Then there is the 'Barassi Line"....an imaginary line in Australia that demarcates a divide in the popularity of two major football codes: Australian rules football (AFL) and rugby league.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barassi_Line
A recent study of "coaching trees" ranked Barassi as the 8th most influential VFL/AFL coach:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspor.2023.1172264/full
...but there is so much more to this man's influence on the game.
Until Mezza's explanation, it was not a term that I was familiar with and therefore would not have been able to describe it. Mezza's defintition is good for me.
The following advice is coming from a guy that dodged a (unprovoked) pulmonary embolism a few year ago at age 49....
1. Keep you fingers crossed....shit can happen to anybody, no matter what. Life is fragile.
2. Hope that you have good genetics....this lessens the odds of shit happening. But...
88000 people attended the Carlton Collingwood game. The match was a sellout (a few days prior to the match) 12000 empty seats.
So how do we explain the 12000 empty seats?
1. Presumably some AFL/club members did not attend and did not pass their tickets on to friends/family.
2. Presumably MCC...
In the NRL, the NRL head of football elite competitions provides a public review each Monday of the weekend's controversial decisions. Here is an example
Annesley analyses Verrills tackle on Sorensen
Is this a good idea or bad idea for the AFL?
So how s
So if you are correct, does this mean that a new director of a publicly listed company is never elected by the shareholders?
So what does 9.6 of the attached constitution mean/allow?
https://investors.jbhifi.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/JB-Hi-Fi-Limited-Constitution.pdf
And...
Really? Maybe in privately owned businesses, which is not a good benchmark for football clubs.
What publicly listed company in Australia does not allow the shareholders to elect the directors?
A new book on the history of Australian football has just been released.
https://www.hardiegrant.com/au/publishing/bookfinder/book/australia_s-game-by-matthew-nicholson/9781743796573
'Australia's Game' is based on almost 25 years of research and the collective effort of four historians (and...
25 years ago today, the Fitzroy Football Club played their last game of AFL football. For mine, it is the second saddest day in the history of the VFL/AFL. Lest we forget.
If you want to know the conspiracies, then head over to BigFooty GWS forum.. This is just a slice of the thinking:
"When Brad Scott arrives in his new job, the first thing he will have to do is raze the entire MRO/Tribunal system. Toby will likely be remembered not for suspensions, but rather...
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