Have you ever thought about just watching the SANFL?
Living in Melbourne for the last 12 years makes that kinda hard
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Have you ever thought about just watching the SANFL?
Nah Geelong 1st out the door.Get rid of GWS and GC plus the two least supported Melbourne clubs and pare back the AFL playerbase by 160 odd, raising the overall spread of talent and we don't have to put up with garbage football like when GC plays.
Memberships are generally associated with tickets to games. Given the majority of stadiums are lest than 50k, 50k memberships are a pretty generic roof on memberships.It’s pretty ridiculous that clubs have been around 100 odd years and have less than 50000 members
This is true and it's the AFL Commission's fault. Firstly because they select the CEO. But mainly because they don't incentivise them (and other execs at AFL House) correctly. You can tell that the big ticket items for their bonuses are media rights $$ and participation numbers. To the uninitiated they might seem like decent indicators for the game being in good shape, but clearly it doesn't work as satisfaction with how the AFL are running the game at a grass roots administration level and with how the actual sport is played must be at record lows.We are never going to get a CEO of the AFL that puts the sport and fans first. Even if Gillon leaves he is replaced with a well trained exact replica.
Why Geelong? Why not the fanless Giants or Suns?Nah Geelong 1st out the door.
From what I hear that region is dying a slow death.
The fact you are replying to one proves your comment wrong.Why Geelong? Why not the fanless Giants or Suns?
?The fact you are replying to one proves your comment wrong.
The growing Giants and Suns who are in regions not flooded by footy teams.
Cats on the other hand on the way down in a region that is the same way in a state flooded by AFL clubs
I always find those up for killing teams never want to put up their own.
Would think more of the argument if they did.
Which ones are they? Do you just go by membership numbers?
Imagine if St Kilda was in your family for generations and then one day they just folded. No merger, they just disappear. Can’t see it happening, ever. The AFL wouldn’t let them get too badly in debt.
But if it did happen, where would all their supporters go? People call for clubs to be folded all the time, I read it on here all the time, but do they really think about what that would be like?
If Geelong folded, what would you do? Really, I want to know. Not having a go at you
The fact you are replying to one proves your comment wrong.
The growing Giants and Suns who are in regions not flooded by footy teams.
Cats on the other hand on the way down in a region that is the same way in a state flooded by AFL clubs
I always find those up for killing teams never want to put up their own.
Would think more of the argument if they did.
Looking at it that way so did all states bar Vic(well 1 team did, recently ish).WA fans did it, SA fans did it ....
Looking at it that way so did all states bar Vic(well 1 team did, recently ish).
I remember the disdain for Allen Aylett in the late 70's.
Can anyone remember a popular CEO at any stage that they were happy with?
Does anyone think the next CEO will do better? Does anyone have any confidence that any future CEO be an improvement?
I would be interested to see how someone like Eddie or Jeff turned out as the AFL CEO, having far greater insights into club and grass roots footy issues.
Gilligan would not get an equivalent job outside of the AFL. Just not of appropriate quality.
I remember the disdain for Allen Aylett in the late 70's.
Can anyone remember a popular CEO at any stage that they were happy with?
Does anyone think the next CEO will do better? Does anyone have any confidence that any future CEO be an improvement?
I would be interested to see how someone like Eddie or Jeff turned out as the AFL CEO, having far greater insights into club and grass roots footy issues.
Gilligan would not get an equivalent job outside of the AFL. Just not of appropriate quality.
Ben Gale or Peggy would do well
Richmond 15 mcg games consecutive prior to finals
WA fans, SA fans sucked it up for a national comp, but Victorians cant? Come on precious !!
Which is what all the state leagues have become.Off topic but WA and SA fans had a choice and still do, Vic fans didn't and don't it's expanded VFL or follow suburban leagues.
If he's mates with Peter Dutton and other right wing conservatives ( the au pair fiasco), he should leave.
AFL is the game of the people and a lot of social issues like Indigenous rights, multi-culturalism and tolerance, gay rights, women's rights, men's health, mental health, coward punch ect have been taken on by the AFL because they are representing the people.
Mclachlan deep down is just old farm money backing the establishment.