Oppo Camp Non-Essendon Thread X

[rines]

Sums up the entire problem with the AFL right now.. and yes it is ALL contributing to the low crowds.

AFL treats every club like a child they can order about and dictate things too.. one step away from being WWE at this rate..

If it is about the Auskick kids.. what a load of crap and if it is about the sponsorship deals.. what a load of crap.

Maxwell wasn't my fave player by any stretch.. but heaven help us if a club can't decide HOW it wants to send off it's 'champion' at its OWN home game.

 

[Halftimehero]

Why doesn't he just walk like Browny did?

 

[Ben the Gooner]

The AFL's not so keen to look out for the Auskick kids when a bunch of fat corporates get to play instead of them during certain games.

 

[Ben the Gooner]

Why doesn't he just walk like Browny did?

I imagine his ankle hasn't healed yet.

 

[Halftimehero]

I imagine his ankle hasn't healed yet.

Ah yeah fair point

 

[rines]

Look at the end of the day.. I guess he will just walk around.. but the point is really about WHO has control of games.. AFL/Stadium of the clubs themselves?

I'm a massive fan of Auskick... and the half time games are always the highlight for the kids if they get selected to play.. but I hardly think a car travelling around at under 5km an hour around the boundary is going to put them in harms way..

This is about the clash of sponsorship.. nothing more and nothing less.. and it raises the very ugly side of the current corporate structure of the AFL.

So SHOULD the AFL have its own sponsors? OR should the 'home team' have the right to sell the onground sponsorship to whomever it pleases? Should any corp that sponsors the AFL be aware that the HOME TEAM will have 'preference of sponsor' if there is a clash..

Again.. are the clubs joint stakeholders or are they franchises?? Grey 'clash' strip anyone?

 

[daz17]

I swear they changed the article. First it was about Holden and Toyota clashing and now it's about Auskick..

 

[Burzum]

I know I'm not the only one that decides which car I purchase based on what a player is sitting in for their lap of honour.

 

[Halftimehero]

I swear they changed the article. First it was about Holden and Toyota clashing and now it's about Auskick..

Gee a journalist with no ******* idea what they are writing about, who would have thought.

 

[EnolaGay]

Ah yeah fair point

Why doesn't he go around like this?

 

[Stopher]

Re the low attendance issue, the fixture for Essendon being terrible for families and country members, with not a single game in Melbourne scheduled for a Saturday day start time, could explain it. Ditto Collingwood and their string of late Sunday games recently. Then Carlton and Richmond being sacks of shite, Hawthorn whoreing themselves out to Tassie and regular night games at Geelong now......when you look at it, what Essendon did or didn't do is hardly going to register on genuine reasons to not go, eh?

 

[Halftimehero]

Re the low attendance issue, the fixture for Essendon being terrible for families and country members, with not a single game in Melbourne scheduled for a Saturday day start time, could explain it. Ditto Collingwood and their string of late Sunday games recently. Then Carlton and Richmond being sacks of shite, Hawthorn whoreing themselves out to Tassie and regular night games at Geelong now......when you look at it, what Essendon did or didn't do is hardly going to register on genuine reasons to not go, eh?

We do have two Saturday arvo games coming up

 

[Stopher]

We do have two Saturday arvo games coming up

Ah, I meant to say thus far The point still stands, though.

 

[Halftimehero]

Ah, I meant to say thus far The point still stands, though.

For me personally I actually prefer we play night games as I attend local football on Saturday arvos but can understand where you are coming from.

 

[monty1104]

Didn't know where else to post this, so here seems as good as anywhere.

I coached against Shannon Motlop yesterday in interschool footy and got within a goal of winning. Pretty stoked with that.

 

[Nifft]

I imagine his ankle hasn't healed yet.

Kids safe... check. Doesn't upset AFL sponser... check. Looks like an option.

 

[Zach Package]

Ian Healy likes this ^

 

[Yoda_]

If you believe its too do with Auskick, you truly are delusional. The AFL defending it's brand once again

 

[Ben the Gooner]

If you believe its too do with Auskick, you truly are delusional. The AFL defending it's brand once again

Auskick is their convenient excuse. They've used that trick on us a few times from memory.

 

[Harlequin]

Put Maxwell in a Jeep and let him drive round Punt Rd oval

 

[Yoda_]

Auskick is their convenient excuse. They've used that trick on us a few times from memory.

For them to actually construed there story to make themselves look like the good guys truly is poor form.

 

[Yoda_]

Why are Fremantle supporters booing Judd?

 

[Burzum]

Why are Fremantle supporters booing Judd?

Once an Eagle, always an Eagle?

 

[Phone]

Both Glass and Brown walked their half time lap of honours, I wonder if Eddie just saw an easy opportunity for a troll. He's been quite successful anyway

 

[rines]

Both Glass and Brown walked their half time lap of honours, I wonder if Eddie just saw an easy opportunity for a troll. He's been quite successful anyway

Eddie will always try to do what is right for Collingwood (whether you like him or not, he bleeds for the club).. he is just trying to make money on the Holden sponsorship deal..