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William Butler Yeats must be turning over in his grave…
Footy Fix: Fly's Pies have officially been worked out - but that's just the start of their problems
Great article.
I hate the way it’s stuffed the ladder.
'Dripping in inequality and stupidity': Footy is back... and so is AFL interference
Agree NH
It’s not just the ground that impacts games, the crowd also potentially plays a part.
The psychological help of a huge roaring crowd v a smaller, quieter crowd is, I believe, huge. And, yes, considering the 2016 GF also has the potential to affect the umpiring.
As well, followers of teams outside Vic have to consider airfares and accommodation (pricey especially for a family) if their team plays a Vic team in the GF. Locals can front up for the cost of a ticket, which adds to the lopsided crowd support at some GFs at the jolly old G.
Despite this, yes, the best teams can overcome these hurdles nevertheless there’s a significant advantage for Vic teams in GFs playing the out-of-towners.
There’s no indication that this will ever change.
'Dripping in inequality and stupidity': Footy is back... and so is AFL interference
Well said TID.
On the one hand Victorians want ‘their’ game aka Australian Rules to flourish across the nation, on the other hand not at the expense of sharing the love in equitable ways. Or ditching one of their ‘historic’ teams to help spread the game beyond Victorian borders and the hallowed ground of the jolly old G.
There is also the rubbishing and loss of players back to the ‘home of Australian football’ expansion teams have to contend with as they struggle build up members and fans in a country of 26 million that has four codes of football all fighting for attention.
I assume Tasmania is well prepared for the rocky road ahead.
Devils ready to raise hell: AFL's newest club goes back to the future with traditional jumper as stadium furore rages on
An excellent result.
How long before Eddie starts whinging about the Swans Academy, salary caps and related gripes to do with the northern clubs?
I’d give him a couple of weeks especially if the Swans crack on next w/e as well.
Footy Fix: Don't panic just yet, Pies fans... but there's now a blueprint to bring the premiers down
Oh, Macca…
Give it a break mate, you’re embarrassing yourself.
The AFL didn't need to rob the NRL's house with Opening Round - it's more than big enough already
Lovely Doc, thank you.
Local to a north shore resident?
Depending on location, probably the Giants.
And yes, they need members. The Swans are travelling well in that regard.
If I wasn’t a dedicated Swan I’d definitely be a Giant. The only time I don’t barrack for the Giants is when they play the Swans. And yes, their song is great.
Love Toby and a whole heap of the others especially the blokes who’ve hung in there and not run off to a Victorian team.
Their new coach is brilliant. What a bonus to snap him.
I wasn’t a fan at all of Leon Cameron (who’s now at the Swans). He always looked half dead and often publicly dissed his players, which I didn’t care for.
I reckon the Giants have a good chance of getting the hardware this year.
Imagine a GF Swans v Giants…
The Victorians would have a nervous breakdown at the very thought.
Footy Fix: Adam Kingsley gave Craig McRae an absolute coaching bath - and this utterly bonkers stat proves it
An excellent result.
Love the Giants (thank heavens the dreadful GWS name seems to be finally put to bed).
Despite V’landys’ best efforts, thanks to the Giants and Swans AFL will boooooom in the harbour city over the next decade.
Footy Fix: Adam Kingsley gave Craig McRae an absolute coaching bath - and this utterly bonkers stat proves it
Totally wrong Macca
I was there – it was packed. As a frequent SCG attender with an eye for crowd numbers I can report that 40,000 + is spot on.
Contrary to whingers from the VFL it was a great night. Sure, the game was a long way from AFL at its best and finest but the atmosphere was electric especially for an NRL city. Did the code up here a world of good. On the way to the game people were waving and calling out ‘go Swans’.
Brodie Grundy was a huge hit.
And – honestly – a huge mood lightener was – sorry to say – no Buddy. I realised how much the Buddy factor sucked air out of the games last year.
Footy Fix: No Mills, no Parker, no problems - How Swans' new-look midfield beat the Dees at their own game
Indeed, generally when legal matters are pending/involved comments are closed.
Melbourne responds to Dee's new drug trafficking allegations amid bombshell twist to doping case
For sure change the date. But if it is imagined it will make any difference to the victims and the virtuous by celebrating this wonderful country on another day think again.
The outraged, the ‘victims’, the attention seekers, the rent seekers, the revolutionaries and all those who revel in identity politics will simply transfer their grievances and carry-on to whatever other day is chosen.
There is no foreseeable end in sight to the claims of those who wish to tear everything down and start again and carry their victim-hood and generational trauma forward forever more.
Changing-the-date is not what they are after. Rather, the final aim is to cancel celebrating anything at all to do with modern Australia. Changing the date is simply the first step.
'Painful and sorrowful day': NRL joins Australia Day backlash as Hockeyroos, AFL teams call for date change
Rampe great example of ‘if at first you don’t succeed…’
He showed incredible resiliance during times most others would have given up and gone home.
The not-so-traditional pathway of the Rookie Draft: Top 10 stars who have used this route to success in the past decade
‘The idea,’ said Owl, ‘is very sound. But how do we get it off the ground?’
