Opinion Non-Crows AFL 13: Cyclone Season

[cleanhands]

Stop it !!!

Sorry meant to Ben McKay

 

[FR0GGY]

It is this year. It wasn’t in 2023. That average wage figure is now considerably inflated because of how many guys are getting 1 mil plus a year. He had played 60 odd games at the time. I’d guess around 400K plus bonuses. Which he wouldn’t have come close to hitting.

Man if we let him hit that trigger…

 

[Pea Nut]

Man if we let him hit that trigger…

I hope Roughy brings some ruthlessness with him. Let’s hope he’s seen enough and tells them not to pick him.

 

[Crow_68]

Man if we let him hit that trigger…

We walked Brodie Smith to one, nothing suggests Chayce won’t benefit from the ‘being a good bloke’ club.

 

[Pea Nut]

I watched the 1985 SANFL granny a few weeks ago. How did we go from field umpires who could bounce the ball perfectly straight at every bounce and have it go 30 metres in the air in 1985, to now not able to find boundary umpires who can throw the thing in far enough so stand 5+ metres in from the boundary line ?? It’s supposed to be the biggest sport in the country in the most professional era the sport has ever seen. Pathetic if you ask me.

 

[Cromulant]

Chayce would be on $500,000 plus.

Potentially close to $600,000

Nope

 

[Drakescoffeecake]

Geez it'd be nice to get the i50 free kicks that Darcy gets

 

[Drummond]

Legit Darcy gets a free for everything. It’s disgusting.

 

[Cromulant]

Are you his CPA?

Love your level of certainty.

When he signed that contract it was well before the new CBA, and we didnt put the increases into those contracts.

The average wage is now a smidge over 500K, when Chayve signed in 2023 it was around 440K.

Im suggesting that he wouldn't be earning 100-150K above AFL average wage.

 

[Crow_68]

I watched the 1985 SANFL granny a few weeks ago. How did we go from field umpires who could bounce the ball perfectly straight at every bounce and have it go 30 metres in the air in 1985, to now not able to find boundary umpires who can throw the thing in far enough so stand 5+ metres in from the boundary line ?? It’s supposed to be the biggest sport in the country in the most professional era the sport has ever seen. Pathetic if you ask me.

My biggest query with umpiring is why you wouldn’t have ‘crews’, much the same as the NFL?

Surely rotating and ending up with 3 different umpiring colleagues week in, week out does nothing for consistency. Working as a team for a block of games would encourage similar interpretations as you get used to how your teammates call the game.

 

[Scorpus]

And Brad Scott reckons the hard work and list turnover has already been completed. Mate, if you are in a position where the best option to captain your side is Andrew McGrath, then your rebuild hasn’t even started. Gotta be the worst pick 1 of all time.

They were topping up their list just two years ago with McKay, Duursma, Gresham and Goldstein

Their list profile is also horrible, far too many crap guys over the age of 27, then a wasteland of little to no emerging talent. Tons of blown draft picks. They haven't even bottomed out yet

 

[Cromulant]

I’m suggesting into the 3rd year of his contract, he would be on league average.

With bonuses, he could be close to $600,000 but I don’t know as the amount of money they earn is none of my business.

I’m thinking a base wage of about $350,000 with $9,000 per match payment. 16 x $9000= $144,000

That’s roughly $494,000 a season

AFL match payments arent in every contract, and if they are theyre rarely more than 5K.

Hes played 24 games in total since 2024, thats 125K across 3 years, not every year.

 

[Pea Nut]

My biggest query with umpiring is why you wouldn’t have ‘crews’, much the same as the NFL?

Surely rotating and ending up with 3 different umpiring colleagues week in, week out does nothing for consistency. Working as a team for a block of games would encourage similar interpretations as you get used to how your teammates call the game.

That makes a hell of a lot of sense. So not surprised the AFL hasn’t thought of it.

 

[Cromulant]

I will just leave this with you. Enjoy your Sunday night.

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That wasnt the clever flex you thought it was, in fact im not sure you even read it properly

 

[Pea Nut]

Tim English with a knee on knee contact injury by the looks of it. But the knee on knee contact was in general play against an opposition midfielder.

 

[Cromulant]

Don’t play that game, I wasn’t trying to flex anything.

My point simply showed your numbers were at one end of the scale, usually for a first year player. Jones isn’t a first year player.

And 9K was at the other end of the scale, which you could almost guarantee he wouldn't be...... according to those AI numbers.

24 x 9 over 3 years isnt going to add up to a 600K per year contract in anyone's English

Enjoy your public holiday

 

[ams4crows]

Last player to achieve that in the AFL Tex Walker in 2023

Didn't Curnow do it later in the season than Tex did against West coast too?

 

[119others]

I have to disagree. Queenslanders are the biggest bunch of bandwagoners in the country. It’s actually mind boggling. It’s already noticeable the increase in home crowds they are getting. Once they actually start winning and threatening to go deep in finals the crowds will continue to increase and they will start selling out every home game. Whether they can translate that into legitimising the club and maintaining club support and crowds showing up week in, week out is another story. As the Lions have shown over the past 25+ years, when they are up, the crowds show up. But drop out of contention and they are back to getting 10 000 people showing up to games and an atmosphere that resembles an ammo’s game.

Absolutely 100%. Living in Brissie during the end of their three peat early this century and the Lions were all the buzz with office chatter and big crowds. A few short years later it completely fizzled out when they dropped out of finals.

The Lions are still one of the most assisted in the AFL iirc despite winning 5 flags in 7 GFs this century. But give it a few years of underwhelming performance on the field - around the 2015 type period for a few years - and interest and crowds completely drop off

That said, in fairness, participation levels have risen alot in the last couple of decades (helping their Academies..) its just many fans are fickle and bandwagon crowds, as you say, support that

I hope the AFL knows what they are doing by effectively gifting northern clubs flags whilst many traditional big and medium southern clubs continue to go decade after decade without any new silverware

Continues:

Opinion Thread 'Non-Crows AFL 14 "Put your Foot in it"'

Apr 6, 2026

From Chris Scott

Chris Scott

Age

49

Ht

182cm

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89kg

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Fwd

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Last 5

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16.6

4star

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11.2

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5.4

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5.1

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1.6

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0.4

3star

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13.2

4star

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10.2

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3.0

3star

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2.2

3star

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2.8

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0.4

3star

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