Mega Thread Port Forum 'General AFL Talk' Thread Part 17

[Tibbs]

Mitch Hinge's brother John, a one-game ex-Crows player, but rocking a good jumper!

 

[El_Scorcho]

It wouldn't be inconsistent with Free Agency. Players would still have the same options there. It'd just give the existing club the ability to put together a more attractive offer to keep players.

Given Free Agency has largely become a funnel from smaller clubs or non-Victorian clubs (outside Port) to big Victorian clubs (something that was always likely), given who controls the A(V)FL removing anything stopping that wasn't going to remain.

It would work brilliantly alongside Free Agency to give clubs that otherwise might lose players a bit more financial leeway to keep them, a bit how supermax contracts work in the NBA.

It won't stop players funnelling to Geelong and Hawthorn though. AFL players just don't make enough money for it to be worth wasting your career at the Gold Coast, never playing finals and never gaining any sort of real profile that might help you make money from your image. In the NFL it's absolutely worth it given the sort of money on the table.

I think Free Agency sorts itself out one of two ways.

1) Remove compensation for free agents but then also allow trading contracted players without their consent.

2) Instead of a compo pick, use a formula to determine a player's value based on their contract in draft points, and deduct those draft picks from the new club and give them to the old club to the equivalent value. This way importantly removes the penalty to the other 16 clubs when a free agent moves and a compensation pick is shunted into the middle of a round, pushing everyone back.

 

[robbo1981]

Mitch Hinge's brother John, a one-game ex-Crows player, but rocking a good jumper!


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He works at the club or did.

 

[Butters and Pepper]

The Phantom777 has quite a few recent rumours on the below thread. Some are well known but some are worth a read.

Rumour - Best football related rumour you have heard from someone you trust

Continued in Part 2: https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/best-football-related-rumour-you-have-heard-from-someone-you-trust-part-deux.1253986/unread

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[Tibbs]

He works at the club or did.

Aah, that explains it. But no longer, he has now taken up a position with the Players Association in Melbourne

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Nah, **** em. Get what you deserve.

I mean **** em.

But also **** him.

**** em all.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

The Menzel brothers have left Centrals and joined Woodville.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

The Menzel brothers have left Centrals and joined Woodville.

Long way to travel.

Will they have their own tv show?

Ask the Menzel Brothers?

 

[Doctor Feel]

The Menzel brothers have left Centrals and joined Woodville.

Truly a seismic shift shaking the very foundations of the biggest league in Australia.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Long way to travel.

Will they have their own tv show?

Ask the Menzel Brothers?

They have plenty of experience of dealing with breakdowns.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Truly a seismic shift shaking the very foundations of the biggest league in Australia.

That salary cap, hey?

 

[Eddie Dingle]

That salary cap, hey?

It's not for money it's the love of the game and the ability to compete with some of the second worst players in the land every week.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Tasmania has dramatically drawn a line in the sand and threatened to abandon its push for a stand-alone team unless AFL chiefs commit to a “pathway”. The taskforce behind a bid for a Tasmanian team is losing patience with the league’s indifference and warned the state will soon begin redirecting funds and energy into basketball.

Taskforce chair Brett Godfrey, who has held talks in recent weeks with AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan, told News Corp: “If there is no committed pathway to a team then the Government probably needs to review its entire sports tourism strategy and consider if and where the AFL sits within that plan.”

Godfrey says football in Tasmania, one of Australian rules founding states, is facing “death by irrelevance”.

Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein said the Government remained 100 per cent committed to obtaining an AFL team, but did not specify between a new or existing licence.

“This week I wrote to AFL CEO Gill McLachlan to progress the conversation regarding a Tasmanian AFL licence and the work of the Tasmanian AFL taskforce,” Gutwein said. “The Tasmanian Government is a tremendous supporter of AFL content in the State and welcomes ongoing discussions with the AFL on a transitional pathway to our own licence and a Tasmanian team.”

The AFL Taskforce has made a number of recommendations to the Tasmanian Government as it believes it has hit a dead end in the quest to finally land the state its own AFL team. The Taskforce also believes the code will no longer be Tasmania’s favourite sport within a decade without an AFL team.

Hawthorn and North Melbourne receive a combined $8 million a year from the Tasmanian Government to play four home games a season in Launceston and Hobart respectively.

Hawks boss Jeff Kennett told News Corp his club had joined Tasmania’s aspirations for its own team but believed the COVID crisis meant the league could not sustain a 19th team for “four or five years”
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[Enviable Tradition]

Long way to travel.

Will they have their own tv show?

Ask the Menzel Brothers?

Such a strong traditional comp full of loyalty.

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[Papa G]

Tasmania has dramatically drawn a line in the sand and threatened to abandon its push for a stand-alone team unless AFL chiefs commit to a “pathway”. The taskforce behind a bid for a Tasmanian team is losing patience with the league’s indifference and warned the state will soon begin redirecting funds and energy into basketball.

