AFL needs a clean out

[saintspremiers]

Fitzpatrick and Gilligan need to go first.

The Essendon debacle is a monumental screw up and cover up.

Time and again they show their incompetence and couldn't give a stuff about doing the right thing.

Prismal being allowed to coach whilst under the ban and the Mackay fiasco their latest little stunts to go with many others.

Question is, how do they get ousted, or does Fitzpatrick stay until he wants to go?

[samuraisaint]

Absolute joke - apparently Brisbane were able to host the match in Brisbane but the AFL sat on it's hands. So now us and the Lions go into the season underprepared. Oh, well, at least those of us who were hoping for no injuries got their wish.

[Goose is king]

Ticket system crash

[To the top]

Well it is cricket season - and we still have a round of the Sheffield Shield competition to play, then the Final.

But, yes the AFL needs to see the resignations of its Office Bearers - including at Clubs.

They have not only ruined the Code at the highest level, being the National competition, also making it an international laughing stock (then there is Sheedy!!!!!) but at grass roots level by paying no regard to the State Leagues and the Clubs who compete in those Leagues (and produce kids who are drafted).

An absolute disgrace but that is what you get when in-breeding and self protection is the operational model.

Australian Rules Football has never been at a lower level including thru public perception - and, as always, that comes from the top.

Simply, they read, rely on and believe their own trotted out media releases not knowing that the public are very cynical re what they read in the media - particularly in the Murdoch media.

It's in the paper so it must be true!!!

To re-introduce the excitement of anticipation at the commencement of any season the pre-season competition should be done away with and Club's left to their own internal devices - but the AFL has to encroach on the cricket season and, of course, soccer and the NRL are being played so they have to be drowned out.

With no pre-season you will return to the days of an unheard of Ditterich in Round One being a sensation - as was the unheard of Carman in Round One at Norwood (unless you had been to an internal trail match).

Mind you, the path way to the AFL has also taken away the excitement - and negated the need for Clubs to work on the development of youth as the sides in the State Leagues do (then to lose their best).

The AFL is a preditory cancer inflicting all - including its supporters who still attend games at whatever time they are put on to accommodate TV networks.

Then you get to the financial model!!!!!

[saintspremiers]

Absolute joke - apparently Brisbane were able to host the match in Brisbane but the AFL sat on it's hands. So now us and the Lions go into the season underprepared. Oh, well, at least those of us who were hoping for no injuries got their wish.

But will the compliant media get onto this?

Very little media talk pre match re this either. They are as useless as the AFL!

[Bluthy]

Jeff Kenett said the AFL have something like 700 employees - nearly more than there are AFL players. They need to keep focused on the basics ie. giving teams an equal number of preseason games would be a good start.

[falka]

Well it is cricket season - and we still have a round of the Sheffield Shield competition to play, then the Final.

But, yes the AFL needs to see the resignations of its Office Bearers - including at Clubs.

They have not only ruined the Code at the highest level, being the National competition, also making it an international laughing stock (then there is Sheedy!!!!!) but at grass roots level by paying no regard to the State Leagues and the Clubs who compete in those Leagues (and produce kids who are drafted).

An absolute disgrace but that is what you get when in-breeding and self protection is the operational model.

Australian Rules Football has never been at a lower level including thru public perception - and, as always, that comes from the top.

Simply, they read, rely on and believe their own trotted out media releases not knowing that the public are very cynical re what they read in the media - particularly in the Murdoch media.

It's in the paper so it must be true!!!

To re-introduce the excitement of anticipation at the commencement of any season the pre-season competition should be done away with and Club's left to their own internal devices - but the AFL has to encroach on the cricket season and, of course, soccer and the NRL are being played so they have to be drowned out.

With no pre-season you will return to the days of an unheard of Ditterich in Round One being a sensation - as was the unheard of Carman in Round One at Norwood (unless you had been to an internal trail match).

Mind you, the path way to the AFL has also taken away the excitement - and negated the need for Clubs to work on the development of youth as the sides in the State Leagues do (then to lose their best).

