What the heck? Andrew Bassatt's Weird Speech

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[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.

 

[HTPunter]

I am happy that finally the father/son picks are getting some attention - it’s hilarious that Vic clubs whinge so hard about the academy picks while quietly stuffing away decades of former players sons, that GC/GWS in particular don’t have access too. Collingwood win a flag with 3 father-son stars, but how dare the Suns get Jed Walter & co?

For me, if you take away the academy selections, take away ALL the draft changes. No more priority picks, ever. No more father-sons. Ever.

Funnily enough it’ll be Brisbane winning a flag & getting Levi Ashcroft that will likely lead to a restriction on F/S bids.

Anyway, St Kilda didn’t complain when they got Riewoldt & Ball. And it’s no one’s fault they haven’t hadAblett Daicos Darcy type luck with F/S picks. And they haven’t complained publicly until the NoRthErN cLubS benefitte

 

[HTPunter]

All these lower end Vic clubs want the almighty dollar from the AFL - which means growing the game in NSW, ACT & QLD. So suck it up.

 

[SplintWhisky]

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

"We are here to just make up numbers, we have a lack of access to proper talent long term," looks over at playing group, "Oh but not you guys, you guys are the tops," as he gives them a thumbs up.

 

[Cmarsh]

So how does he explain the success of Melbourne and the Western Bulldogs over the past 10 seasons?

 

[Sir_Loin]

Bassatt just deflecting from his decision to sack an in contract coach, appoint Ross Lion and they’re no better off

 

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's gotta be the unluckiest bloke AFL, doesn't he? Given the flick for Malthouse at Carlton, and then Ross at St Kilda... messiahs coming home.

As for Bassat, maybe if they didn't act like petulant babies because a player decided to play somewhere else they'd be in a better position to get free agents?

 

[ash_1050]

Bassatt just deflecting from his decision to sack an in contract coach, appoint Ross Lion and they’re no better off

Who would have thought appointing a middling coach would result in middling results?

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Brett Ratten's gotta be the unluckiest bloke AFL, doesn't he? Given the flick for Malthouse at Carlton, and then Ross at St Kilda... messiahs coming home.

As for Bassat, maybe if they didn't act like petulant babies because a player decided to play somewhere else they'd be in a better position to get free agents?

The worst part about it, and why Bassat’s rant is even funnier, is that they got Lyon back thinking that he could get that list into the top 4.

I spoke directly to the son of a former Saints board member at the time who was adamant that getting Ross back meant “Ross can take this list to the GF next year”.

12 months later Ross is telling them that they need to rebuild and they don’t have enough talent.

Now they’re angry Battle is leaving after not paying him enough to make him a restricted free agent, but also tapping multiple contracted players at other clubs, declaring that they’ll be aggressive.

What an organisation.

 

[Cyclops]

Bassatt just deflecting from his decision to sack an in contract coach, appoint Ross Lion and they’re no better off

Yes pretty much this.

Nice timing for his rant "Oi AFL! The draft is ****ed mate, change it" when they already decided to.

Are Saints supporters stupid enough to believe this bloke is the Sigma powerbroker who forced the change?

Fella seems to think he's Eddie with the captains calls and big hits, at least Eds picks worked out some of the time.