Opinion Non-Crows AFL 6: This Is Getting Cruel

[Sanders]

I'm sure the majority knew the term but absolutely none used it.

Well there you go.

 

[Sanders]

Nobody calls it gridiron. Ask any American if they are watching the gridiron game and they will not have any idea wtf you are on about.

Maybe time for a recap.

#Vaderesque

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin'
And you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'

 

[jenny61_99]

What? Why the f*** am I taking the L, ffs?

I am speaking of my experience when I lived in the US.

While I lived there, I heard zero Americans ever use the term "gridiron" for NFL.

I'm sure the majority knew the term but absolutely none used it.

I've only ever heard non-Americans use the term, because "football" is used to mean soccer or Aussie Rules where they come from.

And when I lived there - two decades before you did - that’s ALL I heard it called. . Let’s just agree to disagree?

 

[moogerfooger]

This him?

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keep digging old son, keep digging.

 

[Jetafl]

I read the pages and pages on this thread re is it called Football Gridiron NFL. I though some may appreciate this from now on it is to be called Hand-Egg case closed.

 

[footy4ever]

Nobody in China calls it Chinese food they all just call it food over there.

Yeah but don't forget China changed the name of Aussie rules Footy to Olive Ball.

That's caught on like wildfire all over the... all over the something... somewhere... I reckon.

 

[Mostyn]

And when I lived there - two decades before you did - that’s ALL I heard it called. . Let’s just agree to disagree?

If we do that, what will we spend the offseason arguing about?

 

[Jetafl]

Story is paywalled but the Magic Round will be called Gather Round

Why, oh why did the AFL take up L Schultz's suggestion. Even Round 5 is better than Gather Round.

 

[arrowman]

It does have potential for some left-field marketing, though...

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[Kane McGoodwin]

2022 ladder position v games experience

1 Geelong 1
2 Sydney 8 +6
3 Brisbane 9 +6
4 Collingwood 10 +6
5 Fremantle 12 +7
6 Melbourne 7 +1
7 Richmond 3 -4
8 Bulldogs 5 -3
9 Carlton 14 +5
10 St Kilda 6 -4
11 Port 4 -7
12 Gold Coast 17 +5
13 Hawthorn 11 -2
14 Adelaide 18 +4
15 Essendon 15
16 GWS 13 -3
17 West Coast 2 -15
18 North 16 -2

Achieved well above experience - Fremantle, Sydney, Brisbane, Collingwood, Gold Coast, Carlton, Adelaide

Achieved well below experience - West Coast, Port, Richmond, St Kilda

2023 experience ladder & games

Which AFL teams enter 2023 with the oldest and youngest lists?

See where your club ranks in age and experience for next season.

www.zerohanger.com

1 Geelong 92
2 Melbourne 85
3 Richmond 83
4 Brisbane 80
5 Bulldogs 77
6 Collingwood 73
7 West Coast 73
8 Sydney 69
9 Port 68
10 Carlton 66
11 St Kilda 65
12 Gold Coast 63
13 North 60
14 GWS 57
15 Essendon 56
16 Fremantle 55
17 Adelaide 53
18 Hawthorn 43

Melbourne, Brisbane & Collingwood have added even more experience for their hunt for a flag.

Hawks experience has been gutted & likely in for a difficult year as easily most inexperienced list.

 

[Jars458]

The point our banjo loving chum made was that no one had heard the term or knew what it was

Which is amazing really

That is amazing. I guess we all live different lives and somehow he never heard the term.

 

[GameofSloanes]

2022 ladder position v games experience

1 Geelong 1
2 Sydney 8 +6
3 Brisbane 9 +6
4 Collingwood 10 +6
5 Fremantle 12 +7
6 Melbourne 7 +1
7 Richmond 3 -4
8 Bulldogs 5 -3
9 Carlton 14 +5
10 St Kilda 6 -4
11 Port 4 -7
12 Gold Coast 17 +5
13 Hawthorn 11 -2
14 Adelaide 18 +4
15 Essendon 15
16 GWS 13 -3
17 West Coast 2 -15
18 North 16 -2

Achieved well above experience - Fremantle, Sydney, Brisbane, Collingwood, Gold Coast, Carlton, Adelaide

Achieved well below experience - West Coast, Port, Richmond, St Kilda

2023 experience ladder & games

Which AFL teams enter 2023 with the oldest and youngest lists?

