Oppo Camp Non-Eagles Discussion

[amazingjoshy]

Always and forever * Essendon. That cheating stain of a club should have been wound up, they got off lightly.

Mike Sheahen still regularly (before he retired anyway) alluded to our 92 and 94 sides having some sort of unfair advantage. Just imagine the Vic media for one second if it had been us instead of Essendon.

Massive hypocrites

 

[MrKK]

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/it-is-time-for-jobe-watson-to-be-reinstated-as-the-2012-brownlow-medal-winner-writes-mike-sheahan/news-story/66d6aa526947f25ca4183cc0bad361de

GTFO you cheats. They're all lucky that the games they played, and for which they were retrospectively suspended, still count in their records rather than being vacated as would happen in US sports. Fletcher for eg should not be a 400-game player.

 

[FKASC]

Decent grand final this

 

[Mr Eagle]

The curse of Queensland is broken!

 

[Keys]

Port wanting to walk away from the SANFL and join the VFL from 2025

Fair bit of other stuff about the league review and the possibility of all 18 clubs playing in the one reserves competition

Port Adelaide has formally applied to enter its reserve side in the VFL.
The Herald Sun can reveal the AFL has received a formal request from the Power to join the VFL from 2025 as part of a potential major shake-up to the state league competitions.

The Power’s written submission was lodged in recent days on the back of a league-wide meeting of club and AFL football bosses last week about the competitive balance review and pending overhaul of the draft system.

AFL officials suggested there was potential scope to introduce changes to the draft system - pending feedback from clubs over the next two months - in time for next year’s draft.

New football boss Laura Kane also expressed support for more females in club recruiting divisions.

While clubs are pushing for considerable change to specific list mechanisms, including academy and father-son selections, the second-tier competition is also one of the most contentious and important issues.

Currently, Port Adelaide and Adelaide (SANFL), and West Coast and Fremantle (WAFL) are the only four AFL clubs which do not have reserve sides in the VFL.

Port wants to join the VFL to be part of the premier second-tier football league in the country and eliminate any disadvantage for its developing players.

It is believed Port’s move has broad support across the league as part of a step towards a national second-tier competition involving all 18 AFL clubs.

The Power’s formal application will prompt serious talks about the state league competitions, with the Crows, Dockers and Eagles all set to strongly consider following in Port’s footsteps.

It comes as the AFL looks set to introduce a more weighted fixture into the VFL for next season so there are less lopsided games between top and bottom sides, including the standalone clubs.

There is significant support to create a national second-tier competition involving reserve sides from all 18 AFL clubs, but it remains unclear what that could mean for the future of the VFL and its standalone clubs Werribee, Williamstown, Port Melbourne, Frankston, Northern Bullants and Coburg.

Port Adelaide, which was founded in 1870 and joined the AFL in 1997, has a long and proud history in the SANFL, making a move to the VFL a difficult one for some of its South Australian supporters.

But Port is adamant a move to the VFL is optimal for the AFL team’s development and performance.

There is a considerable push to address the equity in the AFL and obvious imbalances relating to reserve sides, academy and father-son picks, and travel, in particular for Fremantle and West Coast.

It is the hottest topic in the game as the league prepares to welcome a new Tasmanian side in 2028.

AFL officials including Kane, Geoff Walsh, Josh Mahoney

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and Ned Guy will lead the review into the competitive balance of the league, including the contentious northern academy discount and next generation academy boundaries and operations.

The draft value index is also in line for an overhaul, while there are calls to streamline and protect the first round of the draft.

There were 29 picks in the first round of last month’s draft and 64 picks in total.

The league will assess the feedback from clubs before completing its own analysis which is expected to include considering trade period changes including trading future picks two years out and potential pick purchasing.

Pick purchasing is where clubs could trade salary cap space for draft picks

 

[Bender_]

Port wanting to walk away from the SANFL and join the VFL from 2025

Fair bit of other stuff about the league review and the possibility of all 18 clubs playing in the one reserves competition

Reckon it'll be an issue with those standalone VFL clubs kicking up a stink about being left behind. Either they stay in the comp with the 18 reserves teams or there'll be no reserve team comp at all coz VFL Forever and all that.

 

[Truckosaurus]

Reckon it'll be an issue with those standalone VFL clubs kicking up a stink about being left behind. Either they stay in the comp with the 18 reserves teams or there'll be no reserve team comp at all coz VFL Forever and all that.

They can reform the VFA.


And take North with them.

