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Daz shows a passing interest in sport in general from AFL, Rugby League, Formula 1, Olympics and occasionally curling! He can be found at the MCG supporting Melbourne in AFL, at AAMI Park supporting the Storm in NRL, or just at home watching on it all unfold on TV!
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And in 2009, the GF should have been played at St Kilda’s home ground of Marvel Stadium rather than at the MCG.
They would have won that year had they had the chance to play inside. Geelong had more exprience in the open elements and it was unfair to the top finishing team to have to play outside.
Ten under 10: Ten players in for a bounce-back in 2020
Strange that the biggest trade this year was a player wanting to “go home” from Victoria to WA. It happens both ways, and is not an “evil Vic” thing.
It’s an excuse for a player wanting to leave their club that seems to be more tolerable than “I want out”.
Dons’ delicate Daniher dance
Have to say I agree completely. Melbourne forced Jeff White, Adem Yze, Matthew Whelan and Russell Robertson out the door. Then they did it with James McDonald (of all people) as well. Having not learnt their lesson they then did it to Brad Green.
We’re still feeling the effects of that almost ten years later – and there’s talk about doing the exact same thing to Nathan Jones.
Dons’ delicate Daniher dance
The reality is that contracted players move every year and clubs make it happen. Why hold someone to a contract and club they don’t want to be at, and they just leave after the contract ends anyway. At most you’ll get two more years out of them, and then their value will be less as they’re 2 years older.
Five go to St Kilda: How the Saints win an up-Hill battle in six trades
While it’s a possibility, I don’t think a club would select an established player from the draft if said player has already rejected that club and stated a preference for one club over another.
Kelly has two years in a row specifically nominated WCE instead of Freo. Freo could try to draft him, but he may find himself losing passion for the game once he arrives?
The big AFL trade period preview: How the big trades go down plus the best-value players flying under the radar
As he is now out of contract, he could always walk and nominate for the draft. It’d be a brave or silly team that tried to poach him in the draft ahead of his preferred destination.
Of course, if his desire to go home outweighs his desire to play AFL, he may just move back to WA and enjoy playing in the WAFL or not play anywhere.
For all we know, he have spent the last year manically saving to return home without a contract and be lost to the game altogether.
But if Geelong want to play hardball, it could be what happens.
The big AFL trade period preview: How the big trades go down plus the best-value players flying under the radar
Your proposal would end up making smaller clubs like St Kilda, Melbourne and North get one less home game, at the expense of rich clubs like West Coast and Adelaide including the gate takings and commercial benefits. It would affect the value of memberships, sponsors agreements and ground contracts. You know those things that keep clubs in the black.
Unless you’re also proposing that the clubs with extra home games give up the revenue from those games.
Geelong and Richmond set the standard for excellence, precisely a decade apart
The Suns put all their eggs in the Ablett basket (ok, maybe one or two in the Karmichael Hunt basket) and thought that having the best player would set them up. The trouble is that they forgot to do anything with the other 40 players on the list.
Then when their golden goose flew back home, they were left with no development and no structure.
Gold Coast gifted not one, but four priority picks by AFL
The fact is there are 8 teams within one city, 1 team 70km away from there, and then 8 teams that share a city (or metro area) with only one other team at least 800kms from the others.
Unless you want to break up the competition into a Melbourne-based and Rest of Au comp (with Geelong) then there’s no way that’s changing. It’s a reality of the competition, and every single team is aware of it, and makes what they can out of it – you know, like having a 60,000 seat stadium with 58,000 of those your own supporters for 10 games each year.
Geelong and Richmond set the standard for excellence, precisely a decade apart
Yes, you were referring to the original VFL clubs. So was I.
The original VFL teams were different.
Richmond and University in 1908 were different.
North, Footscray and Hawthorn in 1925 were different.
Sydney in 1982 was different.
West Coast and Brisbane Bears in 1987 were different.
Adelaide in 1991 was different.
Guess what… Fremantle in 1995 was different.
Port Adelaide in 1997 was different again.
Gold Coast in 2011 and GWS in 2012 were different yet again.
You can’t say any club that started in a different time to another was hard done by based on the circumstances of their entry at the time they entered.