Taskforce chair Brett Godfrey, who has held talks in recent weeks with AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan, told News Corp: “If there is no committed pathway to a team then the Government probably needs to review its entire sports tourism strategy and consider if and where the AFL sits within that plan.”

Godfrey says football in Tasmania, one of Australian rules founding states, is facing “death by irrelevance”.

Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein said the Government remained 100 per cent committed to obtaining an AFL team, but did not specify between a new or existing licence.

“This week I wrote to AFL CEO Gill McLachlan to progress the conversation regarding a Tasmanian AFL licence and the work of the Tasmanian AFL taskforce,” Gutwein said. “The Tasmanian Government is a tremendous supporter of AFL content in the State and welcomes ongoing discussions with the AFL on a transitional pathway to our own licence and a Tasmanian team.”

The AFL Taskforce has made a number of recommendations to the Tasmanian Government as it believes it has hit a dead end in the quest to finally land the state its own AFL team. The Taskforce also believes the code will no longer be Tasmania’s favourite sport within a decade without an AFL team.

Hawthorn and North Melbourne receive a combined $8 million a year from the Tasmanian Government to play four home games a season in Launceston and Hobart respectively.

Hawks boss Jeff Kennett told News Corp his club had joined Tasmania’s aspirations for its own team but believed the COVID crisis meant the league could not sustain a 19th team for “four or five years”
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Good time to go for the jugular. The AFL have treated Tasmania with complete distain for so bloody long, whilst shitheap VFL Legacy relics like North and Melbourne get a free ride.

 

[JimmyBC]

Tasmania has dramatically drawn a line in the sand and threatened to abandon its push for a stand-alone team unless AFL chiefs commit to a “pathway”. The taskforce behind a bid for a Tasmanian team is losing patience with the league’s indifference and warned the state will soon begin redirecting funds and energy into basketball.

Taskforce chair Brett Godfrey, who has held talks in recent weeks with AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan, told News Corp: “If there is no committed pathway to a team then the Government probably needs to review its entire sports tourism strategy and consider if and where the AFL sits within that plan.”

Godfrey says football in Tasmania, one of Australian rules founding states, is facing “death by irrelevance”.

Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein said the Government remained 100 per cent committed to obtaining an AFL team, but did not specify between a new or existing licence.

“This week I wrote to AFL CEO Gill McLachlan to progress the conversation regarding a Tasmanian AFL licence and the work of the Tasmanian AFL taskforce,” Gutwein said. “The Tasmanian Government is a tremendous supporter of AFL content in the State and welcomes ongoing discussions with the AFL on a transitional pathway to our own licence and a Tasmanian team.”

The AFL Taskforce has made a number of recommendations to the Tasmanian Government as it believes it has hit a dead end in the quest to finally land the state its own AFL team. The Taskforce also believes the code will no longer be Tasmania’s favourite sport within a decade without an AFL team.

Hawthorn and North Melbourne receive a combined $8 million a year from the Tasmanian Government to play four home games a season in Launceston and Hobart respectively.

Hawks boss Jeff Kennett told News Corp his club had joined Tasmania’s aspirations for its own team but believed the COVID crisis meant the league could not sustain a 19th team for “four or five years”
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The boost in participation and public interest would boom if they got their own club imo it would capture the imagination, it's a pretty good point they are making however hopefully it pricks some ears.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Tasmania has dramatically drawn a line in the sand and threatened to abandon its push for a stand-alone team unless AFL chiefs commit to a “pathway”. The taskforce behind a bid for a Tasmanian team is losing patience with the league’s indifference and warned the state will soon begin redirecting funds and energy into basketball.

Taskforce chair Brett Godfrey, who has held talks in recent weeks with AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan, told News Corp: “If there is no committed pathway to a team then the Government probably needs to review its entire sports tourism strategy and consider if and where the AFL sits within that plan.”

Godfrey says football in Tasmania, one of Australian rules founding states, is facing “death by irrelevance”.

Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein said the Government remained 100 per cent committed to obtaining an AFL team, but did not specify between a new or existing licence.

“This week I wrote to AFL CEO Gill McLachlan to progress the conversation regarding a Tasmanian AFL licence and the work of the Tasmanian AFL taskforce,” Gutwein said. “The Tasmanian Government is a tremendous supporter of AFL content in the State and welcomes ongoing discussions with the AFL on a transitional pathway to our own licence and a Tasmanian team.”

The AFL Taskforce has made a number of recommendations to the Tasmanian Government as it believes it has hit a dead end in the quest to finally land the state its own AFL team. The Taskforce also believes the code will no longer be Tasmania’s favourite sport within a decade without an AFL team.

Hawthorn and North Melbourne receive a combined $8 million a year from the Tasmanian Government to play four home games a season in Launceston and Hobart respectively.

