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Something Paramount will have to address is the lack of rewinding live sport. Flicked on tonight to the Adel United game and tried to go back to see the two goals, and there was no ability to rewind the game and watch from where I wanted to watch from. If they take this approach in the AFL...

Im sure you could just hand the licences in if you wanted to rather than selling them?

The big challenge is what you replace the pokies with. People that play the pokies may eat at the venue and buy a few drinks, so if you remove the pokies you potentially remove these customers which equals more than the $1m loss from pokie revenue. If they put something that brings people in...

I dont see how the AFL can ban its clubs from having pokies? Lets say they make a rule where clubs cannot have pokie machines there is an easy solution for clubs. Hawthorn Football Club sells all its venues to a new company called The Hawks Club, who then 'donate' or sponsor Hawthorn Football...

Tasmania have just moved down the pecking order once again. The Shanghai Gōnglǜ will be the next team in.

Yeah * off with the gambling, alcohol, cigarette and fast food ads. Bring on ads for the s**t I like.

only just... but also better than another vic wank fest too.

Any Good Friday game should not be monopolised by the vic clubs... they get all the other public holiday/season opener games. Good Friday should be a wharfie game because Jesus was a man and men work on the wharfs... so should be Port v Freo for Good Friday.

So you don't want a national reserves comp, but you would be happy for the 10vic sides and the 4 NSW/Qld sides to have their own reserves comp? Why not just include the other 4 sides and be done with it?

Only problem with the reserves model I feel, unless they either play a longer season, or have no ladder and follow the AFL finals is, lets say WCE finish 2nd, but their reserves don't make the finals... doesn't solve the problem for Selwood or McGinnity as the reserves aren't playing either, so...

If its a Tassie team they get first choice at any un-signed players and free agents, as well as any 'mature' age player playing across Australia. They have a zone put in place for their first few years that any Tassie talent that can pick up, as well as getting an extra first, second and third...

Bugger Tassie... you all saw how many rocked up to the Port V Melb game in Alice a cpl weeks ago... bring on the Central Australian Perenties! Guaranteed 5k to each home game!

I dont think the two teams have ever played at AAMi park, given its a soccer/rugby stadium, however, with the crows having 60k+ members resulting in very little tickets for GA, means around 8k members couldn't be bothered to rock up to the game, even though it was a perfect day and conditions...

Adelaide would have to concerned with the crowd numbers today... sure they were only playing St Kilda, but the weather was perfect today, Sat afternoon game = lunch in city before game and/or dinner in city after game but only 43k rocked up.

2021 is years away... Upgrade AAMI Park to 40,000, give SA money to build a Rectangle stadium here, upgrade Suncorp, play at ANZ stadium take the new stadium in Perth, or upgrade a stadium there to 40k then only one more stadium is needed. by 2021 AFL will own Etihad? they could sell that to...

good to see the SA crowds are keeping the numbers better... imagine if both SA teams were still at AAMI only getting 20-30k rather than 50k

Maybe you didn't understand the post... I wasn't saying right now in the foxtel cup is a great deal of talent, I was saying if they did an FA cup style comp with every club in Australia able to compete then they could unearth a great deal of talent. Having lived in the country for most of my...

yeah but it was easy getting rid of University :P The AFL can't allow the corporate dollar to ruin the game. Broadcasters will always be pushing for more games/new teams, the AFL talent pool is already streched too far, so new teams can't be added unless a new talent pool is found (and...

I gave my thoughts, sorry if I offended cause I didn't put ur hawks in a group with other vic teams but lets be honest, teams that sell their home games (hawks, nth, melb, st kil) hardly deserve the honour of playing against only other vic sides, cause they would sell the games against non vic...

I think you're getting worked up over clearly a hypothetical situation. You have your views, I have mine.

Its a bit hard with conferences of 5 teams, to keep all vic sides in the one conference. Didn't include Essendon for the same reasons I didn't include Bulldogs, who knows if they will be around then. Chances are even less Vic teams will be around in 2050. The reason why 'all the other states'...

By 2050 I dont expect too much change in the number of teams in the comp. maybe 20 clubs. I would expect at least 3 new sides to be entered into the AFL though. By 2050 WA will have a 3rd team, Tassy will have a team and NT will have a team. Nth Qld will possibly also have a team. The WA team...

Will be interesting to see how the Showdown reserves game will rate on 7 this weekend. Both SA teams would have already played, and will start half way through the boring GC v NM game (boring for most SA people anyway) Would current SANFL ratings be a winner for 7? or possibly after this season...

If footy is played in Good Friday, I hope it isnt like ANZAC or Queens bday where it get monopolized by certain clubs. Make Good Friday football be between two clubs who have earnt it. maybe GF replay is played on Good Friday, with the reigning premier getting hosting rights. That way ever club...

Looking at home crowds, it obvious who is letting the league down. St Kilda have had 2 home games and still don't have the most attendance for home crowds this year. Richmond have got them, with a Thursday night game. Also a few 'big' victorian clubs havent delivered on crowds early in the...

Do they just guestimate these figures? I mean for the showdown, I was at a pub in Melb, with about 100 other people watching the game. There were people in pubs all across this country watching footy. How do they account for all these people? or do pubs do head counts?

Yeah we pay the SANFL for the licences as the SANFL currently holds them... but then they become ours. No one else's.

Hang on... I thought we were buying our licence off the SANFL so we own it. Not the AFL... when has this changed? We will answer to the AFL as the governing body of the sport which we have had to do, and no longer have to answer to the SANFL aswell?

Last year for the Port/Carl game at etihad, you could get up to 8free tickets at a time on ticketek thanks to Carlton giving them away. I believe they originally had 5k available, then released more after they were all taken.

To be fair on that figure, Carlton gave away thousands of free tickets to the game aswell... so without those free tickets would have had a similar size crowd as last night, if not lower. Last nights time slot was dumb. Stopped a cpl hundred from SA travelling across for the game, would have...