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Universal Love - 2024 - The Year of the Navy Blues
Okay. It's time After nearly 30 years of medicocrity and some false starts the Famous Old Navy Blues are READY to take the FLAG. FINALLY!!! Why? Culture - Never seen it as good Standards - Never been better List - In it's prime, has depth and competition for spots A great spread of experience...
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Yeah, right.Universal Love - 2024 - The Year of the Navy Blues
Okay. It's time After nearly 30 years of medicocrity and some false starts the Famous Old Navy Blues are READY to take the FLAG. FINALLY!!! Why? Culture - Never seen it as good Standards - Never been better List - In it's prime, has depth and competition for spots A great spread of experience...
Just threw up a little bitUniversal Love - 2024 - The Year of the Navy Blues
Okay. It's time After nearly 30 years of medicocrity and some false starts the Famous Old Navy Blues are READY to take the FLAG. FINALLY!!! Why? Culture - Never seen it as good Standards - Never been better List - In it's prime, has depth and competition for spots A great spread of experience...
It will be fun to watch, queue the excuses, the membership burnings, calls to sack Voss
might be a few GF tickets going cheap too
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Universal Love - 2024 - The Year of the Navy Blues
Okay. It's time After nearly 30 years of medicocrity and some false starts the Famous Old Navy Blues are READY to take the FLAG. FINALLY!!! Why? Culture - Never seen it as good Standards - Never been better List - In it's prime, has depth and competition for spots A great spread of experience...
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Universal Love - 2024 - The Year of the Navy Blues
Okay. It's time After nearly 30 years of medicocrity and some false starts the Famous Old Navy Blues are READY to take the FLAG. FINALLY!!! Why? Culture - Never seen it as good Standards - Never been better List - In it's prime, has depth and competition for spots A great spread of experience...
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They have their problems with apostrophes too - not helping thoughUniversal Love - 2024 - The Year of the Navy Blues
Okay. It's time After nearly 30 years of medicocrity and some false starts the Famous Old Navy Blues are READY to take the FLAG. FINALLY!!! Why? Culture - Never seen it as good Standards - Never been better List - In it's prime, has depth and competition for spots A great spread of experience...
The Harry hypothetical: Why there are problems galore with mid-year trades
A view has taken hold, in some quarters, that mid-season trading will be exciting and enhance the competition. But there would be a few blatant wrinkles in a liberal mid-year trading system.
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The Harry hypothetical: Why there are problems galore with mid-year trades
A view has taken hold, in some quarters, that mid-season trading will be exciting and enhance the competition. But there would be a few blatant wrinkles in a liberal mid-year trading system.www.theage.com.au
Can someone kindly copy and paste this article?
The clubs are pondering the question of a mid-season trading system, which is considered a serious chance for 2025, but is all but ruled out for this year. The players have agreed to mid-year trading, subject to details.
A view has taken hold, in some quarters, that mid-season trading will be exciting, that more movement of players is an inherent good and that, as with the NBA, NFL, baseball and European soccer, such mechanisms will enhance the competition.
The AFL has asked clubs for feedback on player movement; there is measured support for mid-season trading from several clubs, although one has already suggested that mid-year trades should be restricted to lowly paid or minimum wage players, that it should be about player opportunity, rather than handing leverage to top teams and players.This column, which has often backed rule changes – such as the six-six-six and kick-in and man-on-mark changes that improved the spectacle – is concerned about the unintended consequences of mid-season trading.
Here are a few blatant wrinkles in a liberal mid-year trading system that emulates overseas sports:
- Assuming there’s little restriction on who you can trade, clubs down the ladder, e.g. Carlton last year, have greater incentive to give up on the season and effectively tank. This flies in the face of the equalisation that has made the AFL more appealing.
- The teams higher on the ladder would enhance their position if they can a) acquire a key player that redresses immediate need and b) can get the vendor to pay a portion of that season’s contract.
