News Media Thread, 2024: Insightful, Inciteful and Incomptent
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It was at the WA Italian team of the century night , he did a talk think it was said for a laugh to rev up the eagles fans there
I learnt tonight that somehow Adrian Barich made the WA Italian team of the century
Meaning anything that occurred on that night is to be dismissed immediately
Found an interesting podcast the other day with Damian Cavka(an eagle that had to retire in 2016 due to rare foot condition), first half of the episode is about his injury and how the club helped him out during that period,
Sounds like a ripper bloke who loves the club.
Sounds like a ripper bloke who loves the club.
THE A5
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To add to migs point. Pendles bout to play his 300th game in Victoria alone. His victorian games alone would be more than any games played by an eagle bar bunga. 76% of all games player in one state alone is freaking mind blowing
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Listening to Cavka he seems like a ripping bloke, such a shame he just couldn't get going/healthy with that foot.
Didn't realise it was as bad as that either.
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The only solution is to play every game of the season in South Australia and the SA teams take a 2-4 hr loop flight 2 days before every game to even things out.
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make them stay in hotels every weekend and train at random grounds every week, a perfect system
TBH that’s why I listened to the podcast because I remember his presser being bloody impressive such a shame he couldn’t get on the park I seem to remember him beating masten in the 2km time trial.
Good to hear the club did right by him though and had helped him out seems to be really do well for him self now has a his own electrical business Cavolt electrical for any of you living in Melbourne
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Singing the club song ?
Was it the birds of Tokyo version as punishment to the players
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Fair play. At least bringing some humour to the table
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Fair play. At least bringing some humour to the table
Whilst this was done by a Victorian supporter to take the p155 out of the back and fourth, it almost helps us by pointing the finger back at the AFL.
If they don’t want to do anything to assist the equalisation of the fixture, will they do something to minimise their carbon emissions? With businesses and governments all making commitments to going ‘greener’, will the billion dollar AFL do the same?
Effectively, it should be a back door entry to less flying, however, knowing the vAFL, they’ll probably just ban Vic teams from travelling at all.
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AFL to announce:
“All teams to travel by boat. Eagles and Freo to spend five days on a boat travelling East”
The West:
“Row, Row, Row you GOAT” with a photo of Harley.
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It seems the (rare) WA travel greatly affects Vic teams while the (frequent) travel out of WA isn’t considered to be a disadvantage for us.
I don’t think many Eagles supporters realise the Vic clubs fly via Sth America and Sth Africa to get to Perth. We simply don’t know how good we have it.
PS: glad to see Graham Cornes getting involved in the vAFL discussion.
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"Lol why would Collingwood and Richmond play in Ballarat or Tassie, everyone makes less money that way???!?"
Oh ****. You've opened my eyes. I never realised that's what it was, thank you wise Twitter user.
Yes campaigner, we know they're trying to maximise revenue. Nobody has ever disputed that. What we're asking for is at the very least an acknowledgment that, because of that approach, there is an inequality in the fixture that benefits some teams far more than others. That's all.
I'm not even expecting them to stop. I'd like them to, but they won't. Money over fixture equality, so be it.
Just admit that the result is teams being disproportionality impacted in the pursuit of more money, making it harder for some teams and easier for the same set of teams year on year.
They'll always say it maximises revenue, but never go that tiiiiiiny step further and agree that there's a flow on effect.
Oh ****. You've opened my eyes. I never realised that's what it was, thank you wise Twitter user.
Yes campaigner, we know they're trying to maximise revenue. Nobody has ever disputed that. What we're asking for is at the very least an acknowledgment that, because of that approach, there is an inequality in the fixture that benefits some teams far more than others. That's all.
I'm not even expecting them to stop. I'd like them to, but they won't. Money over fixture equality, so be it.
Just admit that the result is teams being disproportionality impacted in the pursuit of more money, making it harder for some teams and easier for the same set of teams year on year.
They'll always say it maximises revenue, but never go that tiiiiiiny step further and agree that there's a flow on effect.
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This can't be helped, one team out of the WA team and the other team has to fly lol.
The first option to reduce flights for WA teams (which they won't consider) is to give them more home games.
The other option they could possibly offer is for the WA teams to have back to back games in the Eastern states or the same state.
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Smeg Head
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Well then, 22 home games for us it is, that would maximize revenue over any other alternative. Thanks twitter nuffie.
Another reason I’m all in on Mark Duffield and anyone else pushing the boat of a team in South West WA (rather then NT)
- Guarantees more games in WA (instead of gather round once a year)
- means more flights for clubs based in Melbourne (ideally 3 a year in Perth for all Melbourne based clubs does go someway to evening the comp)
- population to cover it
- financially makes sense to the AFL as unlikely to require prop ups, like north etc get to survive.
- don’t need to build a new stadium, although 20-30k stadium in Busselton/Bunbury would be awesome
- direct flights from Busso to Melbourne, although if games were played down south, I’d love Melbourne clubs to fly to Perth and then catch a Bus to Busso/Bunbury (see if Cats enjoy that journey)
- would offer a lifestyle choice to attract some players (similar to geelong but with better weather)
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I think it's a much better idea than another team in the Perth Metro
