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OUT OF BOUNDS #7- Go Tigers.
Channel Seven is to the AFL what Salt is to Vinegar. The recent griping between these parties is no more than the typical workings of any relationship. Especially a relationship that’s going nowhere.
I think this should assure those who believe Network Television is the saviour of the game. Football can expect the same loyalty from Kerry Packer, especially with his long and abiding interest in football, that we have seen from Channel Seven. I don’t think he’d renege or water down his commitment even in the face of falling ratings or advertising revenues. He’s there because, like all footy supporters, he loves the game.
Football is one big happy family, much like Anne Hamilton-Byrne’s Family or Charles Manson’s Family.
In other news from the family that is football the AFL has been accused of having a conflict of interest in it’s administration of the VFL. Specifically that the AFL’s concentration on the revenue generating area of the game is placing local football at risk.
This is hogwash. The drop off in players has been caused by the recent rain and people have been off mowing the lawn. Conflicts of interest have made the AFL what it is today. Ian Collins’ company got the contract to cater the Source Of All Our Misery, a major conflict of interest, and look at what a success that has been! The AFL has shown that it will not let conflicts of interest cloud its decision making by rejecting Channel Seven’s decades of loyalty in favour of Goanna Packer’s silverware.
There are those that foolishly believe that the VFL should uphold the over a hundred years of tradition embodied in the VFA, when it is obvious that it’s better off being used by the AFL to cart things to and from the tip.
Hopefully Wayne Jackson will be allowed to abolish it altogether, bringing him one step closer to his dream of destroying football completely.
Just how much the VFL is carving out a unique niche for itself in the family of football is measured this Sunday when the Tigers take on the Tigers. Yup, Werribee Tigers play Coburg Tigers at City Oval in one of the highlights of the Melbourne Comedy Festival.
I think the Tigers will bring a lot of strength to this game, but the Tigers won’t take it lying down. The Tigers are a force to be reckoned with in the VFL. If the Tigers can get an early break on the Tigers and continue their pre-season form it could make it difficult for the Tigers. Tigers to win this one for mine.
Out Of Bounds spoke to Ken Gannon, CEO of the VFL, about this situation earlier in the year and he said, ‘I just see that as one of those things. I mean, are you going to die over it? Are you going to change the world? It happens all the time. If the worse thing we’ve got to do is put up with Tigers v Tigers, and that enhances Coburg, well, you’ve got a make a choice don’t you. Life’s about choices.’
Well, it’s just as well people didn’t choose to make decades of sacrifice for the Coburg footy club, or else they may have been upset.
Ken himself had some surly, ungracious comments to make about the AFL last week, suggesting that they may not be acting in the best interests of the broader football family. Which is strange, because he suggested last year that the alignment of VFL Clubs to AFL Clubs created a stronger identity and enhanced the image of VFL Clubs.
‘The images are more competitive, and the images are the VFL clubs images. They’re not AFL images that are AFL with a little bit of VFL in them.’ Which no doubt is why Coburg and Williamstown will be wearing Richmond and Collingwood strips when they play AFL curtain raisers this year.
So this week the destruction of local football begins apace with a big test for the Party Pies when they come up against the blind giant, Essendon. The Bombers were pretty unconvincing against the Kerang Kangaroos last week but they’ll have enough to get four points.
On the Saturday the Blues won’t get two opportunities to go to sleep like they did against Freo last week, but their physical game on the tight Pretty Park ground will see them over the line against a Hawthorn side that’s being coached by the coach you have when you’re not having a coach. Any advantage Parkin may have had in being the Carlton coach last year is nullified by the fact that he didn’t know what was going on when he was at the helm at Carlton anyway.
Footscray will beat Richmond, a cabbie told me so.
Poor old Fremantle, did everything last week but win. Still, they only have themselves to blame. Hopefully there’ll be a mix-up with their flight plans and they’ll get to spend the weekend at Great Keppel Island. If not they’ll be thumped by the Pies.
Adelaide play Melbourne in what has been billed as the game where Adelaide play Melbourne. An underdone Demons get a few extra legs back this week, and they should be professional enough to ensure that the nightmare continues for the Crows.
On the Sabbath the Saints play Geelong in what could prove to be a turning point for both sides. The Pivotonians were awesome last week against some lacklustre opposition while the Sainters weren’t exactly full of the sort of beans you’d expect given their personnel. Geelong in a canter.
The Fitzroy Bears take on North Melbourne at Brunswick Street North, which will be a case of pick the margin, while the Weagles will succumb to the gathering storm that is South Melbourne.
In supporting the fact that the AFL is ultimately in charge of every facet of human existence this column would like to throw its weight behind a very noble and visionary project. This is a petition from certain citizens of the City of Yarra to have the name of the suburb Fitzroy changed to Brisbane. This is to keep it in step with developments in the AFL.
I believe that if this project is successful then we can really see what a key part of the social fabric the AFL administration is. Hopefully Wayne Jackson will support this campaign, certainly Ian Collins should, it was his idea to begin with.
Phil Doyle - going for the soft option of the boundary under pressure.
If you would like to receive the very irregular and factually unreliable Out Of Bounds directly via email then send a message to phildoyle33@hotmail.com. Out Of Bounds can also be seen at the wonderful http://www.afltips.com/2001/ website.
NB - you are one of The Elect. This email is limited to 50 addressees. Feel free to forward it, but if you do not wish to be one of The Elect then reply to this email with a request for me to perform a physically impossible task and you will be paying for Kerry Packer’s kidney operation anyway.
All of this is copyright Phil Doyle 2001, for whatever that's worth. Any resemblance to persons living or dead I consider a compliment.