See where your club ranks in age and experience for next season.

www.zerohanger.com

1 Geelong 92
2 Melbourne 85
3 Richmond 83
4 Brisbane 80
5 Bulldogs 77
6 Collingwood 73
7 West Coast 73
8 Sydney 69
9 Port 68
10 Carlton 66
11 St Kilda 65
12 Gold Coast 63
13 North 60
14 GWS 57
15 Essendon 56
16 Fremantle 55
17 Adelaide 53
18 Hawthorn 43

Melbourne, Brisbane & Collingwood have added even more experience for their hunt for a flag.

Hawks experience has been gutted & likely in for a difficult year as easily most inexperienced list.

Fremantle looking good in the medium term i reckon

 

[Sanders]

That is amazing. I guess we all live different lives and somehow he never heard the term.

Yup.

Though the really amazing thing is projecting your singular experience and determinedly insisting, despite all evidence, that it was universal

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Fremantle looking good in the medium term i reckon

Agree - Freo & Sydney still have plenty of upside.

 

[WaynesWorld19]

You can tell by Social Media, Clubs have been told to push & talk-up Gather Round (Rnd 5).....I mean who starts talking about "heritage" Round or "indigenous" round B4 Christmas ?

 

[Eagleboy2011]

Ouch!

Hawks to cough up $750k for traded duo to play for rivals in 2023

Hawks to cough up $750k for traded duo to play for rivals in 2023

www.foxsports.com.au

 

[Vader]

Ouch!

Hawks to cough up $750k for traded duo to play for rivals in 2023

Hawks to cough up $750k for traded duo to play for rivals in 2023

www.foxsports.com.au

How much were we paying, for Betts to play for Carlton & Jenkins to play in Geelong's VFL side? Probably not much less than $750K between them.

 

[Eagleboy2011]

How much were we paying, for Betts to play for Carlton & Jenkins to play in Geelong's VFL side? Probably not much less than $750K between them.

I don't know why we agreed on Betts leaving. We wanted new blood but never received good compo for him. JJ was a cancer at the time. We should have called their bluff. We tear-up your contract and you can renegotiate with the other clubs if you want out. JJ extension deal was bad att.

 

[Samcro24]

How much were we paying, for Betts to play for Carlton & Jenkins to play in Geelong's VFL side? Probably not much less than $750K between them.

Would have been nowhere near that.

They were reported to be on 400k (Betts), 200k (Jenkins).

 

[Vader]

Would have been nowhere near that.

They were reported to be on 400k (Betts), 200k (Jenkins).

$400K was Betts' original salary with the Crows. I'm pretty sure he was on more than that when he left.

Jenkins too, was on a damn sight more than $200K. That's $150K below the average AFL wage. No chance whatsoever.

Part of their salaries were paid by Carlton & Geelong respectively - but the bulk was paid by the AFC. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the combined total was close to $750K.

 

[Jars458]

Yup.

Though the really amazing thing is projecting your singular experience and determinedly insisting, despite all evidence, that it was universal

Very fair point.

 

[Vader]

I don't know why we agreed on Betts leaving. We wanted new blood but never received good compo for him. JJ was a cancer at the time. We should have called their bluff. We tear-up your contract and you can renegotiate with the other clubs if you want out. JJ extension deal was bad att.

I'm not arguing the rights or wrongs of their departures. I'm just querying how much we were paying them to play for Carlton & Geelong.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Ouch!

Hawks to cough up $750k for traded duo to play for rivals in 2023

Hawks to cough up $750k for traded duo to play for rivals in 2023

www.foxsports.com.au

Hawks traded Mitchell & #25 for Stephens & picks #41 & #50... which looks like a shit deal when paying a huge chunk of Mitchell's salary.

Hawks traded O'Meara for Meek & future 2nd.... which again looks a shit deal if they are paying moat of JOM's salary.

 

[Slippery Pete]

Yup.

Though the really amazing thing is projecting your singular experience and determinedly insisting, despite all evidence, that it was universal

I do that about Vegemite