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    AFL in $45 million money grab

    Just to correct two points on ANZ's configuration. Yes, the AFL were planning on having a 2nd team in Sydney when the reconfiguration was done. They signed on for 6 games per year (not sure where the others would be played), with a break even crowd of 25,000 When North Melbourne pulled...
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    League kicks bottom in ratings

    Still beleive everything 9 tells you... http://www.smh.com.au/news/tv--radio/7-hits-9-for-6/2005/09/13/1126377291130.html
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    League kicks bottom in ratings

    With selective editing by channel 9. Did you expect anything else from 9 ?
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    League kicks bottom in ratings

    Perhaps an unbias source might be more accurate.... http://mediaspy.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=4982
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    The annual finals system debate thread

    Thats an important point. The AFL system on its own is not perfect, but the AFL system plus home finals all the way to the end is the best top 8 solution. (The AFL stop short of home finals for the grand final though) Every game means something (fighting for home ground advantage, or to stay...
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    League kicks bottom in ratings

    Actually, the Channel 7 movie beat the NRL final. Beating the AFL is one thing (although it seems most NRL viewers switched over once the league was finished), but to have a final match beaten by a 15 year old movie is embarrasing. Channel 9 would be livid.
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    Watching AFL in Sydney

    The Alexandria Hotel in Alexandria has a great AFL setup.
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    NRL rules out expansion in 2006

    $10m wouldnt even cover interest on a $220m debt. Even at a very low 5% interest rate, the RL would need to pay back $11m p.a. Does that mean the $220m debt will never be repaid ?
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    Relocation ?

    The AFL is fully committed to continued expansion. The whole set up of the organisation and code is to enable it to place teams in new hostile environments and enable them to be competitive and financial from day one. Its a highly flexible arrangement. Basically: - All Players are obtainable...
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    Should NZ become an AFL nation?

    Sounds like Rugby Union in Australia then.
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    Wok cooks up new finals format

    The AFL format is the best possible for 8 teams because of three reasons: 1) Its relatively simple. No highest-ranked winner rubish 2) It has the cross over so no teams meet twice unless in the grand final. 3) Home games are earnt right up to the grand final. Point 3 is critical. In the...
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    Strong moves to overthrow O'Neill

    There is a yawning chasm between AFL and VFL/SANFL/etc, and the same between NRL and NSW/QLD comps. The key thing for a sport is constant access at a high level. AFL and NRL do it. The wallabies cant, so the S12 has to. But collectively Aussie S12 teams play about 20 games in australia full...
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    Strong moves to overthrow O'Neill

    O'Neill should go. By poaching the WC off NZ, he basically threw away any chance of Australia getting another team in the Super 12, which is far more important to growing the game of rugby, than a one-off event like the WC. Only days after the final, rugby has disappeared from the newspapers.
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    Should NZ become an AFL nation?

    Should NZ become an AFL nation? Yes. Because being 2nd is better than being 3rd.
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    Eddie's latest over the top spray

    Eddie is guilty of gross tokenism with his helping hand to struggling clubs. The footy show looks after Collingwood and the big teams first and foremost, such that the gap between rich and poor is growing faster year after year.
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    What happened to the crowds

    And you could count the number of gaelic games you've actually seen on one hand even if you cut all your fingers off. Same with the number of rules you know. Now there is only one sport I can think of that "poort attempt at copying" comes to mind. :D
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    What happened to the crowds

    We tried that, didnt like it. Too slow, too stop-start, too boring.
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    What happened to the crowds

    I heard of estimates that there were less than 2000 victorian residents at the quarter finals, with most of the crowd made up from overseas tourists or people from interstate. So much for "converting" the AFL states.
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    anything can happen?

    A highly accurate stereotype in Australia, but the game is more egalatarian in NZ and pacific islands, so by nature of your geographic location, I apologise.
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    anything can happen?

    Unfortunetly, debating rugby rules is considered highly arousing foreplay in most private school boarding houses, so before you get "Big Jim" out, the 9 inch wonder you made in woodwork class, I'm leaving.

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