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[Jen2310]

Season Launch: Players at the podium

Hear from four of our AFL & SSN players at tonight's season launch.

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We are ready for the challenges that come: Buckley

Nathan Buckley firmly believes Collingwood has a playing squad that can once again push deep into the September action

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Season Launch: Nathan Buckley

Nathan Buckley speaks at the Glasshouse on Wednesday night.

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[Black_White]

F’ing hilarious.

 

[Pragmatic Shill]

Jock and Journo back tonight.



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Jock and Journo back tonight.



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Was just thinking about this and whether they'd go ahead with it. Awesome. Cheers.

 

[Jen2310]

It was a good show. Nice to get a look into how the testing is done, and Scott's thoughts on playing.

 

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[manicmagpie]

Anyone got a non-paywall link to this? Is it just a recap of what was said in the Jock and Journo podcast?

 

[manicmagpie]

Anyone got a non-paywall link?

 

[BEEG]

Can anyone post the top 20?

 

[Babylove]

1. Buckley
2. Pendlebury
3. Daicos
4. Swan
5. Brown
6. T. Shaw
7. Millaine
8. McGuane
9. Sidebottom
10. Grundy
11. Clement
12. Licuria
13. Burns
14. T. Cloke
15. A. Rocca
16. S. Rocca
17. Didak
18. Crosisca
19. H. Shaw
20. Maxwell

 

[jackcass]

1. Buckley
2. Pendlebury
3. Daicos
4. Swan
5. Brown
6. T. Shaw
7. Millaine
8. McGuane
9. Sidebottom
10. Grundy
11. Clement
12. Licuria
13. Burns
14. T. Cloke
15. A. Rocca
16. S. Rocca
17. Didak
18. Crosisca
19. H. Shaw
20. Maxwell

These lists are always pretty subjective but gee, Wrighty was stiff to miss.

 

[manicmagpie]

The Age today:

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl...-season-without-afl-help-20200403-p54gsn.html

The AFL will assume unprecedented control over its clubs as part of the revolutionary new rescue package put forward on Thursday night to the 18 club bosses.

In a receivership model that will essentially turn league chief Gillon McLachlan and the AFL Commission into the competition's banker, clubs unable to meet cash-flow demands will now borrow funds previously deemed extra dividends from head office.

And to underline the increasing differences between the ''haves'' and the ''have nots'', the wealthier clubs such as West Coast, Richmond and Collingwood - disenchanted at having to follow receivership rules - have achieved a special clause in the new agreement. This will exempt them from having to regularly open their books to head office.

Only four clubs - West Coast, Richmond, Hawthorn and Collingwood - could potentially survive a football-free season without borrowing from the AFL.

...Should the football season commence by early August the prevailing view is that Essendon, the Western Bulldogs - which recently sold off a large parcel of gaming machines - and potentially Adelaide retain sufficient cash flow to survive without borrowing from the AFL's $600 million pool.

 

[barrackers]

The Age today:

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl...-season-without-afl-help-20200403-p54gsn.html

A lot of clubs have been endlessly propped up through unequal AFL funding in the name of equality.

This unprecedented situation certainly makes the sustainability of such a funding model and long term viability of some clubs questionable.

Would more clubs have had greater financial reserves and ability to stand on their own feet in a less competitive market with fewer teams fighting for the same dollar?

It also highlights just how far Carlton have fallen and how much the asada matter damaged Essendon financially.

 

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A lot of clubs have been endlessly propped up through unequal AFL funding in the name of equality.

This unprecedented situation certainly makes the sustainability of such a funding model and long term viability of some clubs questionable.

Would more clubs have had greater financial reserves and ability to stand on their own feet in a less competitive market with fewer teams fighting for the same dollar?

It also highlights just how far Carlton have fallen and how much the asada matter damaged Essendon financially.

Agree but they will have to pay back the loans and face higher scrutiny. No doubt the more able clubs would be better off if they were not held back by the competition parameters.

 

[manicmagpie]

Apparently we only won because we stole their intellectual property when we got Luke Ball and also Max Hudghton as a coach.

 

[Chief Ten Beers]

instead of rewarding clubs that invest, make smart decisions and grow like Collingwood has. The actual situation is AFL will always be there to rescue the clubs that make terrible financial decisions and what not.

With socialism type of constraints like this. What's the incentive of trying if you just cruise along and get bailed out?

 

[barrackers]

Apparently we only won because we stole their intellectual property when we got Luke Ball and also Max Hudghton as a coach.

Nice opening lie in the article, didn’t think it was possible for someone to forget the Ball rigmarole as the saints kept shifting the goal posts. Brown was never going to happen, but Goldsack was rumoured and likewise Wellingham in a three way with NM. Weaken Collingwood and strengthen the saints (Goldsack or pick 25) and the season might well look different. In their desire not to strengthen us the saints only hurt themselves.

ROSS Lyon has revealed deep regret for trading Luke Ball from St Kilda to Collingwood at the end of 2009.

 

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Nice opening lie in the article, didn’t think it was possible for someone to forget the Ball rigmarole as the saints kept shifting the goal posts. Brown was never going to happen, but Goldsack was rumoured and likewise Wellingham in a three way with NM. Weaken Collingwood and strengthen the saints (Goldsack or pick 25) and the season might well look different. In their desire not to strengthen us the saints only hurt themselves.

Regret for trading Luke Ball? He didn't trade him in the end. Ball walked to the draft & we picked him up.

 

[jackcass]

Agree but they will have to pay back the loans and face higher scrutiny. No doubt the more able clubs would be better off if they were not held back by the competition parameters.

Agree but let’s not forget that we very nearly went to the wall in our not too distant past when those parameters weren’t in place so it can just as easily cut both ways.

 

[Black_White]

Ah poor old Rossy.
A coulda been. Never the bride, always the bridesmaid.
Maaateee.... you treated Luke Ball like a second class citizen.
A former Captain of the club, in 2009 which was a typical “almost” StKilda year, you dropped the former Captain twice!
What do you think the man thought of his future under you at that club? I can tell you, he decided to get the F out.
And so he landed at the Pies. And spent the year making sure he had his revenge on you. Not SFC, but you Ross the Toss.
That this also gave pain to many, many SFC supporters was, and still is, a comfort to all of us at CFC.
F off Ross. You are yesterday’s man.

 

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