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Firstly, it would be cheaper for the teams to run the academies. They have the personnel to actually carry out the tasks like the training, access to grounds, equipment, specialists etc. For the AFL to set this up and run it would be overly complicated.I still don't get why they can't be AFL funded/run academies.
You blokes created us, now you have to deal with us.
I had to laugh when Ed brought up the Lions *again*. So much bitterness which, honestly, I don't see from any Pies fan I know. Safe to say, the Lions are right where Eddy wants them right now, and he still ain't letting up! Sad.For someone who claims to only care about the game, Eddie is a particularly selfish and narrow minded individual.
Put ya money where ya mouth is....
Move to Brizzo. Biggest club in the land to promote the game in one the AFL's promised lands....
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/afl...equal-says-eddie-mcguire-20150504-ggttob.html
30 years of being propped up by the other clubs. Time to stand on your own 2 feet, or perhaps the NEAFL would be a more appropriate fit for your club.BTW chaps, let me know when you catch up to the definitions of equality and fairness too.
I'm keen to have that erudite discourse.
You blokes created us, now you have to deal with us. I'd recommend reading Mary Shelley's great novel.
Is the concept of one set of rules for all really that hard to comprehend?
And still we have no takers on the contextual relevance of "equality" and "fairness" in a "business" market.
Where's Adam Smith when you need him?
I still don't get why they can't be AFL funded/run academies.
You want fairness give up the Father/Son rule.Issac Heeney should have been a top 3 pick, instead he went to a Grand Final team at pick 19.
But yeah, nothing wrong with academies at all. Its all very fair.
You want fairness give up the Father/Son rule.
Oh wait, I get it...
You're confused over the definitions of "equal" and "fair".
And Academies are great for developing the future of the game in new areas.Maybe, I do like that rule though as it is great for tradition.
Academies offer nothing like that.
They should and the players should be in the national pool be but I get why they aren't. It's simply to give more chance of success to target markets.I still don't get why they can't be AFL funded/run academies.
because blokes like mcgurie blew up about the amount of AFL funds being spent on the NEAFL, claiming the traditional areas were being neglected.
also a key part of the academies is to expose the kids to coaches and the footy clinics, in NSW and QLD this can only come from an AFL club because their certainly isn't the structure and frame work to support the venture.
those in the South first complained that not enough was being done to produce talent up north, that the number of players entering the draft was too low.
the AFL tried to get all clubs to develop kids, through the scholarship program. Those in the south neglected it and only took players that were already playing footy and yet still cried about the number of players from the north, something has to be done, THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
The AFL then took over the state leagues in the North and started to develop them, The South complained about the amount of money being spent on expansion areas. The AFL then came up with a solution to the next phase, Which would hopefully stop the souths bitching. Have the northern clubs fund and run the academies. this way nobody would complain about AFL investment except now the south complain that the north are hoarding talent.
the fact is when you break it down, Each academy costs about $2 million per annum to run out of the northern clubs using the Staff and facility's that the northern clubs have.
If the AFL is take over and run them independently that's a minimum of another $8 million dollars (in all likelihood the costs would increase due to the fact the AFL would need its own people completely separate to the clubs plus access to training facilities) which has to spent on the evil northern rugby playing heathens, which could be better spent protecting the innocent southern angels from being seduced into the debauchery of soccer.
the South are like that mob from bear tax episode of the Simpsons. You want more Players to come from the North, But you complain about about every single initiative aimed at trying to do just that.
you want the programs, you don't want to pay for the programs and you don't want those who are prepared not only to pay for, But to run programs to get anything out there investment.
That should be the case but it is and always has been up to the club.And I ask again - if you are a professional AFL footballer - shouldn't ANY club feel like home?
He doesn't claim to only care about the game. He does claim to care about the game and he also claims to care so much about Collingwood he stepped up in 1999 when the club was as the bottom be of the ladder and losing $1m+pa to become the unpaid president.For someone who claims to only care about the game, Eddie is a particularly selfish and narrow minded individual.