Mega Thread VICBias - Genuine Discussion Part 2

[sr36]

That’s the current regions as per the AFL website but who knows if they actually keep it up to date.

May very well be as you have said, otherwise it’s just odd that those regions haven’t been assigned.

It is interesting though that even though WA have huge zones, the Vic clubs have still done pretty well in comparison with JUH, Quanor, Kako this year and the clubs that got screwed in Melbourne with Andrew and Saints with McKenzie I think it was not being able to select them, falling into club NGA zones.

A number of highly rated kids at the pointy end of the draft are falling in the Vic clubs zones compared to the other states. More so just the luck of the draw but still interesting given it’s a much smaller area.

Then the Northern academies are a whole other ball game but jeez I hate them.

You've got to remember that there are 10 Vic clubs. In the few years where there was unfettered access, juh, iq, tarryn Thomas and Liam Henry were the four highly rated NGa players gotten on the cheap. 3 to Vic 1 to wa - it's still a better ratio for WA than Vic in terms of clubs. But significantly, that was when WA had small zones and not the entire state. With the new zones, in the long run you'd expect them to kill it. Which is why west coast have been the big pushers for NGa changes. They've done well.

 

[melanChronic]

That's been the case for all the NGa for Vic too. Mac Andrew was part of Melbourne's academy for example. It's changing soon and they'll be available for matching at any point in the draft.

That article is from 2018. They succeeded and got their tweak and metropolitan kids are part of the academies. And now that you can match at any point, they'll be valuable academies

The 2021 change that affected Mac Andrew etc. was just bringing all NGAs into line with the top 40 exclusion that originally applied only to SA and WA metropolitan indigenous NGA players (after WA and SA clubs campaigned to have them included at all).

I guess you're claiming that with this recent 2024 reversion of the top 40 exclusion it will also be removed for SA and WA metropolitan indigenous NGA players. I'll be glad if that is the case, but have never seen it explicitly confirmed-- the only reference to it is that Jake Niall article stating that the exclusion still exists. Have you seen an AFL statement contradicting Niall?

 

[Jables]

I agree. There should have been more Vic teams that got the same treatment. North Melbourne's next premiership should have come playing out of gold coast or Hobart. The Melbourne Hawks should have been a reality.

It is hilarious though, suddenly reading about those thousands of rusted on south and fitzroy supporters that will be at the grand final, after being told by the usual suspects on this thread that we can't reduce the number of Vic teams to reduce Vic bias, because all their fans will be lost to the game forever

If we somehow got folded into Fremantle you lot still wouldn't sniff a flag, so don't worry your little head about it.

How do you guys post this stuff seriously?

 

[Chronz]

If we somehow got folded into Fremantle you lot still wouldn't sniff a flag, so don't worry your little head about it.

How do you guys post this stuff seriously?

The empty trophy cabinet has turned some of them a bit mad. I'd let them have their little cope thread, very therapeutic it seems.