Is Roo serious?

[Jim05]

The GF will never be played anywhere else but Victoria.
The Brownlow has never been held anywhere else but Victoria.
The Brownlow is just another tired VFL hangover.
The tribunal is only ever held in Victoria, thus non Vic based players have to fly in order to put fwd a valid not guilty case before the tribunal, not helpful if their team is travelling for the next round or has just travelled.
I hate to say it, I can never give credence to a comp when a club like Power are not able to take their history into the AFL when Victorian clubs can.

Hang on, didn't the two S.A. sides join THEIR competition?? The world didn't start the day the Crows were formed

Correct.
The vic teams didnt come over here and join the SANFL. The two adelaide clubs joined an expanded VFL, surely they knew what they were getting into. The GF should never be anywhere but MCG but have no problem with brownlow being put on rotation

[tigerpie]

crowds are up for two reasons i believe.

1. ITS PROPER FOOTY!!!!!!

2. BETTER VALUE!!!!!

The AFL can go #&*@emselves. Leave our comp the @!&* alone and fix your own!!!!!

[HOORAY PUNT]

The GF will never be played anywhere else but Victoria.
The Brownlow has never been held anywhere else but Victoria.
The Brownlow is just another tired VFL hangover.
The tribunal is only ever held in Victoria, thus non Vic based players have to fly in order to put fwd a valid not guilty case before the tribunal, not helpful if their team is travelling for the next round or has just travelled.
I hate to say it, I can never give credence to a comp when a club like Power are not able to take their history into the AFL when Victorian clubs can.

Hang on, didn't the two S.A. sides join THEIR competition?? The world didn't start the day the Crows were formed

Correct.
The vic teams didnt come over here and join the SANFL. The two adelaide clubs joined an expanded VFL, surely they knew what they were getting into. The GF should never be anywhere but MCG but have no problem with brownlow being put on rotation

I understand the GF arguement ,that is simple business sense.

SA did join the competition which was called THE AFL - AUSTRALIAN football league . West Coast joined the VFL think. If you want to promote it as an Australian comp then do so but you must also ensure it is an Australian comp and at times compromise $ for the equality of the competition.

[goraw]

The GF will never be played anywhere else but Victoria.
The Brownlow has never been held anywhere else but Victoria.
The Brownlow is just another tired VFL hangover.
The tribunal is only ever held in Victoria, thus non Vic based players have to fly in order to put fwd a valid not guilty case before the tribunal, not helpful if their team is travelling for the next round or has just travelled.
I hate to say it, I can never give credence to a comp when a club like Power are not able to take their history into the AFL when Victorian clubs can.

Hang on, didn't the two S.A. sides join THEIR competition?? The world didn't start the day the Crows were formed

but the AFL did. thus meaning its an australian football league, not a victorian league.but i do think it is very victorian bias, so i will not attend .dont get mewrong im passionate about the AFC, but the whole feel about the competition doesnt satisfy me enough to go.when the crows were formed i went every week but havent been for years. as an interested observer because my love for the game, i do watch most of the footy shows. and the victorian bias is putrid.id much much rather the SANFL.

[redden whites]

It was and still is the AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL league not the AUSTRALIAN football league.

[redden whites]

The GF will never be played anywhere else but Victoria.
The Brownlow has never been held anywhere else but Victoria.
The Brownlow is just another tired VFL hangover.
The tribunal is only ever held in Victoria, thus non Vic based players have to fly in order to put fwd a valid not guilty case before the tribunal, not helpful if their team is travelling for the next round or has just travelled.
I hate to say it, I can never give credence to a comp when a club like Power are not able to take their history into the AFL when Victorian clubs can.

Hang on, didn't the two S.A. sides join THEIR competition?? The world didn't start the day the Crows were formed

but the AFL did.

[goraw]

It was and still is the AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL league not the AUSTRALIAN football league.

no it was the VFL, VICTORIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE, which i had no interest in at all.because i had SANFL. although i was partial to hawthorn when the best player to ever enter a footy field,D.JARMAN played for them.