Hawks boss Jeff Kennett told News Corp his club had joined Tasmania’s aspirations for its own team but believed the COVID crisis meant the league could not sustain a 19th team for “four or five years”
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The North relocation/wind up/fold story gets a little more legs bomberclifford

Just ****ing do it you campaigners

 

[backtozero]

The Menzel brothers have left Centrals and joined Woodville.

They pressed the ignore button on the way out of Elizabeth.

 

[bomberclifford]

The North relocation/wind up/fold story gets a little more legs bomberclifford

Just ******* do it you campaigners

Even the unrealistic time frame of "2-3 years to be competing for a premiership" set down by their chairman tells you they know the clock is ticking.

I'm totally convinced my 100% made up story is real.

 

[Grave Danger]

Tasmania has dramatically drawn a line in the sand and threatened to abandon its push for a stand-alone team unless AFL chiefs commit to a “pathway”. The taskforce behind a bid for a Tasmanian team is losing patience with the league’s indifference and warned the state will soon begin redirecting funds and energy into basketball.

Taskforce chair Brett Godfrey, who has held talks in recent weeks with AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan, told News Corp: “If there is no committed pathway to a team then the Government probably needs to review its entire sports tourism strategy and consider if and where the AFL sits within that plan.”

Godfrey says football in Tasmania, one of Australian rules founding states, is facing “death by irrelevance”.

Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein said the Government remained 100 per cent committed to obtaining an AFL team, but did not specify between a new or existing licence.

“This week I wrote to AFL CEO Gill McLachlan to progress the conversation regarding a Tasmanian AFL licence and the work of the Tasmanian AFL taskforce,” Gutwein said. “The Tasmanian Government is a tremendous supporter of AFL content in the State and welcomes ongoing discussions with the AFL on a transitional pathway to our own licence and a Tasmanian team.”

The AFL Taskforce has made a number of recommendations to the Tasmanian Government as it believes it has hit a dead end in the quest to finally land the state its own AFL team. The Taskforce also believes the code will no longer be Tasmania’s favourite sport within a decade without an AFL team.

Hawthorn and North Melbourne receive a combined $8 million a year from the Tasmanian Government to play four home games a season in Launceston and Hobart respectively.

Hawks boss Jeff Kennett told News Corp his club had joined Tasmania’s aspirations for its own team but believed the COVID crisis meant the league could not sustain a 19th team for “four or five years”
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There's been a bit of 'Gil's legacy' chatter as well, if he were to lose a heartland Aussie Rules state to a rival sport, blah blah.

 

[Schulzenfest]

I'm totally convinced my 100% made up story is real.

Your AFL media accreditation is in the mail.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

The lollipop lady at my kids school reckon if Gil lasts to the end of the year it will be a miracle. Replacement ready to go.

Maybe his other legacy will be ****ing off north?

His main legacy will be ****ing the game as we know it.

 

[jac147]

Tasmania has dramatically drawn a line in the sand and threatened to abandon its push for a stand-alone team unless AFL chiefs commit to a “pathway”. The taskforce behind a bid for a Tasmanian team is losing patience with the league’s indifference and warned the state will soon begin redirecting funds and energy into basketball.

Taskforce chair Brett Godfrey, who has held talks in recent weeks with AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan, told News Corp: “If there is no committed pathway to a team then the Government probably needs to review its entire sports tourism strategy and consider if and where the AFL sits within that plan.”

Godfrey says football in Tasmania, one of Australian rules founding states, is facing “death by irrelevance”.

Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein said the Government remained 100 per cent committed to obtaining an AFL team, but did not specify between a new or existing licence.

“This week I wrote to AFL CEO Gill McLachlan to progress the conversation regarding a Tasmanian AFL licence and the work of the Tasmanian AFL taskforce,” Gutwein said. “The Tasmanian Government is a tremendous supporter of AFL content in the State and welcomes ongoing discussions with the AFL on a transitional pathway to our own licence and a Tasmanian team.”

The AFL Taskforce has made a number of recommendations to the Tasmanian Government as it believes it has hit a dead end in the quest to finally land the state its own AFL team. The Taskforce also believes the code will no longer be Tasmania’s favourite sport within a decade without an AFL team.

Hawthorn and North Melbourne receive a combined $8 million a year from the Tasmanian Government to play four home games a season in Launceston and Hobart respectively.

Hawks boss Jeff Kennett told News Corp his club had joined Tasmania’s aspirations for its own team but believed the COVID crisis meant the league could not sustain a 19th team for “four or five years”
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Thanks for the leg up as I now the Premier of Tasmania is a dude named Peter Gutwein! I honestly had no idea!

 

[Rendaw]

They need to move the Roos to Tasmania

 

[Doctor Feel]

The premier of NT is Roger Dessicatedviscera, i knew that though.