Today I saw a dude at uni wearing an AFL top (couldn't tell which club) and slippers, and he had a mullet :lol:

If it was black snd white striped and he was missing a few teeth, that's par for the course.

:lol: Couldn't see the teeth, and I can't remember the colour, may have been black with some red?

Essendon. They're like Collingwood fans that aren't on welfare.

Were they slippers or moccasins?

Once upon a time, it was acceptable to wear moccasins going out in Melbourne.

I still wear them at home.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: I was waiting for someone to suggest this.

Tell that bloke he's a legend! Up the mighty Dons, what a win tonight! <3

42,218 last night in Adelaide to open the season - good crowd.

I wonder if Essendon are aware that playing like shit for the first half doesn't make their performances any less suspect for illicit substances.

Sydney derby or western derby....

Dammit Crows seriously. Same Adelaide of old.

I fucking hate Essendon.

Opening match, Fri TV ratings updated:

Seven/7mate metro + regional #aflcrowsbombers 951k

Add foxfooty and thats 1.2m

- scottish actor Ewan McGregor!

http://instagram.com/p/XMuPykwy_z/

Edited by waggzzz2: 24/3/2013 02:07:53 PM

One of my fav actors goes for dockers\:d/ \:d/ \:d/ \:d/

Only two games of AFL this weekend and 7 decide they only need to show one. And that the WA Derby isn't important.

Wut?

This

Wut?

What's being shown this week shouldn't have any impact on next week, regardless of it being the same round.

Do no follow AFL closely any more, but what happened to the Eagles v Fremantle game did not make any top 20 programs on free to air? Was it shown anyway outside of WA? If so on what channels or was it just a Foxtel game?

S, I currently have no respect for Ewan McGregor anymore. Although...it's pretty cool he wasn't in a box.

I swear Le Cras is made of glass.

We were absolute shit. Full credit to the Dockers, absolutely destroyed us. Horrible performance. Can't blame the injury list either, because we were ahead for the first half. Pearce is gonna be a gun for the Dockers this year.

Yep, after half time we just stopped... Quite disappointing really...

This is fucking stupid. Spend half a billion dollars to show 4 out of 9 games a week.

Correct.

Suburban grounds in vogue
Date
March 26, 2013
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Jon Pierik

It could be back to the future for the AFL, with league boss Andrew Demetriou confirming two suburban grounds from a bygone era, Carlton's Visy Park and Richmond's Punt Road, could re-emerge as boutique venues.

Whether this is a ploy to put pressure on Etihad Stadium to sell the venue to the AFL earlier than the scheduled date – March8, 2025 – thereby improving the financial distributions to struggling clubs, remains to be seen, but Demetriou said the league had conducted a feasibility study on Carlton's home ground.

''Visy Park can work. But we've got a couple of other options. I think Punt Road has got some legs,'' he said.

It's understood a redevelopment of either ground could cost up to $150 million.

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AFL chairman Mike Fitzpatrick said last week the league had been unable to agree to a price with Melbourne Stadiums Ltd, acting on behalf of the five superannuation stakeholders in Etihad.

He said time was running out for a deal to make financial sense to the AFL, for the league will automatically take ownership of the stadium for $1 in 2025.

Melbourne has also investigated whether its training venue at Casey Fields could host home-and-away matches.

The last match for premiership points at Visy Park was in 2005. The Blues have indicated strong interest in again playing games there, although its transformation into a training venue could prove a hindrance. Public transport has always been an issue.

The Blues also want to ditch Etihad Stadium as their home ground from 2015 and shift eight home games to the MCG, where a better financial deal awaits.

But the economics of playing there could also help smaller clubs such as the Western Bulldogs and North Melbourne when hosting interstate teams. The break-even attendance would be far lower than required at Etihad Stadium.

Geelong can pocket between $600,000 to $700,000 from a crowd of 20,000 at its home ground, Simonds Stadium.

The AFL will stage 40 matches at Etihad Stadium next season, six less than this year, with the possibility those matches eventually could be held at a smaller venue.

''We have got a number of games that would be attractive in an 18,000- to 20,000-seat venue,'' Demetriou said. ''If you've got a full house in a ground you can create a great atmosphere, so I don't think we should close our minds to a boutique stadium.''

The Tigers believe rebuilding Punt Rd is the ideal move, while North Melbourne's Arden Street venue is also an outside option.

The AFL also said it wanted to lift club memberships from 700,000 to 1 million by 2016.



Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/suburban-grounds-in-vogue-20130325-2gpyd.html#ixzz2OXgsJw5p

Zero chance.

Why spend $150 mill upgrading a little ground when for a little bit more they can buy out Etihad right now.

As intimated by the article, nothing but a ploy to force the hand of current owners of Etihad to sell early (AFL take it over for nothing in 2025).

Ownership of Etihad will be the salvation of clubs like the dogs and north.

No chance. There's a reason that the AFL moved away from those venues in the mid 90's. They were too small and too hard for people to get to.

But as afro says, the AFL had their chance to retain Princes Park as a 3rd venue while it was still operational (with then relatively new grandstands), but they let it go.

There's no going back now, and Carlton are eyeing off the sort of memberships that clubs like Collingwood and Hawthorn have, so there's no way they will play games there.

In short, it won't happen.

The big plan for the AFL is to convince cricket to book a different ground in case of Victoria hosting the Sheffield shield so that the AFL can start their season a week earlier.

It's crazy that an 85k opening round game is foregone in case Victoria host the Sheffield Shield, once a decade, in front of 800 people.


Edited by Mister Football: 26/3/2013 08:31:55 AM

2013 Membership Totals (as of 26/3/2013, from BF)
Collingwood - 72,000+ (Target - 75,000)
Hawthorn - 55,770 (Target - 65,000)
West Coast - 55,516
Richmond - 50,521 (Target - 60,000)
Essendon - 46,572 (Target - 50,000)
Adelaide - 45,000+ (Target - 50,000)
Fremantle - 40,000+
Carlton - 41,150 (Target - 50,000)
Geelong - 34,772
Port Adel. - 33,810
Sydney - 30,000+
St. Kilda - 29,860
Melbourne - 27,395 (Target - 40,000)
North Melb - 28,145 (Target - 40,000)
Western B - 23,616
Brisbane - 16,057
Greater WS - 11,189
Gold Coast - 10,711

Wasn't there talk of Arden St at one stage to be developed into a A grade cricket oval?

we all know the AFL firmly believe that they are the only organisation of any significance in Melbourne.