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Because they couldnt play sides in queensland or south australia without 2 weeks quarantine

A 70,000 seat stadium will have 70,000 corporates and 0 members. 70,000 is completely inadequate for the fans as there wont be any. And if its capable of holding 70,000 at afl then why doesnt it hold 70,000? When they say crowds can be expanded on most stadiums thats usually only for sports...

what a foolish comment. I totally said training is pointless didnt I.

stop counting training. it means nothing. there is no advantage from training on the ground.

Capitalism is also preventing my local club with an average 100 supporters at each game from getting an afl license. Damn you capitalism and your desire to allocate resources where people most desire them to be.

so why dont west coast charter their own plane? its not like the club is short of money.

Bring back rex hunt to radio. No one could create emotion in a radio call like he could (in between all the clownish crap he also did).

With the power vacuum that is about to be created in Asia with the withdrawal of the US I think it's wise if we keep the hell out of there. Going to be dropping nukes soon all over the place like the near 7 foot high school bully with unresolved homosexual tendencies drops wet willies.

Except we dont get the same advantage of interstate sides as our opponents often dont have to get on a flight to play us. Why did you ignore that fact?

Internet wasn't a big thing then. It was outrageous. Thankfully the contracts were re-written and it was fixed.

It's a 25 minute train drive from central Sydney and ANZ was their home ground for over a decade. Where is all this anger when the cats have to travel to their oppositions home city and home ground to play their home finals (and numerous home and away games)?

Not if you don't qualify.

For the same reason last nights game was at the mcg and not geelong.

Yes there was whinging and rightly so. And as a result of that whinging they changed the rules so it could never happen again.

If all geelongs home finals were at geelong this gws at spotless wouldn't be an issue. It's only an issue cos geelong continually get screwed out of home finals bar that one against freemantle.

I am fully against the super tax reduction scheme. It is a joke and for some reason labour seem more for it than the liberals at the moment. Bizarre world. But in any case the amount the gil can put in it is miniscule compared to his overall income. He may well be cheating the tax system but it...

You do realise there is a cap on how much you can put in super to avoid taxes right and it only covers a insignificant amount of his pay?

He ain't earning more than everyone else. He is the ceo of the afl and one player, Gary ablett, has earned a higher annual salary in some of his years then the ceo. What CEOs earn less than some of their workers? His wage is so low compared to his players you almost have to ask, is he a commi?

In basic capitalism machines do all the work and playing football would be a pure leisure activity and all the players would play for zero wage and the pure fun of it.

As for the biases in the system that needs to be fixed this is well well down the list. Shift your attention to the bigger ones such as the draw would be a start.

You can't blame the big four woes on the expansion teams when dogs, Saints, cats, nth, Hawks are all doing fine.

Richmond, carlton and Essendon woes ain't cyclical. It's mismanagement. A cycle would suggest teams are playing finals almost every second year. Yet it is far from the case for these clubs. Throw in Melbourne as well.

If that was the case they would let smaller supported teams have blockbuster games and let the big clubs have non blockbuster games. Yet we see the opposite.

Interesting finding. Do you get the same sort of consistent results when you look at the amount of teams that make a grand final in a decade? Or even amount of teams that make the top 4 over say a five year period?

Yes it should.

True but the fifties still look shorter. In any case even if it is correct dimensions it's still the smallest. All official afl grounds should be atleast 165 metre long.

Partly true. Once the ball and players have got to the ball you are correct. But the longer the ground the more running a defence has to get back which means it's easier to beat a zone as players have to run further to implement it. Flooding and congestion is only one part of the reason why the...

Length is the main issue and scg is shorter then all grounds. It used to be even shorter in the old books but it has somehow magically become longer in official books in recent years (which is very dubious). Even in the current official books it is still to short. Mcg is closer to 16 metres...

Yes afl might not currently be a yardage game (although it used to be and is still at amateur levels) because grounds are now smaller than they used to be, kicking is also longer and more accurate. We need longer grounds not shorter grounds to improve the game.

Etihad is a problem too which I have already stated. Adelaide oval is far longer than scg which fixes many of the issues I have with the scg even if it has small width. Anz is also longer than the scg, albeit not by a lot. Plus not sure if anyone truly believes the reported scg length...