What the heck? Andrew Bassatt's Weird Speech

[bindi27]

 

[iBeng]

Looking at his clubs draft choices I mean...

 

[craffles]

I mean he’s not wrong as the AFL has thrown the kitchen sink at making the game work in the northern states but it’s a really strange forum to go on a rant like that.

 

[catters_28]

Gee that will fill the players with confidence for next season, knowing they're just making up numbers...

 

[Astro35]

The speech itself isn't weird and bravo to him for saying what the afl media are too whipped to say, but maybe the clubs BnF isn't the right place to say it.

 

[Elixuh]

He is both right and wrong at the same time.

Right that there are too many clubs in Melbourne so the smaller VFL clubs are always going to have to make up the numbers in a sense. And there is no commercial incentive to have all of these clubs up at the same time or for long periods.

Wrong from the perspective that the Saints have had the worst drafting of any club in recent memory (which is why their list profile is god awful), have hired a coach who plays a brand of footy which isn't commercially attractive to the networks and are a club that gets significant financial contributions on par with the northern clubs to stay financially competitive.

 

[Atomboy]

I mean he’s not wrong as the AFL has thrown the kitchen sink at making the game work in the northern states but it’s a really strange forum to go on a rant like that.

What other forum should he use ?.

The AFL fanboys in the media ?!.

 

[Bont the Lord]

What's the issue with the Father Son rule? St Kilda can draft as many as they want.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

The issue here is Geelong who got pick 7 for free off Gold Coast last year, who hide local players and had Steve Hocking changing rules to suit his club.