News Insightful and Inciteful - 2022 Media Thread

[Miguel Sanchez]

I would like a harem of young blondes - cannot always get what is desired.

Three options were provided for consideration for Tasmania/AFL.
1. Relocate an existing team.
2. Joint venture.
3. Their own team.

Carter found a strong presence required but didn’t lean one way or other. Seems like TAS went straight to ‘own team’ option.

Romance getting in the way of logic and reported resistance by 14 Presidents et al to an additional team.

Tasmania on the whole has made it pretty clear they’re not interested in the other options as compromises. You can say “beggars can’t be choosers” but they’ve taken the position that they want an actual Tasmanian team and they’re not going to settle for having a team parachuted in and called Tasmania, or Tasmania/North Melbourne, or whatever, they’d rather have no team.

In those circumstances there’s not any point in giving them what they don’t want, because it’ll just instantly fail.

 

[flamingEMBERS]

Relocation or new team. Clubs don’t want 19, nor do fans and we can’t get to 20 year. So it’s relocate North or fold/merge north.

Joint venture is some pure garbage

 

[MKMatty]

If the AFL were truly interested in creating an equitable comp, they’d revoke two VIC licenses and give them to TAS & NT.

Make every VIC club present their case for solvency and pick the survivors based on those terms alone. If your club can’t stand on its own two feet you’re gone. (Simplistic take but I hope you get what I’m saying).

 

[Rowan18]

Tasmania on the whole has made it pretty clear they’re not interested in the other options as compromises. You can say “beggars can’t be choosers” but they’ve taken the position that they want an actual Tasmanian team and they’re not going to settle for having a team parachuted in and called Tasmania, or Tasmania/North Melbourne, or whatever, they’d rather have no team.

In those circumstances there’s not any point in giving them what they don’t want, because it’ll just instantly fail.

Tassie might need to play hard ball again and actually cancel those contracts with North and Hawks to play games there. That would take North from barely making a profit to a hefty annual loss.

 

[Agent93]

If the AFL were truly interested in creating an equitable comp, they’d revoke two VIC licenses and give them to TAS & NT.

Make every VIC club present their case for solvency and pick the survivors based on those terms alone. If your club can’t stand on its own two feet you’re gone. (Simplistic take but I hope you get what I’m saying).

But the history! And tradition!

 

[WestCoast05]

If the AFL were truly interested in creating an equitable comp, they’d revoke two VIC licenses and give them to TAS & NT.

Make every VIC club present their case for solvency and pick the survivors based on those terms alone. If your club can’t stand on its own two feet you’re gone. (Simplistic take but I hope you get what I’m saying).

NT!?
There is no business case that could survive any scrutiny and you would have to have one hell of a player retention plan for a Darwin team (population 132k).

Canberra (570k) or Northern Suburbs WA or Northern Suburbs Sydney are all far better locations that have a chance of economic and supporter survivability and a better hope of retaining players.

If I was the one actually responsible for trying to make it work I would even go Newcastle + Central Coast region (800k+), or Far North Queensland (Townesville + Cairns 350k) before I would try and make a Darwin team try and work. But I wouldnt try either, or Darwin.


The arguement for Darwin (and it's ridiculous heat) is literally just they like footy there and "it's a city I've heard of that isn't close to anywhere else with a footy team".

 

[Smeg Head]

Pretty simple, just get rid of Norf, Saints and Essenscum.

 

[WCE_phil]

Of the Victorian clubs Essendon has at worst the 3rd largest supporter base.

 

[southcoast]

Tasmania on the whole has made it pretty clear they’re not interested in the other options as compromises. You can say “beggars can’t be choosers” but they’ve taken the position that they want an actual Tasmanian team and they’re not going to settle for having a team parachuted in and called Tasmania, or Tasmania/North Melbourne, or whatever, they’d rather have no team.

In those circumstances there’s not any point in giving them what they don’t want, because it’ll just instantly fail.

I hear what you’re saying and have heard all the Tas speak but is a 19th team really the best thing for the league.

Take the romance out of the discussion and the answer is clearly ‘no’ - certainly in my eyes anyway.

Tas may have to accept something other than their preferred choice or its crickets.

But I am just a follower in stands who has an opinion that won’t count.

