by therisingblues » Wed Jun 26, 2019 7:37 am
stan wrote:LMA wrote:therisingblues wrote:Nice write up Booney.
You've managed to encompass all the reasons I don't want the AFL influencing the SANFL.
But when I post stuff like this on the other board I get accused of wearing a tin foil hat or worse.
I think the key is to wait until things are unbearable.... And THEN complain.
Us tin foilers are just ahead of the game.
Hopefully your post influences a few to give up AFL and strengthen the hand of our state league by turning up there.
The answer IS obvious.
I said it a year ago or so on the SANFL threads somewhere that it is the perfect opportunity for the SANFL to take the initiative, in relation to the state of the game, and offer an alternative to the AFL and attract fans back to the Suburbs.
The SANFL is a dead as Carltons season. After a few more oldies walk away it will be nothing more than a feeder comp.
This scenario is definitely on the horizon, and with the AFL becoming more plastic than ever, the future of football in general looks bleak.
SANFL could do with better promotion, but with two AFL reserve teams running around in that league, it's a hard sell. SANFL used to do much better when it had some level of independence from these plastic, clap-when-your-told-to, equal-rights-for-fatties,-rounds, don't-say-bum obsessed AFL.
Pseudo said it before, and he hit the nail on the head, the AFL has no governing body, it IS IT'S OWN GOVERNING BODY, and it's approach is to sell, sell, sell without ever needing approval from a greater power concerned more about the good of the game, than making a few dollars.
I'm gonna sit back, crack the top off a Pale Ale, and watch the Double Blues prevail
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