The numpty questions thread

[Haso]

Just wondering.......when a player is out for length of time i.e Richy/Staker, are they still paid their full salary, or part thereof?

Yep, every bit of it.

 

[MacMum]

Thanks Haso

 

[Haso]

Thanks Haso

In fact, it can and has come back to bite the club on the behind. For example, the club had to pay Fev out his contract even though he was not going to play for us ever again after being sacked.

 

[Hollow Knight]

Yep, every bit of it.

Yeah, if I recall correctly, if the last game the injured player played was a senior game, they continue getting senior match fees, if it was a reserves match, they get NEAFL match fees.

 

[Viceregal]

So an evil list manager would wheel Rich out in a wheelchair to 'play' in the NEAFL next week then? Do you still get paid match fees if you are the sub and you don't get activated?

 

[JasRulz63]

Would be tough to argue that the injury happened during the NEAFL match though.

To confirm that TBD said (from the CBA):

Since 1993, the compensation payments for injured players has been based around the principle that a player would be entitled to a payment for each match missed through injury at the rate for the competition in which the injury was suffered or at the rate for the competition in the player played immediately prior to suffering the injury

 

[MacMum]

Thanks guys....had been wondering for a while how it worked.

 

[POBT]

So an evil list manager would wheel Rich out in a wheelchair

He'd probably throw a kebab at himself.

 

[winged1]

He'd probably throw a kebab at himself.

But even in the wheelchair, he would still kick better than Andrew Raines.

 

[dlanod]

In the Lions' organizational structure, who does our coach report into? The GM (Dean Warren), CEO (Malcolm Holmes) or board (various)?

 

[brizrider]

Could someone describe exactly how the players rotate through the interchange bench these days? How do they know when to come off and where to go and what to do when they go on? I've never been able to tell exactly but I imagine its like Ice Hockey where the lines go in shifts i.e. you've always basically got a defender, mid and forward off at one time for a set amount of time until the next lot come off. Is this right? Also, the players that go on, do they just fit into the 'structure' where they know there's now a hole? What happens if a player that has a 'role' of some sort comes off? (Maybe he's a tagger or maybe it's something strategic like trying to lead an opposition player away from the action a bit) Does that role kind of stop when he runs off the field or does his replacement try to fill it?

 

[Viceregal]

Can we still use the strikethough option after the upgrade?

 

[Hollow Knight]

Can we still use the strikethough option after the upgrade?

Nope, we can't!

 

[Viceregal]

Nope, we can't!

Looks again - still can't find it .... strikethough for dummies notes...?

 

[dlanod]

Looks again - still can't find it .... strikethough for dummies notes...?

For some reason it's under the "Insert..." button that's next to the smiley, image and media buttons.

 

[Viceregal]

For some reason it's under the "Insert..." button that's next to the smiley, image and media buttons.

What the .... how unintuitive is that I mean thank you very much Sir Dlanod!

 

[Ironmonger]

This might sound like a very stupid question to Brisbane-based fans:

Within Brisbane, does the club have any kind of geographic identity? I always think of the Sydney Swans as kind of an inner-east Sydney team, even before GWS, and obviously in other cities all the teams have their logical areas of support, although it gets pretty meaningless in Melbourne a lot of the time.

What about in Brisbane? Is there an area where the Lions are noticably more supported than anywhere else? I'd hazard a guess that historically the northern suburbs around Zillmere and Aspley might have had more AFL support than elsewhere.

I'm trying to get an appreciation for how much the Springfield move takes us away from our base of support.

 

[Davemonkey]

This might sound like a very stupid question to Brisbane-based fans:

Within Brisbane, does the club have any kind of geographic identity? I always think of the Sydney Swans as kind of an inner-east Sydney team, even before GWS, and obviously in other cities all the teams have their logical areas of support, although it gets pretty meaningless in Melbourne a lot of the time.

What about in Brisbane? Is there an area where the Lions are noticably more supported than anywhere else? I'd hazard a guess that historically the northern suburbs around Zillmere and Aspley might have had more AFL support than elsewhere.

I'm trying to get an appreciation for how much the Springfield move takes us away from our base of support.

Speaking from experience and the full buses I'd say that there is certainly a strong presences in the Eastern suburbs all the way out to Redlands. There are some strong junior and senior clubs (Coorparoo, Morningside, Redlands off the top of my head) that probably feed that.

 

[Hollow Knight]

Yeah, I will let someone else speak for the north of the river but on the south east it is definitely a heavily represented AFL area with Morningside, Coorparoo, Mt Gravatt and Redlands being big/long standing clubs (relatively speaking).

Rugby League still rules the roost of course.

 

[Davemonkey]

Yeah, I will let someone else speak for the north of the river but on the south east it is definitely a heavily represented AFL area with Morningside, Coorparoo, Mt Gravatt and Redlands being big/long standing clubs (relatively speaking).

Rugby League still rules the roost of course.

Yep - as many people get on the buses to Suncorp as they do to the Gabba (which reflects more, how people watch League as opposed to AFL)

 

[POBT]

What about in Brisbane? Is there an area where the Lions are noticably more supported than anywhere else? I'd hazard a guess that historically the northern suburbs around Zillmere and Aspley might have had more AFL support than elsewhere.

I reckon that is right, although the inner north used to have clubs like Wilston-Grange, Kedron and Mayne. But I think the gentrification of those suburbs has diluted the focus on the sport.

From what I recall, on the northside, the two big Aussie Rules playing schools were always Sandgate and Aspley - @TheFlyingBelgian would know better. Sandgate is still an AFL school of excellence. I dunno if the interest from Aspley is still there.

I reckon there's an upsurge in the sport in the outer northern suburbs. The Burpengary development might be evidence in that and, from what I hear, participation rates are high across all levels. I also understand a high school out at Narangba is now a school of excellence.

 

[Caiphus]

The corridor south of the river to the bay really. There are pockets otherwise, but the Gabba is really perfectly placed.

 

[Judge]

I reckon that is right, although the inner north used to have clubs like Wilston-Grange, Kedron and Mayne. But I think the gentrification of those suburbs has diluted the focus on the sport.

From what I recall, on the northside, the two big Aussie Rules playing schools were always Sandgate and Aspley - @TheFlyingBelgian would know better. Sandgate is still an AFL school of excellence. I dunno if the interest from Aspley is still there.

I reckon there's an upsurge in the sport in the outer northern suburbs. The Burpengary development might be evidence in that and, from what I hear, participation rates are high across all levels. I also understand a high school out at Narangba is now a school of excellence.

My son plays for Wilston-Grange, and the junior numbers there are up about 50% over the past 3 years or so (over 350 players), which indicates that AFL is reasonably healthy in the inner north.

Also, Wilston-Grange have been awarded government grants exceeding $1 million since last year's federal election for the purpose of establishing a northern "sports hub" at Hickey Park, so things are pretty buoyant right now at our club.

Having said that, from my observations there are a number of junior clubs in and around our area that are really struggling with numbers and resources, so things are quite uneven. As ever, the critical factor appears to be the quality and quantity of volunteer officials and coaches, if parents are content to simply turn up and watch games without pitching in and helping the club in as many ways as possible then that club is going to struggle.

 

[POBT]

I live in the north west and it is a footy wasteland. I heard the Ferny Grove club have struggled to put an u/16 boys side together at times.

 

[brizrider]

I live in the north west and it is a footy wasteland. I heard the Ferny Grove club have struggled to put an u/16 boys side together at times.

It is a bit in that area. Everton Park has a pretty popular club I think if you count that area but apart from that not much. Arana Hills RL dominates the area I guess.