Who Runs Football ?

[ptw]

I think the current structure for running football in Australia is flawed.

As a result of the expansion of the VFL to the AFL, the AFL has now assumed some role for the overall development of the game throughout Australia. Fair Enough.

The problem I have with this is that the AFL exist to run a league...one competiton. They may take a longer term view and spend money in say Queensland...but only to the betterment of the AFL (ie eventually you may be able to support another side in the AFL from Queensland).

I cannot see the AFL supporting an intitiative which does not have any short term or long term benefit for the AFL as a competition, but does benefit football as a whole.

A good example would be football in the NT. Clearly the NT will never be able to support an AFL side...so if the AFL has a limited budget and must choose between NSW and NT then it will choose NSW....regardless of the merits of such a decision in terms of the good of the game. Supporting NSW is in the best interests of the AFL but not necessarily football as a whole.

A lot of clubs and leagues around the country are struggling due to the nationalisation of the VFL. The existance of these clubs and leagues is important for the future of the game itself (if not the AFL) but there are no funds or bodies whose mandate is the good of the game. There used to be the NFL which had a sort of over-arching role...why could we not have a similar body...funded out of the AFL, SANFL and WAFL for devloping football in the non-football states ?

but then......


ptw

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[magpie_joffa]

Who runs football??

The south australian prick with specs
who for some perverted reason is thucking up our great game

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[Visro]

Well according to a tv report, a melbourne taxi driver organised the AFL fixtures which is very very SCARY

Apparently he was a mathematical genius which makes you wonder why he drives a cab. But then when it comes from Dennis Commettis (sp?) it could be mean he passed first grade.

Vis

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[Port Adelaide 1870]

Originally posted by ptw:
I think the current structure for running football in Australia is flawed.

As a result of the expansion of the VFL to the AFL, the AFL has now assumed some role for the overall development of the game throughout Australia. Fair Enough.

The problem I have with this is that the AFL exist to run a league...one competiton. They may take a longer term view and spend money in say Queensland...but only to the betterment of the AFL (ie eventually you may be able to support another side in the AFL from Queensland).

I cannot see the AFL supporting an intitiative which does not have any short term or long term benefit for the AFL as a competition, but does benefit football as a whole.

A good example would be football in the NT. Clearly the NT will never be able to support an AFL side...so if the AFL has a limited budget and must choose between NSW and NT then it will choose NSW....regardless of the merits of such a decision in terms of the good of the game. Supporting NSW is in the best interests of the AFL but not necessarily football as a whole.

A lot of clubs and leagues around the country are struggling due to the nationalisation of the VFL. The existance of these clubs and leagues is important for the future of the game itself (if not the AFL) but there are no funds or bodies whose mandate is the good of the game. There used to be the NFL which had a sort of over-arching role...why could we not have a similar body...funded out of the AFL, SANFL and WAFL for devloping football in the non-football states ?

but then......


ptw

[This message has been edited by ptw (edited 25 January 2001).]

ptw,

We did have the NFL..its intentions and mandate were the betterement of Football in Australia, This however conflicted with the benefit of Football in the VFL on to many occassions....As your thread seems to say...


The NFL was dissolved...the VFL refused to play interclub NFL games...the VFL refused to play State games in any form of regular fashion...The VFL finally effectively dissolved the NFL, giving it open slather in running rough shod over other state leagues and guiding football agenda without discussion in the VFL's favour.....

That is how it went......


The AFL cannot now allow consensus between state leagues and itself..it is now too big and self serving to look at what are Australian Rules best interests...

The Interests of the AFL are paramount......

The reason...Big business and profit...

If it is not profitable or allows big business to make profit, through and with the AFL it will never be on the Agenda


Adelaide Perth Brisbane & Sydney have clubs...they are effectivelly Profit extraction centres or business enhancement vehicles to allow the AFL muscle in negotiating with big business.

PA1870

 

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