boncer34
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No I mean Celtic and Rangers.
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Geelong vs Golden State Warriors - has AFL equalisation failed?
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I always thought they were both called Glasgow. A quick Google search indicates I was wrong. Good one
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Geelong haven’t dominated for years, and even now that dominance is questionable. They’re really nothing like the Warriors...
boncer34
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Yeah a lot of people do.I always thought they were both called Glasgow. A quick Google search indicates I was wrong. Good one
Sidenote did you just happily concede an error? That's not how Bigfooty works
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lol. I hang my head in shame.Yeah a lot of people do.
Sidenote did you just happily concede an error? That's not how Bigfooty works
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Contracts aren't made public so there is muchos speculation about who is paid how much and how each contract is structured. The biggest failing in the AFL salary cap system is front/back ending contracts. Every club pays 95-100% of the salary cap each year regardless of list quality. Any club can sign any player with creative accounting which goes against how the salary cap is supposed to work.
Free agency has made it slightly easier for players to move clubs but the AFL still has very restricted player movement. Fans also have unrealistic expectations of players. In the NRL or A-League or NBL if players are out of contract and want to join another team they just do. In the AFL people lose their shit because a guy that never chose to go to a particular club in the first place wants to go elsewhere after anywhere from 2-7 seasons.
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Thank you, Geelong and Perth education system products doing what they do earlier on.
And yes, Juve are one of the other examples in a thin list.
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Both based in Glasgow. Both called Glasgow Celtic and Glasgow Rangers I think?
Arsenal though would be one? I mean even GWS Giants would be one.
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lol, keep reading
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The famous Glasgow Rangers? Not officially in their "current" name, but they do refer to themselves as that.
Celtic more accurate.
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Arsenal named after Arsenal Woolwich, very clear part of London innit.
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Ok so you're gonna keep shifting the goal posts here I see. Cool, thanks for the chat.
boncer34
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Read number 3.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2014/11/10-soccer-things-you-might-be-saying-wrong.html
Has it ever been in their official name?
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I'm 100% certain 17 other clubs are trying to get Cameron's signature. For mine, its lazy journalism when they do this whole "Geelong are in the race for Cameron's signature". You can say that about every club, and even if he doesn't go there doesn't mean you were wrong.
To your point about equalisation, Tom Lynch going to Richmond is more of a Durant move for mine.
Golden State 2016 = Richmond 2018: Both were the best team all year. Richmond had a historic MCG run of consecutive wins, Golden State broke the regular season win record, only for both clubs to fall short on the big stage. Both got taken out in emphatic fashion.
Durant = Lynch: Both moving from a small market seeking a larger market and took what they believed at the time to be the easiest possible path to a Premiership/Championship. A lot of people forget that Lynch had decided to go to Richmond PRIOR to Richmond getting knocked out by the Pies in the Prelim. They could have won a Premiership and he still would have gone there. The same situation with Durant, Golden State were poaching him all year while they were on the greatest regular season run of all time. They thought they were going to win the championship and were still happy to sign Durant.
Equalization is always going to have its issues, I think the draft and academies do a pretty good job. Sydney isn't exactly a flyover city like Oklahoma.
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Oh be quiet. We have a few father son champs coming through. Wait until they have been picked up for cheap before you start gloating.
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Geelong are nothing like the warriors. Your forgetting that basketball is a team of 5 on the court, so getting a player like Durant when they already had 3 all stars made the comp uncompetitive
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Geelong have dominated since 2007 with a winning percentage of 75% over that time.
Further proves my point regarding equalisation failing, given Geelong are set to dominate indefinitely.
Geelong got Dangerfield though.
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If anything this shows the opposite. Super teams do not work in the AFL (see GWS - though there's still time..), signing big names rarely works in the AFL (see Sydney with Franklin and Tippett).
The two sports will never be comparable in any way.
The two sports will never be comparable in any way.
In the most even season in history (arguably) there's a question on the validity of the equalization process. Really? There are few competitions around the world that have equalization that match the AFL. Even given the blunt and open intent to throw endless amounts of money at their own manufactured teams in rl territory in an attempt to force success for them to garner local interest.
One look at the EPL would indicate the equalization measures in the AFL have more integrity, probably more than most.
To align Geelong's early season form with the dominance of GS - well I don't know because I don't follow basketball. However reading some of the posts it seems that the nba team are very dominant or have been in recent times.
When was the last time Geelong were dominant? Certainly not this year or even recently, 08 and 09 perhaps? How do you measure "dominance"?, well I wouldn't say they're "dominant" right now. The form team? Absolutely, but not dominant.
So how does one question the equalization measures when we're in arguably the most even season in history?
One look at the EPL would indicate the equalization measures in the AFL have more integrity, probably more than most.
To align Geelong's early season form with the dominance of GS - well I don't know because I don't follow basketball. However reading some of the posts it seems that the nba team are very dominant or have been in recent times.
When was the last time Geelong were dominant? Certainly not this year or even recently, 08 and 09 perhaps? How do you measure "dominance"?, well I wouldn't say they're "dominant" right now. The form team? Absolutely, but not dominant.
So how does one question the equalization measures when we're in arguably the most even season in history?
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Geelong’s winning record after 2011 is approximately 69%. Very good, but hardly a dominant force. It’s actually astonishing that you’d think that you could include a period from a decade ago where they actually did dominate to boost numbers for your argument and not get picked up on it.
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