Mega Thread Port Forum General AFL Thread Part 27

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Ticky009 said:
Lynch playing for the Tigers even at this stage of his career makes a huge difference to them.
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Looked the game up, you lost by 5 pts he kicked 3.2 and Tarranto 1.1 and he had 35 disposals.
 
scotty13 said:
Anyone know how much money Nrf are set to lose through sponsorships? Surely the Spirit of Tasmania will cease to be premier sponsor, and by the looks they have a few other tassy based sponsors, who surely will pull out of norf and go to the tassie team?

Likewise with the Hawks... main sponsor is Tasmania.

Not including the stadium deals they have for playing in Tasmania with the government, not sure on their financials, but could this be the end of North financially?
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The answer to that is obvious - North Melbourne will not be allowed to fail financially by the AFL under current policy. The logic of that policy is of course, fundamentally flawed.

In the past last 5 AFL seasons North have won just 12 games out of 106 games played.

They have finished either bottom or second to bottom in that period despite being given top draft picks and concessions.

There is no other team in AFL that has done this poorly this consistently in the past three decades. It makes Port's 2011 shocker season look like a monumental success.

HOW can North survive? Answer is they won't without even more substantial financial and draft intervention from the AFL at the expense of every other club.

But more to the point WHY should they survive?

With Tasmania getting the haul of top draft picks in 2027 and subsequent years with their entry into the AFL in 2028, the young talent pool across all other clubs in the AFL will be diluted - clubs that, including us, will have been denied top draft picks in the years prior to that because they have been siphoned off to North.

There is simply not enough quality talent to support 19 teams in the AFL, let alone the 20 that everyone recognises will be needed in the long term to re-balance the competition to avoid bye weeks. Where will the talent come from to fill the 900 odd seniors and rookies to fill that national playing list?

The rationale in AFL propping up GCS in Queensland and GWS in NSW makes good sense long term from an AFL perspective. Together Queensland and NSW make up more than one half of the Australian population - and that share is growing every year. The AFL, as the country's leading spectator sport, needs a strong stake in those markets from a viewing and economic perspective.

But there is zero rationale, other than emotion and Vic bias, for the AFL to retain a flailing North Melbourne club - both on and off field - in a state which already has 10 clubs.

If economics, logic, common sense and the national strength of the game matter, North must go as a stand-alone AFL team. Preferably as part of a merger with one of the interstate clubs, before the Tassie Devils enter.

But that logic only works if the strength of the AFL as a national competition is top of the AFL's agenda. Sadly, since the day the entry of interstate teams into the VFL was seen as a quick fix to the bankrupt position of several Melbourne clubs, that has never really been the top priority of AFL House despite the rhetoric.
 
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I'm not sure why people even bring up getting rid of North it's never happening the AFL have the coin to prop up clubs in the trench & no appetite to kill anyone off. North will improve at some point and we are stuck with them.
 

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Collingwood are savaging West Coast. Aren't Collingwood missing 5 of their forward line?

Finn Macrae has 3 goals.
 
Port 2004 said:
Said the same thing to my son this morning. Far more talented than the crommy on paper.
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Let's see if they can maintain their season high pressure level like they did against us.
 
Liam Ryan looks like 20kg heavier than he last played at. Good paddock.
 

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