Which ever way it happens , it will happen when the money runs out, North or Footscray will hate it but thats how it is when you have no money and especially when you have no success , North and Footscray are clubs that may not be that financially stable , I don't know , but I wonder how they'd be with all gold coasts suns money and allowances , they would have been winning flags. North people will get upset and losing a traditional club in Melbourrne is bloody horrible , I may live in the West now but I'm a Victorian brought up on the VFL , I have strong Fitzroy supporting mates , I know what it does , but the AFL has created these two new additions and they should not have allowed it to happen . We don't need nor can we sustain two new clubs , maybe it won't be them that go down , it'll be one or two traditional clubs , that's what's wrong , and have a look at the games , we'll have two divisions whether you actually run it like that or not , you'll have the Melbournes Footscrays Norths maybe the Saints , these are the clubs that will be destroyed by dilution wallowing in the second division with no funds , barely capable of beating a top side , then look at a club backed by some moneyed people , don't argue they are,its CARLTON. Hot and cold, outgunned last night , junk time goals last quarter , but they were playing Collingwood not the Eagles , there is an example of the big bad changes in AFL football.
The tide has not turned its totally going the other way, with dilution and 18 teams Dimetriou will have his legacy the destroying of the real AFL Which should be Tassie-WA-SA-VIC and two sides extra one in QLD and one in Sydney already there. That is how it would have been better, but we will see top line clubs that can only beat each other on the day and a group of second rate sides that can never get back up, because the amount of elite top players is not enough to go around now. So to think that the lower clubs and the less successful clubs like North will be telling the AFL what they will and won't do will be a thing of the past in a few years , but thanks to Dim you can bet on two things, 1st and 2nd divisions , and The Suns and GWS will still be there . But to the traditional fans don't hold your breath about your local vic clubs being around , because that is unklikely in this current AFL system. Unless Gillon is a traditionalist , but money speaks louder hey?
