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Some of you will get this!
Nah, we need someone to make fun of for being poor.
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You donât build a club by handing them finals or premiership, you need to build it from the off-field first. You want players to want to stay there, give them the absolute best facilities going around and actually put in coaches/support staff who know what they are doing. Sheeds was perfect for GWS and he got good help from Williams and others. Now, not many GWS players actually want to leave, most are forced out to reduce their list sizes.
They â â â â â â it up from the start, give them better facilities first and decent off-field help before trying to coax someone to stay. Set it up so people actually want to stay.
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Why not. Invasive species arenât out of the question.
When did Tom Lynch leave Adelaide?
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F U C K the AFL.
AFL doesnt have rules: it has ârulesâ, which all have âinterpretationsâ
No talking to players in contract, unlessâŚ
Contracts must be upheld, exceptâŚ
Can only trade 1 first round pick in a 2 year window, except whereâŚ
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They need to can the club nd move it to Tasmania
Players still leave GWS and they are far from a success. But yeah still ahead of the Suns.
Both GWS and the Suns have stadiums in the middle of nowhere. I reckon thatâs more of a handicap than any go home factor or even support staff.
The Gold Coast.
Where sporting teams go to die.
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They also make rules and fix those rules with more rules.
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Robbo written an article in HS slapping down Gill/AFL over the comments
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The suns are an absolute joke. Why the afl thought it would be a success nobody knows. Name a successful gold coast sporting team.
The afl should never expanded to 18 teams. It was all based on financial greed. The suns and the giants will never stand on their own two feet. The giants will end up like brisbane but will be in an even worse state. Theyâll win their couple of premierships but once that window is closed their players will flee like a plague has arrived. Noticed the giants players only sign 2 year deals. They are staying to win a flag and then plan to head to their home state.
The problem with the suns, like brisbane is they dont have success on the horizon to incentivice players to stay.
The AFL and other clubs will prop them up forever.
They just shouldnât be in the competition.
The fact the giants are already playing games in canberra shows you where their future is headed.
The AFL are just self serving scum bags
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The afl saw $$$$$ in the TV rights, forgot about the costs of not just setting it up, but the ongoing costs too.
Throwing a few million at a coke dealing rugby player to be a club ambassador in hindsight probably wasnât the best way to try and get a club culture started right. Good job of doing ya due diligence AFL
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Gillon McLachlan saying Tom Lynch could be paid as an ambassador a question of integrity ..Mark Robinson, Herald Sun
September 5, 2017 7:47pm
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.GILLON McLachlanâs declaration Tommy Lynch could be paid to be ambassador at Gold Coast is astonishing.
At worst, itâs salary cap tampering
At best, itâs a blatant attempt to pay Lynch so he doesnât abandon the AFLâs precious expansion club which, after seven years, is a basket case.
Lynch, 24, is one of the best key forwards in the game, but similar to the Suns has had a wretched year on the park
He has a season to run on his contact, but it wouldnât surprise if clubs have already began their campaign to recruit him.
Certainly for after the 2018 season. Probably after this season.
If a trade request was lodged this October, the trade would be near impossible, for Lynch is the future of this football club.
Chairman Tony Cochrane would blow a lid and say under no circumstances would Lynch be traded. He also said Rodney Eade would coach all of 2017 and you could write it âin my bloodâ. He also said Jaeger OâMeara would not be traded.
But heâs gettable.
McLachlanâs comments on Fox Footyâs On The Couch program on Monday night was a message to Lynch that staying at the Suns would be financially worthwhile.
How can the CEO say that?
How can clubs allow the AFL, and by extension the AFL Commission, to basically guarantee an ambassadorsâ salary before Lynch has even considered a contract extension?
Why is that integrity comes second when it involves the Suns?
Itâs a new club, but so are the top-four GWS Giants, and after seven years, surely free kick(backs) canât be continually dolled out because the Suns have been an AFL-run, mismanaged, poor-performing and culturally-bashed crusade from the start.
Perhaps in its worst state since that first season, part of the rescue mission is to keep Lynch and pay him monster-sized cash.
