Mega Thread Port Forum General AFL Thread Part 25

[Duck Farmer]

You're fine with a team that made the Grand Final last year getting Harley Reid because they barely missed finals this year due to losing a couple more than their fair share of close ones?

We took a number one pick generational talent off of a cellar dweller, so yeah.

 

[RonSon]

The way I read the original proposal is that the sixth placed team would play 5 games against teams higher than it (places 1-5) but the seventh placed team plays 5 games against lower placed teams (7-12). So you'd finish up with some teams tanking mid season, as finishing 7th or 8th in the first 18 games is a better outcome than 5th or 6th.

I can't believe that with the hundreds of staff and billion dollar budgets the AFL has, a fair fixture continues to elude us.

It's harder to construct a fixture that looks fair than it is to construct a fair fixture.

 

[_VXV]

Afl won’t be happy until all teams are a homogenous grey mess with all games decided by less than 10 points.

 

[Jimmy95]

Such predictable draft tampering games. Get the media to put doubt in the minds of interstate clubs then deny the media report. It's draft tampering technique 101 these days.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Propogander

 

[RossFC]

Potentially joining North Melbourne scared him straight.

 

[Launchpad McQuack]

Proctogrande

 

[240volt]

I don’t believe any player should be made to play for Norf.
I’d rather be tied to a bleeding Cow floating in the waters of the coast of Port Lincoln than play for that shyt club.

 

[It Just Is]

Potentially joining North Melbourne scared him straight.

In a choice between West Coast, North and GWS it’s please and thank you West Coast

 

[It Just Is]

How anyone can see the three Gold Coast academy kids as a bad thing for the game is beyond me.

Agree - most be coming back to our turn to poach some players from the Gold Coast. Maybe with a first round pick or 2 thrown in.

 

[HugeJohnson]

I don’t believe any player should be made to play for Norf.
I’d rather be tied to a bleeding Cow floating in the waters of the coast of Port Lincoln than play for that shyt club.

I don't believe that is a genuine conviction.

 

[Macca19]

How anyone can see the three Gold Coast academy kids as a bad thing for the game is beyond me.

They just had 6 kids in the u16 AA team too. Its a good thing. Makes the draft stronger

 

[davesnothere]

I don’t believe any player should be made to play for Norf.
I’d rather be tied to a bleeding Cow floating in the waters of the coast of Port Lincoln than play for that shyt club.

Ryley Sanders is falling over himself to get to North. Probably would have been a brilliant get for the Crows but has found a way to avoid ending up there.

Ryley Sanders is now my favourite player in the draft.

 

[240volt]

Ryley Sanders is falling over himself to get to North. Probably would have been a brilliant get for the Crows but has found a way to avoid ending up there.

Ryley Sanders is now my favourite player in the draft.

Ryley Sanders sounds like a character from South Park

 

[Grave Danger]

More money than sense at Mineral Resources Park. Maybe they'll be putting a priority pick pitch to AFL House...

 

[Andre]

They just had 6 kids in the u16 AA team too. Its a good thing. Makes the draft stronger

Yep, people saying get rid of GC (or GWS), don't get that getting AFL more exposure in QLD and NSW, so the current/next generation of kids are playing Aussie Rules, not soccer or basketball is what they are there for first and foremost. Any success they have in the next 10 / 20 years is a bonus.

In an ideal world we're getting lots of NSW and QLD youngsters getting drafted down the road and get rid of some Victorian teams, so we've a stronger draft pool across less teams then there are now. Even if the number of teams gets to 19 and stays there, if we're getting NSW and QLD delivering a higher portion of quality players, it's a win for the quality of the competition.

It was always going to take a generational hit bringing in GC and GWS, with the time lag, between more teams and more youngsters from QLD and NSW. Watching some of the dross served up whilst we're in the middle of it isn't great, but it'll be worth it, to dilute the Victorian dominance of players over the long haul.

 

[PortPortPort]

Yep, people saying get rid of GC (or GWS), don't get that getting AFL more exposure in QLD and NSW, so the current/next generation of kids are playing Aussie Rules, not soccer or basketball is what they are there for first and foremost. Any success they have in the next 10 / 20 years is a bonus.

In an ideal world we're getting lots of NSW and QLD youngsters getting drafted down the road and get rid of some Victorian teams, so we've a stronger draft pool across less teams then there are now. Even if the number of teams gets to 19 and stays there, if we're getting NSW and QLD delivering a higher portion of quality players, it's a win for the quality of the competition.

It was always going to take a generational hit bringing in GC and GWS, with the time lag, between more teams and more youngsters from QLD and NSW. Watching some of the dross served up whilst we're in the middle of it isn't great, but it'll be worth it, to dilute the Victorian dominance of players over the long haul.

Yep, people saying fold Gold Coast based off of no success, shouldn't they get rid of the saints if they are basing it off of success.

 

[Andre]

Yep, people saying fold Gold Coast based off of no success, shouldn't they get rid of the saints if they are basing it off of success.

The whole thing is you could fold any of Saints, Melbourne, Bulldogs or North and it'd have 0.01% effect on the number of Vic kids playing AFL(/W). It'd be lucky to have 1% long term effect on TV viewer figures, if you got rid of 3 of them (so there's 16 teams with Tassie in). IMO, get rid of those 3 and go to 30 rounds and TV rights are going up, not down. This pissant league still being controlled by a handful of big Vic clubs, keeping the Vic leeches in so they maintain a majority control, is a disgrace.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Tom '119' Richardson activated because journos know as much about Soligo as the rest of us.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

FREMANTLE footy boss Peter Bell has revealed the club is weighing up sending in ruckman Sean Darcy for ankle surgery amid fears his setback is worse than originally thought. It likely means Darcy is set be sidelined for a lengthy stint, with Bell telling 6PR: “It’s reasonably serious.”

 

[Doctor Feel]

Tom '119' Richardson activated because journos know as much about Soligo as the rest of us.

Jason Derulo

 

[davesnothere]

More money than sense at Mineral Resources Park. Maybe they'll be putting a priority pick pitch to AFL House...


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Sounds like they're on their way to a hit.

 

[simba_]

Afl won’t be happy until all teams are a homogenous grey mess with all games decided by less than 10 points.

that's how i see it already i'm like the guy in THEY LIVE

 

[Andre]

that's how i see it already i'm like the guy in THEY LIVE

Coin toss replaced by who can chew the most bubblegum.

 

[Ford Fairlane]