Will get up for the game of their lives and roll us on the weekend. COmmentary will start talking about the positive signs coming out of Brisbane, Leppitsch will get a two year extension, and someone named Randall McCandle will kick 7 goals and never be heard of again.
McCandle was quiet today…
FFS. Can’t take this competition seriously any more. Hang on, did I say ‘any more’. FFS
Brisbane Lions, Gold Coast to receive AFL funding to match football department spending
ANDREW HAMILTON, The Courier-Mail
34 minutes ago
THE LIONS and Suns will no longer be the AFL’s poor cousins with head office to inject an extra $2.5m for them to match the rest of the competition on football department spending.
The extra money means the 2017 AFL season will be a level playing field for the first time.
It also gives the Lions the financial wherewithal to revamp their coaching panel at the end of the season.
The AFL has promised Brisbane its heaviest hitters will join the club in negotiations with the State Government and Brisbane City Council for the extra funding required to lock away their new base at the airport.
However, it is the financial lifeline thrown to Queensland footy that was the most significant outcome of three days of meetings in Brisbane last week between the two clubs and the AFL Commission and its senior executive.
The AFL plans to give both the Lions and Suns the capacity to spend 100 per cent of the salary cap and the soft cap on football department spending.
Harris Andrews marks during the QClash between Gold Coast and Brisbane at Metricon Stadium. Picture: Adam Head
Brisbane were $1.2m and the Suns $1.3m under the $9.3m football department soft-cap this season. The Lions also did not pay the entire salary cap.
The salary cap currently stands at $10.37m but will increase significantly next season in the first year of the new $2.5b broadcast deal.
The AFL Players Association is campaigning for a fixed percentage of the game’s revenue, which would see a major increase in player salaries.
Suns chairman Tony Cochrane stressed there were no cast iron promises on funding figures as the collective bargaining agreement with the players had yet to be finalised.
But he said the Suns walked away from meetings convinced they would be more financially competitive next season.
“I was highly encouraged by the very positive approach the commission have towards the cost of our football departments and I think it will be a much fairer and more uniformed approach from next season, which can only be good for the whole competition,’’ he said.
“This will give a lot of heart to the supporters of not only the Gold Coast football club but also the fans of the Brisbane Lions as well with the challenges we face here in Queensland.’’
The Courier-Mail understands it is also the Commission’s intention to scrap the soft cap on footy spend in favour of a hard cap.
Currently the league’s richer clubs such as Collingwood and Hawthorn spend over the cap and pay a tax.
The AFL hopes to be able to announce its intention to equalise all clubs’ footy spend at a cost of about $14m once the CBA negotiations are finalised.
The proposal was raised by Lions CEO Greg Swann at the most recent CEO’s conference and received full support.
Given there’s only a limited talent pool to choose from, won’t it just mean that the big clubs pay more to the best talent, and we’ll be back where we started…?
Not if they “equalise all clubs’ footy spend at a cost of about $14m”
If that happens, the big clubs won’t (legally) be able to throw anymore coin around than the shitkickers
Who cares
Who cares
No-one in Brisbane
Hope they drag the whole competition down with them.
Surely Leppa can’t survive the week.
How the ■■■■ did we lose to them?
How the ■■■■ did we lose to them?
More and more evident that we tanked; just refuse to believe that we’re a worse team than brisbane.
…Leppitsch took a massive swipe at the AFL after Saturday’s loss,
saying the Lions had been “given nothing as a footy club” - criticism directed at the AFL because of its support for GWS and Gold Coast.
The Lions were trashed by Adelaide on Saturday night.
“We haven’t,” Leppitsch repeated. "No extra concessions in money. GWS bought Heath Shaw and Mumford with the extra concessions they got with cash.
"You have got to understand there is a system behind what you see on game day. You all play Super Coach, don’t you? It’s on a bigger scale. You get more concessions and some don’t. That’s the off field that can help you on the field.
“Apparently, you are supposed to win one premiership in every 18, aren’t you? Isn’t that what’s supposed to happen? Haven’t six won the past 12? Obviously it isn’t the case so you have got to be good at beating the system.”
what a massive ****
If you go back a teeny bit further you **** 7 clubs have won the last 15 …including the far*** bears who won three in a row after the afl murdered a 100 year old Melbourne club solely to flick the bears their best players so they could win a string of premierships.
And then they f****** it up …
Has there been a worse hack coach than him in recent times?
The AFL didn’t murder Fitzroy. They just had to leave Melbourne to survive. IMO ■■■■-Lacy and Weigard killed Fitzroy.
If nothing else, the fact clubs had to pay 92.5% of the cap would have killed them.
Leppitsch has an incredibly short memory though.
he’s having a larf, surely?
A couple of games to go there’s no advantage in sacking him now they might as well wait until the end of the season
Has officially moved to bizzaro lala land. Very short effing memory.
Coach of thirty year old club says they can’t survive without (more) handouts.
Die.
Dockers say hi, btw.
"Apparently, you are supposed to win one premiership in every 18, aren’t you? Isn’t that what’s supposed to happen? "
I bet he wasn’t whinging when the Lions won three in a row.
They were propped up nicely until big ed cracked the sads after they beat the filth in 2 of those grannys. Suddenly cola and cap allowances went.
Amazed the city of Geelong hasn’t been towed into bass straight for millitary target practice.
We will probably hire him as an assistant coach next season…