#AFL General Pre Season Discussion Thread

[barry]

Sydney GWS Swans 2021 best 22
B Rampe Davis Lloyd
HB Williams Haynes Mills
C Kelly Parker Whitfield
HF Coniglio Franklin Heeney
F Greene Cameron Papley
Foll Jacobs Taranto Hopper
Int Florent Dawson Perryman Aliir

I have assumed Ward, JPK and Shaw have retired. Depending on how Sam goes, he would be a possible in instead of Jacobs.

That's just off the top of my head. Might have missed some players but I reckon that side would be the premiership favourites.

I admire your optimism, but I think the best 22 would be GWS plus buddy, Kennedy, mills and heeney.

[KSAS]

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[longmile]

I admire your optimism, but I think the best 22 would be GWS plus buddy, Kennedy, mills and heeney.

Rampe and Papley would make it easy, and perhaps Parker

[Boddo]

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Glad to see the govt not wasting money on the ANZ upgrade. With so many other priorities resulting from covid, money hardly needs to be splashed on upgrading ANZ at this point in time. Sensible decision

[MattW]

Not sure where to put this, but congratulations to Dean Cox on the Hall of Fame induction. Always admired him as a player and seems a good guy. Nice interview with him on the OS.

[707]

Not sure where to put this, but congratulations to Dean Cox on the Hall of Fame induction. Always admired him as a player and seems a good guy. Nice interview with him on the OS.

Yet another player who would not have got an AFL gig if list sizes were 35 back then, would have just continued playing bush footy.

The more I think of what is being mooted by the AFL, the more I disagree with it. Leave list sizes and TPP the same, cut costs by reducing the footy dept costs and cut heavily into the bloated AFL administration and how about reducing some of the eye watering amounts the AFL execs get paid! Did I hear the NRL has permanently cut 150 administrators?

ND being proposed for mid December according to Muppett Barrett

[barry]

I hope they dont disband the NEAFL. Right now the NEAFL is a competition that the Swans have a major say in (along with giants, lions, suns) and is run for our benefit.

If we go off and join an expanded VFL, we will have far less influence, and like the AFL will be run by victorians for victorians. Eg. Only play grand finals in Melbourne.

[barracuda]

I hope they dont disband the NEAFL. Right now the NEAFL is a competition that the Swans have a major say in (along with giants, lions, suns) and is run for our benefit.

If we go off and join an expanded VFL, we will have far less influence, and like the AFL will be run by victorians for victorians. Eg. Only play grand finals in Melbourne.

I also think that the ending of sydney uni, and canberra as a consequence of disbanding neafl will set afl in nsw/act back decades. The afl academies combined with these neafl sides has made a major step forward in providing nsw talent with an opportunity to play decent footy.

[707]

I also think that the ending of sydney uni, and canberra as a consequence of disbanding neafl will set afl in nsw/act back decades. The afl academies combined with these neafl sides has made a major step forward in providing nsw talent with an opportunity to play decent footy.

Watch the Victorians, and remember fat chins is on the AFL's working party, design something that works best for the Vic clubs! This crisis may make them even more Vicentric

[barry]

I can't see how an expanded VFL will be cheaper anyway. It will require more and longer flights.

[bloodspirit]

I also think that the ending of sydney uni, and canberra as a consequence of disbanding neafl will set afl in nsw/act back decades. The afl academies combined with these neafl sides has made a major step forward in providing nsw talent with an opportunity to play decent footy.

Important point! Is that a fact/done deal? Sydney Uni and Canberra footy clubs have "ended"?

[barracuda]

Important point! Is that a fact/done deal? Sydney Uni and Canberra footy clubs have "ended"?

No it is not fact. Rather assuming the four AFL sides pull out of the NEAFL, the comp is probably dead. Further the AFL is not likely to want to subsidize the travel, especially if the funds are going to a new eastern reserves comp.

[mcs]

I also think that the ending of sydney uni, and canberra as a consequence of disbanding neafl will set afl in nsw/act back decades. The afl academies combined with these neafl sides has made a major step forward in providing nsw talent with an opportunity to play decent footy.

If they want to can it for a year or two, I could almost understand it. But it'll be a huge backwards step to remove it all together, as is likely to happen it seems. Would be an easy way to set the code back a long way in terms of developing an infrastructure beyond the elite level.

[bloodspirit]

No it is not fact. Rather assuming the four AFL sides pull out of the NEAFL, the comp is probably dead. Further the AFL is not likely to want to subsidize the travel, especially if the funds are going to a new eastern reserves comp.

Thanks for the clarification.

So, if the 4 AFL teams pull out of the NEAFL wouldn't the NEAFL teams then form alternate competitions? I guess the point is that those competitions would be inferior and might not be able to extend interstate and so 'degenerate' (if you will) to a local level of competition - is that right? Even still, wouldn't the clubs continue? Don't those clubs already participate in different levels of competition?