wtf? is the afl just going to become nfl/nba 2.0?
https://t.co/QZqdR50Hjk
open up in chrome incognito and you can read the heraldsun article
they were presented with two options a mid season or pre season trade period, where was no extra trade period option?
Pre-season trade period
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Re: Pre-season trade period
You would end up with top clubs just raiding bottom clubs every year. It's going to be like AFL apartheid. Poor clubs can make up numbers so the big boys can play finals.
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Re: Pre-season trade period
The Cartel Clubs the AFL rely upon for audience numbers and media revenue
Media
Well 9 is a Phoenix Company, arising from collapse with Costello as its Chair - and now the proprietor of the failed Fairfax
10 is now on the ownership of a former Trade Creditor converting a Current Liability on the Balance Sheet of 10 to Capital
7 with Kennett on the Board are in the media, sacking staff, terminating programs and otherwise cutting operating costs by rationalising
Murdoch has taken significant write downs in asset valuations - affording it a significant holiday from any tax liability aka Qantas
The old combination referred to was consumer discretionary spending under pressure, media proprietors under pressure due to falling advertising revenue then falling house prices as the indicators of recession
9 have relinquished the cricket broadcast rights, along with 10 and in doing so have noted that what is paid for broadcast rights is not being recouped from advertising revenue
Join the dots
I understand that the GF viewing audience was significantly down
Interesting times ahead
But the Federal Government is promoting a Budget “surplus”
Nero fiddling?
Media
Well 9 is a Phoenix Company, arising from collapse with Costello as its Chair - and now the proprietor of the failed Fairfax
10 is now on the ownership of a former Trade Creditor converting a Current Liability on the Balance Sheet of 10 to Capital
7 with Kennett on the Board are in the media, sacking staff, terminating programs and otherwise cutting operating costs by rationalising
Murdoch has taken significant write downs in asset valuations - affording it a significant holiday from any tax liability aka Qantas
The old combination referred to was consumer discretionary spending under pressure, media proprietors under pressure due to falling advertising revenue then falling house prices as the indicators of recession
9 have relinquished the cricket broadcast rights, along with 10 and in doing so have noted that what is paid for broadcast rights is not being recouped from advertising revenue
Join the dots
I understand that the GF viewing audience was significantly down
Interesting times ahead
But the Federal Government is promoting a Budget “surplus”
Nero fiddling?
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Re: Pre-season trade period
Just as the mid-season draft was panned - now it is loved.
I'm all for it if it's done correctly.
I'm all for it if it's done correctly.
Clueless and mediocre petty tyrant.
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Re: Pre-season trade period
The problem I see with this is that it will take the impetus away from getting trades done in this trade period.
As it works now If a player doesn't get to where he wants in the trade period he basically has to suck it up and wait till next year.
The clubs scramble to get all these last minute trades done before the window shuts.
Now they can just wait until the next window opens.
It is after the draft so the only things you have to trade are next years draft picks and players.
The next step will be to allow trading from the day after the Grand Final until the start of the next season.
Just join the two periods together.
Within ten years it will be open slather all year round trading, no compensation for free agency and free agency kicking in as soon as a player is out of contract.
We will end up with an EPL style comp where 5 or 6 clubs fight it out for the premiership and everyone else just fights for scraps.
And before you say the AFL wouldn't want that, why? It hasn't been a hindrance to the EPL making money.
As it works now If a player doesn't get to where he wants in the trade period he basically has to suck it up and wait till next year.
The clubs scramble to get all these last minute trades done before the window shuts.
Now they can just wait until the next window opens.
It is after the draft so the only things you have to trade are next years draft picks and players.
The next step will be to allow trading from the day after the Grand Final until the start of the next season.
Just join the two periods together.
Within ten years it will be open slather all year round trading, no compensation for free agency and free agency kicking in as soon as a player is out of contract.
We will end up with an EPL style comp where 5 or 6 clubs fight it out for the premiership and everyone else just fights for scraps.
And before you say the AFL wouldn't want that, why? It hasn't been a hindrance to the EPL making money.