Tim

Gary wants to shorten the...

length of the game well if you're gonna play 24 then the game has to come back to 100 minutes i could i could go with that yeah so you'd be happy just to i mean you have unofficial practice games no one's saying they wouldn't eventuate so you just have a couple of glorify match simulation sessions well it's something like i mean you don't want to make the match because some of those match teams can be scrappy so you don't want to make sure that you don't want to completely detract from the product but i just think that you end up running around so many more times why wouldn't you make it for premiership points yeah

My one counter to that, to my own point, I suppose, would be I'd have to do the research on, like,

injuries and those sort of things, because if there is a higher frequency of, which we saw at the start of this, soft tissue injuries, but if there's also a higher instance of long-term ones because of the wear and tear of more games, then we don't want that.

Yeah, that's exactly what we don't want.

What, 18?

Yeah, the broadcasters aren't going to be happy with that and the players probably won't either because there'll be less coin in their pocket if you restrict the game.

The games will be bigger.

Yeah, well, maybe, but I don't know whether or not that model will stand up to scrutiny.

Tom, can I ask you this question then?

What if we started the pre-season?

You talked about how long the pre-season was.

Why don't we just start it after Christmas?

Why don't we just give all the players Christmas Day?

You can have Boxing Day.

Do whatever you want.

You go to the Myer Boxing Day sales if you want to.

You go to the Boxing Day test, and then you start the day after that.

I personally am the biggest advocate for that ever.

I think that our pre-season is too long.