Insightful Media Coverage

[Bender_]

Life goes on in Sydney. new restrictions are aeffectively lmost on a par with the revised Perth restrictions. The elephant in the room is the WA Govt.

Yeah you like to go on about this.

 

[Smeg Head]

Did I read somewhere it’s 75% capacity next week if things keep on the current trajectory?

Sydney might not have crowds for a month. That has a clear missing link in the chain with the guy that was announced yesterday which means it could pop up anywhere as an outbreak.

Isnt Gladys and co too busy exterminating koalas and pot shotting everyone else to do that though?

 

[the harry]

Isnt Gladys and co too busy exterminating koalas and pot shotting everyone else to do that though?

Being corrupt and sleeping with corrupt people too

 

[ziad]

Isnt Gladys and co too busy exterminating koalas and pot shotting everyone else to do that though?

Keep drinking the kool aide. She is doing the heavy lifting for the country

 

[Smeg Head]

Keep drinking the kool aide. She is doing the heavy lifting for the country

Dont quote me with asinine nonsense.

 

[Ochre]

SRP board is that way

 

[KERRPOW]

Gee
There's nothing in that.

 

[KERRPOW]

Tom swift was on the hard ball gets podcast today.

I havent listened yet but will get a chance to tomorrow

 

[Eastern Rangers]

Keep drinking the kool aide. She is doing the heavy lifting for the country

Nope.

Her policy around Covid has been a long drag in the NSW economy, to the point where it’s underperformed Victoria on Jobs. Which is remarkable given the makeup of the respective economies and what transpired last year.

As for arrivals. It’s the Feds jurisdiction who haven’t done anything serious on quarantine through the whole pandemic. NSW picked up the slack from Victoria after they closed hotel quarantine. What NSW does or doesn’t do is hardly a national issue.

Can’t lock down the Western Sydney like you can the Northern Beaches.

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[the harry]

Tom swift was on the hard ball gets podcast today.

I havent listened yet but will get a chance to tomorrow

New career move is really surprising

 

[Selurs]

New career move is really surprising

 

[ziad]

Nope.

Her policy around Covid has been a long drag in the NSW economy, to the point where it’s underperformed Victoria on Jobs. Which is remarkable given the makeup of the respective economies and what transpired last year.

As for arrivals. It’s the Feds jurisdiction who haven’t done anything serious on quarantine through the whole pandemic. NSW picked up the slack from Victoria after they closed hotel quarantine. What NSW does or doesn’t do is hardly a national issue.

Can’t lock down the Western Sydney like you can the Northern Beaches.

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keep drinking what the mug dishes out

 

[Mighty Eagles]

New career move is really surprising

Woosha always had an affinity for Swift. To his credit, I think he had an impressive work rate.

 

[Tugga27]

No.
Really?

I wish more interstate clubs did this.
There was hardly a peep out of us/them when the GF at the MCG contract was signed.

Port Adelaide Power and Adelaide Crows bosses David Koch and John Olsen say AFL is too Victorian-centric

Port Adelaide chairman David Koch and Adelaide counterpart John Olsen say the AFL administration has an in-built Victorian bias which needs to change.
The duo shared the stage at an SA Press Club lunch on Friday and were at loggerheads about the Power’s proposed prison bar guernsey.
But they were a united voice when asked if the AFL was too Victorian-centric.
“It’s totally Victorian-centric,” Koch said.
Olsen agreed: “Yeah, it is.”
Koch said all clubs outside of Victoria needed to stand up and oppose the natural, conscious Victorian bias of the AFL.
“There’s a conscious bias that we’ve got to call out, and not be afraid to call out,” Koch said. “People have said to me in the past that you can’t criticise the AFL because they’ll get back at you in some way. They’ll cut your funding … not support you … scheduling. And I think, now, bugger it, we’ve just got to stand up to them. It’s getting beyond a joke.”
Mr Olsen said he had witnessed what he called the AFL’s “in-built, natural bias towards Victoria” in his previous role as SANFL chairman and that was a prejudice which had not changed since he became Crows chairman in October.
“There is not a South Australian representative on the AFL commission, and there hasn’t been for some considerable time,” Mr Olsen said.
“(With) the concentration of AFL clubs based in the state of Victoria, that self-protection mechanism will kick in from their point of view, and you’ve got to have a fairly substantial argument to break that.
“The AFL and their structure, in terms of having an overarching strategy is right, but there isn’t the input in terms of the effect of South Australia, I would argue, and Western Australia.”
Mr Olsen said the AFL’s new second-tier competition, an expanded VFL which now also includes reserves teams from AFL clubs Sydney, Greater Western Sydney, Brisbane and Gold Coast, would have a detrimental effect on the interests of top-level football in SA.
Mr Koch said AFL decisions such as preventing Port Adelaide wearing its black and white prison bar guernsey for Showdowns and locking in the grand final at the MCG until 2058 were evidence of the league’s Victorian bias.