Winnie-the-Pooh, A. A. Milne.
COMMENT: Congratulations, AFL - 'Opening Round' is the dumbest thing you've ever done
‘McGuire will bluster and bully anybody who questions…’ anything he says or believes.
He never does Collingwood – the team he is so emotionally invested in – any favours.
How does that old saying go?
‘It’s better to say nothing and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt’
He should stick to his quiz shows.
'The level of delusion is something else': Eddie McGuire's defence of his disastrous coaching succession plan is ridiculous
Collingwood captain Darcy Moore has stuck his neck out to support the Yes vote in Saturday’s referendum even though it will lead to the usual calls on social media for sportspeople to keep their political views to themselves.
As the AFL publicly supports the Yes vote as does – as far as we know – most of the players and coaches and as Darcy Moore’s decision does not impose any serious accountability, sacrifice or principle on him, not sure how he is ‘sticking his neck out’. Nevertheless how admirable, how brave, how upstanding.
Three cheers for Darcy.
'People out there that want you to shut up and play sport' but Magpies skipper voices support for Yes referendum vote
I’m sure you’re right Mr Right. No offense meant.
Mine is a generalised view from a spectator who has no idea of the finer points. My interest in the in the indigenous game is relatively recent. I’ve never played nor had any family members or friends play.
One of the things that attracted me was the anarchy compared to other codes, which I found to often be boring.
So, I’d hate to see the madness disappear in a flurry of minor rule changes/tweaks very time people get upset about their team being dudded especially when important considerations – as in heads – are forcing rule changes that really need to happen for player safety.
In the meantime #bringbacktheshortestshorts.
COMMENT: THAT advantage call wasn't a shocker - the rule is just completely broken, and the fix is simple
Myself…I preferred the pre-1996 tight look.
Trust a prejudiced baggy pants soccer-loving German to wreck it all.
COMMENT: THAT advantage call wasn't a shocker - the rule is just completely broken, and the fix is simple
AFL is the only sport (footie code) that has all manner of idiosyncratic rules, plays, moves etc. This is what makes it unique – ‘different’ – to anything else on the planet.
Start fiddling with too many rules and traditions and it starts turning into boring old NRL, soccer or rugby.
360 deg, huge ground that is different in every game, the speed, the ‘no send-off’ rule, the many ‘grey’ areas, the requirement of umpires to mind-read makes it harder to umpire than other codes but also what is drawing more and more people into following the game.
Everyone gets upset when they think a team has been dudded but in the main what goes round comes round. Trying to bring too much order into the nail-biting chaos that makes the game so attractive and such a growing curiosity around the world would be a big mistake.
On another matter – when did the players’ shorts change from short-short to baggy-short? Was this a rule change in interests of occupational health and safety? Or a decision of comfort over style?
COMMENT: THAT advantage call wasn't a shocker - the rule is just completely broken, and the fix is simple
Lions lost.
'Disgraceful', 'Lions robbed', 'umpires won Collingwood a premiership': AFL world erupts over last-gasp 'advantage' call
Oh, yeah…
By hook or by crook the ‘fairytale’ had to come true.
At least – I guess – it wasn’t boring.
Every grand final of the 2000s, ranked first to 24th: Which classic is 'the most underrated decider in footy history'?
Angus Crichton must be looking forward to joining old mate Hamish at RA.
The Wrap: With Wallabies done and dusted in 15 miserable days, who do we trust to take Australian rugby forward?
I take your word for GF crowd equality, however, was definitely not my experience when Swans played Hawks in 2014. My one and only trip to the jolly old G, would never go there again. Swans probably have the biggest following in Vic for teams outside the hallowed AFL state but were drowned out in voice and numbers by Hawks fans. Horrid. Quite scary, in fact.
As Brisbane is likely to have less followers in Vic that the Swans I do hope you are correct re the crowd not being a factor.
It certainly was in that other GF of 2016.
Still, I live in hope especially as all GFs are signed up to the ‘home of football’ for the next 200 years.
Finals Fix: One quarter from hell couldn't keep the Lions out of the big dance - but another might just cost them the flag
‘I feel like the Lions really SHOULD win next week‘
Aside from technicalities, problems for a Lions win must include:
1. Playing on Collingwood’s home ground.
2. Having 3/4 of the crowd against them – booing and hissing at their every move.
3. Their poor away history – regardless of all their talent etc – will make it difficult to deal with 1. and 2.
The Giants, on the other hand, managed to ignore hostile crowds and had a great away record. Such a shame about their one point loss.
Collingwood must be the favourite…
But, you never know, stranger things have happened.
Finals Fix: One quarter from hell couldn't keep the Lions out of the big dance - but another might just cost them the flag
Giants will win.
Why every team will win their AFL preliminary final... and why they'll lose
Terrific article
Particularly liked this:
Here’s the reality: it was IN because the officiating umpire said it was in. Whether the decision is technically right or wrong is irrelevant. It was paid in, so it’s in. Bleating about it, examining it, and screenshotting it, isn’t going to change it, and does nothing but offer another excuse for failure, rather than examining the real problems.
Stuff the excuses - Collingwood are making the same mistakes as always after success, and it's time to act