BadFootballer
Draftee
- Nov 30, 2015
- 3
- 4
- AFL Club
- Carlton
The demise of "amateur" footy clubs is ridiculous match payments. Look at the clubs who have folded, or have been rubbish in recent years. Apart from Prospect, in the past ten years most were paying stupid amounts of money to players who were only there for the money, with the majority of them not being people who really cared about the club. Look at Fingal, when the money stopped, or a max exodus happened, bang!. Tamar was a slow trickle. Perth tried to buy premiership after premiership and continuously failed and look where they landed. Perth have too much history to go under though, but who really knows.
The only people I feel sorry for are the poor saps who have toiled away at the one club for years on end not knowing whats going on at committee level, and those reserves players that look up to their senior players and wonder why they disappear from year to year to other clubs.
After hearing about Longford today it's obvious that the "amateur" comps need a good looking at. Clubs will die and continue to die if they aren't run well and continue to be stupid.
The only people I feel sorry for are the poor saps who have toiled away at the one club for years on end not knowing whats going on at committee level, and those reserves players that look up to their senior players and wonder why they disappear from year to year to other clubs.
After hearing about Longford today it's obvious that the "amateur" comps need a good looking at. Clubs will die and continue to die if they aren't run well and continue to be stupid.