Aren't we already?...Without these people we’d still be living in 1986.
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Aren't we already?...Without these people we’d still be living in 1986.
I could be wrong but don't North Melbourne already have access to Tasmanians for their VFL side?SIGNIFICANT draft concessions for three consecutive drafts as well as academy access in Tasmania
More or less the same as any club but Clarkson has to want to go there and he has already stated he wants to go to a club that is a contender for finals. Whether Noble is the right man for the job remains to be seen but right now I don't think it would matter if it was David Noble, Alister Clarkson or Tom Hafey coaching North Melbourne, their on-field performance wouldn't be great.THE option of an ambassadorial/senior coaching role for four-time premiership coach and former Kangaroos player Alastair Clarkson, which he says would be akin to the recruitment of master coach Ron Barassi in the early 1970s, resulting in the club’s first two flags.
All well and good until whoever owns the rights asks for North Melbourne less on Friday nights and more on Sunday afternoons. I have no issues with clubs getting equal access to premium timeslots but ultimately the TV companies themselves are the ones putting pressure onto the AFL for higher membership clubs to be in the premium slots. I'd also imagine that all Tasmanian games will be on free to air (if that is a part of the new deal) in Tasmania so there is less incentive for a company like Foxtel to ask for Tasmania on a Saturday night when it is competing against free to air with the same match. Foxtel cannot sell advertisers or subscriptions on that.COMMERCIALLY beneficial fixture arrangements for blockbusters matches in Melbourne and Tasmania as well as premium slots in the next TV rights deal
How does Foxtel sell subscriptions when you give the product away for free? The A-League does do it for all clubs but the A-League is a very different kettle of fish. I'd suspect if the AFL subsidised Kayo/Paramount+ for North Melbourne members that every other club would do the same for their members. Nothing comes for free in life so I'd like to see what the payoff for free Kayo is.FREE access to streaming platforms such as Kayo for its members.
It's very easy to understand except for one thing, it won't be Tasmania? It needs to be Tasmania Devils, Dolphins, Spirit, Pines , Foresters or anything else with no connection to a Victorian team. What Eddie is saying is "let's keep North Melbourne and their base at Arden street and call them Tassie"? If the whole thing is not viable, then forget about it. IMO, it's Tasmania in Bottle green, red and yellow embracing 160 years of their history not someone else's. If North are to be the sacrificial lamb then so be it or send them to North Sydney?I don't get why this is so hard to understand.
Relevance Deprivation Syndrome.
North are the team no one wants.
Unpopular opinion.... I actually agree in principle - there's too many teams in the AFL. Less teams increase quality, fixture fairness, financial viability of teams In Victoria.
Re Eddie's plans... Needs a cpl of tweaks.
9 games in melb - can be at Marvel or MCG.
2 games in other states. You can't let a team never travel. No travelling would mean 8 of the Tasi games would be against non-vic teams - who would always have to travel to Tas, amongst other fixture isissues
Even with my Collingwood beanie on, I am happy he left Collingwood and feel he probably should have left around 6 to 8 years earlier …
… however, we do need people in our society who come up with ideas and a vision.
They get totally smashed down by those of us who think things were better in 1986 and please stop wanting to change things Grrrrr.
And IMO, many of the ideas that such people come up with are daft. Or maybe even an idea gets implemented and is proven with the benefit of hindsight to be a daft one …
… but not every idea needs to be a winner. Without these people we’d still be living in 1986. Without these people we wouldn’t be discussing or considering the possibilities.
Plus not everything Ed suggests he is seriously advocating for. Sometimes he is starting a conversation or pulling strings.
For example, it’s no coincidence that shortly after Ed floated his “$1 Billion stadium next to the MCG” idea, that the AFL acquired what was then Etihad stadium for a good price.
Is that we’re calling lines of coke now?Too many Bailey's after dinner .
I feel for North Supporters, constantly having to put up with relocation articles.Sort of funny that Eddie's brilliant idea is just "relocate norf" lol
I feel for North Supporters, constantly having to put up with relocation articles.
I know what it's like as a Melbourne supporter - people who have jumped on the bandwagon of clubs that have been given every advantage by the AFL at the expense of the poorer clubs, somehow think they have some authority to dictate to others clubs.
I just hope Melbourne can do a better job than North of building a better base on the back of their success, so they don't fall back into being the current target to kick
Some ideas are just straight up disrespectful though. If I seriously advocated for all redheads to be shunted off to a concentration camp in the Nullarbor, do you think that would go down well with people, especially redheads? But it's an idea and a vision.
Unpopular opinion.... I actually agree in principle - there's too many teams in the AFL. Less teams increase quality, fixture fairness, financial viability of teams In Victoria.
Just for this one , sure why not .Is that we’re calling lines of coke now?