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  • goswannie14
    Leadership Group
    • Sep 2005
    • 11166

    #16
    Originally posted by ROK Lobster
    They now have an employee dedicated to trawling the net for cheap flights.
    They're going to fly JetStar.
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    • chammond
      • Jan 2003
      • 1368

      #17
      Originally posted by goswannie14
      But cost really shouldn't be a factor if we really want to develop the depth that we need to be a continual powerhouse in the AFL.
      You can't really be that naive . . . can you?

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      • goswannie14
        Leadership Group
        • Sep 2005
        • 11166

        #18
        Originally posted by chammond
        You can't really be that naive . . . can you?
        If looking at reality is naivety, then yes. We need our reserves players to be getting a good solid workout every week, not once in a blue moon.
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        • chammond
          • Jan 2003
          • 1368

          #19
          Originally posted by goswannie14
          If looking at reality is naivety, then yes. We need our reserves players to be getting a good solid workout every week, not once in a blue moon.
          Seems to me that you've found a brick wall and you're determined to bang your head against it.

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          • goswannie14
            Leadership Group
            • Sep 2005
            • 11166

            #20
            Originally posted by chammond
            Seems to me that you've found a brick wall and you're determined to bang your head against it.
            Nah, I'm Superman.....sorry got carried away a bit there. But you have to agree that our ressies need a better comp than they are in at the moment don't they? They'd get better opposition from the Leongatha Parrots!
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            • chammond
              • Jan 2003
              • 1368

              #21
              Originally posted by goswannie14
              They'd get better opposition from the Leongatha Parrots!
              Nah, not now that Dunkley's retired as coach.

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              • goswannie14
                Leadership Group
                • Sep 2005
                • 11166

                #22
                Originally posted by chammond
                Nah, not now that Dunkley's retired as coach.
                They won the premiership a couple of years before I lived there. But they need a better nickname.
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                • hammo
                  Veterans List
                  • Jul 2003
                  • 5554

                  #23
                  Originally posted by goswannie14
                  Has it? I really don't know if it has been or not. But cost really shouldn't be a factor if we really want to develop the depth that we need to be a continual powerhouse in the AFL.
                  It wouldn't just be a cost for us though. Who will be paying for the VFL clubs to play every second week in Sydney?
                  It's a good idea but unfortunately unpracticle and far too expensive for clubs which would run on a shoe string anyway.

                  If having full reserves teams in the VFL was affordable then surely the likes of Collingwood and Essendon would be doing it themselves.

                  Also, not even the richest club in the land, the Crows, have their own reserves team so I doubt this idea is seriously on the radar.
                  "As everyone knows our style of football is defensive and unattractive, and as such I have completely forgotten how to mark or kick over the years" - Brett Kirk

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                  • DST
                    The voice of reason!
                    • Jan 2003
                    • 2705

                    #24
                    Originally posted by hammo
                    It wouldn't just be a cost for us though. Who will be paying for the VFL clubs to play every second week in Sydney?
                    It's a good idea but unfortunately unpracticle and far too expensive for clubs which would run on a shoe string anyway.

                    If having full reserves teams in the VFL was affordable then surely the likes of Collingwood and Essendon would be doing it themselves.

                    Also, not even the richest club in the land, the Crows, have their own reserves team so I doubt this idea is seriously on the radar.
                    It actually has nothing to do with cost but the VFL's decision that AFL clubs could only play their reserves in the VFL under original clubs to retain the tradition of the compertition.

                    So even if we wanted to enter our own team and we paid for our opposition to come to Sydney, it would never happen due to the stated desires of the VFL to retain their identities.

                    Only way we can go back into the VFL is if we came to an agreement with an existing club to lend out 12 or so players on a weekly basis.

                    DST
                    "Looking forward to a rebuilt, new, fast and exciting Swans model in 2010"

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                    • goswannie14
                      Leadership Group
                      • Sep 2005
                      • 11166

                      #25
                      Originally posted by DST
                      It actually has nothing to do with cost but the VFL's decision that AFL clubs could only play their reserves in the VFL under original clubs to retain the tradition of the compertition.

                      So even if we wanted to enter our own team and we paid for our opposition to come to Sydney, it would never happen due to the stated desires of the VFL to retain their identities.

                      Only way we can go back into the VFL is if we came to an agreement with an existing club to lend out 12 or so players on a weekly basis.

                      DST
                      What about if we went back as "The Swans"? Afetr all isn't there a Geelong team in the VFL, they weren't in the renamed VFA when it was renamed, although Geelong West was up until the 80's.
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                      • elroy67
                        Parking Cars
                        • Mar 2005
                        • 419

                        #26
                        Originally posted by goswannie14
                        They're going to fly JetStar.
                        What, they're going to play in the Geelong league? It takes as long to fly Sydney-Avalon as it does to get a bus Avalon-Melbourne.
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                        • goswannie14
                          Leadership Group
                          • Sep 2005
                          • 11166

                          #27
                          Originally posted by elroy67
                          What, they're going to play in the Geelong league? It takes as long to fly Sydney-Avalon as it does to get a bus Avalon-Melbourne.
                          Must be a slow bus, I can get to Avalon from Pucka in under 1 1/2 hours, and I have to do it on Sunday morning to get there by 7.40 am.
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                          • elroy67
                            Parking Cars
                            • Mar 2005
                            • 419

                            #28
                            Originally posted by goswannie14
                            Must be a slow bus, I can get to Avalon from Pucka in under 1 1/2 hours, and I have to do it on Sunday morning to get there by 7.40 am.
                            Well, maybe I drive slow. It takes me about 35mins to drive to Avalon from Essendon, and we are about 20 mins to the city.

                            Edited to add: I'll seek you in Sydney on sunday. Only 10 mins to Tullamarine from Essendon!
                            Last edited by elroy67; 3 July 2006, 09:02 PM.
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                            • hammo
                              Veterans List
                              • Jul 2003
                              • 5554

                              #29
                              Originally posted by DST
                              It actually has nothing to do with cost but the VFL's decision that AFL clubs could only play their reserves in the VFL under original clubs to retain the tradition of the compertition.

                              So even if we wanted to enter our own team and we paid for our opposition to come to Sydney, it would never happen due to the stated desires of the VFL to retain their identities.

                              Only way we can go back into the VFL is if we came to an agreement with an existing club to lend out 12 or so players on a weekly basis.

                              DST
                              I didn't know that.

                              I doubt there is a simple answer otherwise we would have explored it alread.
                              "As everyone knows our style of football is defensive and unattractive, and as such I have completely forgotten how to mark or kick over the years" - Brett Kirk

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                              • goswannie14
                                Leadership Group
                                • Sep 2005
                                • 11166

                                #30
                                Originally posted by elroy67
                                Well, maybe I drive slow. It takes me about 35mins to drive to Avalon from Essendon, and we are about 20 mins to the city.

                                Edited to add: I'll seek you in Sydney on sunday. Only 10 mins to Tullamarine from Essendon!
                                Unfortunatley I'm not going to Sydney this weekend, I am picking up my daughters wjo are flying in from Adelaide.
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