Each team plays every other team once, and some of them twice.
Then the finals start, based on teams' ladder positions after having played each opponent once and some twice.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Fox has pulled the story.

Harper has made a massive journalistic cock-up (evident in his original words) - a case of an over-zealous soccerina a bit too eager to sink the slipper into the big bad AFL.

It was Port Adelaide Football Club, not the AFL, who prevented Burgess from assisting Adelaide United. This was confirmed in a statement provided by PAFC to the Adelaide Advertiser on Wednesday night.

Port Adelaide CEO Keith Thomas made the decision before advising Adelaide United officials in February.

The AFL works like the Church of Scientology

Demetriou is the L Ron Hubbard of the cult, trying to brainwash the next generation of children

It's interesting though, AFL are very clear about the fact that they are at war with other codes. They make no bones about it, they do all they can to protect their turf and they use whatever means necessary and are not worried about how they'll be seen by being open and honest about it.

There is definitely a code war on and football needs to recognise it and use whatever means it has to succeed. There needs to be a greater push for land space at grassroots level to start with.

Funny article from Andy Harper, comparing Arnie's admission that he watched a game of NRL, with an employee of one club working for another club.

I'm sure fear was the basis for the decision - those average crowds of 12,300 and ratings of 71,000, right through the Summer, have got the AFL running scared.

Awfully kind of you, especially to do it on such a regular basis. <3

AFL's reputation as the schoolyard bully on Australia's sporting landscape has been enhanced by its decision to prevent a Port Adelaide employee from volunteering to help A-League club Adelaide United find a new coach.


Read more: http://www.foxsports.com.au/football/a-league/afl-intervenes-to-prevent-port-adelaides-darren-burgess-from-helping-adelaide-united-find-new-coach/story-e6frf4gl-1226611974086#ixzz2POenecdN



Edited by vanbasten88: 3/4/2013 10:07:25 PM

The least I can do is argue on the same playing field. Otherwise it just wouldn't be fair on you.

Edited by afromanGT: 3/4/2013 09:55:45 PM

I dont know a lot about Lance Franklin but I was at someone's house on the weekend when a game was on, the thing I recall was him spraying it at 45 degrees from a free kick type situation.

I dont think The Wanderers and Syd FC are that much in competition with the Giants and Swans, but surely guys like Ono and Del Piero are much bigger talents than Franklin.

HAHAHAHAHAHA :oops:

Oh yay, bringing up something irrelevant and out of context just so you can make a feeble attempt at attacking a user. Good on you! Your mother must be so proud.

:D

Sorry princess. Just for you, I'll overlook the thousands of querulous comments you've made on these forums.

JoFFA's thread got moved :lol:

Pretty sure he's crying in a corner somewhere in FFA headquarters. \:d/

I'm quite serious. I couldn't give two figs what AFL do or not do. Or League. If they both disappeared off the face of the Earth it wouldn't even register with me.

And I will support your right to not care less till the day I die.

Yeah, because calling out Joffa for creative reporting in his posting of a news article is being a 'princess' #-o. You can go sit in the corner with Joffa, Ducky.

Here you go, afro.

Couldn't care less

Yeah, nice thread title Joffa. You dunce.

The AFL isn't considering extending its season to "attack rival codes" It's got nothing to do with that. The only thing the AFL cares about is its own coffers. And that's the only reason they're extending the season. It has naught to do with any other code.

It's a bit hysterical to describe this as a plan to attack rival codes.

Each code tries to do the best for itself, and of all of the four football codes, the AFL has the tightest time frame within which to play its season because it has always shared ovals with cricket (on roughly a 27 week/25 week split).

Two issues emerge:
1. The PFA wants to introduce two byes per season (currently one) as a player welfare issue, but the AFL cannot extend the season to allow that.

2. Super Rugby and the NRL start 3 or 4 weeks earlier than the AFl, and that impacts on their marketing into the Northern states, where AFL is weaker than the other codes. To want to start a bit earlier is a commercial decision for the AFL (if it can work its way round the cricket season), and it's a stretch for anyone to argue that it's an attack on rival codes who are free to start and end whenever they wish.

Three manic derbies in Sydney. Same last year in Melbourne. I'd prefer to focus on that in AF than this thread.

Whilst still making more sense than most of his detractors.

If mr football had posted this article he would be rambling on about memberships and crowd figures by now.

OK it was not an official AFL statement as such.

But do recall on the Backpage (foxtel programme, now off the air) a couple of years ago with those RL dinosaurs Mike Gibson, Paul Kent & Billy Birmingham was discussing the coming of the GWS Giants into the West Sydney & the affect on Rugby League, the token AFL guy on the panel (silver hair guy), let these guys ramble on & than said, the AFL are putting a team there to compete with the new West Sydney football side, because even then they knew football was/is their main rivals as no 2 sport is NSW. They also knew though they have football well covered in the AFL heartland states that football was probably the no 2 sport down there as well (apart from maybe Perth).

It may mention the A-League but it is not about it. I agree with the sentiment that people would be calling for a banning (like lemmings) if this had been posted by Mister Football.

[xenophobic remark about playing "Spot the Aussie" at A-League/sokkah games]

;)

There will be a game played at Westpac stadium this season in Wellington. But no way in hell will there ever be a team from NZ (or any other country) competing in the AFL, the participation rate is simply non existant outside Australia, (despite what Mr Handegg will have you believe).

My dad is living in England and went to a couple of those games. His impression was it was almost impossible to find an Englishman. The vast majority of those crowds are expat Aussies missing home. He said half used it as an Aussie social gathering