2016 Non Crows AFL Discussion thread Part 2

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Westhoff as well, but he's ageing. Austin broken leg hasn't he? Shouldn't be too bad but may interrupt his pre season.
Westhoff has never been played as key position player, he is the floating non-accountable move back/move forward type who has under achieved.
 

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Those 3 have entered an AFL team where their only role models are those that have jumped ships for piles of cash. It's hardly surprising that they have learned that money is king and are using that, rather than success, to make their decisions.
But when a mediocre or crappy club pays an A-grader an inordinate amount of money to come, it almost never, ever results in a premiership. It's like putting a powerful supercharger on a Camry and expecting it to win the Clipsal 500. The acquisition of that player becomes almost entirely meaningless.

But then again, meanwhile at Kardinia Park...
 

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Giving the kid WAY too much favorable assumptions there. He was hiding from the Illicit drug test, not performance enhancing for a start which rules out your migraine theory. Furthermore illicit drugs have a 3 strike policy so unless he has already used up his first 2 strikes there'd be no reason to panic, if he HAS used up his first 2 strikes on illicit drugs then it's probably not migraine medication that concerns him.
Pain killers are often illicit drugs, or at least share a lot of key ingredients.
 

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But when a mediocre or crappy club pays an A-grader an inordinate amount of money to come, it almost never, ever results in a premiership. It's like putting a powerful supercharger on a Camry and expecting it to win the Clipsal 500. The acquisition of that player becomes almost entirely meaningless.

But then again, meanwhile at Kardinia Park...
Those sides know deep down they aren't going to win a premiership anytime soon.. it's about getting a player to give them SOME respect and keep them from the spoon while they try and rebuild from scratch with the hope they can draft hard and the kids will come good before the a-grader falls off a cliff.
 
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Howard out for at least the first half of next year.

Rd 1 spine is Dixon, Ryder, Lobbe, Hombsch, Austin?

Not really that bad but wouldn't want an injury.
More likely Dixon, Westoff, Ryder, Trengove, Austin... with Lobbe off the bench & Hombsch the 3rd tall defender.
 

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At the end of the day you realise that the AFL is such an immature competition in comparison to the likes of the big national sporting leagues around the world.

From drug policies to tinkering and interpretation of rules.

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IMO, it's because they have had the wrong people running the AFL since Wayne Jackson left.

ie. Those more interested in looking good, rather than having the game's best interests at heart.
 
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Would have it all

Sport, administrators, money, sex, drugs, incompetence, religious fervour, lawyers, egos, generational hatred..
Mysterious deaths of administrators in hotel rooms.
Dwarfs set on fire.
The list of possibilities is endless...
 

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IMO, it's because they have had the wrong people running the AFL since Wayne Jackson left.

ie. Those more interested in looking good, rather than having the game's best interests at heart.
It is because the game is small fry compared to real professional sports. There is no real international competition or interest. The game is only popular in three states in a country of 23m people. Is not even the most popular sport in our country's biggest state or fastest growing state.

The admin is insular and incestuous in nature. Which leads to them being amateurish.



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It is because the game is small fry compared to real professional sports. There is no real international competition or interest. The game is only popular in three states in a country of 23m people. Is not even the most popular sport in our country's biggest state or fastest growing state.

The admin is insular and incestuous in nature. Which leads to them being amateurish.



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Just because the AFL is small by world standards is no excuse for it being run by amateur managers...
 
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