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Kangalicious
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Firstly, don't think that's his motivation.
But second, actually I don't know if I care.
An Eddie in our corner can only be a good thing.
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On the other hand when a Toorak Greek comes bearing gifts....
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Absolutely. Very happy to have Eddie on side.....
Don't want to be a wet blanket but it wasn't all beers and skittles from Ed.
He made the initial point that the AFL had been very good to North over the years propping them up, cant remember the exact words but that was the gist of his initial point, and that the AFL had made a very attractive 60 million offer to North and North had chosen not to accept it which he was in support of.
His point then was that their should be a summit to decide if their should be a 17th team and that it should be done properly with the full support of everyone in the league, i.e the clubs was what I think Eddie was implying; and if the competition decided that this was what was required then it should be done without the prospect of death or a cancer hanging over the heads of clubs and that if it required 4 million a year to pumped into the Kangaroos to support them then this is what should be done as the game could afford it.
Ed was later talking about the TV rights, ratings on 9 etc, he implied that 9 would throw absolutely everything at the righst to get them back because they were so important to the networks.
I have developed a theory that the AFL knows that the next round of TV rights is going to be massive, i.e 1 billion plus and thats why the AFL wer etrying to kill us off now, very difficult to get rid of us when their is a massive amount of money coming in.
I think what Ed was saying is that a 17th team should be able to be mutually exclusive from the survival of the Melbourne clubs.
I thought he had a bit of an initial dig at the Roos but then he made some very valid points from there on.
Make no mistake he is 90% only looking out for Collingwood, which is fair enough, he made a point about not wanting to give up any of the under 25 players they had spent years recruiting and developing and then explained in a bit more detail about how his proposal for Collingwood to play home games in Queensland would not cost the 60 million the AFL were going to spend.
He also mentioned that he had been reading stuff on the internet about interstate clubs losing a home game and stated that with a 24 round season then a club like West Coast would actually get an extra home game. I don't fully understand the math but I'd assume that Eddie not being an idiot would have worked that out.
One thing that I was thinking that he would make an outstanding CEO of the AFL, he makes some very valid points, does seem to have a very good grasp of how the game should be managed.
I'm probably being a little harsh because his Collingwood thru and thru and therefore i don't trust him and were looking for a negative.
Put is this way, you would soon rather have him on our side then the AFL's. JB's relationship with Eddie could be very beneficial.
He made the initial point that the AFL had been very good to North over the years propping them up, cant remember the exact words but that was the gist of his initial point, and that the AFL had made a very attractive 60 million offer to North and North had chosen not to accept it which he was in support of.
His point then was that their should be a summit to decide if their should be a 17th team and that it should be done properly with the full support of everyone in the league, i.e the clubs was what I think Eddie was implying; and if the competition decided that this was what was required then it should be done without the prospect of death or a cancer hanging over the heads of clubs and that if it required 4 million a year to pumped into the Kangaroos to support them then this is what should be done as the game could afford it.
Ed was later talking about the TV rights, ratings on 9 etc, he implied that 9 would throw absolutely everything at the righst to get them back because they were so important to the networks.
I have developed a theory that the AFL knows that the next round of TV rights is going to be massive, i.e 1 billion plus and thats why the AFL wer etrying to kill us off now, very difficult to get rid of us when their is a massive amount of money coming in.
I think what Ed was saying is that a 17th team should be able to be mutually exclusive from the survival of the Melbourne clubs.
I thought he had a bit of an initial dig at the Roos but then he made some very valid points from there on.
Make no mistake he is 90% only looking out for Collingwood, which is fair enough, he made a point about not wanting to give up any of the under 25 players they had spent years recruiting and developing and then explained in a bit more detail about how his proposal for Collingwood to play home games in Queensland would not cost the 60 million the AFL were going to spend.
He also mentioned that he had been reading stuff on the internet about interstate clubs losing a home game and stated that with a 24 round season then a club like West Coast would actually get an extra home game. I don't fully understand the math but I'd assume that Eddie not being an idiot would have worked that out.
One thing that I was thinking that he would make an outstanding CEO of the AFL, he makes some very valid points, does seem to have a very good grasp of how the game should be managed.
I'm probably being a little harsh because his Collingwood thru and thru and therefore i don't trust him and were looking for a negative.
Put is this way, you would soon rather have him on our side then the AFL's. JB's relationship with Eddie could be very beneficial.
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Fair enough, I prolly mis interpreted your post.
That's how I heard it too choppy. I think the thrust of his spiel was that if the rest of the competition were in support of us staying in Melbourne, then the AFL needs to be 100 per cent behind it to make it succeed. he didn't really sau what should happen if the remaining clubs thought it was best we do actually go.
