by therisingblues » Mon Jun 18, 2018 12:24 pm
FlyingHigh wrote:Here's one from last weekend.
A St Kilda assistant coach is also the Frankston VFL head coach. Sandringham (St Kilda's affiliate) played Frankston last weekend, Jack Billings dropped from the St KIlda seniors is allowed to run around and get 53 disposals.
Absolute joke the AFL and VFL as governing bodies would allow to sign off on this. Time to wind up the second tier WAFL, SANFL and VFL competitions.
Strewth, that's a real bad one.
Gee, you can really see Frankston's head coach encouraging his players to get out there and have a red hot go at shutting down Billings, right?
This case really illustrates just how low ranked the 2nd tier competitions are in the AFL's list of priorities.
People speaking on behalf of this organisation still manage to say with a straight face that they work to maintain the integrity of other competitions around Australia.
Maybe what we need now is a TRUE governing body, rather than having the commercial product governing itself. This would ensure a higher level of integrity than we are getting ATM. Any attempt to subvert such a system would then be recognised as good old honest corruption, rather than the current system where people just wave their hands in the air and say "Who gives a ****, the AFL can do what they want!".
If we allowed Coca-Cola to govern soft drink manufacturing do you think Schweppes, or Bickfords or Pepsi would be faring any better in that market than the SANFL or VFL is against the AFL?
It is no surprise that whenever someone suggests some sort of compromise from the AFL with the state leagues, someone else can answer with a smug "Do you REALLY think the AFL would allow THAT?!!"
I'm gonna sit back, crack the top off a Pale Ale, and watch the Double Blues prevail
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