76woodenspooners
Brownlow Medallist
... fans are consistently put last on the hierarchy of needs.
Can you give some examples of that?
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... fans are consistently put last on the hierarchy of needs.
You'd think it would be in everyone's interests for tickets to be cheaper.
He's an absolute pompous flog, and a seemingly corrupt one at that. The sooner he gets ousted the better.
... they act like they are successful entrepreneurs as if they invented the AFL and without their business skills the comp would collapse.
Yep, it's amazing how many people in here still have this notion that AFL's number 1 priority is providing a fair and equitable sporting competition.
Just this week alone:
* A rule interpretation change on the basis of Jack Riewoldt having a whinge about it
* The Bont escaping MRO sanction because the medical report of someone's FRACTURED LARYNX wasn't available until the next day
* The Jaidyn Stephenson farce, and
* Trialling the bunker system for 2 games in Rd23, and then fully implementing it for finals.
What an administration. A big week of farce even by their lofty standards.
Well the thing is that you would not have to disengage for long to create change. A month would do it. Stay away from footy for a month and at the beginning of the season, so you can re engage when the footy gets better. The problem of course is getting everybody to do it at the same time, amassing the troops for a common cause is the hardest to do. If we could do it we could change anything we wanted.......but we will start with the AFL, yeah?
You are right in what you say but the burning question is, Is it right?It has always been a thing that some AFL fans have felt like the game is leaving them behind. Back in the 80’s and 90’s some blokes bemoaned how their sacred arvo at the footy with their mates getting on the piss in the outer was being invaded by punces and shielas and families bringing their kiddies. Times change. People need to adapt or get left behind. It’s the circle of life.
Hahahahahaha
Congratulations. One of the worst posts I've read this year (and there's been a few doozies.)
When will people get it through their thick heads that it's the Victorian football fans who bring in more than 50% of revenue to the AFL?
That's not Vic bias or arrogance. It's a FACT. So shut your trap about Victorian "minnows".
Here's an idea: How about us Victorian clubs form our own rival breakaway league to yours, except we'll take the Eagles, Dockers, Port and Crows with us and leave you muppets to play with your fellow NEAFL minnows whom nobody gives shiit about.
Let's get another thing straight: The only reason your club exists is to provide Channel 7 and Foxtel with content which they televise to us southeners.
Have you even seen the TV ratings for AFL footy in NSW and Queensland?
Overall, when you compare the AFL to governing bodies of other sports you would have to concede that poor governance and a lack of commitment to fairness are hallmarks of the Australian game.
Uneven fixtures, weird recruiting biases, heavy subsidies in the form of standalone and Friday night games, unfair stadium deals, contracts that affect the league's ability to fixture some teams outside their home state, ridiculous uneven travel loads amongst the Vic clubs, inability to rule fairly on salary cap infringement / draft tampering / drug use, elastic rule interpretation. ...
Every club is on a different deal.
Whether its true or not, this leaves the door open for EVERY fan to feel hard done by.
I feel that the league needs to amend its constitution to require the governing body to deal fairly with each club. OK so the league insists that some of the unfair things they do are required for the overall commercial success of the league - that is fine BUT inherent in this should be a requirement to "balance up" any of these necessary unfair features. Eg - if your club gets anything that makes the league less fair (even if it is to the perceived overall financial benefit of the league) then the unfair element must be unwound with either cash, relegation of Draft picks or reduction in salary cap.
Why should the AFL be fair?
Isn’t it enough to have the same number of players on the field, and teams judged by the same onfield rules?
Consider the most popular league on the planet - the EPL - teams do need to follow the same rules onfield (fair like all sports) and they do have a perfectly balanced fixture (fairer than AFL) but apart from that anything goes (apart from some universal rules to stop clubs from hocking their future and going bust)
What does it matter if some teams have more money / can afford better players / have more fans than other teams?
I’d imagine many Kangaroos supporters would love to go back to those days before the VFL/AFL started fiddling around with trying to make the competition ‘fair’ ...
... those days when they were struggling to stay afloat and yet winning Premierships.
The problem with striving to be ‘fair’ is that there is no universal idea of what fair is. COLA was introduced to be fair (account for the extra cost of living in different cities!!) but then it was removed to be fair (why should some clubs get more salary cap than others!!)
I've heard great things about communism, apparently it's fair for everyone.The problem with striving to be ‘fair’ is that there is no universal idea of what fair is. COLA was introduced to be fair (account for the extra cost of living in different cities!!) but then it was removed to be fair (why should some clubs get more salary cap than others!!)
I've heard great things about communism, apparently it's fair for everyone.
So this entire argument for continuing to play the GF at the MCG till the 27th century "because it's the only ground big enough" rests on sixty plus thousand people who couldn't give a flying f who was playing, let alone who won being able to tell their mates they went to, you know, something at the MCG.
Brilliant.
Hahahahahaha
When will people get it through their thick heads that it's the Victorian football fans who bring in more than 50% of revenue to the AFL?
That's not Vic bias or arrogance. It's a FACT. So shut your trap about Victorian "minnows".
Here's an idea: How about us Victorian clubs form our own rival breakaway league to yours, except we'll take the Eagles, Dockers, Port and Crows with us and leave you muppets to play with your fellow NEAFL minnows whom nobody gives shiit about.
Let's get another thing straight: The only reason your club exists is to provide Channel 7 and Foxtel with content which they televise to us southeners.
Have you even seen the TV ratings for AFL footy in NSW and Queensland?
Remember the $2 pies Gil brought in on debut of his appointment/handover?
Those were the days.
Footy for the people with pastry and off-cut meats.
We should all be on our hands and knees to Port Adelaide. Apparently they receive so little it isn't even mentioned.
I can’t recall disliking an AFL CEO / administrator more, he is just terrible I can’t add anything that hasn’t already been said, he really is damaging the AFL brand
The AFL should be fair so that to gentlemen, victory and success is of more value.
The bolded part is not the source of unfairness I refer to above.
To suggest there is no universal idea of fairness is a copout.
You mean just as it is now for so many people not living in Melbourne?Could be worse we could be like the Super Bowl which has been turned into a ridiculously expensive event that costs an arm and leg to attend.