Episode 4: Sidetracked by Tom Wills

Behind The Play: an other history of Australian Football

We're back baby! We've overcome surgeries, pandemics, earthquakes and riots in the streets and we're now back at the desk talking football history. Once again, though, we were waylaid in our quest to find the golden fleece: the game as it was originally intended, the game we all long for when we talk of the glory days of football. We were all set to talk 1874, when the game of yesteryear began to resemble to game of today but, instead, we got caught up in the Tom Wills controversy. We'll be following this episode with a Part Two because, even as we type this, the commentary surrounding this issue is growing and we find we're revisiting our conversation already. In fact, we've already gone back and made a few small edits to this episode - you'll hear them, the audio quality changes slightly. We could have made more, but we wanted to get this out there. We hope you enjoy listening to this discussion of what is a troubling issue for football in this country. Are we off track? Did we get it wrong or right? If you have something to add, we'd love to hear from you.. Find us on Facebook at Behind The Play, on Twitter, @behindtheplayok, or email us at [e-mail].