The AFL is a preditory cancer inflicting all - including its supporters who still attend games at whatever time they are put on to accommodate TV networks.

Then you get to the financial model!!!!!

Spot on.

Let's talk fixturing while we are at it.

And bombers getting end of first Rd draft pick back. Joke

[Dis Believer]

Jeff Kenett said the AFL have something like 700 employees - nearly more than there are AFL players. They need to keep focused on the basics ie. giving teams an equal number of preseason games would be a good start.

And the media people need to be "AFL registered journalists" to report on the AFL (what a crock that is) and as I recall there are more people registered to report on the AFL than there are registered to play in the AFL !!

[The Fireman]

As long as I have followed football the fans have bitched and moaned about the people that run it.......Déjà vu all over again.

[kosifantutti]

It rained in Mackay so everyone needs to be sacked.

[saintspremiers]

It rained in Mackay so everyone needs to be sacked.

Re Mackay there were no contingency plans. The extreme rains were forecast a week out and prevelenat from Friday. No surprises there. Again an example of lack of planning. Why schedule a game in central/North QLD during the wet in the first place?

Anyway, as I've mentioned earlier Mackay is minor relative to their many and varied stuff ups of recent years.

[Con Gorozidis]

Re how the AFL is administered - it will only get worse and worse. They are like FIFA or the IAC. Effectively they earn lots of money and are answerable to noone. The AFL will continue to be an in-club that gradually gets richer and richer and becomes more corrupt and more poorly managed. The reality is they have a monopoly business that essentially runs itself and has almost no competition. It is a licence to print money and the blokes in charge will just become fatter and fatter cats.

[BigMart]

They make a lot of mistakes.... But Stk have made more

[Con Gorozidis]

They make a lot of mistakes.... But Stk have made more

Yep. Either way I dont think anything is going to change at AFL House in our life-times. They are entrenched and cashed-up.
We just need to put up with it and hope Gillon does us a solid with our next stadium deal.

[Linton Lodger]

Mike "Rogue Scholar & garden variety corrupt idiot:" Fitzpatrick and Bill 'Bent Union Boy' Kelty should be shown the door first.

I would love to see a Royal Commission into the AFL. It would make the CFMEU & George Pell look like model citizens in comparison.

[gringo]

I have met a few of the AFL guys through friends of my wife. They are not impressive characters, Gilligan particularly has office boy more than power broker written all over him. These guys don't inspire confidence. Adrian Anderson was even better than him and he was a bit of a human slapstick routine. I have a family friend that was in the hierarchy and while he won't say much he doesn't seem to have a high opinion of what they do at head office. I met guys like Ross Oakley and can say those guys had a proper presence of someone who demanded respect despite being a genuine nice guy. Even Demitriou had some serious clout. This latest group looks like amateur hour. The Essendon saga and everything they have touched recently looks more like FIFA than the league that pushed race relations and used their size to direct society in a better direction. They look so corrupted and morally challenged they are forgetting to do the basics.

[gringo]

Mike "Rogue Scholar & garden variety corrupt idiot:" Fitzpatrick and Bill 'Bent Union Boy' Kelty should be shown the door first.

I would love to see a Royal Commission into the AFL. It would make the CFMEU & George Pell look like model citizens in comparison.

They are modelling society where if you can lobby from outside you send someone inside. The Hawks have sent one of their own in and he is openly lobbying on what he calls the tax for Hawthorn and other big clubs. He says the priority is buying back Etihad to give the poorer clubs a go but watch them drop the competitive fund and do nothing about buying Etihad out.

[IanRush]

Fitzpatrick and Gilligan need to go first.

The Essendon debacle is a monumental screw up and cover up.

Time and again they show their incompetence and couldn't give a stuff about doing the right thing.

Prismal being allowed to coach whilst under the ban and the Mackay fiasco their latest little stunts to go with many others.

Question is, how do they get ousted, or does Fitzpatrick stay until he wants to go?

Look at their Business Interests and practices, the E'dope thread has some of it.