AFLW 2024 - Round 10 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
How about if only premiership players sons or grand sons were eligible for F/S, no matter how many games they’ve played, rather than 100 games for any player.
All they did was make it even after having teams on different rules for so long. Teams are going to rort it though & it won’t be even as zoning cannot be, that’s what the draft is suppose to be for but they have screwed it up.
it's impossible for it to be fair.
Who would have thought appointing a middling coach would result in middling results?
The worst part about it, and why Bassat’s rant is even funnier, is that they got Lyon back thinking that he could get that list into the top 4.
It quite literally was as part of inclusion into the VFL from VFA - the rich clubs needed a solid club that captured the geographic inner SE/bayside area of Melbourne and St Kilda fit the bill without pissing Sth Melbourne off too much
Terrible idea. You are massively disadvantage teams like Freo, Saints, Melb, Dogs etc that rarely if ever win premierships
There is a benefit though for the AFL, with Brisbane getting both Ashcrofts.
no, with that logic the draft isn't fair, the rules for father son are equal and the same for everyone
na. You don’t need to consistently get handouts to be competitive. The advantage you should get from an academy is to get near guaranteed access to players without the go home factor. You don’t need any discounts, that’s just getting an advantage on an advantage.
Yes pretty much this.
You also thin out the number of father sons that established clubs have access to.
Then simply Brisbane will close their academy's, sydney will do the same and it goes on. And the AFL will deal with a greater talent issue, and suffer because of that. And this isn't a handout. A handout is getting these players for absolutely free. Having a discount on these players is absolutely fair in the equalisation of this competition. Because Northern Clubs will always be disadvantaged when recruiting interstate players, so this is the only way to keep the competition equal. Also, how many times does Brisbane travel outside of Queensland in comparison to Carlton traveling outside of Victoria. If you think getting a 15-20% discount on an academy player is unequal, then how about the advantages you get to retaining victorian players and the fact that you travel far less? Can't have it both ways. You also have to accept the fact that the AFL competition is never equal. Clubs like yours and Collingwood has a distinct advantage over clubs like us, so your comment is a bit ironic considering your club is more protected then most clubs. Secondly, Northern clubs have to deal with issues that Carlton will never have to deal with. We will always travel more, we will always deal with player retention issues more. However, we will gain access to academy players. It isn't equal, but we're allowed some advantage. So deal with it.
He raised academies which I took as NGA too. But good point.
Then the AFL can let GC and GWS have access to all Queensland and NSW for their academies. It would cost the AFL maybe another $1mil and give the smaller brothers in the northern market a massive leg up.
St Kilda have been given handouts financially from the afl aswell, so it’s such an odd perspective he’s gone with, it’s majorly built from the club itself, afl helps clubs as they need it to survive. Fixturing is done for clubs performance mainly with their popularity a part of the decision. A lot of this is club built, he’s complaining since their club hasn’t benefited from what’s been given and haven’t taken proper advantage or properly advanced their standpoint as a club.
Delusional take. All the acadamy's would end. We'll keep taking our leg up here, while you keep taking yours by always having an MCG grand final, by always traveling less and by having easier player retention. Victorian clubs have absolutely no right to complain because they're the most entitled lot of them all.
