Should be an Instaban offence.
18 teams is already more than enough, the talent pool is just going to be even more diluted if this happens
A team or two needs to be killed off or merged.
It’s funny when you look at the VFL ladder on the app: top 8, you scroll down, nah, keep going, keep going. The Bullants are 3 games and 14 spots out of the eight.
NT has zero chance of getting a team before tassie.
Heck the AFL would expand to NZ before they expand to NT
(NT would draw a bigger crowd than 3 or 4 current AFL teams)
St. Kilda heads to Tassie and becomes the Southern Saints, North heads to NT to become the NT Kangaroos. Easy.
Why couldn’t the AFLW have a State of Origin game? Seems like the AFLW want to be taken seriously but have absolutely no creativity or aptitude.
NT struggles to get more than 7 or 8,000 to their current games featuring AFL teams - Add limited sponsorship and corporate support makes it nigh on impossible for it to work.
I wonder if this opens the door for Tassy or The AFL play 19 teams and not twenty.
Television?
NT could totally work, but they can’t be a 19th team.
Did the AFL introduce then withdraw another rule change & I missed it?
Absolutely, the clubs only have themselves to blame. They can "terminate " AWFL house at any time, only challenge/problem is, they don’t trust one another sufficiently to feel comfortable that their self interests will be looked after, post any defenistration of Gillian.
Not really. The AFL have functional control over many interstate clubs. GWS and GC are AFL mannequins of course, but even Adelaide has an AFL majority on the board. I think there’s a similar dynamic in the WA sides. And there’s also Vic clubs, St Kilda for instance, who are run by Gil’s mates who have been parachuted into the job, or which are entirely dependent on AFL charity funding in order to continue to exist. Good luck getting a majority of clubs to support a move against the AFL when a good percentage of the clubs’ admin ARE the AFL.
So if the clubs want to make a move on the AFL, the not only do they have to find a huge majority among the subset of clubs which aren’t AFL-run puppets, and not only do they have to try to prevent leaks going from their deliberations straight to the AFL from the various AFL plants in clubland, but they also need to have some way planned to survive when the AFL gets wind of what’s going on and cuts any particpating club off from the CBA, encourages their rivals to poach all their good players via FA and ensures they get no compo, and lumbers them with a ■■■■ fixture in perpetuity.
The clubs COULD overthrow the AFL admin at any time, but hell, the Pot Legalization Party COULD win government at the next election. It’s theoretically possible for it to happen, but there’s a lot of inertia in the system and self-defence mechanisms constructed by the incumbent that would prevent it happening in any realistic scenario.
Such depressing reading. The old VFL clubs really ■■■■■■ up the original power structure transferred to the AFL monster. I know hindsight is a wonderful thing, but to give away control of ones clubs colours , for instance, ■■■■ me, at least put sunset clauses in any arrangement,
AFL fines Crows players for not wearing masks in flight.
AFL puts players to Perth on a commercial flight, some passengers other than players not wearing masks.
It’s appearances that count.
Geelong players forced into a Bio-hub, not even their wives and children can leave the house, kids can’t go to school until the players leave to go to Adelaide
Brad Johnson: “Well, why don’t they play the game in Geelong?”
Um…it’s ports home game you ■■■■■■■■.
That is the airlines fault. On recent flights I’ve been on passengers are asked to comply and if not the details are forwarded to police at destination point. Have seen several passengers get bailed up by the cops as soon as they arrive in ADL
Do airlines have enforcement powers to order someone to put the mask on?