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Grassy wrote: I repeat,Suffer You Arrogant Bastards!

I sooooooo much enjoyed you losing last Friday and the way you did it.

Cracks are widening with the AFL's Love Child,wider than the San Andrea Faultline and I loved it,especially hearing Big Mouth Shaw get bagged out BIG TIME on 3LO!!!!!

Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,etc,etc,etc,etc,etc!

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Sorry for having to ask Grassy but why do you feel they are an arrogant Club?????

I have never been a fan of the GWS and Gold Coast experiments because they will never work long term and they just degrade the overall standard of the competition. I think Grassy is right in a way because they just thought they(AFL and GWS) would fill them up with talent and it would all take care of itself and it hasn't as yet. They may have success in the near future because of the huge amount of first round picks, but it is not sustainable and they won't get the crowd support they need to make the clubs viable.

JB wrote: I have never been a fan of the GWS and Gold Coast experiments because they will never work long term and they just degrade the overall standard of the competition. I think Grassy is right in a way because they just thought they(AFL and GWS) would fill them up with talent and it would all take care of itself and it hasn't as yet. They may have success in the near future because of the huge amount of first round picks, but it is not sustainable and they won't get the crowd support they need to make the clubs viable.

The fundamental flaw in the AFL's thinking is their delusional belief that Syndeysiders care about Aussie Rules: they don't. Whereas there has been a presence in Canberra of Aussie Rules going back for decades. Swans had the pleasure of getting Ed Blackaby and Peter Kenny from Canberra.

swan42 wrote:

JB wrote: I have never been a fan of the GWS and Gold Coast experiments because they will never work long term and they just degrade the overall standard of the competition. I think Grassy is right in a way because they just thought they(AFL and GWS) would fill them up with talent and it would all take care of itself and it hasn't as yet. They may have success in the near future because of the huge amount of first round picks, but it is not sustainable and they won't get the crowd support they need to make the clubs viable.

The fundamental flaw in the AFL's thinking is their delusional belief that Syndeysiders care about Aussie Rules: they don't. Whereas there has been a presence in Canberra of Aussie Rules going back for decades. Swans had the pleasure of getting Ed Blackaby and Peter Kenny from Canberra.

Ed Blackaby, Peter Kenny, Paul Werner & Robert Maiden were all from the ACT 42.

I have no love for the expansion teams either but I'm not sure why Grassy sees them as an arrogant club. talented young kids who had little to no choice but to go GWS trying to make the most of their footy careers is hardly arrogance. The AFL however dropping a new club in the heartland of rugby league country is where the arrogance truly lies. Not sure they are doomed to failure like Gold Coast but 20yrs from now will be interesting to see if they reside in Blacktown or Canberra.

Beasley Hutton wrote:

swan42 wrote:

JB wrote: I have never been a fan of the GWS and Gold Coast experiments because they will never work long term and they just degrade the overall standard of the competition. I think Grassy is right in a way because they just thought they(AFL and GWS) would fill them up with talent and it would all take care of itself and it hasn't as yet. They may have success in the near future because of the huge amount of first round picks, but it is not sustainable and they won't get the crowd support they need to make the clubs viable.

The fundamental flaw in the AFL's thinking is their delusional belief that Syndeysiders care about Aussie Rules: they don't. Whereas there has been a presence in Canberra of Aussie Rules going back for decades. Swans had the pleasure of getting Ed Blackaby and Peter Kenny from Canberra.

Ed Blackaby, Peter Kenny, Paul Werner & Robert Maiden were all from the ACT 42.

Good players Beas, but lets face it you didn't really need them back then, should've given your kids a go

DG wrote:

Beasley Hutton wrote:

swan42 wrote:

JB wrote: I have never been a fan of the GWS and Gold Coast experiments because they will never work long term and they just degrade the overall standard of the competition. I think Grassy is right in a way because they just thought they(AFL and GWS) would fill them up with talent and it would all take care of itself and it hasn't as yet. They may have success in the near future because of the huge amount of first round picks, but it is not sustainable and they won't get the crowd support they need to make the clubs viable.

The fundamental flaw in the AFL's thinking is their delusional belief that Syndeysiders care about Aussie Rules: they don't. Whereas there has been a presence in Canberra of Aussie Rules going back for decades. Swans had the pleasure of getting Ed Blackaby and Peter Kenny from Canberra.

Ed Blackaby, Peter Kenny, Paul Werner & Robert Maiden were all from the ACT 42.

Good players Beas, but lets face it you didn't really need them back then, should've given your kids a go

We did mate that's why R.Maiden & the late P.Werner especially struggled to get a game!

I have always said the AFL openlly rigs its competition in a Stalinist fashion. The mask was fully lowered today when they played 'a game' under the watchful eye of the Chinese People's Army. Enjoy the ideology of football Stalinism: 'Newsouthwalesisation'. People have warned about this process on here for years -- I note the very good posts above -- and yet, a lot of the public still walk through the turnstiles.

Just on that game played in China yesterday between PA v GC whenever the cameramen panned the crowd the only Chinese fans I could see were the dignitaries who looked as bored as batshit looking at their phones, talking to each other whilst not even looking at the game. I could barely see a local at all, but at least PA got a sponsorship deal out of the whole exorbitant junket...meanwhile local footy clubs all over WA/SA/TAS are going under/merging at an alarming rate!

The whole idea of playing a game for points in China is flawed. Total waste of money that could be far better spent at grass roots. The AFL will kill the game, not expand it. GWS and Gold Coast being prime examples.