MW wrote:Not sure of the answer Boon but it's frustrating that these clubs get handed the best players and the softest draws, and like you said the best front office talent straight from the AFL, and it still happens. So they just send them more...
They fluffed it up from the start by calling it the AFL, it is and always will be just an expansion of the VFL, when you have 10 clubs from one state and 2 each from the other competing states it is always going to make it hard to find the right balance with fixtures, financial aid, drafts or zones, should the balance be equal anyway?
Clubs such as Hawthorn have had sustained success from making the right decisions at the top, they deserve the same concession's as Carlton or St. Kilda who continually make a mess internally and then we have the basket case in Gold Coast who at one stage were everyone's second favourite side and everyone wanted to see them win a few games but now they are a club that's just taking the piss and no one wants to stay, just like no one wants to go and watch them play.
Admiration must go the way of Richmond, limited success for some time, kept at it, had faith within their own 4 walls and wullah, a premiership, Kangaroo's in a similar ilk now as was the Bulldogs before them.