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[giantroo]

Again can anyone advise who of these girls were at MU?

 

[RobZombie]

I'm biased because I played (a different sport) for a decade in the same colours, but I really love the MU jumpers.

 

[Groin guru]

Penalised. I'm outraged! McChins didn't get the puma sponsorship for hope sorted out quick enough.

 

[Orange Peanut]

I am working on the assumption that “penalised” is just hyperbolic shorthand for “assessed as having the strongest list and therefore receiving the least favourable draft positions”
Shirley?

 

[The Nostradamus]

I am working on the assumption that “penalised” is just hyperbolic shorthand for “assessed as having the strongest list and therefore receiving the least favourable draft positions”
Shirley?

We should have either the first or second pick of every round being the new team.

Anything less is bs

 

[Tas]

AFLW: Brisbane Lions criticise North Melbourne-Tasmania's recruiting methods in signing period
By Quentin Hull
Posted 13 minutes agoMon 21 May 2018, 5:02pm

Photo: Kaitlyn Ashmore is one of four Lions players signed by Nth Melbourne-Tasmania. (AAP: Roy Vandervegt)
Brisbane Lions AFLW coach Craig Starcevich has accused new club North Melbourne-Tasmania of disrespecting the spirit of the competition during the 10-day expansion club signing period.

The signing period concluded on Monday and the Kangaroos landed a host of high-profile signings headed by league best and fairest winner Emma Kearney from the Western Bulldogs.

Two-time grand finalists Brisbane lost four players to the Kangaroos and Starcevich questioned the method of the recruiting team at Arden Street.

"Across the club we've all had some ownership about how this league works," the Lions coach told Grandstand AFL.

"There's a little bit there about respecting each others' space and not necessarily going in and pillaging each others' players and doing it with some ounce of integrity.

"It is the spirt of how we build this competition. I'm not sure North have been super with it to be honest."

Geelong will join North Melbourne-Tasmania in next year's competition before four more clubs enter the league in 2020.

Starcevich said the Kangaroos had been clinically courting their targets of the recruiting raid.

SoundCloud: Brisbane Lions AFLW coach Craig Starcevich on recruiting


"They've been into some of the players for the best part of six months," he said.

"I'm not sure that sits with us that comfortably, even though the rules don't allow that, but if you abide by the rules you don't necessarily get when you want to go.

"You've got to do things a little bit underhanded at times to try and get where you want to get in terms of building your list so that's disappointing."

Brisbane chairman Andrew Wellington agreed the regulations surrounding the expansion of the AFLW could have been handled better.

"The AFL has done a fantastic job with women's football. It doesn't mean that they have got everything 100 per cent right," he said.

"It was very late in the day that they finalised the list rules which made it very hard for us to do what we needed to do to manage our list."

Both new AFLW clubs are entitled to recruit from the foundation eight clubs, but only four players in total from each existing club are allowed to be taken by either the Cats or Kangaroos.

Starcevich hopes the AFL addresses the rules around recruitment before Gold Coast, Richmond, St Kilda and West Coast build their player roster ahead of joining the 2020 season of AFLW.

"There's got to be a certain amount of movement with players that have had experience at AFLW, but at this point in time North Melbourne look like they are going to assemble 12 to 16 of those players," he said.

"It's probably a lesson learnt for next year when there's four new clubs that will take us up to 14 teams in the comp as to what is the right mechanism," he added.

"It can't just be a free-for-all."

Start crying, bitches. :stern look

It is important we build a super strong list, we will lose some next year to the 4 new expansion clubs and we haven't had two years to put some fat on for the lean period.

It is good we are bringing back some ladies that have ties with us via MU, they are going to be less likely to bolt than people with no affiliation.

 

[LB2Snake]

Sounds like “S Grapes - 3votes”

 

[Tas]

This would be very political currently and wrapped in sponsorship dollars

I imagine in time as it's not special anymore, it will evolve.

Hopefully to a more North message.

I can live with it.

I remember when funky did the post license announcement interview and the media conflated that the license was part Tasmanian and he said flat out, no, it is our license and we will negotiate something with Tasmania later down the track. He looked kind of pissed off that it was even suggested.

 

[Tas]

Are we going to draft anyone other than Tasmanian academy players?

 

[Firestarter]

... so our penalty is being last in every draft round?

 

[The Y Factor]

Are we going to draft anyone other than Tasmanian academy players?

"penalised for landing so many stars in recent weeks"

That's a new one!!

 

[Tas]

I like how the AFL makes the rules up as they go, was there anything suggesting clubs would be penalised if they took too many existing players?

 

[The Y Factor]

I remember when funky did the post license announcement interview and the media conflated that the license was part Tasmanian and he said flat out, no, it is our license and we will negotiate something with Tasmania later down the track. He looked kind of pissed off that it was even suggested.

Yep

Sponsorship is a double edged sword! Great for the bank, which we have needed in recent years but you have to be prepared to give stuff up!

With the new stadium deal and no debt - those days are becoming optional or at least more within our control

 

[Tas]

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-05-22/aflw-cats-to-get-first-two-picks-in-draft

lol we get less access to young players than the top 4 teams of last year even though a fair few of the players we have taken are very mature at around 30 years of age.

AFL must not rate the players Geelong chased.

 

[Tas]

We need a blue and white version with Laura Kane and Emma Kearney, the Roos sisters. :stern look

 

[wandering123]

 

[shinboner magic]

What a joke the AFL is

 

[Firestarter]

I.e. all the last ones in each round.

 

[darko]

What a load of croc lol

 

[TommyVercetti]

Our AFL team has lacked top ten picks over the years. I guess it's no different. Geelong with 1 and 2, and 5 of the first 15. Somethings never change.

 

[Val Keating]

Wouldn’t have it any other way. The afl can get ****ed. This is as Shinboner as it gets

 

[Ashley B]

Said it before how can any North supporter trust these pricks .

 

[hsquid]

The AFL has been consistent in fixing draft anomalies when they see them. For example, when * came last due to a one-time suspension of their players for cheating it would have been crazy if they had let them keep the #1 pick as reward.

 

[Le Grille]

The AFL has been consistent in fixing draft anomalies when they see them. For example, when * came last due to a one-time suspension of their players for cheating it would have been crazy if they had let them keep the #1 pick as reward.

Again tweetable

 

[The chorus]

From the PR about our new new recruits it sounds as if we have a great list and, if that is indeed the case, I thought we would be reasonably happy with the whole process. If, however, our signings are not as good as their PR, perhaps we have a problem. If there are any members of our Tasmanian academy who are good enough to be drafted, how will that work; do we get priority? do we get a discount?