Rhys Shaw
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Re: Rhys Shaw
Having been there ourselves I hate seeing clubs in this sort of despair. North are looking like a complete basket case, is it time the AFL step in and steady the ship?
Having half your football dept absent or sacked during the trade and draft periods cant be good.
Sad and lonely times ahead for North supporters.
Having half your football dept absent or sacked during the trade and draft periods cant be good.
Sad and lonely times ahead for North supporters.
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They will prosper in years to come.Impatient Sainter wrote: ↑Mon 19 Oct 2020 4:01pm Having been there ourselves I hate seeing clubs in this sort of despair. North are looking like a complete basket case, is it time the AFL step in and steady the ship?
Having half your football dept absent or sacked during the trade and draft periods cant be good.
Sad and lonely times ahead for North supporters.
.....as theTassie Tigers.
You need to be thankful it is the roos and not the Saints transplanted in the Island State.
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With the troubles they are having,I can see 4-5 years down the bottom end of the ladder,that will really bring calls for a tassie team.Mabe even soonersaynta wrote: ↑Mon 19 Oct 2020 4:20pmThey will prosper in years to come.Impatient Sainter wrote: ↑Mon 19 Oct 2020 4:01pm Having been there ourselves I hate seeing clubs in this sort of despair. North are looking like a complete basket case, is it time the AFL step in and steady the ship?
Having half your football dept absent or sacked during the trade and draft periods cant be good.
Sad and lonely times ahead for North supporters.
.....as theTassie Tigers.
You need to be thankful it is the roos and not the Saints transplanted in the Island State.
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They are talking about it now. Roos playing between 7 and 11 games in Tassie and the balance in Melbourne. No other interstate travel.
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They should grab that opportunity. It sounds great.
If they don't, maybe we should.
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I’ve thought about that too. I mean - if we played 8 games in Tassie and the rest in Melbourne ... I can’t think why I’d be sh1tty about that. Unless we were no longer St Kilda.
The thing is .. the Tassie locals hate the idea of North being transplanted. They want their own team.
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I reckon 18 teams is more than enough.
However, I suspect the league will want to go down the route of 15-minute quarters, more clubs, footy feasts, and games televised most nights as they do in the US with basketball. All to appease broadcasters.
If this happens, Gilligan risks killing the goose that laid the golden egg. The game will not resemble what we grew up with. A sort of a Big Bash League of football. A sugar hit with no substance.
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Re: Rhys Shaw
tassie aint Noosa
you’d wanna travel interstate
anywhere where the sun is
you’d wanna travel interstate
anywhere where the sun is
.name the ways , thought manipulates the State of Presence away.
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Re: Rhys Shaw
Melbourne Cricket Ground
Field size 171 metres x 146 metres
Former names: Aurora Stadium
Field size: 175 x 145 m
do it Saints
8 games at york park
outside ‘n just like practicing on the G
no interstate travel
means most games at the Dome
take that deal
Field size 171 metres x 146 metres
Former names: Aurora Stadium
Field size: 175 x 145 m
do it Saints
8 games at york park
outside ‘n just like practicing on the G
no interstate travel
means most games at the Dome
take that deal
.name the ways , thought manipulates the State of Presence away.
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A team will eventually be moved to Tasmania
I don't want St Kilda to be that team
We have a brand new state of the art home facility that sits at the gateway to Melbourne's huge South-Eastern region
We have a team on the rise going somewhere
We have 50,000 members and I guessing a lot more to come out of the woodwork in coming years - 10k more than North, Footscray & Melbourne
We have a strong club administration
We finally have a bit of light at the end of the tunnel and our immediate future looks bright
I see no reason to whore ourselves out to Tasmania and risk losing our StKilda Saints identity
Tassie Kangas sounds just fine to me
As does the West Melbourne Demondogs
I don't want St Kilda to be that team
We have a brand new state of the art home facility that sits at the gateway to Melbourne's huge South-Eastern region
We have a team on the rise going somewhere
We have 50,000 members and I guessing a lot more to come out of the woodwork in coming years - 10k more than North, Footscray & Melbourne
We have a strong club administration
We finally have a bit of light at the end of the tunnel and our immediate future looks bright
I see no reason to whore ourselves out to Tasmania and risk losing our StKilda Saints identity
Tassie Kangas sounds just fine to me
As does the West Melbourne Demondogs
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Re: Rhys Shaw
Agree. Good description, and the problem is, it started this year.bigcarl wrote: ↑Tue 20 Oct 2020 2:38amI reckon 18 teams is more than enough.
