Mega Thread Port Forum General AFL Thread Part 31

[Teal Leviathan]

The AFL has been referred for investigation by the Royal Commission into antisemitism after it was revealed direct references to the “Jewish community” were removed from a pre-match tribute honouring victims of the Bondi terrorist attack.
Embattled AFL chief executive Andrew Dillon failed to explain during a series of weekend interviews how a speech delivered by Sydney CEO Matthew Pavlich before the Opening Round Swans-Carlton match at the SCG had failed to mention the Jewish community. “I don’t know what happened with the script,” Dillon told 3AW on Saturday. But footy great Gerard Healy later revealed that “the script was changed” in a bid to de-politicise the tribute.

What a complete f'ing mess. If you sketched out all the possible ways that Sydney and the AFL could've handled a tribute to the victims of the Bondi Massacre, this would have to be the worst of them.

 

[El_Scorcho]

I know it aint AFL, but my beloved Greenacres FC club that I grew up playing footy with the likes of Bomber Clifford looks like it won't playing in the Adelaide ammo league this season

Maybe someone with a News Corp subscription can fill me in.

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I played 2 seasons of junior footy at Greenacres, sad to see them in so much trouble.

 

[PatientMental]

Did have a chuckle at lloyd bemoaning how bad essendon were going and the graphic had '5 missed tackles'

Those are rookie numbers matthew, you gotta pump those numbers up.

 

[SparklingAle69]

i cant believe theres a guy in the league named Errol that's the best thing about footy now

Oh Errol!! I would give anything just to be like you.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

Did have a chuckle at lloyd bemoaning how bad essendon were going and the graphic had '5 missed tackles'

Those are rookie numbers matthew, you gotta pump those numbers up.

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Not sure why he is bringing Port into it either

 

[Ported]

wow he really has grown

 

[RossFC]

25m works well in the SANFL. A bloke sneezes in the AFL and it's 50m.

 

[Capital Power]

25m works well in the SANFL. A bloke sneezes in the AFL and it's 50m.
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Ah yes, the old "we've used this rule to suit our agenda for years, but now it's affecting Collingwood we need to change it" routine...

 

[Lefti93]

Ah yes, the old "we've used this rule to suit our agenda for years, but now it's affecting Collingwood we need to change it" routine...

It should 100% be changed to 25m, but yeah lol at the fact it's a topic after Collingwood get burnt for it. There'd be nothing said about it if it went the other way.

 

[FishingRick04]

I thoughtnthe good bloke rule to avoid suspension was gone? Alas it's back for pendles

 

[Jonts]

I thoughtnthe good bloke rule to avoid suspension was gone? Alas it's back for pendles

Off field good bloke gone
On field good record still there

 

[Cheese Tastes Good]

didn't a collingwood player jump into someones head and end their career and play in the GF? nothing should surprise you in this sick game

 

[SC_Power]

I know it aint AFL, but my beloved Greenacres FC club that I grew up playing footy with the likes of Bomber Clifford looks like it won't playing in the Adelaide ammo league this season

Maybe someone with a News Corp subscription can fill me in.

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Relevant comments

Struggling division seven club Mawson Lakes and division five club Greenacres will not amalgamate this year after failing to meet timelines for a merger within the AdFL regulations.
The clubs will need to remain as separate entities this coming season but this masthead understands both outfits will aim to move ahead with plans to amalgamate for 2027.

… a number of other AdFL clubs were unhappy about the amalgamation and were prepared to protest the possibility.
One club representative was concerned about the last-minute nature of the merger and the potential to create an uneven competition.
“It wasn’t going to be a complete transformation and one club wasn’t going to completely absorb the other, just take on their players for minimal player points when there are other clubs crying out for players,” they said.

 

[StueyDaDew]

Relevant comments

Struggling division seven club Mawson Lakes and division five club Greenacres will not amalgamate this year after failing to meet timelines for a merger within the AdFL regulations.
The clubs will need to remain as separate entities this coming season but this masthead understands both outfits will aim to move ahead with plans to amalgamate for 2027.

