No Oppo Supporters Non Bulldog Footy Talk - Bulldogs only

[bazzadog]

any of you lads heading down for the womens game ?

 

[Easty]

any of you lads heading down for the womens game ?

When is it?

 

[BRG93]

When is it?

10:10am Sunday Morning at Etihad

 

[Easty]

10:10am Sunday Morning at Etihad

Bit early for me on a Sunday morning I think!

 

[BRG93]

Bit early for me on a Sunday morning I think!

Especially after a Saturday night on the Town haha

 

[Igloo]

Bendigo Gold not renewing their VFL license next year.

 

[bazzadog]

Bendigo Gold not renewing their VFL license next year.

How come Igloo ?

 

[TheHoneyBadger]

Bendigo Gold not renewing their VFL license next year.

Ouch, that sucks. A city like Bendigo deserves a VFL team.

I'm torn between wanting to see:
1) old VFA clubs go down to the amateurs or local leagues to preserve their identity, and a proper VFL reserves competition formed consisting of the 12 sides that competed from 1925-81, with each playing at their old ground (South and Fitzroy can act as feeder sides for AFL hopefuls/discards).
or
2) The VFL as it stands actually growing into a proper Victorian football league, with teams representing areas like Ballarat, Bendigo, even Albury-Wodonga, on top of acting as a reserves competition for Victorian-based AFL clubs, this allowing clubs like Port and Willy to continue at the second highest level.

 

[Igloo]

How come Igloo ?

I'm guessing just an inability to compete. Financially as well as on field.

edit: and just as I post that, this has popped up on Twitter.

http://www.foxsportspulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?client=0-118-0-0-0&&news_task=DETAIL&articleID=30288254

The Bendigo Football Club has informed AFL Victoria that the Club does not intend to apply for a new Victorian Football League licence at the end of the current home and away season.

The decision comes after the Club made financial projections in line with its current business model, and came to the realisation that the costs to be competitive in the competition are unable to be maintained by the club into the future.

http://www.foxsportspulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?client=0-118-0-0-0&&news_task=DETAIL&articleID=30288254

 

[bazzadog]

Sad to hear about any club folding

 

[BRG93]

http://www.foxsportspulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?client=0-118-0-0-0&&news_task=DETAIL&articleID=30288254

The Bendigo Football Club has informed AFL Victoria that the Club does not intend to apply for a new Victorian Football League licence at the end of the current home and away season.

The decision comes after the Club made financial projections in line with its current business model, and came to the realisation that the costs to be competitive in the competition are unable to be maintained by the club into the future.

AFL Victoria General Manager Grant Williams said while it is disappointing the VFL will no longer have a presence in Bendigo after this season, Chairman Tim Dickson and his staff are to be commended for the time and commitment they have put into the club in recent years to try and produce a viable standalone VFL Club in the region.

“Tim, Aussie Jones and all involved within the Club have done a terrific job in recent years endeavouring to maintain a standalone side in Bendigo, but have found it difficult to remain competitive.

“The decision for Bendigo to not seek a new licence agreement hasn’t been easy for the Board to make, but they believe it is best for all involved that they make this decision now rather than the end of the season to allow all parties involved the ability to plan for 2015.”

Bendigo Chairman Tim Dickson said everything possible had been done to try and secure the future for a VFL Club in Bendigo, but financial forecasts and key stakeholder engagement means the improvement needed to become competitive in the VFL were both areas the Club would struggle to meet and could not ignore.

“We hoped that 2014 would start a rebuilding process which would ultimately deliver a competitive VFL team and a sustainable, successful organisation that would make a major contribution to local football and also to the community.

“AFL Victoria has always supported Bendigo, and the people directly connected with the Club have worked extremely hard, making huge sacrifices to ensure the retention of a VFL team in this city,” Dickson said.

“We knew that becoming a standalone Club after 2012 would pose significant challenges for us but we addressed them in a positive fashion and hoped that some of the key issues that have plagued the Club would be resolved.

“We have made progress in some of these areas, but the increasing demands to be competitive in the VFL are not achievable under the current model.”

Bendigo is committed to playing the year out in the competition and AFL Victoria will support them in doing so, with its final game to be played at home on Friday August 22 at Queen Elizabeth Oval versus Collingwood.

 

[Easty]

Sad to hear about any club folding

Are they folding though - wouldn't they just enter a more local league next year instead?

 

[VitalDread]

How come Igloo ?

http://www.foxsportspulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?client=1-118-0-0-0&&news_task=DETAIL&articleID=30288254

 

[TheHoneyBadger]

Are they folding though - wouldn't they just enter a more local league next year instead?

I'm not sure that they would - there's a 10 team local league that represents most of the suburbs, and seeing as the original Diggers were only formed in 1998 and struggled for support in recent years I'm not sure they'd bother.

If not for the Essendon affiliation they'd probably have folded years ago.

 

[Unorth]

Hopefully Bendigo can get a decent turnout at their last game, which is at home. And they vs Collingwood that match...Hopefully they can pull off a miracle. That'd be nice for everyone involved in that match; imagine your last match being at home defeating Collingwood.

But in all likelihood they'll probably just lose. By a lot.

 

[VitalDread]

Wonder if there is any players we might target.

 

[Werewolf]

Wonder if there is any players we might target.

Like vultures to a carcass... tsk tsk!

 

[StringyDog]

A forward magician like Motlop sure is handy, eat shit cult Hird

 

[Norm De Guerre]

Was really disappointed the outcome of tonights game. A club as humble as Essendon haven't done anything to deserve the amount of contempt that has been generated by the wider football watching public or the ire of Fairfax media, ASADA and the AFL.

Hope things pick up for their supporters soon.

 

[immortalmike]

Was really disappointed the outcome of tonights game. A club as humble as Essendon haven't done anything to deserve the amount of contempt that has been generated by the wider football watching public or the ire of Fairfax media, ASADA and the AFL.

Hope things pick up for their supporters soon.

 

[VitalDread]

I was at the Irish last night and almost everyone in the place was an bombers supporters
It was the greatest moment when Hawkins kicked that goal and seeing all hope disappear from that place.

 

[Ant_]

How good is this

 

[fargy]

Hodge to the umpires 'oh that's right we've gotta look after f****** Gaz'.
Sounds familiar.

 

[Fossie 32]

How good is this

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Hehe

 

[TheHoneyBadger]

"Oh, Gaz. That's right, ****ing Gaz. We've always gotta look out for ****ing Gaz!"

Glass houses, Hodgey.