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In Thursday’s Melbourne Herald Sun, there was a curious little article heralding what appears to be October 2009 ABS survey stats that suggest that more boys are now playing Australian Football.
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Michael C is based in Melbourne
A member since February 2009
Website: http://www.afl.com.au/portals/0/afl_docs/development/afl_explained/laws_of_football_2009.pdf
Michael C loves: AFL, Cricket
Michael C's favourite sporting team is North Melbourne
Michael C says:
Thankgod I made it to the 96 & 99 GFs, thank god I DIDN'T make it to the '98 one!!
No team mates yet.
and to top it off it’s still speculated that there’s some covenant for Docklands to avoid a greater than 40,000 new venue within X kilometers within presumably the 25 yr privately held lease period.
Dunno if it’s true – - we’d heard enough about the 10 year moratorium on anything new over 20,000 was it within 10 kms.
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My greatest delight was seeing NOrth Melbourne confuse the experts by having a club with stuff all facilities, stuff all money and it’s huge stars taking salary caps during the ’90s and still being the most successful (at least Victorian) club of the era.
As is presently – - whilst players at Brisbane in the ‘Three-peat’ era and Geelong presently may not be seen to be taking ‘pay cuts’ – - they certainly have been accepting less than market value to stay where they are.
I guess the major question now about reversability or irreversability is based around the free agency debate. But, then, elements of that are just history repeating itself…..and again, ……I’m not about to volunteer handing back the 1975 trophy just because North exploited the 10 year rule better than anyone.
btw – re Doggies and connecting with their community – - they have a balance to achieve. I’ve said before how my North Melbourne disappointed me during their ‘Kangaroos’ era of flitting from CAnberra to Sydney to Gold Coast etc. Finally North have sunk deeper roots at Arden St and now have a firm connection with the community………for now. But, the connection is based on ‘current’ concerns, re multi-cultural etc – - just as the community continues to evolve so too does the club community connection to retain relevance. I think clubs are learning new ways to achieving this – - – and that’s nice to see……but, back to the Doggies and the thoughts around NZ……perhaps if they arrange free tickets for attendees from Fiji talent spotting camps to fly into NZ to see a game??
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Millster -
cheers
Pippinu is now “Mr.Football”, KB is now “Australian Football” which is his nom de guerre rather than nom de plume (i.e. a rather arrogant distortion of the phrase).
My gab was bought = = not gifted!!
There’s nothing funny about the DAFL Vikings……..never laugh in the face of a viking…….lest you might be burned, pillaged or the other one…..
This ‘identical’ thread aspect is true enough other than that we just feast on the tiny morsels of updates that eminate from the current behind closed doors meetings by those with actual influence.
btw – QLD 4-121, carna Vics, we need to get into the tail proper……sooner we get to work on their 10th wkt partnership the better after the last Vic vs QLD game!!!
How the NRL and AFL can work around a World Cup (55)
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