The AFL as a complete and utter farce as a competition and sport when Brisbane and Sydney, clubs based in states that couldn't give a stuff about the game, are able, no, handed 4 premierships of the past 5 years.
We have seen them receive huge salary cap concessions, Victorian based clubs selling home games to them, absurd and unforgivable Tribunal results fall into their favour (yes, I am looking at you B. Hall!), and them pose as a literal drain on the financial system all for the aim to 'expand the game' and make it 'a truly national competition'.
Now we have to painfully bare witness to Sydney's utterly boring and misguided game style that basically chokes play, removes contests, slows game speed to an abhorrent level, and literally makes negating players look like champions, and eventually endure whinges and sympathise with Brisbane once they finally hit rock bottom and begin to complain how we took away their blatantly unfair salary cap advantages in an attempt to balance the competition.
I mean, who actually cared when Brisbane or Sydney won their flags? The general consensus would have been one of 'Meh', accompanied by a casual shrug of the shoulders, which would have been in direct contrast to the AFL administration sitting back gleefully knowing their mission of crusading into foreign territory to steal more money from the unsuspecting sporting commoner was proceeding well.
In fact, I think it's fair to use the analogy of an newly created Adelaide or Perth based NRL club winning their competition's flag, since do you think anyone, apart from a few delusional supporters, would give a damn one iota? Well, it's the same with these imposters known as the Brisbane Lions and Sydney Swans winning premierships; stealing the glory of footy away from its Southern and Western heartlands, and turning it into a symbol of money and corporate expansionism.
The AFL, if it ever truly wants to become 'spiritually whole' again, must remove itself from the shores of Queensland and NSW (For this journey, if it is to succeed, will take several decades at least), reduce club numbers to 12 (thereby eliminating the financially draining Kangaroos and Western Bulldogs as well), create an even and balanced 24-round competition, and restore footy to the 'real' states; namely Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia.
It was a joke to ever invest in a rugby-dominated market, and will always be a comical joke while the AFL, under the tyrant Demetriou, continues to drag the spirit of the game into a desolate mire with the elusive aim of creating a 'national competition'.
We have seen them receive huge salary cap concessions, Victorian based clubs selling home games to them, absurd and unforgivable Tribunal results fall into their favour (yes, I am looking at you B. Hall!), and them pose as a literal drain on the financial system all for the aim to 'expand the game' and make it 'a truly national competition'.
Now we have to painfully bare witness to Sydney's utterly boring and misguided game style that basically chokes play, removes contests, slows game speed to an abhorrent level, and literally makes negating players look like champions, and eventually endure whinges and sympathise with Brisbane once they finally hit rock bottom and begin to complain how we took away their blatantly unfair salary cap advantages in an attempt to balance the competition.
I mean, who actually cared when Brisbane or Sydney won their flags? The general consensus would have been one of 'Meh', accompanied by a casual shrug of the shoulders, which would have been in direct contrast to the AFL administration sitting back gleefully knowing their mission of crusading into foreign territory to steal more money from the unsuspecting sporting commoner was proceeding well.
In fact, I think it's fair to use the analogy of an newly created Adelaide or Perth based NRL club winning their competition's flag, since do you think anyone, apart from a few delusional supporters, would give a damn one iota? Well, it's the same with these imposters known as the Brisbane Lions and Sydney Swans winning premierships; stealing the glory of footy away from its Southern and Western heartlands, and turning it into a symbol of money and corporate expansionism.
The AFL, if it ever truly wants to become 'spiritually whole' again, must remove itself from the shores of Queensland and NSW (For this journey, if it is to succeed, will take several decades at least), reduce club numbers to 12 (thereby eliminating the financially draining Kangaroos and Western Bulldogs as well), create an even and balanced 24-round competition, and restore footy to the 'real' states; namely Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia.
It was a joke to ever invest in a rugby-dominated market, and will always be a comical joke while the AFL, under the tyrant Demetriou, continues to drag the spirit of the game into a desolate mire with the elusive aim of creating a 'national competition'.
