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Can’t help but notice the difference in reporting from the AFL media compared to “the camp”. Adelaide’s situation had months of daily speculation, calls for massive fines, stripping draft picks etc. Now that it’s the Hawks, there is much less coverage and speculation, and lots of terms like...

Adelaide Camp: Rumours reported as facts twice daily, hanging people out to dry, calling for draft sanctions, fines, you name it. Hawthorn Scandal: Comparatively less reporting, and a lot of things said about “due process” and “hearing the other side of the story” - Which was never really...

Meeting another non-Vic side in the GF would be the most ideal for sure if you’re to make it. Removes any balance of home advantages/disadvantages for both sides.

I can’t see my club winning one under the current system either.

Agree there are challenges. It’s never going to be perfect but it can be better. And Gaelic Football is a strictly amateur competition, for what it’s worth.

Probably correct.

Exactly this. If you're Vic based then you can be equally as good (or slightly not as good) as your opposition and win, but if you're non-Victorian then you have to be significantly better otherwise better luck next year. No wonder 13 of the last 15 premiers are from the same state. We play 23...

I guess Sydney just weren’t up to it in 2016 either, despite finishing higher than the 7th placed Bulldogs. West Coast, Freo, and Sydney again vs the Hawks just not up to it. West Coast nearly weren’t up to it in 2018, despite being a 5 goal better side than Collingwood. 2019 GWS and 2022...

Add both to the long and ever growing list of ex-Crows players who have left the club and achieved premiership success elsewhere.

What an absolute joke of a league.

Surely AFL House will call for an investigation into this, like they did for Victorian teams after a handful of years without a Vic premiership?

That’s true, but it’s the most dominant a Crows team has been. I can’t see us putting together a better side in the future, and it wasn’t good enough at the time.

We do, and now we have an academy player looking like a top 10/20 draft pick… but the league changed the rules and now we won’t get him! This after years of other clubs benefitting from academies.

Melbourne and Richmond have inherent advantages that clubs like Adelaide don’t. We’re a basket case and we don’t have those advantages. Indeed we have to overcome the advantages the Victorian clubs have. Can’t see the Crows winning one. If they couldn’t get it done as the dominant force they...

You realise playing on Adelaide Oval would be the Crows equivalent of the Tigers getting to play the GF on the MCG, right?

These mentally strong and mature Grand Final teams sure seem to reside within a certain distance of Melbourne. Must just be a coincidence.

What regular season games at the MCG?

Those EF and SF wins really add up after a while.

You know they’ll try to find a way. Crows camp reaction was all in on smashing the club. Reaction to the Hawks revelations has been “this could be happening anywhere”. Hardly the most important aspect of these things coming to light, but the difference in response from the AFL and AFL media...

Pretty obvious to see the league plays a part in most significant player moves, aided and abetted by the media, whose access passes they hold. Franklin was just just a particularly overt and public one, and one the AFL obviously failed to pull off. Rankine to Adelaide? “He’s making a mistake”...

As long as you are in line with the outcomes the AFL wants then yes. If not then they’ll take you down for things other clubs routinely get away with. With their in step media in tow.

I’ve been in a coma since then. How are things going? We won the flag and then have been a dominant force since, right?

Crocmedia absolutely despise the Crows too. Put an ex port player in a seat which requires him to be controversial, in an organisation with clear dislike for the AFC and you get the outcome we see. It’s all scripted and actually quite boring. Just don’t tune in.

Could this be the AFL’s far more serious version of Cricket Australia’s sandpaper moment? The allegations are of course absolutely shocking and vile in and of themselves - However some fan reactions bringing other concerns to the surface (gambling, concussion, integrity of the competition, etc)...

The gambling scandals usually involve a player betting on a game. Who could’ve possibly seen it coming? What with the incessant ads pushed down the throats of anyone watching or involved in the games. The AFL then shows it’s true colours by absolving itself of all blame, and going in to bat for...

If past history is anything to go by, we are screwed.

He’s not a bad guy, he just gets paid to play one on TV.

This puts our preference for “good families” in the spotlight doesn’t it.

How can a professional sporting league worth huge money like the AFL have a score review system but have none of its own tech, relying only on what the broadcaster happens to have available at the ground? If they don’t want to invest in the necessary additional cameras, then don’t have score...