Don't be fooled

[Boppo]

Stop whinging.

 

[Kram]

^Soccer is shit.

 

[Quokka]

Nah just a sport same as footy, narrow minded twats that think their opinions are worth airing are the real f*ckers.

 

[The Night Shift]

^Soccer is shit.

World game is a beautiful code of footy. Watch FC Barcelona's 25 minutes of football at the start of the second half v Man U in the recent champions league final. Certainly not shit.

Although the probability of it ever happening in AFL is next to never , relegation battles at the end of the season would provide entertaining and exciting footy. Bottom teams become dangerous. Guess relegation/promotion is not compatable with a draft system though. Shame.

 

[Nickos66]

Best not open this can O' worms on an AFL board mate. It's gonna get messy, especially if I have my say.

 

[The Night Shift]

Can't a man love football and aussie rules the same?

 

[BeinPurplenGreen]

Can't a man love football and aussie rules the same?

Well not really, there's something just a little wrong about loving different women exactly the same, like when a certain Mancurian "loves" his wife, his favourite Big Brother contestant and his sister-in-law all at the same time...

 

[BeinPurplenGreen]

Yeah well, shit defence will kill in any code of football in any league especially when you only have two decent defenders, hacks for goalies and a tightarse club president that spends on players with a league two budget and was actually outbid on players by league one clubs [yeah, it happened]). Still, outside of the top 4 and Liverpool we were kilometres in front of anyone else for goals scored/attack. Put that down to a great manager in Ian Holloway.

Agree with most of that, except the bit about Ian as your manager. Had it not been for the fair play points he cost you on the sidelines, you'd have beaten us for the second place in the English Fair Play table (after Chelsea I think) and you'd have been playing Europa League football (albeit qualifying rounds) from the Championship. Surely would have been a good way to keep a few players...

Sucks that you lost Mark Hughes as manager. I don't mind him. Rumours have him linked with your pals up the street Chelsea.
Who do you think you'll get for your new manager??

Actually, I'm very happy Hughes is gone - he struck me as a prat that took credit for much of the flow-on from Roy's time in charge, and yet didn't take the blame when things he did went wrong. Very surprised at how he handled the contract negotiations, he might wind up at Chelscum but I'd have thought they could do a lot better. That said, they richly deserve him.

Jol was appointed earlier today as our new gaffer on a two year contract, he'd have replaced Roy when Roy left for Liverpool except Ajax (who Jol was coaching for) wanted something like 7 million pounds as a release fee for letting Jol go. So we went for Hughes instead, and now have the bloke we originally wanted for no fee.

Wonder what the transfer fee business would work out as if it was ever applied to AFL coaches?? Malthouse would presumably be so expensive no-one else could afford o prise him from Collingwood, and even guys like Craig or Mark Williams would be fairly expensive. Might see more younger untried coaches get a go? Though the great success of the Scott brothers, Hirdy and Hardwick should see a willingness to go for younger untried coaches in the AFL anyway...

I don't think it will ever be possible for relegation and promotions in Australian Rules football due to the complexities of the whole initial set-up of such a league, the money involved and varying standards of the second and lower tiered leagues, not to mention the difficulty of geography as well. Relegation battles do make things interesting and provide for some great matches late in a season. I just couldn't ever see a two tiered AFL league.. but then again AFL is always looking to expand and crush the other codes of footy in Australia. If they can actually become enlightened enough to bring in free agency and a mid season trade/draft who knows.

World game is a beautiful code of footy. Watch FC Barcelona's 25 minutes of football at the start of the second half v Man U in the recent champions league final. Certainly not shit.

Although the probability of it ever happening in AFL is next to never , relegation battles at the end of the season would provide entertaining and exciting footy. Bottom teams become dangerous. Guess relegation/promotion is not compatable with a draft system though. Shame.

Actually, while not the same as relegation, I'd suggest the battle for draft spots and priority picks has actually created a perverse ("reverse relegation"??) interest in the lower end of the AFL ladder every year for at least the last 10 or 12 years.

Best not open this can O' worms on an AFL board mate. It's gonna get messy, especially if I have my say.

Indeed. AFL is surely the sexier, smarter and more exclusive game.

 

[The Night Shift]

Well not really, there's something just a little wrong about loving different women exactly the same, like when a certain Mancurian "loves" his wife, his favourite Big Brother contestant and his sister-in-law all at the same time...

lol. Giggsy has certainly been pubically pwned in Brittain.

Agree with most of that, except the bit about Ian as your manager. Had it not been for the fair play points he cost you on the sidelines, you'd have beaten us for the second place in the English Fair Play table (after Chelsea I think) and you'd have been playing Europa League football (albeit qualifying rounds) from the Championship. Surely would have been a good way to keep a few players...

I assume you are referring to the sanctions against 'Ollie when he called the ref a "****head" for bad calls. He just said what we all think. Old Fergie' has been badgering the ref's for years and he seems to get away with it.
TBH Europa League Qual's would just be a hassle for us. There's a shitload of team management and planning for the heavy schedule of games in the championship to be playing qualifiers which kick off later this month I believe. You guys can have it.

Actually, I'm very happy Hughes is gone - he struck me as a prat that took credit for much of the flow-on from Roy's time in charge, and yet didn't take the blame when things he did went wrong. Very surprised at how he handled the contract negotiations, he might wind up at Chelscum but I'd have thought they could do a lot better. That said, they richly deserve him.

I am not familiar how he handled contracts at Fulham. Was he shite?

Jol was appointed earlier today as our new gaffer on a two year contract, he'd have replaced Roy when Roy left for Liverpool except Ajax (who Jol was coaching for) wanted something like 7 million pounds as a release fee for letting Jol go. So we went for Hughes instead, and now have the bloke we originally wanted for no fee.

Jol's did have that good season with Spur's a few years back. He also had that shocker and was sacked... but Spurs do draw more than a few uncomfortable parallels with our own beloved Dockers IMO if you think about it. No reason though why Jol's can't have some success with your lot.

Wonder what the transfer fee business would work out as if it was ever applied to AFL coaches?? Malthouse would presumably be so expensive no-one else could afford o prise him from Collingwood, and even guys like Craig or Mark Williams would be fairly expensive. Might see more younger untried coaches get a go? Though the great success of the Scott brothers, Hirdy and Hardwick should see a willingness to go for younger untried coaches in the AFL anyway...

Transfer fee's for AFL player's and Coaches may be a thing of the future. Free agency is coming so why not the big arse transfers (if they didn't include the actual transfer fee in the Salary Cap). You could just imagine how that would work out for Collingwood...
Malthouse would be very pricey whereas Matty Primus would come with a payment to pick him up.

Actually, while not the same as relegation, I'd suggest the battle for draft spots and priority picks has actually created a perverse ("reverse relegation"??) interest in the lower end of the AFL ladder every year for at least the last 10 or 12 years.

Maybe a draft lottery like they have in the NBA would be a good introduction...

Indeed. AFL is surely the sexier, smarter and more exclusive game.

Exclusive in the sense it has a kind of elitism due to only really popular with Australians.
Both a sexy in their own way. One is a hot Aussie chick and another a hot latina chick. Win/Win.