Why Dont You Play Football Anymore?

[- PC -]

This is more directed at those people between 15 and 35 and came from Bards thread about how many games. It seems a few arent playing football this year and just interested ( as the AFL will be) in why you dont play anymore.

Me I am too old and fat

 

[Mr Q]

Too old, too fat, can't mark, can't kick, and I was soft as butter. I make a much better spectator than player at this game.

 

[Niall]

Too many injuries from Martial Arts

 

[ablett factor]

my club wont have a side this year in under 17's like almost every club in the area who are in the same boat as plenty of kids stop due to school studies, work and other reasons.
for me i will still continue to play school footy but alot of schools dont have footy as an interschool sport so these kids just stop playing i guess.
once i have left school i hope to play seniors somewhere local but whether or not i actually do due to work, uni or whatever happens i dont know.

 

[ClintEastwood]

Played junior footy, and a few games in Uni for the Adelaide Uni Blacks. Started the preseason late for Parndana F.C. (on Kangaroo Island, one of the clubs Ladey used to play against). Spent the rest of preseason and a few weeks of the season trying to break into the side. Got into the side, played a quarter or so, got a few kicks. Then the next training, the body just packed up, fell on the ground gasping and heaving, and that's all she wrote. Never played again.

 

[evo]

...because watching some other poor bugger get smashed around and have to run 7 or 8 k's while I sit and have a few quiet ones on the couch is more fun.


I've served my time let someone else entertain....

 

[- PC -]

my club wont have a side this year in under 17's like almost every club in the area who are in the same boat as plenty of kids stop due to school studies, work and other reasons.
for me i will still continue to play school footy but alot of schools dont have footy as an interschool sport so these kids just stop playing i guess.
once i have left school i hope to play seniors somewhere local but whether or not i actually do due to work, uni or whatever happens i dont know.

And here I was thinking the AFL had money set aside to help these clubs

 

[bluesforever]

I'm only 19 and i just don't have time to play, I'm certainly fit enough and strong enough to play, i did play for a good 5 or 6 years when i was younger but now after nights of getting wasted I don't have the committment to get up and play... I'd rather get drunk and watch the footy. But good thread though, I love watching but I have other things i like doing more in my life than running around playin footy. It's weird though, because i absoulutely love the game

 

[mickrocks1]

I'm Crap.

 

[beaver's army]

im crap and theres no team this year but i played over 100 games so im pleased with that(peter schwab presented the trophy to me) so now im playing indoor soccer as goalie

 

[understudy]

I've moved on, now persue my other great passion, golf.

 

[Demonstone]

Career cruelly cut short due to a lack of talent and courage.

 

[ExTasDeeMan]

well, 25 now - had a fractured vertabrae at 15, re-occurred at 16 training- Dislocated right shoulder 5 games into comeback at 17. the Shoulder flared up 2 more times before i retired at 21.. didn't want to live as a cripple so i had to let go.

its a shame, when i watch footy i itch to get back on the field. Haven't lost any of the skills, but the body would hate me if i took it back up.

 

[skipper kelly]

In order
Laziness,
Age,
Laziness

Group these with an ever decreaing skill level and an inability to get home from training before 2am, made me stop playing when I was 31.

 

[skipper kelly]

...................but play the game for as long as you can, because one day you wont be able to.

 

[ClintEastwood]

Group these with an ever decreaing skill level and an inability to get home from training before 2am, made me stop playing when I was 31.

You too? If there were breathos on K.I. (or traffic between Parndana and Kingscote) I would have been in serious trouble. I think I was about the same age when I threw it in too.

 

[skipper kelly]

You too? If there were breathos on K.I. (or traffic between Parndana and Kingscote) I would have been in serious trouble. I think I was about the same age when I threw it in too.

Yeah. It was the only reason I trained.

 

[eddiesmith]

Because I can get paid to stand around all day watching football and judging which side of the posts the ball goes on. To easy, so why keep up playing?

 

[silky-smooth]

I don't play anymore because I umpire.

 

[jimmy35]

Age and injuries.
Played to a good level.Didn't like city life.
Played State footy up here andhad my time. Not old in real terms but had enough.
Love my basketball and softball(of all things) now and am contented in life.


Except for Pies depth

 

[Wojee]

I retired due to injury and lack of desire to do another pre-season.
An irony is that I've had worse injuries from playing basketball since retirement than I ever did from footy.

 

[Cuneyt]

Career cruelly cut short due to a lack of talent and courage.

lol

 

[silky-smooth]

Career cruelly cut short due to a lack of talent and courage.

Hahaha that's quite good.

 

[duckboy]

Two AC Joints, an ankle ligament injury and a shocking bout of OP (that still lingers 6 years later) in the space of 14 months made me hang em up when I was twenty three. Since then have gotten old, fat and slow. Have mused about a comeback for years with nobody taking me seriously anymore, including me. Shame really, would love to still be playing but the body has had enough. Really miss the camaraderie and ease of fitness that came with it. Motivating yourself to go for a run is crap compared to going to training on a Tuesday night and hearing about who spewed, got arrested or got a root on the weekend.

 

[catta29]

Because I was invited to play with an AFL club my father played for but had not progressed through the traditional path of U/18s and feared that Total Package would take out a vendetta against me as he has against similar players of my ilk. Oh I did consider changing my name to Brad Smith in the hope that I would avoid his scrutiny but it couldn't be done, hence I don't play anymore.