Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[Jason K]

I think they would be happy with segregation. No mixed supporter buses, schools and pubs.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

You should have thrown your own faeces at them.

That would have learned them.

And given them something to really whinge about. ****ing Port scum.

 

[Adz2332]

http://www.sen.com.au/news/12-15/return-to-afl-reserves-being-considered#5qUBXYKo0K8bOJpc.97

if this was to happen would Port tell the SANFL to stick their competition up their ass and withdraw the magpies and have them running around in this comp instead??

 

[diegodcg]

http://www.rlwc2017.com/

I guess you guys couldn't care less but I'm looking forward to this competition.

 

[diegodcg]

You said you like Westerns yeah?

You might want to check out The Proposition (2005) which is about Australian outlaws in the late 1800's.

It's pretty good, a lot of effort went into making it a historically accurate portrayal too.

Is it about the so-called bushrangers? I read a bit about them in the book I'm reading on the history of Australia.
Anyway - thanks for the suggestion, I've added it to my to-watch list

 

[Lagooner]

http://www.sen.com.au/news/12-15/return-to-afl-reserves-being-considered#5qUBXYKo0K8bOJpc.97

if this was to happen would Port tell the SANFL to stick their competition up their ass and withdraw the magpies and have them running around in this comp instead??

So far up they'd be able to smell it's rotting corpse.

 

[manureid]

Not sure if this is the right thread, but I'm a rebel anyhow.

This year I moved home to Adelaide after 20 years away. The young fella did 3 terms of year 7 here so we didn't really get to know many of the other parents. He had his year 7 graduation dinner at the Seaton Hotel the other night and we were put at a table with one of his closer friends families. All was going good, was getting along great and having a good time.

Poor ole Jackson Trengove walks in for a quiet meal with a mate, totally unaware that a school bloody dinner was happening. Poor guy was not left alone for a good 20 mins.

Anyhow, this family we were sitting with asked what all the fuss was about and I said "thats J.T over there". As soon as it was apparent to them we were Port members, they snubbed us. I mean completely ignored us for the rest of the night. All 7 of them.

Seriously, I can't stand the crows, but wow.

Oh well, no skin off our noses. Bit of lol moment really.

Sounds like you got the best deal out of it really. At least you did not have to mingle with a bunch of tossers for the rest of the night.

 

[Grave Danger]

http://www.sen.com.au/news/12-15/return-to-afl-reserves-being-considered#5qUBXYKo0K8bOJpc.97

if this was to happen would Port tell the SANFL to stick their competition up their ass and withdraw the magpies and have them running around in this comp instead??

Another story I read on this indicates that this is just for the Victorian AFL clubs. Very expensive to make it fully national.

 

[Lagooner]

Another story I read on this indicates that this is just for the Victorian AFL clubs. Very expensive to make it fully national.

Doesn't mean we can't join the party. Don't we already pay $400,000 per year just to play in the Fruchoc Cup?

I'd be happy to redirect those funds towards playing against better opposition who, as an added bonus, don't exist to f@#k us over.

 

[LukeSA]

Doesn't mean we can't join the party. Don't we already pay $400,000 per year just to play in the Fruchoc Cup?

I'd be happy to redirect those funds towards playing against better opposition who, as an added bonus, don't exist to f@#k us over.

You can bet anything you like, if we threaten to pull out of their shitty little competition they will try with everything they've got to keep us here.

 

[scotty13]

You can bet anything you like, if we threaten to pull out of their shitty little competition they will try with everything they've got to keep us here.

Yep... suddenly we will be able to get our zones back, use ex afl footballers for all our top up players, not have to pay money each year to play in their comp...

 

[Portology]

Another story I read on this indicates that this is just for the Victorian AFL clubs. Very expensive to make it fully national.

Just on expenses, lets look at the possible maximum for a second tier comp based on Vic+SA:

12 clubs, 10x Vic + 2x SA. 22 H&A rounds = 10 additional trips to Vic for each SA-based team and two trips to SA for each Vic-based team.

As long as the AFL "equalizes" travel expense for SA teams, why not++? Leaving aside "screw the bloody SANFL", which is a poorly stated but legitimate business objective, the biggest benefit for us is having a development squad play under full AFL rules and interpretations and against their exact peers in teams with exactly the same objectives, so we can measure their progress more effectively and map it more clearly from one tier to the next.

