Discussion 2022 General AFL Discussion

[Diehard Saint]

Hi All

Could you do me a favour and go to the AFL app and the AFLW awards.

Could you do my family a favour and vote for Isabelle Pritchard as most improved player
There are no Saints players and she has easily been the Bulldogs most improved this year.
To ease voting for a Bulldogs player remember Nathan Burke is their coach.

Done.

 

[gubby88]

Hi All

Could you do me a favour and go to the AFL app and the AFLW awards.

Could you do my family a favour and vote for Isabelle Pritchard as most improved player
There are no Saints players and she has easily been the Bulldogs most improved this year.
To ease voting for a Bulldogs player remember Nathan Burke is their coach.

Done and done

On SM-F711B using BigFooty.com mobile app

 

[Ephemeral Hope]

Would love to, but she is living the dream. Lives across from the Western Oval, all her family are Bulldogs supporters.

Would love her at the Saints, excellent in and under player with a raking left foot.

More successful team in the aflw too

 

[sammm]

i wonder if this was why Blake Acres

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Blake Acres

Age

29

Ht

193cm

Wt

92kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

17.5

4star

K

8.9

3star

HB

8.6

5star

M

3.7

4star

T

3.2

5star

CL

1.9

4star

D

12.7

3star

K

5.0

2star

HB

7.7

4star

M

4.0

4star

T

2.7

4star

CL

1.0

3star

D

8.2

2star

K

3.8

2star

HB

4.4

4star

M

1.2

2star

T

2.4

4star

CL

1.8

4star

got better this year

Seeing stars: The 'Majic' trainer helping players reach new heights

Personal trainer Gerard Majda has been helping a bevy of AFL stars put in the hard yards in the off-season

www.afl.com.au

 

[George]

Festival of footy in SA next year, across 4 days. Hope we get anyone other than Port or Adelaide, no advantage would be nice.

 

[jwikked]

Festival of footy in SA next year, across 4 days. Hope we get anyone other than Port or Adelaide, no advantage would be nice.

Love the idea of this round. Good news for fans that all club members can attend their games for free.

 

[Greshs Eye]

Love the idea of this round. Good news for fans that all club members can attend their games for free.

I hope we play at Norwood Oval (apparently 2 games to be held there), its such a great suburban ground. When its busy the atmosphere is absolutely electric. It will be pumping for an AFL game.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

I hope we play at Norwood Oval (apparently 2 games to be held there), its such a great suburban ground. When its busy the atmosphere is absolutely electric. It will be pumping for an AFL game.

22000 capacity?

 

[George]

Love the idea of this round. Good news for fans that all club members can attend their games for free.

Might make a trip of it, never been to a game in Adelaide. Got a mate down there too that I haven't seen for a few years.

I like the idea aswell, think it will help grow the game. Good to start it in a footy state first and go from there. QLD and NSW obvious next choices.

 

[Greshs Eye]

22000 capacity?

about that yeah

 

[Tommy Wigs]

Might make a trip of it, never been to a game in Adelaide. Got a mate down there too that I haven't seen for a few years.

I like the idea aswell, think it will help grow the game. Good to start it in a footy state first and go from there. QLD and NSW obvious next choices.

Yep, boys trip coming up. I heard somewhere that Norf vs us at 5.40 on the Friday. Would seem odd, but I suppose there is a big chance of a Friday night double header.

 

[Sun Ra]

Yep, boys trip coming up. I heard somewhere that Norf vs us at 5.40 on the Friday. Would seem odd, but I suppose there is a big chance of a Friday night double header.

AM or PM ?

 

[Grav]

22000 capacity?

If they get 22,000 packed, it would be a better spectacle than 22,000 at Football Park.
Revenue not a problem as all clubs receive $500,000 & I believe players get around $2,000 each.

 

[sunny3193]

AM or PM ?

AM.
AFL going for peak television ratings in Ecuador.

 

[Dard Ball Get]

Got a mate

Why lie

 

[George]

Why lie

Very upset today

 

[#1_pigeonracer]

AM.
AFL going for peak television ratings in Ecuador.

Vs. Port with us as the home team. Took some doing but Kochie got it across the line with some magic.

 

[Tommy Wigs]

AM or PM ?

Pahahha. I was surprised it wasn’t 3.30am Wednesday morning

 

[Sun Ra]

Pahahha. I was surprised it wasn’t 3.30am Wednesday morning

Perfect time for North Korea. I've heard they are BIG Norf fans. Probably a secret sponsor.

 

[MordySaint]

Gowers: Kennett tweets leave Hawks with a Dingley black hole

Hawthorn presidential hopeful Andy Gowers has accused outgoing president Jeff Kennett of leaving the club with a $25 million funding black hole for the delayed new Dingley home with “late night tweets” criticising the state government.

www.theage.com.au

Oh dear, whats happened to Hawthorn and their Dingley tip site?

 

[sammm]

Gowers: Kennett tweets leave Hawks with a Dingley black hole

Hawthorn presidential hopeful Andy Gowers has accused outgoing president Jeff Kennett of leaving the club with a $25 million funding black hole for the delayed new Dingley home with “late night tweets” criticising the state government.

www.theage.com.au

Oh dear, whats happened to Hawthorn and their Dingley tip site?

just happy its not us.

