Wedgie wrote:So let me get this straight. Your team beat mine this year. Your team has had better draft picks than mine for approximately 15 years. Your club has consistently spent more on their football department especially coaches than mine. Your club gets more home games than mine, your club gets to play all of its finals in its home town. Your club had to cheat to win it's last flag. Your club chooses to recruit players like Nick Stevens, Chris Judd and Daisy Thomas while mine loses Gary Ablest Jnr to a basket case, your club chose Mick Malthouse as a coach. You want advantages?
Your club deserves and should get less!
Reminds me of the lazy bleeding hearts who think they deserve more in life than those who actually get off their arse and work for a living.
And of course more chance of winning a flag than Carlton do, there's less teams in the comp and as incompetently ran as they have been Carlton put them to shame in that department.
Wegs, look at the big picture. We're stuffed for a myriad of reasons, most of them brought upon ourselves, but I'm talking about how clubs like us get our way out of our situation. It's not as easy as it was back in the old days. How do we get out of our mire? At the moment, we can't.
Take Cripps for example. if we lose him to WCE or Freo (his hometown) we might pick up another pick 1, but what good is that going to do us? He will rightly be after success. If we can't provide that, then he might go home. WCE will 'top up' with a player like Cripps and in the meantime we're just a feeder club for the top clubs (ie, Premier league) - oh hold on.....
Mind you... the topic was 'fixing' the AFL. I still think it's analysis paralysis but that's for another post or seven.