However, I suspect the league will want to go down the route of 15-minute quarters, more clubs, footy feasts, and games televised most nights as they do in the US with basketball. All to appease broadcasters.
If this happens, Gilligan risks killing the goose that laid the golden egg. The game will not resemble what we grew up with. A sort of a Big Bash League of football. A sugar hit with no substance.
If they keep the shortened quarters, I'm out.
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We have only had a strong administration for a few years and they can only jump as high as the AFL say. The AFL will be all ears come next Monday when the challenge begins on answering questions that are only going to get louder, where is your revenue coming from and how will you pay down your massive debt.Devilhead wrote: ↑Tue 20 Oct 2020 6:42am A team will eventually be moved to Tasmania
I don't want St Kilda to be that team
We have a brand new state of the art home facility that sits at the gateway to Melbourne's huge South-Eastern region
We have a team on the rise going somewhere
We have 50,000 members and I guessing a lot more to come out of the woodwork in coming years - 10k more than North, Footscray & Melbourne
We have a strong club administration
We finally have a bit of light at the end of the tunnel and our immediate future looks bright
I see no reason to whore ourselves out to Tasmania and risk losing our StKilda Saints identity
Tassie Kangas sounds just fine to me
As does the West Melbourne Demondogs
Obviously this administration inherited the debt but rules have changed significantly in 2020 and the elephant in the room is where will the revenue come from as we crash deeper into what is looking like a very deep depression.
All this talk of war chests is so 2019.
The AFL has deliberately kept the bad news out of the headlines with it's control of the AFL media as it has been paranoid about any negative news while
working hard to just get this season completed but we will soon find out what changes are coming as soon as the final siren sounds on GF day.
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Devilhead wrote: ↑Tue 20 Oct 2020 6:42am A team will eventually be moved to Tasmania
I don't want St Kilda to be that team
We have a brand new state of the art home facility that sits at the gateway to Melbourne's huge South-Eastern region
We have a team on the rise going somewhere
We have 50,000 members and I guessing a lot more to come out of the woodwork in coming years - 10k more than North, Footscray & Melbourne
We have a strong club administration
We finally have a bit of light at the end of the tunnel and our immediate future looks bright
I see no reason to whore ourselves out to Tasmania and risk losing our StKilda Saints identity
Tassie Kangas sounds just fine to me
As does the West Melbourne Demondogs
Only trouble is there are no kangaroos in Tassie, only wallabies.
Bot then again, there are no real saints in Melbourne, plenty of demons though.
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Re: Rhys Shaw
Any tassie team surely has to be the Devils? And in green red and yellow? Can't see both cities supporting anything else. North could relocate but would have to lose all identity. Maybe wear the dull blue style in heritage round.
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Re: Rhys Shaw
It's not that simple. The Tassie pitch for their own team splits their games 50/50 Hobart and Launceston. It's a non-negotiable. Since the convicts first arrived - the north dislikes the south and vice versa. It's why the TFL failed. It has to be a whole of Tassie solution.
As for no interstate travel - I gather you've not spent much time in Tassie in Winter. Late May to September-ish is bloody freezing. As in snow. With not a whole heap else to do. In a nutsell - 21 straight days away each winter to play Bris/GCS and Port or Adel or Melb in Alice would be most welcomed.
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Re: Rhys Shaw
How much capital has the AFL lost because of no crowds
(Take away the whole hubs thing for the sake of the question)
VS
How much Potential capital could the AFL now draw upon thanks to a bigger TV audience?
This must be a question they think about.
I wonder because I see boutique games at boutique grounds as something quite possible.
I’ve always thought that Tassie needs two teams but operated and managed by mainland brother/sister clubs.
Heritage and roots goes way beyond regional economics.
A team representing the greater Hobart area AND a team representing the belt of towns Launceston, Devenport, Bernie, Wynyard etc.
These games would draw 6000-7000 spectators a week and yet potentially draw crowds on TV
The TN audience and the potential spin offs commercially, for Tasmanian businesses and their mainland co-sponsors could be significant.
Just say Port Melbourne was affiliated with the Hobart mob and say Glenelg (SA) was affiliated with the Northern group.