Channel Seven is to the AFL what Salt is to Vinegar. The recent griping between these parties is no more than the typical workings of any relationship. Especially a relationship that’s going nowhere.
I think this should assure those who believe Network Television is the saviour of the game. Football can expect the same loyalty from Kerry Packer, especially with his long and abiding interest in football, that we have seen from Channel Seven. I don’t think he’d renege or water down his commitment even in the face of falling ratings or advertising revenues. He’s there because, like all footy supporters, he loves the game.
Football is one big happy family, much like Anne Hamilton-Byrne’s Family or Charles Manson’s Family.
In other news from the family that is football the AFL has been accused of having a conflict of interest in it’s administration of the VFL. Specifically that the AFL’s concentration on the revenue generating area of the game is placing local football at risk.
This is hogwash. The drop off in players has been caused by the recent rain and people have been off mowing the lawn. Conflicts of interest have made the AFL what it is today. Ian Collins’ company got the contract to cater the Source Of All Our Misery, a major conflict of interest, and look at what a success that has been! The AFL has shown that it will not let conflicts of interest cloud its decision making by rejecting Channel Seven’s decades of loyalty in favour of Goanna Packer’s silverware.
There are those that foolishly believe that the VFL should uphold the over a hundred years of tradition embodied in the VFA, when it is obvious that it’s better off being used by the AFL to cart things to and from the tip.
Hopefully Wayne Jackson will be allowed to abolish it altogether, bringing him one step closer to his dream of destroying football completely.
Just how much the VFL is carving out a unique niche for itself in the family of football is measured this Sunday when the Tigers take on the Tigers. Yup, Werribee Tigers play Coburg Tigers at City Oval in one of the highlights of the Melbourne Comedy Festival.
I think the Tigers will bring a lot of strength to this game, but the Tigers won’t take it lying down. The Tigers are a force to be reckoned with in the VFL. If the Tigers can get an early break on the Tigers and continue their pre-season form it could make it difficult for the Tigers. Tigers to win this one for mine.
Out Of Bounds spoke to Ken Gannon, CEO of the VFL, about this situation earlier in the year and he said, ‘I just see that as one of those things. I mean, are you going to die over it? Are you going to change the world? It happens all the time. If the worse thing we’ve got to do is put up with Tigers v Tigers, and that enhances Coburg, well, you’ve got a make a choice don’t you. Life’s about choices.’
Well, it’s just as well people didn’t choose to make decades of sacrifice for the Coburg footy club, or else they may have been upset.
Ken himself had some surly, ungracious comments to make about the AFL last week, suggesting that they may not be acting in the best interests of the broader football family. Which is strange, because he suggested last year that the alignment of VFL Clubs to AFL Clubs created a stronger identity and enhanced the image of VFL Clubs.
‘The images are more competitive, and the images are the VFL clubs images. They’re not AFL images that are AFL with a little bit of VFL in them.’ Which no doubt is why Coburg and Williamstown will be wearing Richmond and Collingwood strips when they play AFL curtain raisers this year.
So this week the destruction of local football begins apace with a big test for the Party Pies when they come up against the blind giant, Essendon. The Bombers were pretty unconvincing against the Kerang Kangaroos last week but they’ll have enough to get four points.
On the Saturday the Blues won’t get two opportunities to go to sleep like they did against Freo last week, but their physical game on the tight Pretty Park ground will see them over the line against a Hawthorn side that’s being coached by the coach you have when you’re not having a coach. Any advantage Parkin may have had in being the Carlton coach last year is nullified by the fact that he didn’t know what was going on when he was at the helm at Carlton anyway.
Footscray will beat Richmond, a cabbie told me so.
Poor old Fremantle, did everything last week but win. Still, they only have themselves to blame. Hopefully there’ll be a mix-up with their flight plans and they’ll get to spend the weekend at Great Keppel Island. If not they’ll be thumped by the Pies.
Adelaide play Melbourne in what has been billed as the game where Adelaide play Melbourne. An underdone Demons get a few extra legs back this week, and they should be professional enough to ensure that the nightmare continues for the Crows.
On the Sabbath the Saints play Geelong in what could prove to be a turning point for both sides. The Pivotonians were awesome last week against some lacklustre opposition while the Sainters weren’t exactly full of the sort of beans you’d expect given their personnel. Geelong in a canter.
The Fitzroy Bears take on North Melbourne at Brunswick Street North, which will be a case of pick the margin, while the Weagles will succumb to the gathering storm that is South Melbourne.
In supporting the fact that the AFL is ultimately in charge of every facet of human existence this column would like to throw its weight behind a very noble and visionary project. This is a petition from certain citizens of the City of Yarra to have the name of the suburb Fitzroy changed to Brisbane. This is to keep it in step with developments in the AFL.
I believe that if this project is successful then we can really see what a key part of the social fabric the AFL administration is. Hopefully Wayne Jackson will support this campaign, certainly Ian Collins should, it was his idea to begin with.
Phil Doyle - going for the soft option of the boundary under pressure.
If you would like to receive the very irregular and factually unreliable Out Of Bounds directly via email then send a message to phildoyle33@hotmail.com. Out Of Bounds can also be seen at the wonderful http://www.afltips.com/2001/ website.
NB - you are one of The Elect. This email is limited to 50 addressees. Feel free to forward it, but if you do not wish to be one of The Elect then reply to this email with a request for me to perform a physically impossible task and you will be paying for Kerry Packer’s kidney operation anyway.
All of this is copyright Phil Doyle 2001, for whatever that's worth. Any resemblance to persons living or dead I consider a compliment.
