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Bollocks. If you were around when South relocated, good on you for sticking with the club. But there was a fair bit of research back in 2007 to say your hypothetical scenario is a long way off the mark. Anyway. Point of the bump is to add the current Gold Coast travails to the many reasons...

That all makes sense. But the stick of no trades seems to have been added without fair warning. If they had agreed on the 2-3year phasing out of COLA eight months ago, with some carrots and sticks as part of the plan all along, then Sydney could have looked ahead and set a strategy. This way it...

Very early days, and I doubt anything has come up that will surprise anyone involved, or that they haven't planned for.

On the money, as it turned out. I know it's a holiday weekend, but I was shocked how few Richmond supporters were there. Having heard some earlier discussion about the ticketing I thought it probably had some effect. (As an A game, you could scan your card and walk up but only part of level 3...

That's kind of my point. We just buy memberships and go to games. In my case, to North and Collngwood games every week for 15 years since I met my partner. I know what both clubs do for their members and fans - and which works harder because it has to - but as members and supporters we can't...

No, the people who run it now are living on the luck of things that happened before they and most of us were born.

About the same as Collingwood, but much more creative. Actually, that's being kind. The people who run Collingwood have the easiest jobs in football.

Collingwood hasn't worked harder than the Bulldogs. It's had luck and ridden it.

What was this "hard work"?

Apparently it was first proposed by North Melbourne 30 years ago, when the club was putting its case to the AFL for playing football on Fridays at all. More recently, North and Carlton have put a lot of work in together and with Channel 7 on how it could work with the Appeal for the RCH, to...

Press releases and conferences don't give access - they limit access while feeding the public/media's appetite for content. If I want to, I can go to any training session and meet the guys who play for my club. I can easily get my kids meeting their idols and getting autographs, and reasonably...

The things that make his reign successful are the same things lots of fans don't like him for. Lots of money = gouging fans, schmoozing sponsors including gambling companies and signing rights to expensive providers. Great crowds at games = ground rationalisations and big comfy soulless...

If he finishes this year with an equalisation deal done, and both Gold Coast and GWS showing solid gains, he'd leave pretty pleased with himself. Actually, he'd be pretty pleased with himself regardless. I'm sure he would love to have the Essendon Unpleasantness tied up in a bow, tanking-style...

You think? I don't like Demetriou but if he gets to resign at a time of his choosing and hand over in an orderly way to a successor, that seems better than being suspended for gross negligence.

It's Collingwood supporters like you that make me regret boosting your crowds and coffers as much as I do each year. I married third generation Collingwood - they didn't choose it to back a giant, they were born in the slums back when it was their club - and my son is fourth generation. I'd...

If the first part of what you said was true, the crowd for the second Pies-Essendon game each year would get the same crowd as Anzac day. But it's not even close. The event, the promotion by the AFL, the timeslot all make a big difference. Of course the result will be bigger if you start with...

That's just an annoying thing to say. The Bulldogs and North chose to balance paying off debt with spending enough to have a healthy football department and improve onfield performance. Melbourne went for the headlines of being debt-free and kept their footy department in a shambles. And if...

Obviously they shouldn't get an extra priority pick. They will get a high pick from their ladder position, they have Hogan coming in, and they got Viney cheap from last draft's shenanigans. The money plea is a bit annoying - the only thing that separates Melbourne from the Dogs, North and Port...

It's great for the AFL - they control the money - and great for members, who get access to 40 games plus guaranteed GF entry if their team is playing. So with the AFL seeking to increase its control and more people wanting to get the benefits, it won't be going anywhere. My club would be...