ABOUT TIME!! For those of you who are against the clubs FINALLY standing up for themselves, against the rubbish we have endured for moreso the last five years. You really don't understand. There is no use explaining it to you, because if it is as obvious as I see it to be, the ones that stay unconvinced, are either not looking hard enough, or are incapable as much as anyone tries to convince them otherwise.
Couple of points though, those who say the next administration will be worse than "these two", how do you expect anyone to respect that view, when the new "these two" are not even on the horizon yet. How do you know that another "these two" couldn't of done better in the same time, answer, YOU CAN'T, you can't possibly know the other options, when "these two" have taken the helm for so long.
The game is good, because it is a good game. More people are walking away from AFL than ever, and they whinge and moan to supporters to get paid up. Well I will get paid up, next year, (as I am already this year) when you get some decent blokes to run the AFL, not some dictator and his puppet. And for the Pies, they have to get rid of that other dictator in Malthouse, THEN and only THEN will we have a real great game on our hands.
Great Eddie, your a champ, you keep the bastards honest, and consistent, because the other presidents are piss weak to do so. Apart from Kennett, who seems to be weighing in as well. I hope that is the winds of change I hear, because it is overdue.
And for those who sarcastically say what the other 16 clubs will do, to all the interestate teams, or allowing Port to wear Prison Stripes!! Thats the thing, everything is open for discussion. Some things should not be open for discussion. The possibility of change, is taboo in the eyes of our past legends of the game. But who listens to them anymore, they are dead, old, or not up with todays game to have any input, according to the AFL. The clubs are even treated as too stupid to have an input to some of the decisions.
They are put in a corner, and told to shut up. And some with guts, are BOUND to stand up and say, No I won't shut up. In every other aspect in life, the more ideas from the people who "DO" not "think" these ideas up. Politicians of this counrty, no matter how well they are going, has a competitor, that comes and rally's for the position every four years. They can't be bought, or bullied into not do another campaign, they are a thing that occurs, because it has to occur, or you get dictatorship. NO ACCOUNTABILITY.
Changes are just thrust on the clubs, like a brand on the arse of a cow. This is called a dictatorship, I am one that believes that majority of 16 clubs, is much more safer to implement, than the ideas of "these two" that haven't even played the game at its highest level, and don't fully understand it. They are business men, with us all in the palm of their hand. Supporters are angry, and leaving the game, or wished to god they had the guts to leave the game, but probably never will, clubs being OWNED by the AFL, because they feel they owe them for giving them OUR money. Umpires that are taking on the same attidude, that eveyone will just STFU, and do wha their told.
To all these people, who don't like rocking boats, and wished we would all quieten down, and respect "these two", my and alot of other people around here, and in the media, and old past players, that are sick of trying to be heard, the answer is NO, we will quieten down, when and if this competition, gets its act together, until then, don't even try to say we are wrong, because there is a steamroller of people, that don't believe you, and for all we care, you can join a big flowery AA and AD bandwagon, so I can abuse it, and question the heads of those on board.