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by wild dog
Fri Apr 04, 2014 12:01 am
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Re: Rnd 1 - Eagles v Central @ Maughan Thiem (Sat 5/4)

Bounce of the ball wrote:The majority of us knew Central supporters will drop off when mediocre.


Started to drop off after the 8th GF in a row, still well in the dynasty though.
by wild dog
Thu Jul 31, 2014 10:54 am
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Re: The 2014 season no AFL in the SANFL whinge thread

Once again it comes down to what you think defines a club.

The bottom line is,I believe that it's up to the people who support the club that define what a club is.

Correspondents in this thread who post over and over and over their thoughts on the Port Adelaide Football Club are entitled to an ...
by wild dog
Thu Aug 07, 2014 2:12 am
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Re: The 2014 season no AFL in the SANFL whinge thread

Oh Benny, stop hitting these poor people with facts, you're getting in the way of a more than 12 month sook! Oh, and if we want to talk about pies and pasties, yet somehow try to pretend the 9k who attended the Glenelg Crows game is somehow irrelevant, how many pies and pasties do we think were ...
by wild dog
Thu Aug 28, 2014 1:48 am
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Re: The 2014 season no AFL in the SANFL whinge thread

Yep. Requires no more tinkering with top up players, half arsed "salary caps", finals qualifications etc etc.
It's a no brainer.

You know I have dismissed this concept as a little out there, but there is some merit. If we moved the fixtures back to the SANFL GF after the AFL, the AFL teams would ...
by wild dog
Thu Aug 28, 2014 11:10 am
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Re: The 2014 season no AFL in the SANFL whinge thread

Unfortunately I can see some sad times ahead for the SANFL, Gilligan again stated yesterday that he is keen to look at a midseason draft by 2016, the AFL clubs could possibly raid the state leagues for talent and we have the scenerio where a team near the top of the SANFL ladder midseason suddenly ...
by wild dog
Thu Aug 28, 2014 2:14 pm
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Re: The 2014 season no AFL in the SANFL whinge thread

gossipgirl wrote:drama queen
noun

1.
(informal) a person who tends to react to every situation in an overdramatic or exaggerated manner


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by wild dog
Fri Sep 12, 2014 1:39 pm
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Re: The 2014 season no AFL in the SANFL whinge thread

7 WAFL, 8 SANFL and 5 VFL clubs not aligned to AFL clubs. Find a white knight to fund a rebel 20-team national league to rival the AFL...

Insert standard "How about you just *** off out of our comp instead" remark here...


Or the AFL can acknowledge the traditional leagues and allow them to ...
by wild dog
Fri Sep 12, 2014 1:43 pm
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Re: The 2014 season no AFL in the SANFL whinge thread

RustyCage wrote:They have some bargaining power, but some also crave the AFL involvement and funding so won't go and do anything innovative like reverting back to an independent league.


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by wild dog
Tue Sep 16, 2014 3:21 pm
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Re: The 2014 season no AFL in the SANFL whinge thread

Or, adding to that, an SANFL player moving clubs. It does happen, you know!

If you're seriously comparing intra SANFL club transfer/recruiting, such as Templeton to the Eagles to say Josh Glenn being rookied by the Crows this year and playing against us next season, it demonstrates you have no ...
by wild dog
Tue Sep 16, 2014 5:16 pm
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Re: The 2014 season no AFL in the SANFL whinge thread

And this has never happened before, a player play against his old club?

Whinge thread indeed.

Difference is the SANFL club is powerless to stop the recruiting. From SANFL club to SANFL club counter offers can be made, its a level playing field. Now if a contract / rookie contract is offered by ...
by wild dog
Fri Sep 19, 2014 11:50 am
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Re: The 2014 season no AFL in the SANFL whinge thread

Port supporters know what it's like to have Port players playing against us...current players Levi Greenwood, Scott Lycett, Lindsay Thomas, Sean Lemmens, Terry Milera, Scott Thompson. We love the sentimentality of the Power recruiting Magpies players (Sam Gray, Brad Ebert) but we can't have them ...
by wild dog
Wed May 13, 2015 1:24 am
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Re: The never ending No AFL in the SANFL whinge thread

matt35 wrote:So a club that was against the changes from the start. Move along, nothing to see here.


Thats right a club suffering from a severe drop in home numbers directly attributed to the reserves issue. It's an issue in motion so there is plenty to see.
by wild dog
Wed May 13, 2015 10:44 pm
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Re: The never ending No AFL in the SANFL whinge thread

As a number of us have said, its not only the numbers its the flat atmosphere at the games.

Adelaide Football Club SANFL chief Phil Harper wants to keep the Crows in the State league — and hold the same one-team model that is under fire today.

“We honestly believe being in the SANFL gives us an ...
by wild dog
Mon Jun 01, 2015 4:03 pm
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Re: The never ending No AFL in the SANFL whinge thread


This would just given the AFL clubs more incentive to not bother fielding their best team every week, something a lot of you have criticised on here as ruining the integrity of the comp. That would be worse than the current situation by a long way imo.

I think its time for a full AFL reserves ...
by wild dog
Fri Aug 07, 2015 2:20 pm
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Re: The never ending No AFL in the SANFL whinge thread

I think the aspect of someone trying to get the best out of themselves is being discounted. The majority of guys running around the SANFL know they are not going to get an AFL gig, and are playing in the comp to be the best they can be. Not everyone does something for maximum dollar or advantage. Im ...
by wild dog
Fri Aug 07, 2015 3:53 pm
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Re: The never ending No AFL in the SANFL whinge thread


I think though the measures being put in place regarding total player payments in amateur and country leagues might help this though.

Ultimately though it is about playing on an even playing field, but it wouldn't be, the richer community clubs would be better resourced than the poorer community ...
by wild dog
Fri Aug 28, 2015 12:29 pm
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Re: The never ending No AFL in the SANFL whinge thread

Perhaps some are staying away because they are indifferent to the competition but times change and rivalries change, move on. The challenge for the SANFL and the clubs is to put on a product which entices the fans out to the local game. I witnessed an excellent game 2 weeks ago between the Eagles ...
by wild dog
Thu Sep 03, 2015 11:48 am
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Re: The never ending No AFL in the SANFL whinge thread

Although Rucci is being deliberately provocative, I think there is one point he makes which does make a little bit of sense.

It is completely fair enough that a lot of people feel like their passion for the comp has been diminished because of the introduction of the Reserves teams, but ...
by wild dog
Wed Sep 16, 2015 2:30 pm
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Re: The never ending No AFL in the SANFL whinge thread


Yes, the reserves will be 8 teams, 4 games per week. Excellent maths.

Hopefully you can add up that one team, per week, will have the league and the reserves playing at different locations. Meaning support staff can't be at both. Now, that won't work, will it?

The SANFL clubs have managed an 8 ...
by wild dog
Mon Aug 29, 2016 10:26 pm
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Re: The never ending No AFL in the SANFL whinge thread

source : https://business.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/339198/the_economic_development_of_the_australian_football_league.pdf

In 1983, the VFL’s player rules were declared void as a common law restraint of trade (Dabscheck,1984). In addition, in the twenty years of ...