Godzke
8 Apr 2010, 00:40
http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/tigers-in-dire-need-of-extra-help-from-afl-20100407-rs5g.html
IN THEORY, the expansion of the competition will hurt all 16 clubs, which will lose players to the Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney. In theory, the pain will be spread more or less evenly, as the new teams pick the eyes, ears and vital organs out of the 2010 and 2011 drafts, leaving only scraps for the rest.
http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/tigers-in-dire-need-of-extra-help-from-afl-20100407-rs5g.html
In the modern AFL, it is the promise of blue skies - via a Riewoldt, Hodge or Cooney - that sustains the hope and interest of supporters. Richmond's faithful, already tortured by serial failure, have less hope without AFL intervention.
Allowing the Tigers to sign uncontracted players, a year or two before free agency, is one possibility. But a far better form of assistance would be to allow Richmond access to the best 16-year-old in the land at the end of 2010, or the best 17-year-old in 2011. In effect, it would be given a No 1 pick one or two years in advance.
Is the Richmond Football Club in deep shit? Yes or No? I expect them to endure hardship down the bottom and yes it's a bad time to bottom out. But intervention from the AFL to protect 'perhaps the only commercial ''upside'' remaining in its Victorian heartland.' ???
****ing bullshit. Harden the **** up. That's not directed at the Tigers, who as far as I know haven't requested any intervention in advance, but Jake Niall ought to stfu on this one. Tigers fans have to sit tight on this one and hope for the best.
IN THEORY, the expansion of the competition will hurt all 16 clubs, which will lose players to the Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney. In theory, the pain will be spread more or less evenly, as the new teams pick the eyes, ears and vital organs out of the 2010 and 2011 drafts, leaving only scraps for the rest.
http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/tigers-in-dire-need-of-extra-help-from-afl-20100407-rs5g.html
In the modern AFL, it is the promise of blue skies - via a Riewoldt, Hodge or Cooney - that sustains the hope and interest of supporters. Richmond's faithful, already tortured by serial failure, have less hope without AFL intervention.
Allowing the Tigers to sign uncontracted players, a year or two before free agency, is one possibility. But a far better form of assistance would be to allow Richmond access to the best 16-year-old in the land at the end of 2010, or the best 17-year-old in 2011. In effect, it would be given a No 1 pick one or two years in advance.
Is the Richmond Football Club in deep shit? Yes or No? I expect them to endure hardship down the bottom and yes it's a bad time to bottom out. But intervention from the AFL to protect 'perhaps the only commercial ''upside'' remaining in its Victorian heartland.' ???
****ing bullshit. Harden the **** up. That's not directed at the Tigers, who as far as I know haven't requested any intervention in advance, but Jake Niall ought to stfu on this one. Tigers fans have to sit tight on this one and hope for the best.