Scotty_222
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You sure people know why?
Free Agency Jarryd Lyons [joins Brisbane as a delisted free agent]
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Are you sure they don't? Of the two assumptions I think yours is much more rash. It's hardly rocket science that AFL decision making is mostly dominated by Money. Do you think if we did a straw poll less than 95% of the big footy posters would say money was the reason?
People can agree about the facts and still arrive at different answers, you assumption that people favoring expansion into Tasmania over Queensland HAD to be misinformed is simply false.
Scotty_222
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Having an extra game a week is making money for the afl through tv right. That extra game could come from two teams anywhere in Australia. That has nothing to do with the difference between the Gold Coast and Tasmania having a team.
Really. The AFL is seeking to expand the market for football by targeting expansion into the non Football states. It's about the long term money. Not money made this year or next year. people in Tasmania already follow AFL,
You need this explained? It's staggering basic stuff.
Scotty_222
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I thought you were talking about money made by broadcasting deals
Can relate to this, lived in QLD half my life and the fans here are so fickle. That is all sports, not just AFL.
If you're winning games they love you & will support you. If you're not winning, god help you because the fans just won't come and so much revenue needed to actually run the club, is lost.
Vics tend to support their club through thick & thin.
And on topic, I'm sorry for Suns that Lyons is gone but good luck to him at the Lions.
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Dew don't really see him as the future for his game plan .
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It's all part of the plan..
Not sure what that plan is though.
Not sure what that plan is though.
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Plan to have No plan is part of the plan .
I could sort of understand you switching clubs from Freo to a more successful club, but you’ve gone to the biggest rabble in the AFL , going by your user name you still support a club that sold its soul in good old WA.
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just goes to show what a joke the Suns are
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Lyons is a great pick up for nothing and most likely plays as the Beams replacement but why did the Suns delist him in the first place
$$$
They won’t fully admit it but that’s the main reason. To free up cap space to (a) retain the players they really want to keep, and (b) are planning to chase a couple of bigger names next year.
Also will allow players like Ainsworth, Brodie and Bowes more midfield time next year as has been mentioned.
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Did I stumble into a non English speaking part of Bigfooty or something?
It’s what England is today old chap.
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-11-02/the-reasons-gold-coast-may-have-let-lyons-walk
A few reasons that could have been contributing factors.
A few reasons that could have been contributing factors.
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God that article paints a bleak picture for the Suns.
Salary cap issues for a list that has no genuine A grade talent.
Salary cap issues for a list that has no genuine A grade talent.
That all makes sense and some very valid points, but why they didn't try to trade him and get some value (which he clearly has) instead of delisting for nothing is the question.
Throw him into the Suns/Lions pick swap and get 18 instead of 24...something like that wouldn't have been completely out of the question surely
Scotty_222
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Luckily all those people that had the power to make these contracts have been moved on
The massive mess that Clayton and Ashcroft left. This season has been all about balancing the books again.
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Clayton was responsible for the Weller trade? Wonder if the new guys would do that same deal?
I think it was supposed to be 'told by GC' but was autocorrected into 'told good' by my phone. Also thext is supposed 'the next'. Punctuation is not the best either. Other then that one of my finest posts.
It’s my understanding that basically all recruits from trade and draft were all given lucrative contracts from get-go. Brodie, Ainsworth and Bowes supposedly on 350-400k apiece already, Weller supposedly on beyond 700k.
It’s going to take a while to sort all this out.
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