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Demetriou to stay at the top of the AFL
8 Jun 2012Unlike Andrew Demetriou’s counterpart at the NRL, David Gallop, the AFL Commission believes Demetriou is still on his game and has more good work to do. In 2011 there was a murmur in football circles that Demetriou was ready to hang up the suit at the end of the 2012 season and spend the rest [...]
AFL ups the ante in the television battle
15 Feb 2012On Friday night, the launch of Foxtel’s Fox Footy Channel will herald the start of a strategic three-prong attack for AFL and TV ratings in 2012. Firstly, the AFL finally goes live into its main market on Friday nights. The NRL has been going live at 7:30pm for a couple of years to boost its [...]
Will free agency open up the premiership window?
14 Feb 20122011 was the final year the draft and trading windows operated under the current system, before free agency will hit the AFL player trade system in 2012. In years like 2009, the AFL draft was a test of patience and fairness for the AFL Players Association with the AFL’s draft laws. The draft system exists [...]
AFL clubs' leadership groups getting out of hand
10 Feb 2012I sat and watched a Fox Sports News segment on St Kilda’s captain and leadership group the other day just shaking my head. No less than eight players have been inducted into the Saints leadership group, with Nick Riewoldt the captain. That’s almost half the bloody team, I thought. Strangely, none of the remaining leadership [...]
Will the Giants win a game in 2012?
4 Jan 2012In just under three months’ time, the Greater Western Sydney Giants will take on the Sydney Swans in the opening game of the 2012 AFL season. As much as AFL HQ would like to kick off the season with a great game between the new kids on the block and the perennial warhorses in the [...]
Suns and Giants big winners from TV deal
29 Apr 2011As has been widely reported, the AFL has announced the biggest broadcast deal in Australian sport with a $1.235 billion deal involving the Seven network, Foxtel and Telstra for 2012-2016. When the AFL announced its previous five-year deal of $780 million for the 2007-2011 television rights, it was apparent this was considered an opportunity by [...]
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