiring isn't helping.

We all agree that the less they blow the whistle the better the game is but they are simply ignoring far too many "obvious "free kicks in general play and then pull one out of their backside in front of goal.

Go figure!

Surely a free is a free no matter where it is? In front of goal, in the centre or deep in defence?

And Gillon, please, that congestion around the footy this year with all the bounces, give me a break.

I don't go to the footy to watch those blokes in white bounce the ball all bloody day!

Fix it, please!

Get them to blow the bloody whistle. Please! And throw it up!

While I'm on the umps can you do a favour for a mate of mine called Crowie and get Razor Ray to umpire some other games bar the Crows all the time.

We reckon we had him eight times last year and we know he's a good umpire but my mate reckons we get a rough trot when he's in charge.

Not a big one but had to mention it just to keep Crowie quiet.

One quickie before we leave on field issues.

What's the chance we can get the odd marquee game over here and perhaps more than just one Friday night game between the two teams?

Fair dinkum, we are all getting tired of watching Collingwood in every blockbuster!

Any chance we could at least get one decent timeslot, not just 12.40pm or 4.10pm all the time.

Some of us have got cranky wives at the moment and kids that are tough to get up on a Monday morning after another Sunday late game.

Anzac Round is great for the Power, thanks, but surely given where they are sitting at the moment one more would be OK and the Crows surely deserve one.

Good Friday is available I believe.

Some of us also think the game is getting a bit out of our reach every week.

Many of us have got kids and by the time they have a pie and a coke and the wife does like a quiet chardonnay or two during the game its hurting our hip pockets more than ever before.

I know we have a nice new Oval to be proud of but a little help please.

We don't want to miss our teams play but I might have to reconsider our options next year if we don't get some relief.

I can get the kids to BYO but I can't upset the missus!

OK that's enough grizzling, I'm sure you've had plenty of that over the last few days.

Good luck with the new gig, just don't forget it may be a National competition but we South Aussies stick together.

Cheers

The South Australian Football Fan.

P.S. Can you fix Essendon's issues quickly, equalise the comp as best you can, sign off on a night grand final and please let Andrew call the Brownlow votes for one last time, it's our highlight of the season.

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