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Senior coach who works probably 60-70 hours a week taking on a senior leadership role at a club sponsor, might not actually be for real work. Well, I never!
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Senior coach who works probably 60-70 hours a week taking on a senior leadership role at a club sponsor, might not actually be for real work. Well, I never!
Bradesmaen
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Rocks into Morris, gives a team talk, walks out. Sounds valid.
Magma
TheBrownDog
he's a waste management consultant
Art Vandelay_
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This is a bad look for the AFL moreso than Geelong.
To backtrack and feign ignorance that they were blindsided is purely down to the clubland pushback.
So they'll pretend to ask for more info before likely ticking it off again.
They could have just grown a pair and told all and sundry we knew and we had no objections.
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Yeah I dunno, I think it makes Geelong look pretty shady and the AFL probably didn't want to touch this but they have no choice.
What's the point of a soft cap if teams are going to blatantly cheat.
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I think there's two things here.
1. You're operating under the assumption, without proof, that it is dodgy behaviour. Or that the AFL's rules prevent these things. If so why last week was this 'ticked off'??
2. The precedent has already been set.
Adam Simpson took ownership of two Perth based HJ franchises. A West Coast Sponsor.
Luke Beveridge after winning 2016 flag. Also a sponsor.
On a more broad discussion you'd have to say the soft cap has been a failure. Brought in because big clubs spent money on their football programs with frivolous attention to how much was being spent. And the argument was that smaller clubs couldn't compete.
The soft cap is here, including a luxury tax, and the powerful clubs are still winning premierships and competing deep in finals while your St.k, NM, GCS types aren't getting close.
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Hopefully that never comes
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Still waiting on being an on-field power.
but it doesnt really matter though really. you can have 10 mil in debt and receive plenty of afl money and be premier. while it's nice for a club from their standpoint, it doesnt really seem to matter much in the grand scheme of things
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Magma
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this is just kinda sad that this happens still.
Bradesmaen
TheBrownDog
They'd be better of selling home games somewhere else... They could at least call them semi-home games (say Cairns, Darwin etc) rather than the packed house of Freo/WC fans for their "home" game.
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Doubt selling to Cairns etc would net them the $2m this deal is expected to get
Just the consequence of having too many teams in one spot.
Better than the other option of folding.
Bradesmaen
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True, but are you just trying to exist or win football games? Winning brings money and fans.
gaskin
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They aren't winning in the next couple of years so they might as well sacrifice a couple of games to get some extra cash in the bank.
Still a completely desperate move bordering on throwing games for $.
Sends a poor message to the playing group and anyone ever potentially considering joining it.
TheGreatBarryB
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A lot cheaper for North fans to fly to Tassie games than WA. They said they will earn a total of $500k to $1m but wouldn’t they just get that eventually from AFL funding if they didn’t earn it for these two games? Freo getting an extra home game could impact finals
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Their "home" game in Bunno will get a bigger crowd than any of their actual home games at Marvel or Hobart.
The biggest problem here is that the state govt forked out money for North like they're a struggling airline.
Collingwood play 4-5 matches outside Vic every season but you hear crickets about it. It's 2 hours south at a ground neither team has played other than a few pre season matches years ago. The real winner is the Eagles who have an actual extra game at Optus.
The biggest problem here is that the state govt forked out money for North like they're a struggling airline.
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The 2m paid for these games will generate more than 2m for the local economy.
That will help businesses and families.
Bradesmaen
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Bunbury maybe but not Perth.
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