Rumour File #4.

[Wickzki]

Strange reports about Toy, maybe it's just people being a bit impatient and wanting early results from a highly rated youngster. We sure heard some rubbish about Yarran in his first year. Toy is widely known as being very level headed with a great work ethic.

Perhaps, it could be that he wants to return home and has made that much known. Then you have a faction of legitimate insiders using the homesickness as "Oh! Shock, horror! Kid wants to go home... We put so much effort into him.. He must be a bad egg".

People are definitely saying bad things about him. That much is fact.

Yaz could be the perfect comparison. How many times did he return home in his first year?

 

[jrussell4brownlow]

I have heard from good sources (staffers up high in Melbourne sports and rec political offices) that Demetriou is toying with a concept to relocate North Melbourne to Ireland to increase the AFL's international reach. The plan is to have the Irish Kangaroos debut in 2014 at which point they can sign any Irishman even if contracted with another club. i.e. Tuohy and O'Hailpin. They will also change their colours to a green and white vertical stripe with a clover insignia. Dermott Brereton is in secret negotiations to become the clubs first coach out of Dublin and Aisake O'Hailpin is being tipped to return to the game as ruckman.

 

[HARKER]

I have heard from good sources (staffers up high in Melbourne sports and rec political offices) that Demetriou is toying with a concept to relocate North Melbourne to Ireland to increase the AFL's international reach. The plan is to have the Irish Kangaroos debut in 2014 at which point they can sign any Irishman even if contracted with another club. i.e. Tuohy and O'Hailpin. They will also change their colours to a green and white vertical stripe with a clover insignia. Dermott Brereton is in secret negotiations to become the clubs first coach out of Dublin and Aisake O'Hailpin is being tipped to return to the game as ruckman.

Not sure if you're setting this one up for a laugh, but such notions would well have been discussed and will be even moreso in times to come.
We'll have a very different game come 2030.

 

[Sin City]

I have heard from good sources (staffers up high in Melbourne sports and rec political offices) that Demetriou is toying with a concept to relocate North Melbourne to Ireland to increase the AFL's international reach. The plan is to have the Irish Kangaroos debut in 2014 at which point they can sign any Irishman even if contracted with another club. i.e. Tuohy and O'Hailpin. They will also change their colours to a green and white vertical stripe with a clover insignia. Dermott Brereton is in secret negotiations to become the clubs first coach out of Dublin and Aisake O'Hailpin is being tipped to return to the game as ruckman.

At least it's more original than the Goddard crap

 

[Blues_FC]

I have heard from good sources (staffers up high in Melbourne sports and rec political offices) that Demetriou is toying with a concept to relocate North Melbourne to Ireland to increase the AFL's international reach. The plan is to have the Irish Kangaroos debut in 2014 at which point they can sign any Irishman even if contracted with another club. i.e. Tuohy and O'Hailpin. They will also change their colours to a green and white vertical stripe with a clover insignia. Dermott Brereton is in secret negotiations to become the clubs first coach out of Dublin and Aisake O'Hailpin is being tipped to return to the game as ruckman.

I loled

 

[jrussell4brownlow]

Not sure if you're setting this one up for a laugh, but such notions would well have been discussed and will be even moreso in times to come.
We'll have a very different game come 2030.

My apologies, I'm just verrrry bored at work.

 

[HARKER]

My apologies, I'm just verrrry bored at work.

It's OK. I know you were kidding. Aisake a ruckman. We all know he'd make for forward.
You had though touched on one of my pet AFL topics, being Expansion.

It was probably a laughable notion that we'd have teams in N.S.W. and Queensland only 40 years ago.
The world's compressing all the time and new markets for all sorts of things are being sought here, there and everywhere.
They have to be. Stand still and you'll get swallowed up.

I have my own views on the markets we may be aiming at, and have not really considered Ireland as being one of those, for the distance resistance reasons, but who knows what may be possible in the not too distant future.

What's worthy of a laugh today, can possibly be a reality tomorrow.

 

[NAUGHT5]

http://www.terminalu.com/travel-new...sonic-plane-could-be-a-reality-by-2050/10888/

Any coincidence that these rumours came out in the same week?

 

[HARKER]

http://www.terminalu.com/travel-new...sonic-plane-could-be-a-reality-by-2050/10888/

Any coincidence that these rumours came out in the same week?

Seriously though, who's going to want to waste a full day in an aerolpane in years to come?
That alone will be laughable..