IIRC, the AFL already effectively run the VFL, so this move isn't about taking over the development league in Vic, it's about giving all Vic clubs equal control over their participation in it rather than the current somewhat haphazard mix of VFL joint ventures and full subsidiaries.

I see it a stepping stone on the way to getting them to run their own, standardized academies as well, which in my naive view could align well with the TAC cup regional sides, as a "third tier". OK, I'll use the dreaded word I've been avoiding: zones. When zone-academies lead directly to draft bids and priority access we will have to re-calibrate the objectives, focus and playing location of our Academy, but that is all speculation for a few years out yet IMO.

Would love to see the AFL negotiate the next CBA taking into account this massive expansion of AFLPA ranks - trading it off against some of the "increases" the AFLPA would naturally/normally seek to extract from the media deals.

++ cue negotiation/"emotiation" over the beloved PB. If we can't wear it in any regular comp anymore, then grant us the right to wear it regularly in "heritage" rounds, and the ANZAC round, including any of those that happen to be home games Vs Collingwood. Codify our rights once and for all.

 

[Grave Danger]

Hey, this is in the vicinity of sensible discussion about AFL matters and has no place here - perhaps it should be moved to the AFL General thread?

 

[Lagooner]

Just on expenses, lets look at the possible maximum for a second tier comp based on Vic+SA:

12 clubs, 10x Vic + 2x SA. 22 H&A rounds = 10 additional trips to Vic for each SA-based team and two trips to SA for each Vic-based team.

As long as the AFL "equalizes" travel expense for SA teams, why not++? Leaving aside "screw the bloody SANFL", which is a poorly stated but legitimate business objective, the biggest benefit for us is having a development squad play under full AFL rules and interpretations and against their exact peers in teams with exactly the same objectives, so we can measure their progress more effectively and map it more clearly from one tier to the next.

IIRC, the AFL already effectively run the VFL, so this move isn't about taking over the development league in Vic, it's about giving all Vic clubs equal control over their participation in it rather than the current somewhat haphazard mix of VFL joint ventures and full subsidiaries.

I see it a stepping stone on the way to getting them to run their own, standardized academies as well, which in my naive view could align well with the TAC cup regional sides, as a "third tier". OK, I'll use the dreaded word I've been avoiding: zones. When zone-academies lead directly to draft bids and priority access we will have to re-calibrate the objectives, focus and playing location of our Academy, but that is all speculation for a few years out yet IMO.

Would love to see the AFL negotiate the next CBA taking into account this massive expansion of AFLPA ranks - trading it off against some of the "increases" the AFLPA would naturally/normally seek to extract from the media deals.

++ cue negotiation/"emotiation" over the beloved PB. If we can't wear it in any regular comp anymore, then grant us the right to wear it regularly in "heritage" rounds, and the ANZAC round, including any of those that happen to be home games Vs Collingwood. Codify our rights once and for all.

I think it would be really beneficial to play against the Victorian club's reserves, learning the strengths and weaknesses of your future opposition first hand could prove quite handy.

As for the PB's once a year plus any future heritage rounds should be our standard arrangement.

 

[Steve Dore]

Hey, this is in the vicinity of sensible discussion about AFL matters and has no place here - perhaps it should be moved to the AFL General thread?

#pooeckert

 

[Steve Dore]

Time to get yourselves an electric car tree huggers

 

[Doctor Feel]

 

[I Dont Care]

Time to get yourselves an electric car tree huggers

Meh. Whats the use in having speed if you can't hear it?

 

[Portology]

Hey, this is in the vicinity of sensible discussion about AFL matters and has no place here - perhaps it should be moved to the AFL General thread?

Poo eckert to you too!

 

[Shaxx Attaxx]

Meh. Whats the use in having speed if you can't hear it?

$157,000's worth of tree huggin fun.

 

[I Dont Care]

$157,000's worth of tree huggin fun.

Would still do this though

 

[edgie]

Would still do this though

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Would not do.

Red walls on a blue car, what were they thinking.

 

[LukeSA]

Would still do this though

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How much is a decent phase IV going for these days?

 

[Lagooner]

How much is a decent phase IV going for these days?

Probably more than the Tesla.

 

[Lagooner]

Would not do.

Red walls on a blue car, what were they thinking.

The options are pretty black and white ay?