AFL 2025

[another grub]

gotta be more to this ???????

[locky801]

Brad Crouch announces his retirement due to a knee problem

[dedja]

Brad Crouch announces his retirement due to a knee problem

Sad for Crouch, but the AFL really need to change the name of the Rookie Draft.

[Booney]

[am Bays]

With an average of 24y 9 months (24.74) and a standard deviation of 7 months (0.65) only Collingwood can be considered outside the range of normality.

Another way of looking it with about one month between the crows and Port , Port Mums are less likely to have a headache than Crows Mums by a month or the crows Dads are more likely to cop the headache excuse by the same time epoch

However give the average age of premiership teams in the last 10 years is 26.4 it appears Collingwood is the only team with any realistic chance in 2025.

To this 50 something, age is but a number....

[Brodlach]

When is Collingwood ever considered normal?

[amber_fluid]

When is Collingwood ever considered normal?

When they’ve got most of their teeth!

[wenchbarwer]

When is Collingwood ever considered normal?

When they’ve got most of their teeth!

Having teeth is not normal when it comes to Collingwood...

[am Bays]

Or can you look at it another way?

If 24.74 is the average age of the AFL clubs for next season, is every club above that age going to have an above an above average season and every club below that going to have a below average season??



Aren't stats and their associated inferences interesting??

[DOC]

They are. Was reading today that 82% of all stats are made up.

[mighty_tiger_79]

They are. Was reading today that 82% of all stats are made up.

100% right

[dedja]

They are. Was reading today that 82% of all stats are made up.

100% right

18% of the time.

[dedja]

When is Collingwood ever considered normal?

When they’ve got most of their teeth!

Is that you Rash?

[DOC]

TIME AFL HYPOCRISY WOKE UP TO ITSELF IN DEI AGE
Michael Warner - Comment
Only the permanently outraged would have taken offence when an AFL umpire attended a private, post-season “characters of the 2000s” party in an Osama bin Laden mask.

Predictably, it triggered an investigation (and a one-match ban) at AFL HQ where the game’s administrators have tied themselves in knots conforming to the era of identity politics, moral grandstanding and radical left ideology.

But recent world events and last year’s failed Voice referendum reflect how a growing majority have had enough of progressive lectures and the rise of divisive social agendas and their endless demands.

Persistent Welcome to Country ceremonies, Pride rounds, pre-match knee-dropping and race-baiting doesn’t unite Australians – it creates a growing level of resentment, turning us against each other.

The AFL would do well to follow other corporations in disbanding their DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) department headed by its so-called “executive general manager of inclusion and social policy”.

Football’s capture by the woke movement has always reeked of hypocrisy.

The AFL is currently defending itself vigorously against a racism class action led by Indigenous North Melbourne great Phil Krakouer. But how does that correlate with its public undertakings to believe all First Nations players?

It’s hard to espouse your private view when preaching the complete opposite.

It’s like how the AFL waved its finger at the Hawks while releasing itself from future liability during the botched Hawthorn racism probe.

In the year of the Voice they couldn’t bring themselves to reveal that not one but two secret reports had cleared former Hawks officials Alastair Clarkson, Chris Fagan and Jason Burt of devastating claims of racism.

The two reports went into a lead box and were buried, leaving us all to ponder whether a culture of systemic racism had indeed thrived at Hawthorn during the club’s golden premiership era of 2008-15.

Then there’s their love of the gambling dollar.

It was AFL Commission chairman Richard Goyder who pushed the clubs to reduce their dependency on poker machine revenues, only to oversee a boom in the code’s lucrative relationship with sports betting companies.

As pokies baron Bruce Mathieson put it, it’s like saying gin is bad but vodka’s good.

You can only laugh when betting odds are plastered across the AFL website alongside the Indigenous place names of match venues. The Wurundjeri Cup brought to you by Sportsbet.

When a practising Muslim AFLW player sat out the league’s annual Pride Round because the rainbow-themed uniform did not represent her faith, the league could only explain that inclusion was a complicated matter.

Complicated like how one club pockets huge sponsorship dollars from the state-owned airline of Qatar, where homosexuality is banned and openly gay men and women face dire consequences, while its players slip on rainbow socks in matches.

Remember the furore when six Manly rugby league players from the Pacific Islands refused to wear a pride jersey on religious grounds? They were heavily condemned, so why not the Muslim AFLW player?

Rampant illicit drug-use is also tolerated within football, where some AFL club doctors conducted secret match-eve tests to ensure cocaine-addled stars don’t risk suspension under the world anti-doping code. So drugs are in, but poor taste costumes are out.

And what about the devastating scourge of concussion?

The league’s very own head-knocks tsar was exposed in an international plagiarism scandal, while in coronial inquests and concussion court cases the AFL plays hard ball to minimise its liability from suicides and debilitating brain injury, which would be fair enough if they didn’t carry on about how compassionate they are to everyone else who suffers in society.

The rules of wokeism don’t allow for debate (or even the views in this column), but a growing number of fair-minded Australians know that the nation’s biggest sport has been an active participant in the overreach of the DEI age.

[dedja]

Comprehensively nailed it

[Spargo]

Gather round tickets on sale today 10am for club & AFL members
General public tomorrow

[Trader]

Every game on sale at the same time, I wonder how long the virtual queue is going to be...

[Spargo]

Every game on sale at the same time, I wonder how long the virtual queue is going to be...

I’m 18709th in line…

[Trader]

I've got 11905, but it hasn't moved yet, every 10 second update remains the same, seems dodgy.

[Spargo]

Every game on sale at the same time,

Ridiculous isn’t it?