RB wrote:For starters, I'd imagine they'd both ark up about that, and we'd only be talking e.g. 9 Sunday graveyard games instead of 6 anyway; the AFL aren't going to completely screw over the Crows, at least.Booney wrote:RB wrote:Not sure what more they can do or what more the SANFL has to lose by denying the AFL's wishes.DOC wrote:What is yet to come out is what will they do if we don't?
During the 2013 AFL Reserves debate (if it could be called that), a lot of people seemed to fear the consequences if the SANFL didn't acquiesce to the Crows and Power fielding reserves sides.
I still don't know what people thought the AFL would actually do.
Give Port and Adelaide the shittiest time slots to ensure the lowest possible crowds and least revenue to the SMA > SANFL?
But anyway, your response proves my point, in practice the AFL only have a few relatively small sticks with which to hit the SANFL, and avoiding them is hardly worth caving in.
It's hardly in the SANFL's interest to defy the organisation that get's $1.25bn every 5 years or so though, isn't it?
Even the schmucks at the SANFL are smart enough to know without the AFL looking down upon them favorably they're basically consigned to the scrap heap on their own, the SANFL doesn't generate enough revenue to live on their own two feet.