AFL please justify this.
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AFL please justify this.
Port in Adelaide five years in a row how can you justify that?
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Re: AFL please justify this.
From the AFL HQ perspective the Saints are nothing more than a fixture club.
The most irrelevant club in the AFL apart from Gold Coast.
The most irrelevant club in the AFL apart from Gold Coast.
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Re: AFL please justify this.
100% this.Con Gorozidis wrote: ↑Sun 08 Jul 2018 10:18am From the AFL HQ perspective the Saints are nothing more than a fixture club.
The most irrelevant club in the AFL apart from Gold Coast.
And a completely compliant board.
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Re: AFL please justify this.
More so, the Gold Coast are guaranteed 2 games against Brisbane.Con Gorozidis wrote: ↑Sun 08 Jul 2018 10:18am From the AFL HQ perspective the Saints are nothing more than a fixture club.
The most irrelevant club in the AFL apart from Gold Coast.
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Re: AFL please justify this.
The Saints know they will have a crowd of 10,000 turn up to this game in Melbourne (eg minimal Melbourne based Port fans). Therefore best play it away from the Dome. Saves the Saints going further into debt.
These are the type of games they want to send to Tassy, New Zealand, China, US, the moon ....
These are the type of games they want to send to Tassy, New Zealand, China, US, the moon ....
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The Gold Coast is just a headache to the AFL. A giant headache but not irrelevant. If they were irrelevant they would move them to Tazzy and be done with it. The AFL are waking up that the expansion has been hugely detrimental to the competition.Con Gorozidis wrote: ↑Sun 08 Jul 2018 10:18am From the AFL HQ perspective the Saints are nothing more than a fixture club.
The most irrelevant club in the AFL apart from Gold Coast.
The Saints are just a slave to the AFL.
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Re: AFL please justify this.
Correct! It’s much better to play big drawing teams at home than the likes of Port Adelaide.repta wrote: ↑Mon 09 Jul 2018 2:27pm The Saints know they will have a crowd of 10,000 turn up to this game in Melbourne (eg minimal Melbourne based Port fans). Therefore best play it away from the Dome. Saves the Saints going further into debt.
These are the type of games they want to send to Tassy, New Zealand, China, US, the moon ....
No conspiracy here.
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Re: AFL please justify this.
Have we won any of the five. If net cost is the issue why not just forfeit or cancel loss making games have an extra bye and renegotiate salaries based on less games. Instead of percentage the league table could show return on investment. The hypocrisy of the AFL claiming a levelish playing field with home and away evenness over a couple of years. And don't mention interstate umpiring. How much has been spent I wonder in subsidies to Suns and GWS, some of that could have gone into an equalisation fund so Saints don't have to go to Port each year and the Suns could hardly have been worse off.
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Re: AFL please justify this.
Its a pisstake and could decide finals.
Even if they gave us the supposed easier draw for a lower finish we still would cop Port Freo WC away.
Even if they gave us the supposed easier draw for a lower finish we still would cop Port Freo WC away.
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Re: AFL please justify this.
No . Beaten in all five.Yorkeys wrote: ↑Mon 09 Jul 2018 3:07pm Have we won any of the five. If net cost is the issue why not just forfeit or cancel loss making games have an extra bye and renegotiate salaries based on less games. Instead of percentage the league table could show return on investment. The hypocrisy of the AFL claiming a levelish playing field with home and away evenness over a couple of years. And don't mention interstate umpiring. How much has been spent I wonder in subsidies to Suns and GWS, some of that could have gone into an equalisation fund so Saints don't have to go to Port each year and the Suns could hardly have been worse off.
Nearly won last year though.
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Re: AFL please justify this.
No, its because there are so many weak as piss St Kilda supporters that don't turn up to watch us play, which means if we play interstate clubs at Etihad and draw crowds less than 20k we bleed money, better off to play interstate.Con Gorozidis wrote: ↑Sun 08 Jul 2018 10:18am From the AFL HQ perspective the Saints are nothing more than a fixture club.
The most irrelevant club in the AFL apart from Gold Coast.
But hey, lets not waste an opportunity to bag the club, hey Con???