Nonetheless, it will be interesting to see which way the decision comes down. Early on I thought it was a fait accompli that Tas would get their wishes. Now, I’m not so certain.

 

[WestCoast05]

Pretty simple, just get rid of Norf, Saints and Essenscum.

Personally, I wouldn't want any less that 18 teams in the league.

 

[MKMatty]

But the history! And tradition!

I know it’s sass, but logically the oldest surviving members of the traditional clubs were born in the ‘20s and lived through the 40s/50s/60s. 40 odd years before the comp went ‘national’. No one currently living remembers the ‘great flags’ of the 1900/10/20/30 seasons. That history is great but not relevant in the context of a national competition being played in the 2020s and beyond. Be glad you’re a club that old and dip out to the VFL to become the minnow you’re destined to be. Every club should be judged on their performances from either 87 onwards or 1990 when the rebrand of the league occurred.

There is no business case that could survive any scrutiny and you would have to have one hell of a player retention plan for a Darwin team (population 132k).

Canberra (570k) or Northern Suburbs WA or Northern Suburbs Sydney are all far better locations that have a chance of economic and supporter survivability and a better hope of retaining players.

If I was the one actually responsible for trying to make it work I would even go Newcastle + Central Coast region (800k+), or Far North Queensland (Townesville + Cairns 350k) before I would try and make a Darwin team try and work. But I wouldnt try either, or Darwin.


The arguement for Darwin (and it's ridiculous heat) is literally just they like footy there and "it's a city I've heard of that isn't close to anywhere else with a footy team".

NT is a pipe dream ofc, third WA team is more likely and my point was more to the point of there being less VIC clubs than anything else. I don’t really mind the composure of the clubs. Just greater balance.

 

[flamingEMBERS]

North or whoever should be treated no differently to WAFL & SANFL clubs who lost their status. Too bad!

 

[Ochre]

I don't get why 19 teams is such a bad option.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

I don't get why 19 teams is such a bad option.

Not only is it an odd number, it’s a prime number. It just seems wrong.

 

[Doashuey]

Not only is it an odd number, it’s a prime number. It just seems wrong.

Also it was Karl Langdon's number..**** it off

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Also it was Karl Langdon's number..* it off

* it’s Hough’s

 

[bzparkes]

* it’s Hough’s

Damn straight.

 

[Ochre]

Not only is it an odd number, it’s a prime number. It just seems wrong.

Are you one of those people that has to have the TV volume on a multiple of 5?

 

[Doashuey]

* it’s Hough’s

Do I need to explain tense to you?

Also, not sure why **** becomes duck for some and * for others. ?

BF lost the plot

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

* it off

* it’s Hough’s

This was supposed to rhyme.

 

[Truckosaurus]

Are you one of those people that has to have the TV volume on a multiple of 5?

It doesn't have to be, it's just that 20 is the ideal volume considering the accoustics of my apartment and the quality of the speakers so why would it be anything else?

 

[bzparkes]

This was supposed to rhyme.

You're a poet and Doashuey didn't even know it.

 

[BeornJ]

You're a poet and Doashuey didn't even know it.

But everyone else knew it
I wanted to stick with iambic pentameter for this poem.... but I blew it

 

[WestCoast05]

Are you one of those people that has to have the TV volume on a multiple of 5?

5!?
Are you insane, it has to be an even number!!!

Some men just want to watch the world burn...

 

[Tugga27]

From the AFL website

2. Pick No.1 is not going to be West Coast's ​

After weeks of being an opportunity for a percentage boost for opposition teams, the wheel has turned at West Coast and their days on the bottom of the ladder appear numbered. Highlighting the depths to which the team had fallen through an availability crisis, an 18-point loss to Geelong on Saturday was enough for a small percentage boost and the Eagles now sit just 0.1 per cent behind 17th-placed North Melbourne. The signs of a competitive game style with their personnel returning are there at West Coast, and so is a hunger for the contest that coach Adam Simpson will make a non-negotiable in the last two months of the season. With Tim Kelly

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Tim Kelly

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30

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83kg

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and Liam Ryan

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76kg

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3.8

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returning next week, and Nic Naitanui a few weeks away, it's hard to picture them being less competitive than the Kangaroos from here. – Nathan Schmook