AFL Season 2023

[amber_fluid]

KISS is a horrible choice IMO.

Unless its a top class overseas outfit at the top of their game (i.e. The Killers) then stick to Aussie acts - even if you have 3-4 bands play a couple of songs each.

Personally Id love to see The Smith Street Band get a gig, they have a number of songs about footy.

So do TISM

Whatareya?

[whufc]

KISS is a horrible choice IMO.

Unless its a top class overseas outfit at the top of their game (i.e. The Killers) then stick to Aussie acts - even if you have 3-4 bands play a couple of songs each.

Personally Id love to see The Smith Street Band get a gig, they have a number of songs about footy.

Smith Street Band would be a great choice.

[mal]

First week of finals
The 4 ''''home teams''' were
CO beat ML
CA beat SS
SK lose GW
BL beat PA

The one team that lost was SK
SK played at the MCG
They had a home state final but not a home ground advantage at MarvAL

MorALly this is wrong
They squeeze more into the MCG than MArveL, thats fine for the AFL who most prob make extra $$$$
Crowd was 68, 465
But is it fair for the players of SK ?

[mighty_tiger_79]

First week of finals
The 4 ''''home teams''' were
CO beat ML
CA beat SS
SK lose GW
BL beat PA

The one team that lost was SK
SK played at the MCG
They had a home state final but not a home ground advantage at MarvAL

MorALly this is wrong
They squeeze more into the MCG than MArveL, thats fine for the AFL who most prob make extra $$$$
Crowd was 68, 465
But is it fair for the players of SK ?

Wait until you play "home" finals at the opposition's home ground

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[Jimmy_041]

First week of finals
The 4 ''''home teams''' were
CO beat ML
CA beat SS:
SK lose GW
BL beat PA

The one team that lost was SK
SK played at the MCG
They had a home state final but not a home ground advantage at MarvAL

MorALly this is wrong
They squeeze more into the MCG than MArveL, thats fine for the AFL who most prob make extra $$$$
Crowd was 68, 465
But is it fair for the players of SK ?

Wait until you play "home" finals at the opposition's home ground

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Like we just had to

[daysofourlives]

First week of finals
The 4 ''''home teams''' were
CO beat ML
CA beat SS:
SK lose GW
BL beat PA

The one team that lost was SK
SK played at the MCG
They had a home state final but not a home ground advantage at MarvAL

MorALly this is wrong
They squeeze more into the MCG than MArveL, thats fine for the AFL who most prob make extra $$$$
Crowd was 68, 465
But is it fair for the players of SK ?

Wait until you play "home" finals at the opposition's home ground

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Like we just had to

GWS with a record 11 different venue wins in one season.
Only because the AFL dont give Collingwood the opportunity to take this record

[Brodlach]

Is Trent McKenzie that important to Port that they needed to play him last night when he didn’t look 100% fit? Old saying “don’t take injured players into finals”. Will they throw the dice and include Dixon this week?

[carey]

Is Trent McKenzie that important to Port that they needed to play him last night when he didn’t look 100% fit? Old saying “don’t take injured players into finals”. Will they throw the dice and include Dixon this week?

We don’t have defenders who can actually defend 1 on 1, he had to play. Jonas injured, probably wouldn’t have played anyway and Aliar simply can’t defend 1 on 1.

[Brodlach]

Is Trent McKenzie that important to Port that they needed to play him last night when he didn’t look 100% fit? Old saying “don’t take injured players into finals”. Will they throw the dice and include Dixon this week?

We don’t have defenders who can actually defend 1 on 1, he had to play. Jonas injured, probably wouldn’t have played anyway and Aliar simply can’t defend 1 on 1.

Fair call, forgot Jonas got injured late this week

[Booney]

Pasini will probably come in and debut in a knock out final.

[mal]

CA played ML on Friday night
The day after a man who achieved so much at both clubs has passed away
RIP Ron Barrasi

[Spargo]

I like this…

[Brodlach]

Sad day for footy, Ronald, Knuckles and Teddy together; now that would be a group I’d love to have a beer with

[Booney]

I like this…

I think it's a bit tacky myself

[Jim05]

And today Kevin “Cowboy” Neale has passed away.
Sad 24hrs for the football community

[gadj1976]

GWS with a record 11 different venue wins in one season.
Only because the AFL dont give Collingwood the opportunity to take this record

I'm not looking at the records, but I doubt they'd play at 11 different venues in 50 years!

