Particularly given they’ve all signed a CBA, not individual contracts.
Your first sentence here seems to contradict the second.
Personally, I could cope with matesy, nepotistic boys-club behaviour if it was a park footy committee giving up their Saturdays and evenings for free. It happens everywhere in local sport.
For the money they’re paying themselves, we should expect more. A lot more.
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Yes but to be fair they need to keep themselves in readiness (caviar, champagne, and practising making terrible decisions) for the season starting.
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They are making huge sacrifices this year. Huge sacrifices. They won’t be going to Wimbledon, and even their junket to the Super Bowl may be in doubt.
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Been watching some early 2000s game and even then the commentators just, commentate. It’s so much better to watch/listen to. It’s not about themselves, no caractatures, no bullshit. I love it.
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A game in the Bundesliga between Borussia Mönchengladbach and Bayer Leverkusen used cardboard cutouts and crowd noise to fill the stadium.
It actually works ok. We could get some cutouts of famous Blitzers in the crowd. Perhaps DJR eating chips?
What works the best is the fact the commentator doesn’t bang on about an empty stadium.
I don’t know how fake crowd noise would work in afl. Is someone going to manually control it to shout “baaaaaaallllll” with every tackle?
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Kick the farking ball!
An Essendon game just won’t be the same without the audible collective groan every time a midfielder kicks it over the head/to the left/to the right/at the feet of the leading forward.
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Or we kick it to the same flank from the kick-ins.
Or bomb it into the F50 to a 3 on 1
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With the one being tippa or snelling and the opposition being talls
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So Geelong gets to play every home game at Kardinia park. Looks like they can expect another top 4 finish and out in straight sets.
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It’s pointless arguing about how to make the books balance this year - they won’t.
The $$$ can, and will be, worked out when matches start again.
The TV deal is in the vicinity of $500M pa. Without that, no professional game as we know it.
Every club cutting even 5 x low tier players (5 x 90k x 18 clubs) saves about $8M pa across the comp.
The league’s not going to the wall (at all), but it’s definitely not going to the wall because of Henry Crawford et al.
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You’ll get no argument from me. My comment was simply that to the AFL the dollar reigns supreme. Even to the point that if it involves money it doesn’t have to make sense, it just has to sound good.
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Is the Essington groan distinctive from that of other club supporters, or is it more frequent?
Going to be a big job for the AFL sound engineers to match up the crowd noises.
If you’re comparing our groan to that of, say, Richmond supporters then yeah, I’d say ours is far more frequent… 
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I’d like to know if they have a recording of me yelling “ffs, stop kicking it over Walla’s head” and/or “ffs Razor, stop prancing and bounce the fkn ball”
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I have decided to take a different approach to this year. Because it is such a compromised situation I am just going to sit back and enjoy watching footy. I am not going to care who wins*, who loses and who gets the cherry at the end. I am just going to enjoy watching footy for the sake of watching foot.
*except one: FarkCarlton, hope they crash and burn and I will cheer on whoever plays them
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Or until Essington rise to the fore and put in a miserably shocking display against Sydney.