 

[Winmar2Lockett]

just happy its not us.

Thank god we don't have a big mouth like Kennett

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Can't read it, but at the very least they'll wait until its no longer remembered as a tip, and sell the land.

 

[sammm]

Can't read it, but at the very least they'll wait until its no longer remembered as a tip, and sell the land.

Gowers: Kennett tweets leave Hawks with a Dingley black hole​

ByMichael Gleeson​

November 13, 2022 — 6.57pm
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Hawthorn presidential hopeful Andy Gowers has accused outgoing president Jeff Kennett of leaving the club with a $25 million funding black hole for the delayed new Dingley home with “late night tweets” criticising the state government.
Gowers said Kennett’s behaviour had meant the state government had withheld a $15m funding commitment and had deterred wealthy benefactors from contributing a further $10m to the club’s funding for Dingley, leaving Hawthorn with a shortfall of $25 million.

Andy Gowers, right, with 1991 Hawks premiership teammate Gary Ayres. Ayres endorsed Gowers for president at the online rally on Sunday. CREDIT:GETTY IMAGES
Gowers, who is standing with former Andrews government deputy premier James Merlino, said Kennett had damaged the club’s relationship with the state government and cost the club funding.
Gowers said in an online Hawks For Change rally for his presidential push that his campaign opponent and Kennett’s replacement as president, Peter Nankivell, had been Kennett’s vice president for five years and would continue to be Kennett’s proxy as president.

In his first comments to The Age last week launching his campaign for president, Nankivell insisted he was “no Kennett”.
“Let’s start with the facts, the concept of Dingley was committed to when I was still on the board, so five years ago in 2017. We fast-forward to now and there was a recent announcement of Dingley not being ready until 2025, so that is a further delay,” Gowers said.
“We are unfortunately in an environment where inflation is running rampant, construction costs are rising rapidly, labour is hard to get to deliver projects, and we have a Kennett black hole in our Dingley plans in terms of the funding.

Outgoing Hawks president Jeff Kennett.CREDIT:AFL PHOTOS
“So why is that the case? Every single person listening today would understand that late-night tweets from our outgoing president Jeff Kennett criticising government officials does not help our cause when we look to the state government for funding.

“In addition, I personally know of several prominent Hawthorn people who simply won’t be giving us money for Dingley until the outgoing president and his proxies are out of the club.
“It stands to reason, then, that Jeff Kennett’s hand-picked successor and my opponent, Peter Nankivell, and let’s remember Peter has been Jeff Kennett’s vice president for the past five years, is linked to this issue we are now facing as a club. We should receive funding based on our funding, not on our late night social media activity.”

‘We should receive funding based on our funding, not on our late night social media activity.’
Andy Gowers

Gowers told The Age after the online rally that the club had announced it had been granted $15m in state government funding, but this money was still listed as in “contingency” and had not been released.
“In addition I am advised from a number of club benefactors that the Time to Fly campaign is under-funded by in excess of $10m,” Gowers said.

In the online rally, Gowers strongly criticised the handling of Alastair Clarkson’s removal from the club, committed to spending 100 per cent of the soft cap on football spending, and hiring a full-time general manager of Indigenous affairs.
“The release of the Egan report into our relationship with our First Nations players and staff was, and is, deeply painful and damaging, for everyone involved,” Gowers said, adding that during his previous stint as football director on the board he had no knowledge of the issues raised in the report.
“The contents of that report are shocking, and the issues raised are incredibly complex. At the same time, I’m deeply uncomfortable with the fact that those accused of the allegations have not had the opportunity to speak.
“So I support the AFL’s independent inquiry so that there can be healing for all involved. We can’t be content with being ‘culturally safe’, Hawthorn should be the benchmark, not the bare minimum.
“It’s a very low bar to aim to be culturally safe. Surely, that’s the minimum. We want to be leaders, not doing the minimum.”

Clarkson, and fellow former Hawks employees Chris Fagan and Jason Burt, have rejected the allegations made against them and have committed to speaking to the AFL probe.

Turbulent relationship: Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett and coach Alastair Clarkson pictured in 2018. CREDIT:GETTY IMAGES
Four of the Hawthorn past players and families at the centre of the racism scandal have also agreed to participate in the AFL’s investigation into the affair.
Gowers said the club was in bad shape and had lost respect within the AFL.
“Last year we all watched in shock as our modern-day champion coach, Alastair Clarkson, was sent packing from our club,” he said.

“We saw Clarko being treated like a stranger, rather than the successful coach, who guided us out of an era in the footy doldrums, and onto four flags, the most of any coach in our history.
“We tuned in with despair seeing Clarko sitting on one side of a hastily convened, very awkward media conference, and listened to Jeff begin with the words, ‘The board has decided not to renew Alastair’s contract’ and it stirred up a hornets’ nest of emotions.”
Gowers said the timing might have been right for Clarkson to move on, but it was badly handled and lacked respect.
“We watched on in disbelief, and the financial settlement [to Clarkson] has meant that we were
unable to pay the full soft-cap in the football department this year, which hinders our football program,” he said.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Pretty sad if the government withholds funding because someone criticized them.

Either it was meant to be funded or not, shouldn't be brown nose money ( or brown and gold ).

Do we next have no schools in selected seats because some people there didn't like the government?