Itâs known the AFL paid Karmichael Hunt and Israel Folau in the vicinity of $1 million a season in their early years and it was arguably understandable because the AFL used them to make inroads into rugby league territory.
The Lynch situation is far from converting the otherwise converted.
With ambassadorâs cash, Lynch conceivably could be the highest paid player in the game if he re-signs with the Suns beyond 2018.
McLachlan clearly wants to see the Suns succeed, but his idea could send rival clubs bellowing in angst to the Commission.
âWe would never pay a guy in advance,â McLachlan said.
âIf he re-signed with the Suns and heâs the right guy to be an ambassador on the Gold Coast and Queensland, weâd do that. And heâs the type of guy who would. But we would never do a deal in advance.ââ
It doesnât matter if itâs in advance or not, Lynch now knows thereâs about a $1m for the taking on top of his close-to $1m salary.
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And as their accredited communication specialists keep telling us - this is what makes our game so great. Itâs the Australian Way. Built for Australian conditions.
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AFL teams need to be frachised. Just like American sport.
The quicker they are franchised the farking better the game will be.
Sporting administrators in Australia are a farking disgrace in nearly all our major sportsâŚAFL could be the worst.
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Before GC, the kangas where offered the opportunity to move up there. They would have received lots of concessions, extra draft picks etc. They turned it down.
Read that word as âmishmatched.â
Iâm sure my subconscious wasnât implying anything.
AFLâs strategy in growing Australian Rules Football in QLD and NSW has been nothing short of abysmal. Growing this game should not come at the detriment of the people that support it. Not sure which genius decided that the way to grow our game in NSW and QLD was for all the other footballing states to fund some crap soulless expansion teams that have no chance of survival once the money stops. Whatâs even more infuriating is that a footballing state THAT DOESNâT EVEN HAVE AN AFL TEAM supports the AFL by going to Hawthorn games in Launceston and North games in Hobart. That money goes straight out of Tassie and gets pumped into a Israel Folau contract, or to an AFL executive thatâll come up with another ridiculous idea about zoning.
We need a governing body to stop with the short term plans and short term thinking. It is not enough of a reason to have a team on the Gold Coast simply because itâs a growth area. Stop thinking that people in an area will all of a sudden love the game because they have an AFL team there. Stop alienating people by asking them to support this game without giving them their own team to support. Stop coming up with ridiculous ways of getting players to stay at these expansion teams at the expense of every other team in the competition. Stop resting on your laurels just because you have a you beaut TV rights deal.
We need a governing body that understands where itâs at in the landscape of sport in this country. Itâs a sport that is played in VIC, SA, WA, TAS, NT and Southern NSW (including ACT).
Give Tasmania a team. Give NT a team. Give Canberra a team. A new team in a football area will succeed.
The AFL can afford ONE team in Sydney, and ONE team in Brisbane. Donât give them any special treatment. If they suck, they suck. Nobody in Sydney or Brisbane cares if they suck anyway. Use the money that the rest of the competition makes to allow both of these teams to function at a similar level to everyone else. Iâd be happy to support these teams. Iâd be happy if they relocated North Melbourne somewhere because nobody cares about them as it stands.
Consolidate your football areas. Make AFL the ONLY mainstream winter sport played in Melbourne. I like Rugby League but if I worked at the AFL Iâd be making life as tough as possible on the Melbourne Storm. If the Bombers are playing at the same time as the Storm make people make a choice. Start scheduling big games on at the same time as when Storm plays. Make the NRL a game that is only played in 2 States. Make it so they donât want to bring an Origin game down here occasionally. If the NRL want to stay Melbourne make them earn it.
Start to cut into their markets. Get a team in Canberra and go head to head with the Brumbies and the Raiders. Manuka Oval gets filled when they get AFL games there. 8000 people at Manuka on a Sunday could take a couple of thousand people away from watching a Raiders game. The ACT is the frontline of the battle north. Spend money on developing an already healthy grass roots program and grow the local competitions. Keep taking the next town up. Get this game to a position that itâs swallowing up Rugby League territories.
Anyway rant over. Time to channel this anger at how weâll get screwed up in Sydney on Saturday. Go Bombers.
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