[Booney]

AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan has ticked the final box on his to-do list, with the league and AFL Players’ Association finally agreeing to a historic and mega Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).

The AFL and AFLPA on Thursday confirmed details of a new five-year, $2.26 billion CBA, which is the first joint agreement between men’s and women’s players

Multiple reports on Wednesday night suggested 98 per cent of all men’s and women’s players in the past week had agreed to the CBA details, including 99.7 per cent of AFLW players.

Some of the key details include:

— AFL average wage to increase from $387,000 in 2022 to $519,000 by 2027. Men’s players will be backpaid for the 2023 season and receive an instant 10 per cent boost.

— AFLW average wage to increase from $49,000 to $87,000 by 2027. Women’s players’ pay will increase by 29 per cent for 2023.

— Clubs to play 11 AFLW home and away games in 2024 then increasing to as many as 14 by 2027, depending on reaching certain metrics.

— A 12-month pregnancy policy, commencing from six weeks before a player’s due date, as well as increased investment into player support and welfare.

— More five-day breaks in the AFL competition (three per club) to provide greater fixture flexibility, including more Thursday night games.

— $60 million contribution to injury hardship allowances and concussion funds over five years.

— A new broadcast policy to be introduced, allowing for greater access to players for media and broadcast. This will include all AFL players in the 23 named from the week before to be available to media in the week after their match.

— Three-year contracts for players taken in the first round of the men’s draft.

— The eventual introduction of a mid-season trade period, with discussions ongoing.

More... https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-ne ... ZO_CCFzj24

[Booney]

A player from a Melbourne-based finals team has tested positive to drugs late in the home and away season.

A urine sample taken from the player after a game in the weeks leading up to the AFL finals returned positive for a banned substance, believed to be cocaine.

It’s understood the player took the drug just days out from a home and away match.

He was tested after the game by Sports Integrity Australia officials as part of regulation in-competition testing for performance enhancing drugs.

The result of the test wasn’t known until after the finals series.

A source close to the issue said the player was from a Melbourne club involved in the finals, which means he would play for either the Demons, Collingwood, Carlton or St Kilda.

The results of player’s A sample has only been known for a couple of days.

It’s believed Sports Integrity Australia has informed the player he has returned a positive test.

The AFL complies with WADA’s anti-doping code, which is governed in Australia by SIA, and cocaine is listed on the WADA in-competition prohibited list of stimulants.

The AFL on Thursday confirmed the positive test.

“The AFL is working with the player on this matter,” a spokesperson said.

The penalty for an “in competition” positive test is up to four years’ suspension, although there are provisions for a lesser penalty in some situations.

While a four-year suspension is possible, under the AFL’s anti-doping code, if the player can prove the violation was not intentional or there are other circumstances, the penalty could be reduced to as little as a month.

The code was updated on January 1, 2021, whereby “an athlete who has tested positive to a Substance of Abuse’ in-competition (which includes cocaine), the sanction is only three months if the athlete can prove the substance was used out of competition and was unrelated to sporting performance’’.

AFL rules dictate that the “in-competition” period starts at “11:59pm on the day before a competition in which the athlete is scheduled to participate through the end of such competition and the sample collection process’’.

Also, a suspension could be reduced to one month if the ‘’athlete completes a Substance of Abuse treatment program approved by AFL’’.

In 2019, Collingwood’s Sam Murray argued that he had inadvertently ingested a tiny amount of cocaine before he was given an 18-month suspension.

In 2020, former Gold Coast ruckman Brayden Crossley accepted a 12-month suspension for an unintentional anti-doping violation.

In 2015, then Collingwood players Lachie Keeffe and Josh Thomas accepted two-year bans for testing positive to the drug clenbuterol.

They were tested in February of that year, which was out of competition.

More recently, Willie Rioli, when he was at the Eagles, was suspended for two years after being found guilty of substituting his urine during two anti-doping drugs tests.

[Corona Man]

( Behind Pay Wall )

The AFL has been rocked after a player from a Melbourne-based finals team returned a positive drug test.

Mark Robinson has the exclusive details.

How many guesses required?

[MW]

Are you saying one club who didnt make finals might be sweating on this now?

Actually more like Crows might have dodged a bullet which makes you wonder if AFL intervened...