Expansion Suspensions for AFL administrators

[zachary]

In defending its decision to hold this weeks preliminary finals at night. AFL COO Gillon McLachlan said "more people are at home to be able to watch it and consume it" I'm quite happy for the games to be at night, but how do you CONSUME a football match? Excuse me while I un-consume my lunch. Haven't these guys realised that football supporters hate that kind of talk. I'd like to propose a suspension regime for AFL administrators who denigrate our game with their corporate jibber-jabber. Here are a few suggestions:
Calling our game a "product" - 2 weeks without pay;
Calling a club a "franchise" - 4 weeks;
Calling a community a "market" - 6 months;
Using the word "consume" in reference to football in any context other than chips or beer - a life ban for bringing the game into disrepute.
Feel free to add to these.

 

[Father Jack]

Fine, then don't get people with a business background to run the AFL. You'll be consuming chips and beer at the soccer within a decade.

 

[Subprime]

Its how sports administrators talk. I've heard the CEO of Cricket Australia say something like 'people consuming the game via the internet'. You'd think they'd snap out of it when they talk to the press but they don't.

 

[Monty of the Shire]

In defending its decision to hold this weeks preliminary finals at night. AFL COO Gillon McLachlan said "more people are at home to be able to watch it and consume it" I'm quite happy for the games to be at night, but how do you CONSUME a football match? Excuse me while I un-consume my lunch. Haven't these guys realised that football supporters hate that kind of talk. I'd like to propose a suspension regime for AFL administrators who denigrate our game with their corporate jibber-jabber. Here are a few suggestions:
Calling our game a "product" - 2 weeks without pay;
Calling a club a "franchise" - 4 weeks;
Calling a community a "market" - 6 months;
Using the word "consume" in reference to football in any context other than chips or beer - a life ban for bringing the game into disrepute.
Feel free to add to these.

absolutely mate, gets my goat bigtime. they do it in league & soccer as well. the franchise one in particular annoys me - reminds me of a maccas or subway. a club has members, a franchise has customers - the difference between those in my eyes is massive . they'd do well to remember that members are loyal to clubs, customers couldnt give a **** about franchises/shops.

 

[twentytwo]

absolutely mate, gets my goat bigtime. they do it in league & soccer as well. the franchise one in particular annoys me - reminds me of a maccas or subway. a club has members, a franchise has customers - the difference between those in my eyes is massive . they'd do well to remember that members are loyal to clubs, customers couldnt give a **** about franchises/shops.

What about a Coffee Club franchise?

I'm torn, I really like the one at Knox City.

 

[Monty of the Shire]

In defending its decision to hold this weeks preliminary finals at night. AFL COO Gillon McLachlan said "more people are at home to be able to watch it and consume it" I'm quite happy for the games to be at night, but how do you CONSUME a football match? Excuse me while I un-consume my lunch. Haven't these guys realised that football supporters hate that kind of talk. I'd like to propose a suspension regime for AFL administrators who denigrate our game with their corporate jibber-jabber. Here are a few suggestions:
Calling our game a "product" - 2 weeks without pay;
Calling a club a "franchise" - 4 weeks;
Calling a community a "market" - 6 months;
Using the word "consume" in reference to football in any context other than chips or beer - a life ban for bringing the game into disrepute.
Feel free to add to these.

What about a Coffee Club franchise?

I'm torn, I really like the one at Knox City.

capitalist pig! viva la revolution!

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Bloody Oath. Corporate types learn the lingo of business schools and their industry so when they enter the AFL they should learn it's lingo. I know because I have gone thru this process myself.

There is no doubt that the AFL can and should attract professionals but they should junk the garbage speak.

I hate the word franchise in relation to the clubs. The clubs built the league and the game not the AFL. The clubs built their image, logo's, colours etc and handed them to the AFL not the other way round like McDonald's or Wendy's handed them out to franchisees.

The NFL, NBA, MLB and their clubs are there for one reason. To make money for their private owners. They can call their clubs franchises. That bullshit corporate speak doesn't belong in our game.

 

[zachary]

If I could add to my list of gripes, I also object to the AFL treating club guernseys like product wrappers, and club songs like advertising jingles. A guernsey is a flag and a club song is an anthem. I realise this thread has a tenuous connection with expansion, but I was thinking about how the AFL is going about organising these new clubs and I would really like them to get in the right mindset when it lets them in. They seem to have unlimited power over design when it comes to away jumpers ( I hate the word strip too, by the way) but they never seem to use it when a club comes up with one that looks like a lolly wrapper.

 

[fishmonger]

In defending its decision to hold this weeks preliminary finals at night. AFL COO Gillon McLachlan said "more people are at home to be able to watch it and consume it" I'm quite happy for the games to be at night, but how do you CONSUME a football match? Excuse me while I un-consume my lunch. Haven't these guys realised that football supporters hate that kind of talk. I'd like to propose a suspension regime for AFL administrators who denigrate our game with their corporate jibber-jabber. Here are a few suggestions:
Calling our game a "product" - 2 weeks without pay;
Calling a club a "franchise" - 4 weeks;
Calling a community a "market" - 6 months;
Using the word "consume" in reference to football in any context other than chips or beer - a life ban for bringing the game into disrepute.
Feel free to add to these.

Love it.

But Gillon would never be able to return to work.

He is still on 12 months suspension for saying that "Sydney is not yet an AFL state"

for one, Sydney is not a state

two, what exactly is meant by "AFL state" ?

three, if he thinks this means a place where AFL is the #1 code, then even with his 100 year plan he is very wrong - it never will be. Soccer will be #1 in Sydney long before AFL.

Then Demetriou would have to get 3 years for saying "not now, not ever" to Tasmania getting an AFL team, only to do a 180 just a few weeks later after hearing of the A-League bid.

And then there is the Demetriou and GC17

"As a code I think we do that particularly well. Whoever gets on board with the GC17 team is going to get some great benefits out of it."

So to Andrew supporters are the equivalent of sponsors ...

class A corporate clowns.