Is Roo serious?

[Psyber]

All this pro AFL stuff is coming from people who make, or made, their living out of the AFL.
They are not going to say anything else...

Yeah but it's like a tradie who is earning money hand over fist saying "stuff apprenticeships, cut funding from TAFE"

I agree, but short term thinking rules.
Look at politics...

[Barto]

Slashing the SANFL couldn't possibly help what happened at Football Park today. Jeez.

[southee]

Slashing the SANFL couldn't possibly help what happened at Football Park today. Jeez.

Agreed. Maybe a bullet would!!!

[The Sleeping Giant]

Maybe the SANFL could sell one of their AFL licenses, and maybe cull 1 SANFL club. Maybe 1 that can't stand on it's own 2 feet. Then put all their efforts into running 1 AFL club and an 8 team SANFL comp, instead of pumping money into a basket case. I'd rather that scenario than axing the reserves.

[SANFLnut]

So the proposal is we sell off the Power to Darwin and as they are one club we can ship the Maggies into the NTFL. I am happy to second that one.....

[The Sleeping Giant]

Tasmania sounds more appealing.

[SANFLnut]

Kane Cornes obviously got a lot of publicity for playing in the reserves this week but how many other AFL listed players (including rookies) played reserves this week?

[Ronnie]

comments attributed to Matt Benson (CEO Sturt) regarding the Mark Ricciuto article as stated in yesterdays' Sunday Mail were classic. For someone who was helped on his way by Westies to make bucket loads of money in the AFL to then question the modest amounts that go back to SANFL clubs, well, most people would question the morality of that position if they thought about it.

[Jars458]

And West got nothing out of Mark Ricciuto I suppose?

Its a two way street between the SANFL and the AFL Clubs. Finding the right balance is what is important.

[FlyingHigh]

comments attributed to Matt Benson (CEO Sturt) regarding the Mark Ricciuto article as stated in yesterdays' Sunday Mail were classic. For someone who was helped on his way by Westies to make bucket loads of money in the AFL to then question the modest amounts that go back to SANFL clubs, well, most people would question the morality of that position if they thought about it.

Reading this actually p!ssed me off a bit. The Riccuito article obviously got a big spot, and when Kennett or McGuire says anything at their pre-game lunches it often gets an article in the paper, so I would have thought such a response from Benson would have been worthy of a bit of a write-up. Fat chance we'd get the Advertiser to run such an article as it obviously disagrees with a pro-AFL perspective, and it seems to me those that run the Sunday Mail (not the actual journalists themselves) are getting lazier and lazier and just use a lot of articles from interstate.
Perhaps the best ones to ask how much "fat" there are at SANFL v AFL clubs would be Francou and Bassett, Bassett in particular given he is only a couple years out of playing. And maybe a couple of new players not originally aligned to the SANFL, such as Brad Fisher.

[Barto]

Here goes Riccuito's ghost writer again:

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl ... 6057811978

He wants the incestuous and limiting arrangement that has the AFL clubs owned by the SANFL and negotiating its stadium deal with the SANFL to end.

I kind of hope Port get their shit together and win a premiership in a way, at least it will shut these idiots up.

[JK]

Here goes Riccuito's ghost writer again:

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl ... 6057811978

He wants the incestuous and limiting arrangement that has the AFL clubs owned by the SANFL and negotiating its stadium deal with the SANFL to end.

It will in due course, wonder what he'll complain about then?

[Barto]

Here goes Riccuito's ghost writer again:

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl ... 6057811978

He wants the incestuous and limiting arrangement that has the AFL clubs owned by the SANFL and negotiating its stadium deal with the SANFL to end.

It will in due course, wonder what he'll complain about then?

I'd be more interested in who he's going to blame if the SANFL's control was removed. I'd be interested to know how they think they can just take the licences away.

[sjt]

I added a comment that the 14 team East Coast "model" has worked well thus far, hasn't it?? Most teams were on the brink until the interstate teams entered with their licence fees and the television rights that followed. Hawthorn (was going to merge) Melbourne, North Melbourne (to the Gold Coast), Richmond, Western Bulldogs, Carlton, all have been receiving hand outs from the AFL to prop them up.
Sure the Stadium deals may need re-working, partly due to Port not drawing the crowds they had "expected" in their AFL submission. But the Crows made a loss also. Hadn't previously Rucci been telling us Fremantle and West Coast are doing very well off field?
I wish our only state based newspaper in the could at least provide some element of balance.

[Pseudo]

I kind of hope Port get their **** together and win a premiership in a way, at least it will shut these idiots up.

I doubt it.

[Barto]

I kind of hope Port get their **** together and win a premiership in a way, at least it will shut these idiots up.

I doubt it.

Yeah true, even though the Crows spent millions of dollars on their training facility the poor dears have to use tap water at training to scrimp and save.