News Media Thread, 2024: Insightful, Inciteful and Incomptent

[amazingjoshy]

Can anyone translate what the sausage is actually on about here?

 

[Bender_]

So home teams for the zooper eliminator won't even get home games.

$$$$$$$$$$


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Yep ^

Coincidentally they'll decide to have both games wherever they can maximise the profits.

 

[Bender_]

Can anyone translate what the sausage is actually on about here?

Kane Cornes could be our next coach?

It could almost be worth it for the novelty factor.

 

[amazingjoshy]

Kane Cornes could be our next coach?

It could almost be worth it for the novelty factor.

Simmo to take over Kane's gig at SEN...

 

[eaglevision]

Simmo to take over Kane's gig at SEN...

Need a 6 week handover period where they call together… I wouldn’t miss a show.

 

[Grahame]

Lol at Midweek tackle. Spends the first segment analyzing Richmond, Collingwood and Carlton's injuries and saying that's clearly the reason all 3 clubs are struggling this year.

Where was this for the past 2 seasons?

‘National’ program solely staffed by (Melbourne) Herald Sun journos. (Or rather ‘journos’.)

Why should they bother with nonVic stories when their readers couldn’t give a rats?

 

[bzparkes]

Kane Cornes could be our next coach?

It could almost be worth it for the novelty factor.

 

[YeoGabbaGabba]

 

[cottoneyeYeo]

schoey defs reads bigfooty

 

[oak79]

Yep ^

Coincidentally they'll decide to have both games wherever they can maximise the profits.

What the heck?

So 7th - who should already have qualified for finals - potentially plays 10th at 10th 's home ground to progress to the normal finals rounds - because the already rich AFL want even more $$

Sometimes I hate this corrupt organisation.

 

[bigmikles089]

Hi Guys - would someone be able to provide access to this one?

Thanks

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www.heraldsun.com.au

 

[THE A5]

schoey defs reads bigfooty

He defs would considering her was on this boards pod

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

What the heck?

So 7th - who should already have qualified for finals - potentially plays 10th at 10th 's home ground to progress to the normal finals rounds - because the already rich AFL want even more $$

Sometimes I hate this corrupt organisation.

Only sometimes?

 

[Grahame]

What the heck?

So 7th - who should already have qualified for finals - potentially plays 10th at 10th 's home ground to progress to the normal finals rounds - because the already rich AFL want even more $$

Sometimes I hate this corrupt organisation.

Yep why stop at 7-10 playing off? Think of the money they're missing. Why not have 17 H&A and then have 10 weeks of finals? Or maybe just have every team playing each other for the right to play Collingwood in the GF?

FWIW: did you know that while Collingwood like to say they won four in a row (1927-30) that most of those finals were under a system where if the team that finished top did not play in the GF they could challenge the winner? So they availed themselves of that at least once.

 

[Alesana]

 

[Bender_]

Yep why stop at 7-10 playing off? Think of the money they're missing. Why not have 17 H&A and then have 10 weeks of finals? Or maybe just have every team playing each other for the right to play Collingwood in the GF?

FWIW: did you know that while Collingwood like to say they won four in a row (1927-30) that most of those finals were under a system where if the team that finished top did not play in the GF they could challenge the winner? So they availed themselves of that at least once.

I assumed Collingwood, Essendon, Carlton and Richmond won most of their "premierships" whilst the real men of Australia were overseas fighting in world wars.

 

[bzparkes]

Pretty solid team, tbh.

 

[ziad]

I mean you can doubt the media reports, but with this much smoke it would surprise me if there was no fire. We are in a rebuild and trading out TB would warrant us gaining the most out of any of our contracted players

Clubs look like they are willing to offer him a significant amount of $$$, and at this stage it doesn't look like we are prepared to match that. If that is the case, it would make sense for him to request a trade.

If this all works out then us re-signing him last year to prevent a FA move will be one of our best list management moves in recent history

I like the idea of a good - rewarding trade. But it's all speculation at the moment. Smokey speculation perhaps.

 

[Cuzz09]

Fitzroy won the 1916 flag despite winning the wooden spoon

Collingwood count 1917 despite being 6 teams



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[MKMatty]

Fitzroy won the 1916 flag despite winning the wooden spoon

Collingwood count 1917 despite being 6 teams



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If the AFL had their time again, would they have drawn a line in the sand after 1989, forced 4 clubs from Vic into 2 composite sides, and disregarded pre 1990 premierships from the ‘new’ national league?

 

[Ochre]

If the AFL had their time again, would they have drawn a line in the sand after 1989, forced 4 clubs from Vic into 2 composite sides, and disregarded pre 1990 premierships from the ‘new’ national league?

No the opposite, they'd probably not try to kill Fitzroy. The mistake was SA and WA trying to join the VFL instead of push for a new/combined national comp.

 

[flamingEMBERS]

No the opposite, they'd probably not try to kill Fitzroy. The mistake was SA and WA trying to join the VFL instead of push for a new/combined national comp.

Well SA held out hoping WA would do the same. We failed ourselves

 

[Grahame]

Well SA held out hoping WA would do the same. We failed ourselves

Yep absolutely. Sliding doors.

In 1985 VFL had seven teams (incl Coll) so close to bankruptcy that the Vic ‘corporate affairs commissioner’ had sent show cause letters to them asking why they should not be wound up.

Just think about the ramifications of that.

But then the licence fees from WA and Bris saved their arses.

Sorry to be a cracked record on this, but the history of that time is important.

 

[MKMatty]

Yep absolutely. Sliding doors.

In 1985 VFL had seven teams (incl Coll) so close to bankruptcy that the Vic ‘corporate affairs commissioner’ had sent show cause letters to them asking why they should not be wound up.

Just think about the ramifications of that.

But then the licence fees from WA and Bris saved their arses.

Sorry to be a cracked record on this, but the history of that time is important.

Could the WAFL have held out for a year? Given the WAFC could raise the entry fee for West Coast I wanna say yes but then why be so hell bent on joining the VFL?

I wish there was a book or something about this I could get into.

 

[Grahame]

Could the WAFL have held out for a year? Given the WAFC could raise the entry fee for West Coast I wanna say yes but then why be so hell bent on joining the VFL?

I wish there was a book or something about this I could get into.

I hope I’m doing this right. Here is the URL (I think) for a pretty illuminating article from The Age. Hope it works

Saving football: New documents reveal how close the VFL came to shutting down​

Saving football: New documents reveal how close the VFL came to shutting down

In 1986, the Victorian Football League came perilously close to being shut down. Thirty years on, never before seen documents reveal how close the end nearly came.

www.theage.com.au