i reckon they would just to make collingwood seem even more petulant
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Tasmania isn’t an issue, too many Melbourne teams is the issue. Personally i would merge north and the dogs and if pushed Melbourne and the saints, that would address a lot of the issues the competition faces in propping up these clubs, helps in strengthening their supporter bases and keeps the competition numbers at a more appropriate level.
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Weird double post.
A new Tasmanian team IS an issue.
It will be given years of draft concessions. It will take established players from other teams.
It will make it 19 teams which nobody wants.
It’s one more draw on talent that it will not make up for.
It won’t have decent crowds.
It won’t be self-sufficient.
It won’t grow the game.
It gives Nothing to the AFL that they either want or don’t already have.
It’s a charity.
And that’s no way to run things.
‘But we’d really like a team. Go on. Give us one. We deserve it!’ is the worst pitch ever.
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See above in italics.
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Given how much a 19th team will hurt existing clubs, including Essendon, I really don’t care how many Tasmanian kids are playing soccer.
The last point is very silly.
The health of the game is not going to be affected by giving a city half the size of Canberra a team.
EPL has 20 teams and play each other twice. Maybe travel is less but if you have a list of 50 players then why couldn’t we play 38 games each year. Player Management is something the AFL have never been good at.
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It is a very physical sport so I’m not sure we could play much more than about 30 games per year plus finals without either increasing list sizes or shortening quarters. If we got rid of practice matches that would give us another 4-5 rounds per year which gets you up to say 28 rounds plus finals. You also have to either play multiple games per week or run the risk of playing more games in summer or encroaching on other sports, lack of grounds etc
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Both Perth teams, both Adelaide teams, us, pies, FC, hawks and the tiges. Tradtional top 5 finals system.
The rest of the AFL’s liabilities can do as they please/fold.
Frustration builds from club presidents over vacant AFL commission spots | Herald Sun
March 29, 2023 - 12:21PM
Club presidents are headed for a showdown with the AFL commission as frustration builds about the two vacant commission spots.
The presidents want the positions filled as a matter of priority and are compiling a list of candidates to present to the ruling body.
One of the names will be experienced football official Andrew Ireland, who worked at Brisbane and Sydney and has the respect of the football industry, most notably the presidents.
The presidents want the second position to be filled by a recently retired footballer.
Names being considered — and likely to be approached — include recently retired Geelong captain Joel Selwood, Carlton and West Coast great Chris Judd and former Fremantle captain Matthew Pavlich.
Those three are considered the prime candidates.
Geelong legend Joel Selwood. Picture: Quinn Rooney/Getty Images
West Coast and Carlton legend Chris Judd. Picture: Scott Barbour/Racing Photos via Getty Images
Because Ireland would be a representative of the northern states if successful, the presidents would also strongly consider a South Australian presence.
That list would include former Crows captain Mark Bickley, former Port Adelaide premiership player Darryl Wakelin and Jack Trengove, who is now a fund manager after an injury-riddle playing career at Melbourne and Port Adelaide.
It’s understood Sydney Swans legend Michael O’Loughlin was approached but declined, as speculation mounts the first Indigenous commissioner Professor Helen Milroy might be departing, which would create three vacancies.
The AFL wants an Indigenous voice on the commission.
The problem for some former players is that they would have to forego their media careers to become a commissioner.
Professor Helen Milroy could be departing the AFL commission.
Industry people remain dumbfounded by the fact the two positions have been vacant for 12 months and believe that outside of Andrew Newbold, the former Hawks president, the commission is lacking football experience.
Speculation the presidents were preparing to challenge chairman Richard Goyder’s position are unfounded.
Frustration also continues, however, over the delay in appointing a chief executive to replace Gillon McLachlan despite him announcing he was leaving in April last year.
Also, the Tasmanian licence is still not across the line, the CBA is being worked on, and without a new CEO the league is without a general manager of football.
The new boss will appoint the new footy boss.
Meanwhile, the Hawks investigation has been drowned in a quagmire of legal complexity by Hawthorn and the coaches, who are defending themselves after allegations from past players and their partners.
Always assumed given the smaller pitch and less physical contact it would be less draining. I’ve never played soccer seriously though so can’t really comment.
How about if North Adelaide and Woodville merged to become … Norwood?
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Their premier also said they should get a team because of all the talent that Tasmania has provided the afl, heiress like Jack Riewoldt. Cringe
Putting the feelers out on changing to a twilight gf
It’ll eventually become night because the broadcasters prefer it, and ultimately, they are the ones paying the big bucks for the product.
I reckon it will stay at twilight, feels more a spectacle half in the daylight, half in nighttime. The tv rights are already set till 2031, the afl don’t need to change it to get more money from the broadcasters.
These ■■■■■■ are killing our great game. Leave it alone already
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You mean like us
I don’t think our support is small.
Having said that, the AFL equalisation looks after that sort of that sort of thing now, so as long as the league is successful then clubs don’t need to be.
So maybe they will just have embarrassingly low crowds.
shrugs Which is fine, I guess.