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Any crowd would really. Teams need to sell their fans hope, and right now there is very little hope about Gold Coast's list
Not accurate.
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Any crowd would really. Teams need to sell their fans hope, and right now there is very little hope about Gold Coast's list
If I were deciding who to support right now, I wouldn't think twice picking Gold Coast ahead of Sydney.
Gold Coast aren't going great right now, but still boast some of the best young players in the competition. Meanwhile you still have one of the oldest lists, just lost to Carlton on your home ground, and just re-signed a dinosaur of a coach with no new tricks, always trying to play the same style of football for nearly 10 years.
Gold Coast will come good, once guys like Rankine, Rowell and Anderson develop, they will be fearsome.
Not accurate.
Reasonably accurate. North Melbourne were getting crowds under 16,000 for a while there, and only managed to keep their average up since they mostly played other Victorian teams in Melbourne which boosts struggling Melbourne based clubs crowd figures. Teams like Gold Coast don't get that boost.
Jack Bowes
Ben Ainsworth
Izak Rankine
Callum Ah Chee
Ben King
Peter Wright
Touk Miller
Alex Sexton
Lachie Weller
Matt Rowell
Noah Anderson
Better than any of those players: a young, promising coach that won't bog their young players down. You won't see Stewie Dew putting say, Izak Rankine in defence his whole career the same way Longmire does for Mills.
Partly accurate. I agree some clubs do suffer drop offs after sustained poor runs, others though manage to maintain fairly consistent crowds through even the worst of times.
Anyway GC we're always on a hiding to nothing getting plonked in a stadium in the middle of nowhere with appalling structural support from the AFL. It's not the Suns fault things are where they are, that burden rests solely with the AFL.
I'l go the other way - an increased retention allowance via the club marketing budget.AFL should give them the Priority pick.
But only them and let it be the last time.
As many have stated a priority pick is useless unless it is traded. They have the young talent coming through they just need some mature heads and bodies that can teach these blokes the ins and outs of AFL footy. Players like McVeigh, Roughead, Easton Wood (not that I want him gone) and others. Look at what Melb did when Roos took over he went out and got Daniel Cross who is the hardest trainer we had at the dogs to teach them some standards. Lions were leaking goals so they got Hodge in to be a leader to the backline. They don't need another first rounder they need 2-4 mature players to come in and get this young group up to scratch
They'll get them, no problem. You'll be crying when they do.
Sorry, it's unreasonable to expect such a young team to immediately be full of AA players. Again, I'd still take them over the fossilized team that is Sydney, now stuck in Groundhog Day with Horse.
This.
Opposition supporters on this forum, particularly ones in the bottom third of the ladder, will say everything they can to argue "it won't help", but the reality is, picking up Anderson + Rowell would be an amazing coup for the Gold Coast, and set them up for the future in midfield.
And both have said they would’ve stayed if the on field results improved.That's what everyone was saying about Rankine, except he recently re-signed.
Small brained people like you always think if a club is doing bad, they can't retain any good players. Even guys like Tom Lynch and Steven May stayed there for a large part of their careers, despite never playing finals.
A bit of chicken and egg here - GC will improve their player retention capacity by improved on field performances, however to do so will likely require trading off valuable high end picks for decent established players.
they definitely need some form of assistance - whether that comes in the form of a priority pick, or first crack at players in the State leagues, increased cap etc who knows - but the reality is that the AFL will definitely not let it die
First crack at state league players is pointless as look at the midseason draft and see how few players who were drafted are actually making an impact at the moment.
9-12 and another year without finals.
$30m a year in handouts for what?
Suns have been giving everything to succeed. What they’ve been doing instead is throwing draft picks away for fun and when they take them their drafting and development has been shocking.The gall of Victorian fans at the start of this thread to suggest a non vic side was getting a leg up.
You clearly have no idea how stacked against non Vic sides the competition really is.
$30m a year in handouts for what?