 

[FKASC]

Yeah you like to go on about this.

Was literally just about to post the same thing!

 

[FKASC]

keep drinking what the mug dishes out

Homebrew thread is that way

 

[Numero Uno]

No.
Really?

I wish more interstate clubs did this.
There was hardly a peep out of us/them when the GF at the MCG contract was signed.

Port Adelaide Power and Adelaide Crows bosses David Koch and John Olsen say AFL is too Victorian-centric

Port Adelaide chairman David Koch and Adelaide counterpart John Olsen say the AFL administration has an in-built Victorian bias which needs to change.
The duo shared the stage at an SA Press Club lunch on Friday and were at loggerheads about the Power’s proposed prison bar guernsey.
But they were a united voice when asked if the AFL was too Victorian-centric.
“It’s totally Victorian-centric,” Koch said.
Olsen agreed: “Yeah, it is.”
Koch said all clubs outside of Victoria needed to stand up and oppose the natural, conscious Victorian bias of the AFL.
“There’s a conscious bias that we’ve got to call out, and not be afraid to call out,” Koch said. “People have said to me in the past that you can’t criticise the AFL because they’ll get back at you in some way. They’ll cut your funding … not support you … scheduling. And I think, now, bugger it, we’ve just got to stand up to them. It’s getting beyond a joke.”
Mr Olsen said he had witnessed what he called the AFL’s “in-built, natural bias towards Victoria” in his previous role as SANFL chairman and that was a prejudice which had not changed since he became Crows chairman in October.
“There is not a South Australian representative on the AFL commission, and there hasn’t been for some considerable time,” Mr Olsen said.
“(With) the concentration of AFL clubs based in the state of Victoria, that self-protection mechanism will kick in from their point of view, and you’ve got to have a fairly substantial argument to break that.
“The AFL and their structure, in terms of having an overarching strategy is right, but there isn’t the input in terms of the effect of South Australia, I would argue, and Western Australia.”
Mr Olsen said the AFL’s new second-tier competition, an expanded VFL which now also includes reserves teams from AFL clubs Sydney, Greater Western Sydney, Brisbane and Gold Coast, would have a detrimental effect on the interests of top-level football in SA.
Mr Koch said AFL decisions such as preventing Port Adelaide wearing its black and white prison bar guernsey for Showdowns and locking in the grand final at the MCG until 2058 were evidence of the league’s Victorian bias.

and the sun is hot

 

[ziad]

Dont quote me with asinine nonsense.

Laughing at you not quoting

 

[Dylan82]

No.
Really?

I wish more interstate clubs did this.
There was hardly a peep out of us/them when the GF at the MCG contract was signed.

