If you got the chance to pick an AFL club to play for (other than the one you support), who would it be and why?

[RedmanWasHere]

I'll go a step further.

If I could choose what WAFL team I'd play for I'd choose Swan Districts.

 

[Godzke]

Order of preference

1. Geelong - long term club culture, lifestyle
2. WCE - possibly the strongest club
3. Bris - lifestyle, club's direction
4. Rich - winning mentality
5. North - Tassie lifestyle

I like Adelaide (city) but for some reason I can't explain why I just wouldn't want to play footy there.

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[citizen-erased]

Dees or Blues
I like their jumpers & songs.
I'd want a team with the G as their home as well.

 

[Stevi_Tigers]

Collingwood wouldn’t have to be very good to get a fat contract

 

[Tarkyn_24]

West Coast. I’m soft, so all those home crowd free kicks might give me a chance at touching the pill once or twice.

 

[burge13]

Carlton - Good chance they sign me to a multi-year deal despite my lack of ability. Will get a game each week

 

[sydney_gws]

Geelong or richmond, Melbourne based relatives would be able to cheer me on.

 

[queensberryrules]

Normally I would say Richmond or Collingwood, but there have been several stories out of Collingwood not just from this offseason that suggest that maybe it isn't the best environment for players.

Richmond has a passionate supporter base, they are now well run and financially stable, and they have plenty of big games (and no travel to places like Geelong or Hobart, unless they were rubbish the year before). It isn't a hard choice really.

Maybe Geelong would suit because I am not a big city person but my one experience down there did not leave a positive impression.

Knitting needle through the temple...yep I know the feeling.

 

[Snooza 100]

St Kilda. Love the saints, I use to sell pies at moorabbin.

Suns or Swans. Nice whether, good surf

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[HairyO]

Gold Coast. Take the inflated money and noone cares how s**t I play.

 

[Xtreme]

Brisbane Lions

 

[queensberryrules]

Saints.
Not much pressure to win.
Not many stalking fans.
Not far from Royal Melbourne.

 

[Dynamics]

Lions. Good list, good coach, exciting style of footy, out of the cauldron of Melbourne. Slot me into the backline with Harris Andrews

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and I'll float across and pick up his crumbs for a decade. Get myself a nice renovated Queenslander in the burbs and a weekender on the coast with a garage for the boat. All set.

 

[BarbieITFC]

As for where I'd base myself, probably Karrinyup.

Actually, just north of Perth in general would be one option but not as northerly as Butler or Alkimos.

Whatever the happy medium is regarding Craigie, Scarborough and Baldivis.

Depends how good you are and what you get paid to play - because you've picked some pretty cheap suburbs there and ones that would be a pain in the backside to get to training in Cockburn. If you want to be north of the river (which isn't a bad thing) then the further north you go the more into the West Coast fan base. I'd suggest the top edge of the Golden Triangle, like Wembley Downs or Churchlands - nice area, high performing Government schools and far enough away from the old Perth money and Doctors in Claremont, Dalkeith and Peppermint Grove. Easy access to the far northern suburbs if that's where your family is.

 

[BarbieITFC]

I would live on Rottnest Island and catch the ferry over to play for Freo, then go home to my giant rats.

One of the greatest ever Irish GAA players, Mick O'Connell, was a farmer & fisherman who lived off the coast of Kerry on a place called Valentia Island. He used to row over for training and games and row home again.

'Winning a match wasn't a triumph, losing a match wasn't a disaster': Mick O'Connell remembers his career at 80 years of age

The Kerry legend refuses to endorse the iconic status attached to him.

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Nice idea, but sadly the only people allowed to live on Rottnest are the folks who work on the island.

 

[BarbieITFC]

Easily the Lions. Got good friends in Brisbane and it would be nice to have the anonymity of living in a non-footy state. Can also maintain the #VICBIAS rage!!

 

[Altum Volantes]

Hawthorn - best chance of playing in a good team and winning a flag.

 

[DeLaCon]

Richmond because their culture of success would give the best opportunity for a talentless plodder like me to be traded to a lesser club with an inflated contract. I pity the club that gives me a 5 year contract on a mil per season.

That sounds like youd end up at Collingwood.

 

[Instincts]

I'd have a few candidates:
- Brisbane would be the first one, everything you would want in a footy club right now and I think I'd be a fan of the lifestyle in Queensland
- Richmond, similar with Brisbane except it's in Melbourne
- Bulldogs, closest club in terms of location, plus if North were to just stop existing as a club and leave behind no traces, this would be the club I'd go for.

 

[The Rocks]

Brisbane lions. Having been born in Fitzroy and admiring the best team I've ever seen three-peat. Love the game plan under Fagan. Probably too hot in Qld for me though, never been that far north

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[Ricky Vaughn]

I just can’t pick a team other than the one I support to play for.

I’m over 30, so Geelong are my only shot.

 

[The wily weagle]

I'd probably go Brisbane.

A team with a lot of country boys who all seem pretty relaxed, and would be a good bunch of guys to have a quiet post match bevvie with every week

 

[hilly]

Sydney or West Coast.

 

[Atomboy]

Sydney - anonymity, good place to live if you have heaps of coin, much better ratio of straight guys to girls

 

[imagifED]

Brisbane as well.
Weather, lifestyle, modern city, away from the spotlight.
Live in Melbourne and would relocate to Brisbane if I can.