 

[Truckosaurus]

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/13/sport/jimbo-fisher-record-buyout-texas-am-spt-intl/index.html?sp_amp_linker=1*1th5euy*amp_id*UE8yd19LTzhYc3NRUVBkVHpqb2ZVeTA3YVpRX29MUFd0YzFfUElfUG0xdlJaalZKMVNhLVg0eXpQX25WY21Reg

Makes the potential Simmo payout look pretty measly

 

[FKASC]

Jimbo Fisher just got fired as head coach at Texas A&M and will get paid out $76m remaining on his contract.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/13/sport/jimbo-fisher-record-buyout-texas-am-spt-intl/index.html?sp_amp_linker=1*1th5euy*amp_id*UE8yd19LTzhYc3NRUVBkVHpqb2ZVeTA3YVpRX29MUFd0YzFfUElfUG0xdlJaalZKMVNhLVg0eXpQX25WY21Reg

Makes the potential Simmo payout look pretty measly

Inflation is so bad at the moment, the payouts are increasing by $1 million a fortnight

 

[Ishmael_]

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/13/sport/jimbo-fisher-record-buyout-texas-am-spt-intl/index.html?sp_amp_linker=1*1th5euy*amp_id*UE8yd19LTzhYc3NRUVBkVHpqb2ZVeTA3YVpRX29MUFd0YzFfUElfUG0xdlJaalZKMVNhLVg0eXpQX25WY21Reg

Makes the potential Simmo payout look pretty measly

7.5 million a year for the head coach while the players get a scholarship to a cheapish, pretty ordinary university. Seems about right to me.

 

[Cuzz09]

That whole country is out of whack

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[Truckosaurus]

7.5 million a year for the head coach while the players get a scholarship to a cheapish, pretty ordinary university. Seems about right to me.

At least if they're injured they can always rely on their degree in Communication.

 

[Forward Press]

That whole country is out of whack

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The quality of health care and education you receive in the US depends on how much money you are prepared to pay.

There are plenty of 'uplifting' videos where a teenager making a half-court basketball shot pays for his college, or an 'inspiring' story of a GoFundMe successfully paying for chemo for a school janitor. Sh** is f***ed over there.

 

[briztoon]

Word on our board is that the game we’re “possibly” selling to WA while the Gabba is being rebuilt, is our Easter Thursday clash with Collingwood.

 

[Barrybran]

Word on our board is that the game we’re “possibly” selling to WA while the Gabba is being rebuilt, is our Easter Thursday clash with Collingwood.

Why would Brisbane sell that game to WA? Surely you'd sell it to Gold Coast?

 

[Barrybran]

Although Thursday footy on the Gold Coast doesn't really work I guess

 

[DanWCE]

Although footy on the Gold Coast doesn't really work I guess

 

[ioppolo]

60k fans vs 25k fans

 

[Keys]

Why would Brisbane sell that game to WA? Surely you'd sell it to Gold Coast?

They’d make more money at Optus

If it doesn’t sell out, it’ll go close

Plenty of Collingwood supporters in WA and it’d have a fair bit of interest for neutral WA fans. I’d likely go

And makes more sense for Brisbane to play a neutral game at Optus rather than a WA team

Not sure how many years they play Collingwood here due to the construction but I also like the possibility that by 2030 Brisbane might’ve played more games at Optus v Collingwood than West Coast

 

[Barrybran]

They’d make more money at Optus

If it doesn’t sell out, it’ll go close

Plenty of Collingwood supporters in WA and it’d have a fair bit of interest for neutral WA fans. I’d likely go

And makes more sense for Brisbane to play a neutral game at Optus rather than a WA team

Not sure how many years they play Collingwood here due to the construction but I also like the possibility that by 2030 Brisbane might’ve played more games at Optus v Collingwood than West Coast

I realised as soon as I hit post that the game would have to be in a traditional football state

 

[DanWCE]

They’d make more money at Optus

If it doesn’t sell out, it’ll go close

Plenty of Collingwood supporters in WA and it’d have a fair bit of interest for neutral WA fans. I’d likely go

And makes more sense for Brisbane to play a neutral game at Optus rather than a WA team

Not sure how many years they play Collingwood here due to the construction but I also like the possibility that by 2030 Brisbane might’ve played more games at Optus v Collingwood than West Coast

If they're going to make bank on selling a game to Optus/WA then I fully support them also forcing a rival premiership threat notorious for their lack of travel to get on the bird to WA.

 

[WCEswift]

Why would Brisbane sell that game to WA? Surely you'd sell it to Gold Coast?

Its also way funnier to make colliwobbles travel here

 

[ziad]

They’d make more money at Optus

If it doesn’t sell out, it’ll go close

Plenty of Collingwood supporters in WA and it’d have a fair bit of interest for neutral WA fans. I’d likely go

And makes more sense for Brisbane to play a neutral game at Optus rather than a WA team

Not sure how many years they play Collingwood here due to the construction but I also like the possibility that by 2030 Brisbane might’ve played more games at Optus v Collingwood than West Coast

a game that would draw a good crowd in Perth

 

[briztoon]

Might be the only time I could convince my wife to travel to WA.

 

[JoshWoodenSpoon]

Might be the only time I could convince my wife to travel to WA.

Surely she'd understand it for the West Coast BigFooty board meet-up at Baldivis Subway.