I think we've already got the ball rolling in Ireland, and at best guess the Irish wouldn't mind pocketting a lazy mil kicking the oval ball around as opposed to zilch with the round.

 

[Wickzki]

It was probably a laughable notion that we'd have teams in N.S.W. and Queensland only 40 years ago.

I have my own views on the markets we may be aiming at, and have not really considered Ireland as being one of those, for the distance resistance reasons, but who knows what may be possible in the not too distant future.

Forty years ago and you'd have most people finding it laughable that the league would expand outside of Victoria let alone become a truly national competition; and in essence have the league forced into changing its name from VFL to AFL. A lot of the older brigade still claim it to be the "death of the game."

As for future markets I would not be surprised in the slightest if in the next fifteen or twenty years serious consideration was made into expanding the team internationally (albeit in the Oceanic region) with a team in New Zealand. I'm not saying that it's going to happen but I would not be surprised if the AFL publicly had discussed the idea. Have a feeling there would be a permanent team based out of NZ before a more traditional football home was awarded a team (Tasmania).

 

[HARKER]

As for future markets I would not be surprised in the slightest if in the next fifteen or twenty years serious consideration was made into expanding the team internationally (albeit in the Oceanic region) with a team in New Zealand. I'm not saying that it's going to happen but I would not be surprised if the AFL publicly had discussed the idea. Have a feeling there would be a permanent team based out of NZ before a more traditional football home was awarded a team (Tasmania).

Yep, me too.
I tend to think that the AFL is more likely to be wanting to cut into the markets of other codes than just trying to milk it from established grounds.
Once the wider base is in place then the foundations will start to get laid.
Buy the land. Lay the foundations. Build the home.

 

[HBF]

Can we at least get a photoshopped Goddard in a Carlton jumper?
Zee, i'm looking directly at you.

 

[Wickzki]

It's been done before

 

[coryne]

It's been done before

That is a TERRIBLE PS job !!!!!!!! I mean is Duthis can knock up a realalistic pic of her and Nixon in bed then surely someone could do a better Goddard in a Carlton jumper !!!!!!

 

[jrussell4brownlow]

As for future markets I would not be surprised in the slightest if in the next fifteen or twenty years serious consideration was made into expanding the team internationally (albeit in the Oceanic region) with a team in New Zealand. I'm not saying that it's going to happen but I would not be surprised if the AFL publicly had discussed the idea. Have a feeling there would be a permanent team based out of NZ before a more traditional football home was awarded a team (Tasmania).

There'd be riots in the streets of Hobart (all 4 of them) if NZ got an AFL team over Tassie.

What IS attractive about Tas and NZ coming into the AFL is their prospective guernseys. Tas would be the first team in green, and NZ the first team in all black and possibly forcing a radical Collingwood away strip. (wishful thinking).

On another note - how many Maori's have played AFL if any?

 

[HBF]

It's been done before

If only........
*sigh*

 

[HARKER]

On another note - how many Maori's have played AFL if any?

K. Hunt is of Samoan origin.

Is Bower part Maori?
Just don't recall his heritage.

Dustin Martin?

If the talent is there, money speaks

 

[zeeCFC]

Haha...might try to whip up a PS later tonight.

Aaron Edwards would have an Islander background.

 

[HBF]

Daniel McCalister who played at Essendon had an islander background IIRC.

 

[C4[2]Yo`DooR]

Haha...might try to whip up a PS later tonight.

Aaron Edwards would have an Islander background.

Aaron Edwards is Samoan.

Has a massive tattoo saying SAMOA across his stomach ala Ben Cousins/Tupac.

 

[C4[2]Yo`DooR]

Shane Savage from Hawthorn is Maori.

 

[Malifice]

K. Hunt is of Samoan origin.

Is Bower part Maori?
Just don't recall his heritage.

Dustin Martin?

If the talent is there, money speaks

Paul Bower is indeed Maori.

Proudly so.

Dustin Martin also.

 

[Wickzki]

Bloody Kiwis are going to steal Bower from us!

 

[Malifice]

Also Wayne Schwass and Donald Dickie (50 odd games for Port) and Daniel Macallister (played a few for Essendon) are Maori.

The Croads are also Kiwi's (but not Maori). Trents dad played for the all Blacks.

Edit: Just found out he has a NZ fern leaf tattoo.

Good to see a NZ team one day.

It'll happen, but not for another 20-30 or so years.

 

[fbfpf]

Duigan out this week.