In what has to be another farce by the AFL, they are sending a group over to the USA on a fact-finding mission in regards to equalising the competition :
I don't like the idea of engineering a level playing field for clubs who can't be bothered doing the right thing or trying to, instead they just wait for the handouts and don't have to work for it.
The Hawthorn chap summed up my thoughts pretty well in this article :
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The AFL has strategically hand-picked six club chiefs to join bosses Andrew Demetriou and Gillon McLachlan on a July mission to New York to investigate American football's sophisticated equalisation formula. The aim is to close the growing divide between rich and poor clubs.
I don't like the idea of engineering a level playing field for clubs who can't be bothered doing the right thing or trying to, instead they just wait for the handouts and don't have to work for it.
The Hawthorn chap summed up my thoughts pretty well in this article :
Said Newbold: ''Why are Hawthorn - who are innovative and have worked bloody hard to get ourselves to where we are now - being penalised because the Bulldogs have to write out cheques each year to play games at Etihad Stadium?''
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