[LPH]

Actually, the AFL formed in 1990.

I think you will find that the 1990 premiership cup had the AFL on it, as did the flag.
The Crows didn't play until '91.

Perhaps I am 'splitting hairs' but my understanding was that on GF Day 1990, the 'injuction' wasn't even being invoked, that came a few weeks later. Am I right?

I am certain that the presentation of the cup to Collingwood mentioned the AFL name though.

[Dogwatcher]

Twas 1990. Collingwood won the first AFL premiership.
I have a few thoughts on this debate and will put together something discussing this in coming weeks that I'm sure will prompt some comments here.

[Mic]

'AFL' is just a name.

[whufc]

'AFL' is just a name.

exactly just like how the Major League Baseball's finals series is called 'the world series'

[goraw]

'AFL' is just a name.

exactly!! still run and controlled in every way, by victorians.

[CUTTERMAN]

Naming, who joined who, if's, buts and maybes. None were my point but many are valid. My point was that SA punters are starting to feel disenfranchised as a part of the AFL, in my opinion this is largely due to the Victorian centric direction the comp has taken a turn towards in the last 5 or so years. I think people are sick of being fed the same old chicken feed via the same old routine.

[goraw]

Naming, who joined who, if's, buts and maybes. None were my point but many are valid. My point was that SA punters are starting to feel disenfranchised as a part of the AFL, in my opinion this is largely due to the Victorian centric direction the comp has taken a turn towards in the last 5 or so years. I think people are sick of being fed the same old chicken feed via the same old routine.

pretty much.

[Barto]

It was and still is the AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL league not the AUSTRALIAN football league.

Clever way of putting it.

Reading some of the anti-SANFL comments on that article is the footy equivalent of living in Vichy France, they may as well be Victorians themselves the way they want to destroy the local comp. Hooray Punt pointed it out well about the solid foundation aspect of the game.

Today I went and did some work at the U16's carnival. All the lads that played come from far and wide in the WAFL zones and the local clubs put in a lot of hard work developing these young blokes. The post game speech emphasised what we're all doing there and that's to not only develop players for the local league clubs, but to ensure that as many of those kids that are capable of playing at the top level get the best grounding. Anyone who thinks that destroying that framework will benefit the top tier has rocks in their heads.

[redandblack]

The article is just a lightweight piece of ill-thought out nonsense which just harms any respect Roo gained on the football field.

[Dutchy]

'AFL' is just a name.

exactly just like how the Major League Baseball's finals series is called 'the world series'

Which relates to a sponsor, nothing to do with the the planet we live on

[Jim05]

'AFL' is just a name.

exactly just like how the Major League Baseball's finals series is called 'the world series'

Which relates to a sponsor, nothing to do with the the planet we live on

Yes the WORLD newspaper sponsored the first baseball championship and the name has stuck

[holden78]

Look hes not too bright , I think most of us realise that , so lets ignore him as he thinks having two SANFL memberships entitles him to have a credible opinion on how each club is good enough to be able to squeeze a small profit from a very difficult business / sporting enviroment ! What about the SANFL giving the PAPs a few million last year .... he conveniently ignores that little fact ! Hes had too many late nights kissing bull bars on country roads

The article is just a lightweight piece of ill-thought out nonsense which just harms any respect Roo gained on the football field.

[Apachebulldog]

SANFL = REAL FOOTBALL and not the fast running ,pretty, over sanitised, money grabbing, TV version, yearly rule changing AFL crap. The SANFL crowds are up because some people have finally realised this new AFL TOUCH BALL is not the original game of AUSSIE RULES, it has morphed into an insipid, obscene, voracious money hungry enterprise for the gullible at the present can afford to attend however in time down the distant the future it will only be attended by the rich.

So these ex so called AFL footballers really have no idea, i guess they have to be loyal to the AFL as they have been paid millions in the past.

Shame on ya all.

Long live the SANFL the best footy in the land.