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

[Holden Hillbilly]

PORT ADELAIDE

The Power were desperately close to toppling Richmond and making a Grand Final, but not doing so hasn’t hurt their 2021 credentials. They’re an elite outfit set to be bolstered by Aliir Aliir

21

Aliir Aliir

Age

29

Ht

194cm

Wt

96kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

15.2

4star

K

9.3

4star

HB

5.9

4star

M

5.2

5star

T

1.9

4star

MG

240.9

4star

D

11.0

3star

K

6.0

2star

HB

5.0

3star

M

3.0

3star

T

2.0

3star

D

13.0

4star

K

6.4

3star

HB

6.6

4star

M

3.8

4star

T

2.0

4star

MG

158.4

3star

and Orazio Fantasia

14

Orazio Fantasia

Age

28

Ht

180cm

Wt

73kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.6

3star

K

7.4

3star

HB

6.2

4star

M

3.6

4star

T

3.1

5star

G

1.4

5star

D

9.8

2star

K

5.4

2star

HB

4.4

3star

M

3.0

3star

T

1.2

2star

G

0.2

3star

D

12.0

3star

K

4.6

2star

HB

7.4

5star

M

3.4

4star

T

2.2

4star

G

0.0

1star

, even if the latter is slightly more speculative given his recent struggles. There’s no reason why Ken Hinkley’s men should be aiming for anything less than what they achieved in 2020, particularly as the trio of Conor Rozee, Xavier Duursma

28

Xavier Duursma

Age

23

Ht

186cm

Wt

82kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

18.5

5star

K

10.0

4star

HB

8.5

5star

M

5.4

5star

T

2.1

4star

CL

1.6

4star

D

13.0

3star

K

8.8

4star

HB

4.3

3star

M

3.8

4star

T

2.3

3star

CL

0.5

3star

D

16.8

4star

K

8.4

4star

HB

8.4

5star

M

4.8

5star

T

2.0

4star

CL

1.6

4star

and Zac Butters get another off-season under their belts.

PASS MARK: 14 to 17 wins, make at least a preliminary final

Break the seven-year finals drought; flag or fail: Every AFL club’s pass mark for 2021

Flag or bust for contender; 7-year curse MUST end: Every club’s 2021 pass mark

www.foxsports.com.au

 

[JimmyBC]

They need to move the Roos to Tasmania

Correction they need to fck the roos off and give a license to Tasmania.

 

[NoddyHolder]

Correction they need to fck the roos off and give a license to Tasmania.

North (+st kilda, melbourne, bulldogs) should just move to the VFL. Clubs are still there for their fans, and Tasmania can have a team of its own.

 

[Harlott]

They’re being selective when they say they’re about growing the game and need to focus on faster expanding markets like GWS and the GC whilst continuing to carry clubs. It’s bizarre that clubs like North carry on at the expense of a side being introduced from Tassie. Tells you a lot about the influential, self serving forces in Australian football. It really is a boy’s club.

 

[Doctor Feel]

PORT ADELAIDE

The Power were desperately close to toppling Richmond and making a Grand Final, but not doing so hasn’t hurt their 2021 credentials. They’re an elite outfit set to be bolstered by Aliir Aliir

21

Aliir Aliir

Age

29

Ht

194cm

Wt

96kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

15.2

4star

K

9.3

4star

HB

5.9

4star

M

5.2

5star

T

1.9

4star

MG

240.9

4star

D

11.0

3star

K

6.0

2star

HB

5.0

3star

M

3.0

3star

T

2.0

3star

D

13.0

4star

K

6.4

3star

HB

6.6

4star

M

3.8

4star

T

2.0

4star

MG

158.4

3star

and Orazio Fantasia

14

Orazio Fantasia

Age

28

Ht

180cm

Wt

73kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.6

3star

K

7.4

3star

HB

6.2

4star

M

3.6

4star

T

3.1

5star

G

1.4

5star

D

9.8

2star

K

5.4

2star

HB

4.4

3star

M

3.0

3star

T

1.2

2star

G

0.2

3star

D

12.0

3star

K

4.6

2star

HB

7.4

5star

M

3.4

4star

T

2.2

4star

G

0.0

1star

, even if the latter is slightly more speculative given his recent struggles. There’s no reason why Ken Hinkley’s men should be aiming for anything less than what they achieved in 2020, particularly as the trio of Conor Rozee, Xavier Duursma

28

Xavier Duursma

Age

23

Ht

186cm

Wt

82kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

18.5

5star

K

10.0

4star

HB

8.5

5star

M

5.4

5star

T

2.1

4star

CL

1.6

4star

D

13.0

3star

K

8.8

4star

HB

4.3

3star

M

3.8

4star

T

2.3

3star

CL

0.5

3star

D

16.8

4star

K

8.4

4star

HB

8.4

5star

M

4.8

5star

T

2.0

4star

CL

1.6

4star

and Zac Butters get another off-season under their belts.

