AFL Reserves Discussion...

[atlantahawks]

http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/afl ... 6691697818

I hope this is legit!!!!!!!!!!! If so ... you bloody bewdy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dedja]

They're just posting Rucci's article ... the details which have been discussed earlier in this thread.

[Aerie]

http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/afl/adelaide-says-it-will-get-a-reserves-side-but-not-in-the-sanfl-next-year/story-fnia3zb2-1226691697818

I hope this is legit!!!!!!!!!!! If so ... you bloody bewdy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Warms the cockles of my heart!

[atlantahawks]

What, should I have not posted the link to the article Dedja, to reiterate some of the earlier thread discussion?

[dedja]

No, not at all ... just mentioning that it wasn't 'new' news, that's all.

[Barto]

Crows: "We're not bluffing! We're going to the SAAFL!"

Everyone else: "Excellent! Great news! F*** off then!".

[dedja]

Yep, lets raise that bluff with an all-in on we don't give a faark if you do ...

[Aerie]

It is a little bit funny. Trigg back in the job for a month and he has negotiated the Crows to play in the SAAFL. The reason - his proposal didn't pass the integrity test. Oh the ironing (sic)!

[Mark_Beswick]

Brilliant if true

Then we can see what (if any) support the crows reserves get after a whole season in A1 where tickets are free.
If they cant pull a crowd, the we have dodged a bullet. If their 4K crowd stacks up, then maybe (MAYBE?) it has merit.
I am 99% sure the crowd numbers wont stack up though!

[SABRE]

Quote:

And, contrary to the commission’s wishes, Norwood has succeeded in having the eight league directors
agree to meet to review the reserves debate without any commissioner or SANFL executive.

I've been very proud of my membership many times, but this stance is right up there with the best !


CARRRN S.A.!!! SHOW SOME GUTS AND FIGHT THE VICTORIAN OCTOPUS BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE !!!
IMHO, anyone who supports any expanded vfl club in any way is a traitor of South Australia !!!!

A true AFL has REAL clubs, with a REAL history. Not made up plastic cr@p for expansive corporate greed !!!!

[sjt]

If its true, it will be interesting to see how the amateurs handle it. For their own clubs, playing against highly paid professionals and a number of top up recruits.
In the other thread one of David's answers says the advantage is retaining afl players in the sanfl. He must have forgotten port still will have afl players playing in the sanfl. Lets see whose players develop better. The crows are making a decision to increase their expenses and perhaps hinder ( yet to be proven) their players development. Not very commercially astute.

[Wedgie]

You should be proud too Sabre. Ironically my old man despite remaining a Norwood supporter joined up as a North member in the early 80s because North seemed like a good family club that listened to its members where Nor wood seemed pompous and run by corporate greed. Oh how he times have changed!

[daysofourlives]

If it is infact true that the Directors don't want this, then given the commision has endorsed the proposal shouldnt the commission be standing down effective immediately. They are clearly not acting in the best interests of the clubs

[Wedgie]

Yep, the Commission are useless and totally irrelevent and redundant. The clubs should piss them completely off.

[heater31]

Careful what you wish for Adelaide, with the SAAFL option you could be creating a situation that was facing the Sydney Swans when their reserves played in the old Sydney league before they went to the ACT league.

Think it was Josh Willoughby collected 60 touches in a game yet did nothing at the next level (did he even play a game?) You will now be facing the same problems......

[Jim05]

If it is infact true that the Directors don't want this, then given the commision has endorsed the proposal shouldnt the commission be standing down effective immediately. They are clearly not acting in the best interests of the clubs

Ive heard calls for the comission to overule the league directors decisions if it is a No vote.
Is this possible?
Lets get rid of these idiots

[Wedgie]

If it is infact true that the Directors don't want this, then given the commision has endorsed the proposal shouldnt the commission be standing down effective immediately. They are clearly not acting in the best interests of the clubs

Ive heard calls for the comission to overule the league directors decisions if it is a No vote.
Is this possible?
Lets get rid of these idiots

No its not possible, luckily the clubs took away their power to be able to so that after one of their previous **** ups.

[oldfella]

I am concerned that we are trusting them to sell the two licenses?

[Jase]

This is my favourite answer to a question in the Q&A forum...

14) is the reserves deemed a higher standard than the saafl?
Not by people at the Club who watch a lot of football. It’s not so much the overall standard, it’s the type of bodies and experience the players will come up against. A1 is full of former SA league and reserves players, and the overall quality is pretty good.

Erm, what is the SANFL reserves made up of? Current SA league and reserves players....

I must be missing something here

[saintal]

Will the Crows renegotiate and loosen the purse strings I wonder...assuming Rucci is accurate, which is always debatable..