Their list health does not delete their sh*tness.
Delete, no. Hence my comment.
A sh¡t list that has near full availability is still slightly more capable of winning the odd game compared to a sh¡t list decimated by injury.
Or they get listed at all for the reason that so many small indigenous kids turn out to be good small forwards, that a fair whack of your selections will too.
Sydney supporters are going full Nino, on Twitter.
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When reading that I was nervously waiting for something regarding the Father Son rule. Eventually I saw that one of their proposals was that teams who finished top 4 shouldn’t be able to match a FS bid in the first round.
Exhale, all good, no problem there for us.
P.S. I realise it’s just St Kilda barking. Doesn’t mean any or much of this sticks.
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They may have a point. But I’m weary of Saints whinging over every little thing that doesn’t go their way while ignoring the ■■■■ sandwich they repeatedly serve up their supporters and the entire league (yes we suck too blah blah).
They have a massive victim complex atm.
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Abit like us.
Complaining that we get nothing, while finishing 11th every year.
Even extending beyond that.
They complain about everything under the sun. And it starts at the top. It’s the club, not the supporters.
Just farkin get on with it and stop blaming everyone and everything else (it’s the former coach, it’s the draft, it’s Marvel we should be at the G cos we are a big club, it’s the northern clubs)
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I don’t think they should change F/S rules they already tightened it - it is just luck that Collingwood and Bulldogs have gotten some exceptional talent - we had our exceptional generational talent via F/S and lost it. The academies should exist but rules tightened so you cannot expose loopholes which is currently the situation
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The fact that the NSW clubs can claim the Riverina region as Academy zone, is just a joke.
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I wonder how much support the Saints will get from the rest of the competition/clubs on this one. You’d think most clubs outside of NSW/QLD clubs will get behind it (at very least privately), especially considering how strong three of the beneficiaries have been in recent years, and the fourth with an already scary amount of talent on their list and primed for their first finals campaign this year.
If it’s looked at through the lens of equalisation, I reckon it’s achieved what it set out to… Has definitely helped those clubs become pretty competitive or thereabouts.
Annable and Uwland being available in the draft to all clubs would make draft picks this year a whole lot more appealing to clubs in that 18-13 range who struggle to make a meaningful move up the ladder each year. It isn’t guaranteed route to success, but it’s another form of a leg up to help make the entire competition a little more balanced.
I thought Riverina was taken away from GWS?
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The fact that they don’t have specific zones, but get access to the whole State… is the biggest problem.
It’s just not right.
Father-Son is a completely different story, because we’re talking about a pool of 20-50 kids per club. 90% don’t even make it onto an AFL list.
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Brisbane and Gold Coast the same right?
Perfect distraction
South of the Barassi Line. Those guys all grew up with Aussie Rules.
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They do have specific zones. Very big ones of course.
We dare to dream.
Go North.
Down with Melbourne and Essendon.
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