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This is from the AFL's Media Release: "As such, it had now been decided that for the 2015 exchange and trade period which would lead into the final season of the COLA phase-out period in 2016, Sydney would be allowed to lodge a contract offer to any potential trade-option player or free agent...

Can't be bothered reading through all the rubbish on this thread to see if anyone's actually been speculating as to what the announcement will be, but my guess is that it might be to do with the proposed new preamble to the constitution that will recognise Indigenous Australians as the first...

Hi, I coach an Aussie rules team in Finland and we're after a bit of help with a promotional poster to stick up around town. What kind of design? rectangular promotional poster Personal use or business related? for our team to advertise games and training sessions Design brief: A poster with a...

Hi, I have no idea if this is the right place for this question, so if it's not I apologise. I'm involved with a fairly new footy team in Europe and we want to design a promotional poster to stick up around town to advertise our games, but the problem is we don't have any contacts with the...

Thanks GTS. I'm interested to see how he goes, cause with the Swans' stacked forward line he's one that might really struggle to get senior games unless there are a lot of injuries, and he doesn't seem to be the type that is likely to play on a wing or through the middle. I've also heard...

With LRT and Tippett in the side there should be enough cover to make sure that 1) Pyke gets the rest he needs, and 2) Tippet doesn't have to spend too much time rucking. I agree with those that suggest that Tippett's most damaging as a key forward and should only be in the ruck when needed...

For those that have seen the game (I can't seem to access the full replay, only the highlights) what were your thoughts on Membrey?

With an elite midfield you can play to a losing ruck and still win your fair share of clearances. Then there are also teams like Geelong in 2013 who weren't so fussed about winning the clearance as they backed themselves to force a turnover at the next contest. If Pyke goes down it will hurt...

Solid team, but I'd swap Mitchell and Rampe for Shaw and LRT. I'll never understand why people don't rate LRT, he's been a first choice player since 2005 and has hardly put a foot wrong since. Watch the last quarter of the 2012 GF and tell me you wouldn't want him on the field in a big game...

I don't think Swans fans are alone in their dislike of the way he goes about his work, I have plenty of friends who barrack for other clubs who groan when they see that he's been allocated to their team's match. It's not so much the occasional bad decision that irks me, as all umpires make...

Interesting that most people seem to agree on the best 24 (the squad Crackers listed minus Cunningham), it's mostly a debate over who fills the bench spots and the emergencies. If all 24 of those guys are fit to play it will be a horribly tough call on who misses out. You would think that it...

I think the confusion with some of the comments concerning violence rising alongside population growth might be to do with mixing up total numbers of recorded incidents with the number of incidents recorded per capita or per 100,000 population. It would be reasonable to assume that if a...

I'm a Swans supporter so my heart says that the SCG is the best place to watch football, but this is mostly because of the memories I have of games there and the fact that it feels like my team's home ground. It does have an electric atmosphere when full and the Swans are playing well (and let's...

I think the Irish are a separate case and should be viewed as such because Gaelic football is quite similar to Aussie rules meaning they have a distinct advantage when learning Aussie rules. I agree with you that a post-season match that put a genuine Irish team versus a state league team would...

It does seem to have worked in the rugby league context, but the main issue with it for me is that the relative development levels of Aussie rules and rugby league internationally are so far apart that it's very hard to compare the two. Many of the teams at the RLWC featured squads made up of...

I think the Swans have shown under Longmire that young players will only get a run based on merit. I would imagine that the coaches knew that Lamb was frustrated by the lack of opportunities but that didn't stop them selecting other young guys in the finals ahead of him. Towers was from all...

This problem of recognition is in some cases linked to local regulations that require a sport to have a certain number of participants for it to be officially recognised, it has nothing to do with Aussie rules being a foreign or unfamiliar sport or not enjoying a high level of exposure. A sport...

I think it would be a massive slap in the face to hard working players in local leagues that dream of playing for their country to have their spots taken away by Australian professionals or semi-professionals who have a parent or grandparent from a country but might have never lived there or...

Neither do I, I just got that sentiment from the article that you posted about the British team. And the part about domestic league was more in response to the references above to the make up of the Irish team at the last IC. The reality with Aussie rules internationally is that the levels of...

I think it's about a bit more than pride, excitement and hunger. These guys are professional athletes, football is their livelihood, and the career span of an AFL player is very short, so they need to follow opportunity wherever it exists. A player could very well love the Swans and not want to...

If the goal is to keep it as an amateur tournament (and maybe it's not, who knows what the AFL want) the simplest way to do it is to declare any player that has been on an AFL rookie or senior list within, for example, the past 5 years automatically ineligible irrespective of where they grew up...

Provided Swans and GWS players are able to distance themselves from the disgusting behaviour of players from some of the other AFL clubs they can certainly be really good role models for NSW kids, but to imply that the AFL enjoys some sort of moral high ground over the NRL is a bit of a stretch...

Well put. Violence has always existed and continues to exist, although how it is manifested may change over time and from community to community. I agree with Arwib that higher reporting rates (and as a result, higher numbers of recorded incidents) may indeed be a sign that society is refusing...

Not sure if the Sydney playing group and coaches would be too happy with a move to ANZ, reckon they're quite happy living in the Eastern Suburbs and being a short drive from work ;)

Really good team, and I'm impressed by your knowledge of Sydney's list. Like you said, it might be a little tall, so to save making tough decisions let's assume that one of the talls is injured (and one probably will be most weekends), then the only changes I'd make would be McGlynn and the...

Yep, Parker could be in for a huge year. Maybe not AA just yet, but certainly has it in him to get to that level at some point. I still chuckle to myself when I think that he was taken at pick 40, there aren't many that went in the first round of that draft that I'd rather over Parker now...

See, you've already been forced to take it beyond the explanation Jack offered ;)

declining influence of the family in moral education + violence in the media = coward punches outside bars That enough of an over-simplification?

Once he puts an article in a major newspaper he opens himself up to critique, and the whole point of these type of internet forums is discussion and debate - people don't need to agree with one another, just respect a diversity of viewpoints. He makes some very problematic assumptions that he...

From the second last paragraph of his article: "Rising violence in various media platforms has helped create a faction of thoughtless aggressors". That is a highly problematic statement for which he provides scant evidence, and it's the type of thinking that can be easily used to provide excuses...