Perhaps das libero could arrange for Matty Lamington and Jack Fischer to meet up and sort out their polemics in person and save your readers the ugly spectacle of their 'spat', if that's the right description for sewage-loaded catapults facing off across an intellectual desert. So far as winning hearts and minds to their respective causes, they might as well strap explosives to their chests and hop onto some crowded buses.

If they'd been paying attention they'd have worked out by now that, the 'football' name thing aside, they're actually very different games occupying very different niches that allow both games to prosper. Drawing comparisons is about as deep as contrasting apples with oranges; no, apples don't deliver orange juice and orange skin is often thick and bitter. But that's about it. We can stretch the discussion by trying to parade blind spots as insights, as if not being able to see makes us more perceptive than someone who can, but it'd be a pretty thin argument. And it is.

Go Arsenal, Hawthorn & the Waratahs

Walter Mackelly
Chesterton UK
formerly Heathcote, Victoria

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