Gold Coast gifted not one, but four priority picks by AFL
But they didn’t.
Collingwood had ample chances to kick that goal that would have put them in front.
They didn’t kick that goal.
GWS won that game and deserved to be there.
Resilience and vulnerability deliver Richmond another premiership
Yawn!
This was not about the Eagles or the conspiracy of the evil Victorians. The Eagles joined the VFL voluntarily. They knew what they were getting into way back in 1986.
If you don’t like it, feel free to create your own breakaway competition.
Geelong and Richmond set the standard for excellence, precisely a decade apart
Totally different paradigm
As is Gold Coast & GWS versus Fremantle or Port Adelaide.
Comparing Freo’s concessions during startup with Gold Coast’s and concluding that Freo were hard done by is just plain wrong.
Gold Coast gifted not one, but four priority picks by AFL
Making the Grand Final means they finish the year in 2nd. They will get pick 18 in the draft, they will be etched in history as the 2nd placed team.
Where they finished after 23 rounds is only half the story.
Gold Coast gifted not one, but four priority picks by AFL
Yeah Mary, the 540,000 views on your 393 articles mean nothing because you don’t play the game and can’t get a “feel” for it. 😱
As always Mary, your writing is spot on.
The feel for the game is that the refs blow the whistle when they see a penalty, or an error, you know a mistake made by the players (like a knock on).
Sometimes the players make mistakes.
We even keep stats for it.
But apparently we expect the refs not to make any mistakes ever and always be perfect. We call it consistency, but then when they are consistent, it’s wrong because we don’t ‘feel’ like the games needed the whistle at that point.
I wish the commentators wouldn’t make as many mistakes as they do.
Joey's ref criticism is absurd
As a Melbourne supporter, I’m a bit annoyed that we’ll miss out on pick 2, however, I think this is the right decision for the greater good of the game.
Although, I’d probably be looking at trading out some of their picks to find some players that genuinely want to go to – and stay at – the Gold Coast.
They can draft all the high picks they want, but if they keep recruiting top Victorian players, South Australian players or WA players, they’ll likely end up losing half of them.
Gold Coast gifted not one, but four priority picks by AFL
The Dockers have had 25 years.
Fremantle have 23 players on their 2019 list that were born after the club finished their first year in the AFL.
It’s not even close to the same thing.
For the record, Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, South Melbourne or St Kilda never received this type of assistance during their early years either. 😛
Gold Coast gifted not one, but four priority picks by AFL
As the proven second-best team of the year, the Giants were hardly an embarrassment.
There are 16 other clubs that would have loved the opportunity to be embarrassed.
Gold Coast gifted not one, but four priority picks by AFL
Guess I misread the room, and everyone is happy with the way things are.
Good to see though that I wasn’t personally attacked in comments because my opinion was different than the convention. Thanks guys!
Remind me again why we have the phrase keyboard warrior.
To the losers go the spoils
They already had an advantage.
Their advantage is that they can drop their first game and not be eliminated.
To the losers go the spoils
There is no ranking, there is no ladder. It’s the finals.
If you’re advocating a ranking within the finals, let’s go back to the McIntyre Final Eight System.
To the losers go the spoils
But if the finals are scheduled based on 23 weeks of a season, do you think both Brisbane and Geelong should host the preliminary finals if they win this week?
To the losers go the spoils
Might be the rules for selecting SoO when it was a thing, but Cameron’s eligibility, as stated in Part 1 was: For this exercise, I have gone with the location where the player started playing football. To use Tom Hawkins as an example, because he was born in NSW and started playing footy there, he is eligible for the Allies even though he later moved to Melbourne and was drafted from a Victorian under-age club..
Who would play State of Origin in 2019? Part 4: The Allies
Using that argument, then Marvel Stadium is the home of football in Australia as the only ground purpose-built for Australian Rules football. Would you be open to the Grand Final permanently being played there?
No, because it’s a ridiculous argument.
Why Geelong deserve proper home finals
Personally, I think Melbourne missed Jetta the most out of all of them.
Ten under 10: Ten players in for a bounce-back in 2020