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Who is he and is it a done deal?

The 80 interchange cap which it sounds like is heading our way will be yet another example of the AFL: -Making up rules on the run -which don't actually address the thing they are trying to 'fix' -and giving the clubs practically no time to adjust to the change I've explained in the relevant...

That's it. I'm done.

Who said that the only solution for the AFL was the double round robin system? There are (among others) two main options which would greatly diminish the inequality in the fixture: *Each team once (two-year fixture). See existing thread here. *Rolling draw spread across three seasons (play...

Very, very US-centric post. The US isn't the only other country on the planet which houses major professional sporting leagues. Far from it. The US may be home to some of the most well-known leagues (in this country) and most of the top leagues $-wise but that doesn't necessarily make that...

The AFL isn't a sport, champ. It's a league. :thumbsu:

*HD coverage in the year 2012. How many matches per round were broadcast in real HD this season? Even the showpiece match, the Grand Final, wasn't broadcast in HD. *Reactionary PR crap. The AFL stepping in to have Matt Rendell sacked was typical of the way the current admin is happy to trample...

*Vested interests in the media. We have player managers commentating matches (with, afaiaa, no formal disclosure of this fact at the beginning/during any given match in which this happens). Most of the prominent football writers have cushy gigs on AFL-appointed panels/committees etc so they are...

*Grand Final always in Melbourne. Whether or not there are good arguments for it, the idea that the biggest game of the season should always be played at a ground that is home to just a small handful of clubs is pretty silly. *Prelim finals played on different days. Maybe the extra day's rest...

I'll get the ball rolling: *22 matches per season even though we have 18 teams. Those five double-ups can and do decide placings on the ladder. *Constant rule changes and their small lead-in times. It will make a huge difference to team strategies (and therefore personnel required) whether we...

...of things that make the top flight of our great sport look like an amatuer hour compared to other great sporting leagues around the world. I got to thinking about this topic when I pondered how it could possibly be that we are now in a trading period in which many of the draft picks being...

Don't get me wrong, you've been a flog in the past in threads about the NMFC, so I was pleasantly surprised when your contribution(s) to this thread were in keeping with the topic as set out in the OP. :thumbsu:

SM: Your first post in this thread did not address the central point made in the OP (that being that if GCS>GCK, where would GCK be right now, and how does this reconcile with the suggestion that the Kangaroos would have more support on the GC than in Melbourne); it made ignorant claims...

I'm happy for people to disagree, but Kram81 et al aren't doing that. They are adding nothing substantial to the discussion as outlined in the OP. I've got plenty of time for posters like Papa G who popped in, disagreed with my premise that the GCK would be doing worse now than the GCS...

EOP26 and Kram81 When you were typing those posts out and clicking 'post reply', did you believe you were contributing constructively to the topic as outlined in the OP? Yes/no.

And what would estimate have been? Were you even at the match? The sooner everybody realises this thread has nothing to do with tv deals, the better.

Jimi: Very low post content quality to sig quality ratio.

Papa G: I agree with you on your last point that the GCS would be enjoying much better crowds if they were winning matches. How much better is hard to guess but I would imagine they would be getting similar crowds to last season if they were winning this season (as the same people likely to jump...

Papa G, who do you reckon would get more of their own supporters to their home matches: Your hypothetical, world-beating Gold Coast Kangaroos, or the woeful 2012 version of NMFC? More simply, suppose NMFC gets 15,000 of their own supporters to Docklands this weekend. Do you reckon your...

I don't know why I bother.

You clearly didn't read the OP.

Gee, looks like the 'should have gone to the Gold Coast' brigadiers are back in their boxes.* :thumbsu: That's right folks, even the numpties will not defend the SHGTTGC position when it is pointed out to them that we'd all be worse off had that option been taken. NMFC support > GCS support...

At the beginning of this thread, I put forward a pretty simple question: Which team do you think would draw more support on the Gold Coast: A relocated team from Melbourne; or a fresh, new, 100% Gold Coast club? It doesn't surprise me that so many people have posted in this thread without even...

Okay, for those who were too lazy to even read the TL;Dr, let me make this clear: This thread is about the obvious absurdity of the oft-trotted argument that North 'should have gone to the Gold Coast' due to a small supporter base in Melbourne. Not only is the Gold Coast's own supporter base...

AFAIK their crowds and memberships have actually decreased this season on last season, whereas your argument here implies that the opposite is true. Moreover, it is quite timely to use tonight's crowd figure, given who else was playing at Metricon tonight. Or did you somehow manage to miss the...

Bosk, you have responded with yet more logical fallacies. So, by rejecting the 'offer' to be 'relocated', worst case scenario is that we will still end up... relocated. Huh. So by rejecting the AFL's 'offer' to be 'relocated' we now rely on 'massive financial support from the AFL'*...

'North don't have enough supporters so they should have gone to the Gold Coast' is and always has been a logical fallacy of the non sequitur variety, and tonight's crowd of 10k made that painfully clear for all but the dimmest of pundits to see. Even if we pretend that it would have been a...

I think he means if we played the 20th Round or '$$$ Round' as it would be informally known. I would go with WC v Freo, the 19th and 20th teams making up the final 'rivalry' for the round.

That's why the fixture would be reversed the following year. :thumbsu:

Many people, like myself, want to see the AFL's philosophy towards the fixture altered dramatically such that the main priority becomes fairness, and 'increasing revenue' takes second place. The many and varied reasons as to the importance of such a fixture have been debated elsewhere but...