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I gave it two...... seconds that is!!
Mate the travel isn't the only Vic bias. In my opinion it's no where near the top
If you want to talk about the GF, then you won't get many arguments, I doubt many would not agree it's in the Vics favor.
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TheBrownDog
Of course extra travel is a disadvantage, but let me know when cricket basketball and soccer turn their home and away comp into a home, home away comp to reduce travel for a WA team, and then I'll start to belieits a vicbias thing. What do other sporting comps around the world do for clubs from cities that have go travel further? Pretty sure it's nothing - anywhere.
And the disadvantage is being dramatically exaggerated.
The AFL don’t want to do anything about it.
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TheBrownDog
Is there a sporting comp in the world that does do much at all regarding extra travel?
Most other pro sporting comps are run professionally and fixture fairly like playing each side twice. You know simple type stuff.
Yeah that's what I just said.
I don’t know mate and to be honest I a, not sure there is much that can be done.
Personally I think the CEO of the non vic clubs have been weak for years. If I was CEO of the Eagles I would say we will only travel to capital city’s where there is an AFL team. If you the AFL want to take games to other areas then you send two vic clubs to do it. We are not doing that.
We are also not playing twighlight on a Sunday , get the VIc teams to do that crap.
You want to promote the game in other countries then get two of your big 4 vic clubs and go and promote it. But leave us out of it.
No travelling in pre season unless you return it to a competition.
And if by chance we make it to a GF and we ha-pen to be the highest qualifier you must give our club access to tickets that would give us the majority of crowd.
Simple stuff.
We are also not playing twighlight on a Sunday , get the VIc teams to do that crap.
You want to promote the game in other countries then get two of your big 4 vic clubs and go and promote it. But leave us out of it.
No travelling in pre season unless you return it to a competition.
And if by chance we make it to a GF and we ha-pen to be the highest qualifier you must give our club access to tickets that would give us the majority of crowd.
Simple stuff.
sr36
TheBrownDog
So you'd like to have the double ups equally distributed and travel more? Or maybe 17 away games a year?
I love how it's fans of the most privileged club in the AFL arguing vehemently against travel being a burden
It is often the advantaged that very much argue against helping the poor since helping the poor would lessen their advantage.
I am either play each other once or play each other twice. No in between
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You literally have players and coaches who have experienced both telling you it's a disadvantage and you're here saying 'but but Brownlows'. There won't be a report showing the exact effect of travel on a player's performance because it is unknowable, experience of people in the know is what we have. My reply was all the post deserved.
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TheBrownDog
If we played each other once and all of it was in Alice to equaliser travel, we'd still find something to carry on about.
My view is the game is as much about the supporters as the players. One thing I think is ridiculous is that Collingwood and Freo are about to play a Friday night game in Perth. The game is on at prime time for the rest of the country. What stupid time does it start in Perth? Got to start prioritising the fans at the game over the TV fans.
I agree with that, game should start here at 7.10pm.
If the game was about the fans then 90% of the rule changes the last 20 years would not of happened.
I'm not arguing if it's a burden or not, my argument is, it's not as much a burden as some make it out to be, like you saying it's a "major burden"
IMO if it's a "major burden, then no way would there be 11 brownlow medalists or 7 premiers.
Don Pyke took Adelaide to the Gold Coast during finals, tell me he wouldn't know about the burdens of travel, because he didn't seem fazed.
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TheBrownDog
I disagree with the second bit. They've sped it up to make it more exciting for fans. That's what most of the rule changes have been about.
Not a soul that watched it was complaining about it.
You do realise WC and Freo have to travel back from the east every week to play at Optus?
Which means they travel just as far as their opponents almost every home game
I used to think like this.
Then someone said to me "It's not about you anymore"
I thought about that, then started asking younger people if they liked footy now or what it was like in my time, they all answered now.
So, it's not about me anymore.
I agree with this also, which is why my interest in the sport is very small now compared to when I once lived and breathed it.
I watch footy rarely these days other than the Eagles, sometimes we have it on in the background with some tunes playing.
My point however was most of the rule changes were not required and the young people wouldn’t know any different.
Yep exactly.
I can't get my head around a lot on here that just despise the AFL, yet still follow it, many think it's corrupt.
There are still state leagues, there are regional leagues, they still play footy in these leagues and they are ok to watch.
If I was that disgruntled with this league, I was just watch something else.
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TheBrownDog
Yeah they were. Coaches changed the game. Lots of complaints about it. AFL have tried to open it and make it more positional again.
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