Most of it was positive about us but he still can't help having a crack about the AFL 'propping' us up. That line of thought shits me.
Most of it was positive about us but he still can't help having a crack about the AFL 'propping' us up. That line of thought shits me.
Yes, thats what i was trying to say, that if the competition were behind North remaining in melbourne then the competition needs to do whatever it takes to allow North to stay in Melbourne.
He wasn't exactly saying that he thought we should stay and throw 4 million dollars at us, only if thats what everyone agreed was best then they should.
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scorpion1811
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Perhaps we should stay on the topic and not be racist. Both individuals come from humble suburbs. No need to peddle ancient sayings to disguise unfortunate racist undertones.
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Sorry. Replying to "Dutton Peabody".
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Eddies a good bloke & likes to help clubs like us & the bulldogs, but he also loves getting into us about the fact we get money from the AFL.
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rickety
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wasn't he the bloke with the broom sweeping up all the leaves at the end of the rocky and bullwinkle cartoon??
Hoser
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All this begs the obvious question for me. Why would the financially struggling clubs in Melbourne vote to issue further licenses and significant funding to new clubs if they are not also getting a guarantee about their own immediate future.
Why for instance would the Dogs, Saints, Melbourne and us vote to pour funds into new licenses if we are not securing our own future also?
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I still think he's a ****er
Kangalicious
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rickety
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From listening to this interview and other interviews, I think what Eddie McGuire suggesting is:
- Let’s decide if we want to keep the current 16 clubs.
- So having decided that we do and we know that North wants to stay in Melbourne, then let’s help them stay in Melbourne.
- Let’s play a 24 rounds season so Collingwood can play 6 games away at the GC.
- So everyone gets an extra home game, so the interstate sides will get this extra home game at the GC (against Collingwood), which will attract the crowds and sponsorships. This will help grow the game up at the GC, make more money for the AFL and the TV rights would go through the roof.
- And all that without having either a reluctant club relocate or a 17th club which will ruin the draft and the salary cap and set the competition back 10 years.
- Then, let’s see if the AFL has a better plan.
- Let’s decide if we want to keep the current 16 clubs.
- So having decided that we do and we know that North wants to stay in Melbourne, then let’s help them stay in Melbourne.
- Let’s play a 24 rounds season so Collingwood can play 6 games away at the GC.
- So everyone gets an extra home game, so the interstate sides will get this extra home game at the GC (against Collingwood), which will attract the crowds and sponsorships. This will help grow the game up at the GC, make more money for the AFL and the TV rights would go through the roof.
- And all that without having either a reluctant club relocate or a 17th club which will ruin the draft and the salary cap and set the competition back 10 years.
- Then, let’s see if the AFL has a better plan.
wasn't he the bloke with the broom sweeping up all the leaves at the end of the rocky and bullwinkle cartoon??
Not quite.
Mr Peabody was the white dog who, along with the red-head Sherman, used the "Way-Back Machine" to go back and piss-fart around with history in an effort to set things right and give Sherman a history lesson.
The guy sweeping up was at the start of the history bit and the end of the other 'break' in th R&B cartoon. "Fractured Fairy Tales" or "Fractured Fables" something like that.
The history opening would have a big parade of characters finishing with some princess getting carried along while slaves threw rose petals on the ground in front of her. The guy with the broom followed the parade sweeping up.
At the end of the fairy tale he cleaned up in front of a big story book which kept trying and eventually succeeded on snapping shut on him.
............ I can also do the theme song from "King Leonardo" if you like!
pharro
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I can't either.
Spend a minute thinking through the logistics of that.
Re-consider.
You know what? Stop shattering the poor bloke's dreams with your sexual identity biological function fascism.
pharro
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I think more to the point in all this, Eddie is saying let's all 16 clubs who are the major stakeholders in the AFL, get together and form a consensus and then make these peanuts on the commission accountable to the stakeholders.
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Yep. that is what he is saying.
And I have no doubt he is heavily motivated by the idea of Collngwood playing away games on the Gold Coast, but if he wants to build the brand you would think the logical thing would be for Collingwood, Essendon, Carlton, Richmond, St. Kilda etc to share the 6 games a year on the Gold Coast.
I think we are out.
I agree with choppy earlier that it wasn't quite as positive as it seems. he was saying make a decision on North (help them stay here or drag them kicking and screaming) and he seemed totally against the idea of a 17th and 18th club, mainly on the grounds of bringing an extra 100 players into the comp. and how the talent pool would handle that - but is that going to change in 5 or 10 years?
pharro
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The talent pool is the lamest argument of all in my opinion. Of course the next 80 odd players are lowering the standard a little. But by the same token, why not reduce the competition to 2 teams and then there'd be the very best 80 players involved.