These affiliated clubs can lend support, make interstate relationships including sponsorships etc. players, IP etc.
The rest of us get to enjoy the heritage and genuineness (as opposed to the Gold Coast fake..not knocking them)
The TV audiences will reflect this.
I am not buying the lack of talent argument.
Things could turn quickly if it takes off. Look at women’s footy for instance.
So twenty teams and two conferences.
(Take away the whole hubs thing for the sake of the question)
VS
How much Potential capital could the AFL now draw upon thanks to a bigger TV audience?
This must be a question they think about.
I wonder because I see boutique games at boutique grounds as something quite possible.
I’ve always thought that Tassie needs two teams but operated and managed by mainland brother/sister clubs.
Heritage and roots goes way beyond regional economics.
A team representing the greater Hobart area AND a team representing the belt of towns Launceston, Devenport, Bernie, Wynyard etc.
These games would draw 6000-7000 spectators a week and yet potentially draw crowds on TV
The TN audience and the potential spin offs commercially, for Tasmanian businesses and their mainland co-sponsors could be significant.
Just say Port Melbourne was affiliated with the Hobart mob and say Glenelg (SA) was affiliated with the Northern group.
These affiliated clubs can lend support, make interstate relationships including sponsorships etc. players, IP etc.
The rest of us get to enjoy the heritage and genuineness (as opposed to the Gold Coast fake..not knocking them)
The TV audiences will reflect this.
I am not buying the lack of talent argument.
Things could turn quickly if it takes off. Look at women’s footy for instance.
So twenty teams and two conferences.
You're quite brilliant Shane, yeah..terrific!
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Re: Rhys Shaw
I gather you've not spent much time in Tassie in Winter.
i find it an outstanding effort
that there’s someone in this place
after 17 odd years of interaction
that fails to know
of my genetics , songlines ‘n general all round f****** brilliance
grew up riding kwakka 9’s
carting my carpentry stuff around on the thing
to be onsite at 7am
met the milkman at 3
in the morning
to run back up the mountain
as a younger lad
i know winter in Slowbart
but it’s colder in this place
.name the ways , thought manipulates the State of Presence away.
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good morning everyone
.name the ways , thought manipulates the State of Presence away.
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It’s not beyond the realms of possibilities that we could one day be the Gold Coast Saints. We’ve got a fair few fans up there.
Anything is possible, but I’m pretty sure that crowds will be back by mid next year and hopefully the nightmare scenario doesn’t eventuate. As long as we play good footy and make the finals again, that will help the club with revenue from sponsorship and selling more merch and memberships.
Who knows? If Melbourne keep struggling on field what about a merger of Melbourne and the Suns?
All depends on the financial health of all clubs. If North plays in Tassie and secures a good financial deal...Let’s assume we are still heavily debt burdened at the end of 2022...Let’s also assume that the Gold Coast Suns are struggling on field, struggling to keep all their high end draft picks then the AFL could decide that the best strategy to stop the bleeding with that failed experiment on the Gold Coast is to merge the Suns and the Saints
If GWS have a couple of bad years on field then the AFL might send us to Sydney. We could become the Greater Western Saints
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Re: Rhys Shaw
yep
i was arguing his case for him
before he argued for himself
all very woo woo ay
holding two concurrent possibilities is hard for some
... wait till there’s threeee
i was arguing his case for him
before he argued for himself
all very woo woo ay
holding two concurrent possibilities is hard for some
... wait till there’s threeee
.name the ways , thought manipulates the State of Presence away.
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Re: Rhys Shaw
this way
that way
‘n the appropriate Way
that way
‘n the appropriate Way
.name the ways , thought manipulates the State of Presence away.
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Re: Rhys Shaw
goodnight everyone
it’s much safer in bed
it’s much safer in bed
.name the ways , thought manipulates the State of Presence away.
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I’d take the deal in a heart beat
Leaving Tassie when we did IMO is the single most disastrous decision the club had made in my life time. I reckon if we hadn’t left we’d be finically strong and would have won the 09-10 flags though obviously that’s just an opinion obviously.
If there’s an opportunity to jump back in... I say take it
Leaving Tassie when we did IMO is the single most disastrous decision the club had made in my life time. I reckon if we hadn’t left we’d be finically strong and would have won the 09-10 flags though obviously that’s just an opinion obviously.
If there’s an opportunity to jump back in... I say take it