Darling club or smart administrators understanding that NSW and QLD clubs developing their own talent benefits the game? The talent pool gets larger, clubs in non traditional markets are competitive and successful, support increases etc.
Good football people in football positions, truly forward thinking stuff.
How much unfairness are you prepared to swallow for the growth of the game nsw and qld?
I'm prepared to swallow a lot more 'unfairness' than Sydney's 2 premierships in over 40 years. Which are the only flags the northern clubs have won in the past 20 years. Is Collingwood playing 17 games in Melbourne fair? Is playing the GF at the G every year fair? Who promised you fair?
An average club with an average history whose recent success (in the last 20 years) has been built on handouts/advantages that clubs like us do not receive. I'm sure if I was getting to play with some of the best young kids in the draft I would say my club's culture is great to.
Would be interesting if every club had their own zone that they could automatically take say 2 players from each year, the rest go into the draft. Imagine how much grass roots development the clubs would put in then? Would be an almighty kerfuffle about where those zones lay, especially in a crowded Melbourne market and likely a lot of shenanigans with moving promising kids into zones but right now, there's not a whole lot of incentive for clubs to invest in junior development.
Exactly. And it’s what the league should be striving for rather than the plastic crassness of the draft.
6 grand finals in 20 years and 2 premierships wins. I'm amazed people are okay with the advantages they have been gifted.
There is probably a correlation between the lack of desire to develop and the dying of the SANFL etc
Have you really stopped and thought about why they continue to do so?
Geelong have also played 6 GFs in that time, Hawthorn 5, Eagles and Pies 4...so what? Their academy has only contributed in a significant way to the most recent of those.
Well, I'm offended about the last 20 years in which we have moved to be owned by the AFL and now watch our previous top-few-in-the-league membership numbers stagnate and our relative standing as a club diminish.
Prob abit idealistic thinking, but considering we arent getting much out of our backups rucks except Himmelberg and now he is injured and prob leaving end of season, id also love us to pick one up, chuck them in the deep end, just go be tall in the forward line; take all Tex’s ruck contests, clunk some marks and chop out ruck and if you fail its not much worse. Try bring them on quicker. When Thilthorpes back he can focus on CHF. Heard on the gettable before last Cal mentioned we were in the ruck market.
Might depend on whether they've nominated a 6 month or 18 month deal.
And when they do have a bust, they usually get rid of them pretty quickly instead of wasting games and list spots on them.
Ok, what would happen if our club were exactly as well run as Sydney? And we developed excellent junior footballers just as well as they did? We’d still be behind because they get to keep all their best kids and ours would get drafted elsewhere!
