How come Sydney cannot match Brisbane and they also have extra money

[dclnmurray]

Gee, I dunno. Must be something to do with the players and the coach's ability to bring the best out of them.

Flies in the face of most of the whingers that keep complaining about the extra money Bris gets.

Dave

 

[EB&W Pieman]

The merge was a bigger factor than the 600 large. You take any AFL club and let them pick eight players from another AFL club and you create a powerhouse. If you happen to already have Michael Voss in your team, that is a real bonus as well.

But the 600 large is a factor in keeping them together.

 

[Grimfang]

Didn't the AFL step in to stop the proposed merger between North and Fitzroy stating that they, "didn't want to create a superteam"?

 

[littleduck]

Maybe it's because a few extra $$$ has nothing to do with how you perform as a team, how you prepare, how you mentally focus on each game, how you build momentum and win games?

 

[tapestry]

The merge was a bigger factor than the 600 large. You take any AFL club and let them pick eight players from another AFL club and you create a powerhouse. If you happen to already have Michael Voss in your team, that is a real bonus as well.

But the 600 large is a factor in keeping them together.

Of that 8 players there is only 1 player (Chris Johnson) that is still with the team and it has been that way for a number of years now.

Michael Voss wasn't heralded as a be all and end all superstar at the time of the merger happened and won the Brownlow after the merger decision was made - so it wasn't as if the Bears already had a brownlow medalist on their list when the merger was being debated.

And the 600K? It hasn't been around from day dot since the merger. It came in a couple of years later, and they have only spent 300k in 2004.

And it's not as if the new Lions got $6M in their bank account either. After paying out Fitzroy's debts they ended up with just over $1M of the $6M left.

 

[JeffDunne]

Didn't the AFL step in to stop the proposed merger between North and Fitzroy stating that they, "didn't want to create a superteam"?

The clubs were easily persuaded by the AFL that they didn't want to create a superteam.

What they didn't realise at the time though, it was in fact the AFL who wanted to create the superteam.

 

[Ateen7tee]

Of that 8 players there is only 1 player (Chris Johnson) that is still with the team and it has been that way for a number of years now.

Brown being a Father-son selection is an example of other benefits resulting from the merge....

 

[Teagueeee15]

Brisbane have drafted their own, whereas every year sydney poaches players

 

[Syd]

Gee, I dunno. Must be something to do with the players and the coach's ability to bring the best out of them.

Flies in the face of most of the whingers that keep complaining about the extra money Bris gets.

Dave

2003 AFL TPP:

Brisbane Lions, $8.060m
Collingwood, $7.638m
Carlton, $7.604m
West Coast, $7.294m
Essendon, $7.212m
Richmond, $7.208m
Port Adelaide, $7.114m
Sydney, $7.112m
Fremantle, $7.091m
Geelong, $7.089m
Hawthorn, $6.985m
Adelaide, $6.980m
St Kilda, $6.795m
Melbourne, $6.704m
Kangaroos, $6.405m
Western Bulldogs, $6.186m

Source: Australian Friday May 7 2004, p. 31. Not available online.

There's a few others you might want to look at first....

 

[Syd]

Brisbane have drafted their own, whereas every year sydney poaches players

Fortunately your safe, no one on your list we'd want to poach....

 

[The_Postinator]

Gee, I dunno. Must be something to do with the players and the coach's ability to bring the best out of them.

Flies in the face of most of the whingers that keep complaining about the extra money Bris gets.

Dave

because as everyone knows, the cost of living in sydney is about double what it costs to live in brisbane and a lot more than melbourne, well done you now look like an idiot

 

[EB&W Pieman]

Maybe it's because a few extra $$$ has nothing to do with how you perform as a team, how you prepare, how you mentally focus on each game, how you build momentum and win games?

Fair comment, and this HAS been done to death - but just a quick reply.

Take any two of your players on $300K out of your team and you would have lost some extra games. You know it; I know it; Leigh Matthews knows it.

Last Saturday - take Bradshaw out, take Power out - Geelong v Port Power in the granny!!! Not all that tricky really.

 

[The_Postinator]

power is the most overrated player in the comp, recieving, cherry picking hack, in any other team he'd be on the bench

 

[Joffaboy]

power is the most overrated player in the comp, recieving, cherry picking hack, in any other team he'd be on the bench

He can be on our bench anytime