… a number of other AdFL clubs were unhappy about the amalgamation and were prepared to protest the possibility.
One club representative was concerned about the last-minute nature of the merger and the potential to create an uneven competition.
“It wasn’t going to be a complete transformation and one club wasn’t going to completely absorb the other, just take on their players for minimal player points when there are other clubs crying out for players,” they said.

Thanks, bud the headline was a little bit misleading.

Thinking that both clubs will be insolvent in 2026 and unable to play in the ammo comp until they have another attempt at merging in 2027.

 

[SC_Power]

Thanks, bud the headline was a little bit misleading.

Thinking that both clubs will be insolvent in 2026 and unable to play in the ammo comp until they have another attempt at merging in 2027.

They basically have been insolvent since October last year, but the league rules state you need 12 months notice to undertake a merger or equivalent. The league also admit they need to find a more “fluid” way of dealing with circumstances like this.

 

[Steve Dore]

So Greenacres Mawson Lakes bid to be the twentieth AFL team is looking a bit shaky.

 

[SC_Power]

So Greenacres Mawson Lakes bid to be the twentieth AFL team is looking a bit shaky.

Well, “Mawson Lakes is the place to be….” Doesn’t have the same ring about it.

 

[Steve Dore]

Well, “Mawson Lakes is the place to be….” Doesn’t have the same ring about it.

 

[StueyDaDew]

Well, “Mawson Lakes is the place to be….” Doesn’t have the same ring about it.

When I moved interstate from Adelaide back in the 90’s I’m not sure Mawson Lakes even existed.
Wasn’t that ment to be The Multi function Polis?

 

[Rising Power]

When I moved interstate from Adelaide back in the 90’s I’m not sure Mawson Lakes even existed.
Wasn’t that ment to be The Multi function Polis?

"The Levels"

 

[68vette]

"The Levels"

As a kid there was a path, through some farmers paddocks, from the Greenfields railway station across to The Levels. During school holidays we would ride our bikes across to The Levels to play the video games and use the courts.

There was an urban myth that there was a farmer that would shoot you with a slug gun if he caught you crossing his paddocks so we would ride like the wind.

The things you believe as a kid.

 

[Steve Dore]

"The Levels"

One of my brothers studied at the SAIT The Levels campus. What a trip to the barren middle of nowhere that was.

 

[240volt]

When I moved interstate from Adelaide back in the 90’s I’m not sure Mawson Lakes even existed.
Wasn’t that ment to be The Multi function Polis?

Yeah I moved from Adelaide in the late 90’s and it was swamp land.
Things have changed massively since then.

 

[Grave Danger]

One of my brothers studied at the SAIT The Levels campus. What a trip to the barren middle of nowhere that was.

The last time we had a coalition government in WA they decided to rebrand all the TAFEs as Institutes of Technology, except for one which they bizarrely named a Polytechnic. I don't know if that one offered a different range of courses to all the others, but it seemed like a very old fashioned/outmoded title. Needless to say, as soon as Labor got back in they changed them all back to TAFEs. The places that genuinely were institutes of technology long ago morphed into being called universities.

 

[68vette]

Yeah I moved from Adelaide in the late 90’s and it was swamp land.
Things have changed massively since then.

It has always been paddocks as far back as I can remember, some of it owned by the old Gepps Cross abattoirs and farmers. I have been living in the area for over 50 years. I even went to the local Primary school and High School. Know the area very well.

It might have originally been wet lands/swamp land before being claimed for farming and housing. The local council has installed wetlands along the Salisbury Hwy and Port River Express way. The Salt Lakes and Globe Derby areas are shrinking by the day for more housing and business. Even the rail line has been electrified.

It has changed a lot from me chasing yabbies and tadpoles in the local waterways.