Port Adelaide Power and Adelaide Crows bosses David Koch and John Olsen say AFL is too Victorian-centric

Port Adelaide chairman David Koch and Adelaide counterpart John Olsen say the AFL administration has an in-built Victorian bias which needs to change.
The duo shared the stage at an SA Press Club lunch on Friday and were at loggerheads about the Power’s proposed prison bar guernsey.
But they were a united voice when asked if the AFL was too Victorian-centric.
“It’s totally Victorian-centric,” Koch said.
Olsen agreed: “Yeah, it is.”
Koch said all clubs outside of Victoria needed to stand up and oppose the natural, conscious Victorian bias of the AFL.
“There’s a conscious bias that we’ve got to call out, and not be afraid to call out,” Koch said. “People have said to me in the past that you can’t criticise the AFL because they’ll get back at you in some way. They’ll cut your funding … not support you … scheduling. And I think, now, bugger it, we’ve just got to stand up to them. It’s getting beyond a joke.”
Mr Olsen said he had witnessed what he called the AFL’s “in-built, natural bias towards Victoria” in his previous role as SANFL chairman and that was a prejudice which had not changed since he became Crows chairman in October.
“There is not a South Australian representative on the AFL commission, and there hasn’t been for some considerable time,” Mr Olsen said.
“(With) the concentration of AFL clubs based in the state of Victoria, that self-protection mechanism will kick in from their point of view, and you’ve got to have a fairly substantial argument to break that.
“The AFL and their structure, in terms of having an overarching strategy is right, but there isn’t the input in terms of the effect of South Australia, I would argue, and Western Australia.”
Mr Olsen said the AFL’s new second-tier competition, an expanded VFL which now also includes reserves teams from AFL clubs Sydney, Greater Western Sydney, Brisbane and Gold Coast, would have a detrimental effect on the interests of top-level football in SA.
Mr Koch said AFL decisions such as preventing Port Adelaide wearing its black and white prison bar guernsey for Showdowns and locking in the grand final at the MCG until 2058 were evidence of the league’s Victorian bias.

Waiting now for both SA clubs to be issued with interstate travel on short day breaks as a result of the "flexible" fixture.

Covid has provided the administration with another method of keeping clubs under "control" as the non-transparent fixturing can easily be manipulated as a means of punishment upon those who do not publicly toe the line.

 

[bzparkes]

Waiting now for both SA clubs to be issued with interstate travel on short day breaks as a result of the "flexible" fixture.

Covid has provided the administration with another method of keeping clubs under "control" as the non-transparent fixturing can easily be manipulated as a means of punishment upon those who do not publicly toe the line.

All it will do is prove their point.

If the bosses of 2 interstate clubs are prepared to come out and say this, it must mean the other interstate clubs are feeling the same. Sydney's chairman has had a fair bit to say in recent times too.

 

[Eaglesliveagain]

The AFL owns pretty much all the interstate licences except us and Freo right?

 

[bzparkes]

The AFL owns pretty much all the interstate licences except us and Freo right?

Yes, that's correct.

Must be a fair bit of discontent going on behind the scenes for Koch & Olsen to be prepared to say what they did.

 

[FKASC]

Would like us to make a similar statement too

 

[Dylan82]

Yes, that's correct.

Must be a fair bit of discontent going on behind the scenes for Koch & Olsen to be prepared to say what they did.

I'd say it is in regard to this:




Both SA clubs memberships decreased by 10% last year, and had statutory losses of $4M and $2.8M.

The Power and the Crows now find themselves indebted to the tune of $12M and $4.5M respectively, yet see AFL handout money making clubs like North Melbourne and the Bulldogs "profitable". Their anger is entirely understandable.


Comparatively, the WA clubs are powerhouses - Fremantle maintained its membership and a $1M loss is cushioned by over $4M in cash reserves.

West Coast increased membership by 11% (to over 100K, the highest in the competition), and still managed a $245K profit despite the men's team receiving the lowest amount of funding from the AFL ($9.8M). The club also still has a cash reserve in excess of $32M.



AFL 2020 Annual Report
https://resources.afl.com.au/afl/document/2021/03/10/766129c9-3bc6-446d-ab53-2614ffd88a00/2020-Annual-Report.pdf

West Coast 2020 Annual Report
http://footyindustry.com/files/2020%20Reports/WCE%202020%20Annual%20Report.pdf

 

[Truckosaurus]

Richmond not last despite 100k members and three flags in four years. Collingwood and Carlton 2-3 million more than lowest. St Kilda getting more than GWS (!!!).