- Integrity. The fixture will always be compromised, but is it right to cop, say, Richmond with Tom Lynch in round six – and then your top eight/four rival gets the Tigers without him in round 18? Not because he’s injured/suspended, but since he’s playing for Collingwood or Sydney by then?
- Players and their agents could ruthlessly exploit a mid-year trade threat: “I want to go to Geelong and get there now (Cats are thereabouts). Or sign me on a $6 million deal now.” Predatory clubs will get in the ear of players to push for an immediate trade.
- Geographic disadvantage. Victorian clubs can gain players from nine teams in the same state. Is a gun player, with kids, willing up uproot his life and move to Queensland or Adelaide?
Many within the media will favour mid-season trading, since it will create more content for fans who devour every skerrick of information about even the most minor players and deals. It will be a boon to the player movement media industrial complex and will continue the code’s continued embrace of American sporting culture and practices.
But league CEO Andrew Dillon and the commission must remember that Australian rules football has an entirely different culture – it grew out of communities, not professional sport per se – and that fans also need to have a group of one-club players and a stable relationship with their best and more beloved players.
The media hype around Carlton and Essendon is hilarious.
The Blues over achieved the 2nd half of last year and will cop a dose of reality with the tougher draw. It's a bit like in 2013 when they finsihed 9th jumped to 8th with the Bombers penalty, winning a final and they think they actually "improved"
The Essendon one is worse, they're acting like they're flag favourites. This is a team that won 2 of their last 7 barely against WCE and NM, got heavily pumped and recruited a few mediocre players during the off season. They aren't fooling me
The Blues over achieved the 2nd half of last year and will cop a dose of reality with the tougher draw. It's a bit like in 2013 when they finsihed 9th jumped to 8th with the Bombers penalty, winning a final and they think they actually "improved"
The Essendon one is worse, they're acting like they're flag favourites. This is a team that won 2 of their last 7 barely against WCE and NM, got heavily pumped and recruited a few mediocre players during the off season. They aren't fooling me
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I think they won 5 less games than the 2023 premiers.
They have a long way to go.
Yes this is spot on. They think they're a couple wins from the flag. They're forgetting everyone starts from scratch
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Every team has different players, different styles to gameplan, harder draws etc. I don't see it with Carlton and not just because i hate them. They had spuds like Blake Acres, Mitch McGovern, Jack Martin, Matt Owies etc etc turn from absolute dogshit into A graders overnight and rode this wave of bullshit helped by Melbourne melting down. Beat them around the ball at the source and they are the same shit Carlton of the first half of the year. See how they go if Curnow, Cripps and Weitering go down together and they have to call on their depth like we did last year
But Essendon have the wonder coach.
I mean his coaching premierships stand apart from all others…
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The Age throwing shade on Carltank’s 2023 season AND associating them with tanking once again, and I for one am here for it.
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PwC opens ethics investigation into Luke Sayers
A complaint has raised allegations against the former PwC CEO. The firm’s ethics department has started an investigation.
Let the good times roll.
PS - could someone help me here - does Carlton have an ethics committee?
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PwC opens ethics investigation into Luke Sayers
A complaint has raised allegations against the former PwC CEO. The firm’s ethics department has started an investigation.www.afr.com
Let the good times roll.
PS - could someone help me here - does Carlton have an ethics committee?
Again and again and again. That club.
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.PwC opens ethics investigation into Luke Sayers
A complaint has raised allegations against the former PwC CEO. The firm’s ethics department has started an investigation.
Let the good times roll.
PS - could someone help me here - does Carlton have an ethics committee?
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One can only hope
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Just wait - if they have an ok start to the year, they will compare that to their terrible start last year and conclude they are flag certainties. I am all for it. Build them up early.
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Yes, they meet under the table..PwC opens ethics investigation into Luke Sayers
A complaint has raised allegations against the former PwC CEO. The firm’s ethics department has started an investigation.
Let the good times roll.
PS - could someone help me here - does Carlton have an ethics committee?