PASS MARK: 14 to 17 wins, make at least a preliminary final

Break the seven-year finals drought; flag or fail: Every AFL club’s pass mark for 2021

Flag or bust for contender; 7-year curse MUST end: Every club’s 2021 pass mark

www.foxsports.com.au

lol, i love how Orazio is speculative AFTER the trade, but definitely not before.

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

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 ******* off north?

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

Enter new CEO, Steve Hocking

 

[wannabejack]

The Menzel brothers have left Centrals and joined Woodville.

Going there for the pizzas.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

lol, i love how Orazio is speculative AFTER the trade, but definitely not before.

Also "recent struggles" = "has done nothing for three full seasons of football"

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

lel

 

[Enviable Tradition]

lel

Salty

 

[Grave Danger]

lel

It seems ironic/appropriate/tragi-comic that Holden is their major partner.

 

[NoddyHolder]

lol. Clubs that chase mercenaries and constantly cut each other's lunch get salty when another club cuts their lunch and pinches a couple of their mercenaries.

 

[Schulzenfest]

The funniest bit isn't the salt, it's the fact that they're advertising for new players on Twitter.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

The funniest bit isn't the salt, it's the fact that they're advertising for new players on Twitter.

Exactly.

They are announcing to their supporters that they can’t attract any players and do they know anyone.

Baz from the Smithfield pub is on the job.

 

[Andre]

They’re being selective when they say they’re about growing the game and need to focus on faster expanding markets like GWS and the GC whilst continuing to carry clubs. It’s bizarre that clubs like North carry on at the expense of a side being introduced from Tassie. Tells you a lot about the influential, self serving forces in Australian football. It really is a boy’s club.

It's not like Gil or the A(V)FL actually gives a s**t about North (/Saints/Bulldogs/Melbourne). They are only kept around so the Vic clubs have the numbers. Or more accurately the big Vic clubs. North and the others get an occasional bone (umpired to a flag *cough*), but otherwise they know their job is to shut up and letCollingwood, Essendon and co. get everything they want and don't complain or they'll be left to fund themselves (and soon go under).

A North relocated to Tasmania would be better than North in Vic. Over time they'd stop reflexively supporting all the measures that only help the clubs in Victoria. North going under and getting a Tassie side instead, leaving fairness and Tassie supporters not getting the dregs of Victoria, would immediately have another not in the 'Victoria is the CenTRe of the Sporting UniVErsE!!!' camp though, no waiting years. Even at 9 clubs in and 9 clubs out of Victoria, you've removed the 'well it helps more than half the clubs in the league' argument every shitty leg up the Vic clubs currently keep getting.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

They need to move the Roos to Tasmania

Nope they deserve their own team, and North can try and survive, or head back to the VFA/VFL.

 

[Grave Danger]

Exactly.

They are announcing to their supporters that they can’t attract any players and do they know anyone.

Baz from the Smithfield pub is on the job.

The Hoff likes doing the charity thing, maybe he'll pull on the boots for nuthin.

 

[afl2004]

Roos are way better financial position then us , I find it funny people think they should go even though we have way worse finances

 

[Grave Danger]

Or maybe give them a big new contract extension...?


AFL creates '18 Collingwoods' telling clubs to back end contracts


Irate AFL clubs have warned there will be “18 Collingwoods” forced into back-ending contracts to get under the reduced salary cap next year.

Clubs are angry the league has palmed off applying the cut to the salary cap to the clubs and the league’s best answer for getting under the cap was to back end contracts.

The AFL has mandated the total player payments and additional services agreement for next year will be cut by 9 per cent, while the players will take a 3.5 per cent pay cut on average.

List sizes have been cut by two players, which means the reduced salary cap is slightly spread across fewer players.
The AFL has not applied a flat across the board percentage cut to player salaries next year but instead passed it back to clubs to renegotiate player contracts.

AFL creates '18 Collingwoods' telling clubs to back end contracts

Irate AFL clubs have warned there will be “18 Collingwoods” forced into back-ending contracts to get under the reduced salary cap next year.

www.theage.com.au

 

[Tibbs]

Roos are way better financial position then us , I find it funny people think they should go even though we have way worse finances

Yeah, but they only have 27 members, and play to empty stadiums ... Farsical that they are in the league!

 

[Doctor Feel]

Roos are way better financial position then us , I find it funny people think they should go even though we have way worse finances

What?

 

[afl2004]

What?

we have heaps of debt they are debt free and post larger profits then port

 

[Pt Augusta Power]

we have heaps of debt they are debt free and post larger profits then port

They have better stadium deal, don’t have the sanfl bleeding them dry at their home games.

 

[Sleezy]

They have better stadium deal, don’t have the sanfl bleeding them dry at their home games.

Nah, they earn & spend about 30% less than every other club. If they put what we put into our footy department they'd be running $5m losses every year.

 

[yepits2020]

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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What a waste of public money. Should be an inquiry into why Tasmania is propping up Victoria