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First, the AFL doesnt fixture all Melbourne home games at the MCG.First, it is Melbourne's choice to play in the NT, and second, it is neutral as the non-Victorian team also has to travel.
It did.The money historically however has been spent on recruiting players. Recruiting extra assistants, extra medics etc has no history at all it will provide better on field results.
The football department cap is a great idea.I actually think this is a good idea, but we have to wait until Tas comes in.
Keep the 'expansion' teams but cut the equalization costs on WA teams.
Melbourne pays for it's teams and the broadcast right pay for GWS, Suns and Tas.
We would go back to 12 teams in a super-league within about 3 years. Love it.
The football department cap is a great idea.
We want all fans to have hope that if they get their s**t together, that in a few years they could be playing finals.
Clubs that have runs at the bottom - Carlton, Melbourne, Richmond, Gold Coast - are clubs that had poor administrations that butchered their on-field chances.
Get the off field in order and can be back in finals.
Nobody wants a premier league style comp, where the top teams are the biggest spenders all the time.
It was the players assocation who were big on pushing the introduction of the footy department cap.Unfortunately player and manager greed will ensure the salary cap has a limited life. You only have to look at where most other sports are going. Money is all that matters. Anyone who actually thinks the status quo of its fair for all, salary caps, soft caps etc will survive the future is in a fantasy land. Money will eventually destroy clubs and take the league on a far different path.
Hopefully it can hang in their until I am gone.
Salary cap will survive. The draft is more likely to come under threat.Unfortunately player and manager greed will ensure the salary cap has a limited life. You only have to look at where most other sports are going. Money is all that matters. Anyone who actually thinks the status quo of its fair for all, salary caps, soft caps etc will survive the future is in a fantasy land. Money will eventually destroy clubs and take the league on a far different path.
Hopefully it can hang in their until I am gone.
Vic bias mate, vic bias.Your redundant question didn't warrant a response, but as you have gone again, best to respond to stop you wasting your time posting it again.
First, Rampe was recruited from the local Sydney AFL. Mumford and Richards were recruited before the Swans Academy even started, and Adams was taken because his previous club didn't want him anymore. You are right about Cameron, he was surplus, just like Adams. So you have basically named two players (and etc.) that came to the Swans against those that were "poached" as you put it.Yeah I didn't mention Rampe, Mumford, Sinclair, Adams,Richards etc either.
I could have mentioned your Father son selection Mitchell as a concession rather than a loss. He left for more opportunity.
Darcy Cameron? - you didn't want him - traded him for a 3 pick downgrade at the back end of the draft. He played 2 games and left when 24, but was in your top 20 ... Mama Mia
Hannebery you salary dumped at the end of a good career.
You're really getting desperate with your examples in order to portray Sydney as an unfortunate victim of geographical recruiting disadvantages... The examples just aren't there.
Second, you have not addressed the lack of an elite pathway in Sydney which was the basis for the establishment of the academies in the first place. You said it was theoretical only and you could find no evidence of it. So tell oh wise one, what is the elite pathway for young players in Sydney? Because I can't find any evidence of it. If it wasn't for the academies, Heeney and Gulden would have been playing soccer, Mills would have been playing rugby union, and if previous experience is anything to go by, Blakey would not have reached the required level to be recruited by any club (e.g. Dylan and Tyler Roos).
You have articulated that they do provide an advantage.The Northern academies do not provide any advantage. They are to overcome the lack of any elite pathways that do exist in the developed states, and therefore, help the norther teams retain players.
I think the interesting piece is the link to VICBias?You have evidently never heard of the "go home to mummy" syndrome.
How could they be expected to have a father-son, when the clubs themselves aint even 15 years old yet.When was the last father-son recruited by the Giants or Suns?
'There is no solution'
A Victorian saying there is no solution is hilarious. I like Leigh but there is a solution it is just the AFL will not look at it.
I'm all ears!A Victorian saying there is no solution is hilarious. I like Leigh but there is a solution it is just the AFL will not look at it.
So tell us all what the solution is and you'll get reminded why there isn't one.A Victorian saying there is no solution is hilarious. I like Leigh but there is a solution it is just the AFL will not look at it.
I'm all ears!
Did you get what the "problem" was. Collingwood and Essendon can fill a massive stadium, Brisbane and GWS can't.
So tell us all what the solution is and you'll get reminded why there isn't one.
Fair enough, but that has absolutely nothing to do with what Matthews was talking about, and thus nothing to do with what he said there was no solution for.I don’t care about that, I want to watch the best teams play each other and it is those games that should be FTA and national broadcast.
Only a very small minority look at their fixture and go gee let’s not go out this Friday because Collingwood are on tv. No one gives a crap if Collingwood are on tv except guess who, Collingwood fans.
The neutral fan wants to watch the best games, nothing more.
So what is the solution you're talking about, I'm all ears? How do you make bris & gws fill stadiums so they can take centre stage at the mcg on Anzac day?I already know the answer, I am saying they just don’t want to look at it. Having your head in the sand is vastly different to saying there is no answer.
So what is the solution you're talking about, I'm all ears? How do you make bris & gws fill stadiums so they can take centre stage at the mcg on Anzac day?
This is awesome, Derby and Showdown in one round! along with AD and ADE! Me loves thisTake the Anzac weekend as an example. It should be derby weekend across the nation.
Melb v Richmond have declared themselves the Anzac rival as have Collingwood Essendon.
Straight after the MCG blockbuster on Anzac Day head to Adelaide for the showdown that evening.
Then you have GWS v Sydney at the SGG, then the Western Derby all over this split round.
Geelong v Carlton and Hawks/North, Saints and Bulldogs can be Stan alone games at Marvel.
They don'tThe big clubs should not need another big club to get a crowd, their fans should be able to do this on their own and get big crowds and take the smaller club for a ride.
Yes they do, they also know they're getting a bigger crowd with 2 big clubs instead of 1The AFL and the TV networks don’t however believe that the Pies or Bombers can get a huge crowd without another big club and hence only fixture against the other big clubs in the good timeslots and on FTA.
Fair enough, but that has absolutely nothing to do with what Matthews was talking about, and thus nothing to do with what he said there was no solution for.