Just read this article and got really bloody mad!

Here is the link: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/hawthorn-president-andrew-newbold-angry-at-afl-plans-to-give-melbourne-cash-priority-pick/story-fni5f91a-1226713988648

Does the Hawthorn President realize that the Demons are currently an impediment on the entire AFL competition (as mentioned by our CEO Peter Jackson) and that we NEED the AFL extra funding and the priority pick to actually get better?! Hawthorn received priority picks and that helped them win the 2008 Flag! They are now looking at winning the Premiership this year!

I get the feeling that Hawthorn are jealous that the Demons are getting help. I think that is a disgrace and totally hypocritical on their behalf! We don't have 60,000+ members like the Hawks do! We need all the help we can get to turn things around! Getting Paul Roos as a coach is a massive boost...but in the end it will be player talent and hard work that will help make the Demons rise up the ladder!

Equalization is all about helping the poorer and worse performing teams to actually improve and have an equal chance of winning the premiership. A strong and successful Melbourne Demons will be good for the entire AFL competition!

The jealous hypocrites at Hawthorn can shut up!

Edited September 10, 201311 yr by Supreme_Demon

Hahahahahahah they got 2 PP's that won them a flag in 2008, should have won last year and might well win this year..

clearly not good at thinking before they speak.

And they get $2m a year by ripping off the Tasmanian Government. But I digress..snouts in the trough

And they get ready made gun players for nothing.

They are also heavily favoured by the free agency rules with a number of players leaving their clubs to try and win a flag, i.e. Lake, Young, Gibson(not free agent but similar situation).

Hey Newbold. Shut it.

We all have to look at the sewerage jumper your club wears each year.

You have sold a large slab of your soul to Tasmania in order to survive.

I still find your membership number questionable, but i lose no sleep. But i do wish your supporters would stop mentioning the merger to me.

I didn't vote for it.

By all means hate us. Because i F@&$ing feel the same way to you.

I cannot wait for the day we finally beat them again. And I hope the Dockers beat them in the GF this year and they can rue another wasted year. Or even better they lose to Geelong in a Prelim.

Just make sure you vote at the bottom of that article (^^,)

When Buddy Franklin goes to GWS (and he will) the other AFL clubs should rally against any attempt by the AFL to compensate the Hawks.

Eff him, let's forget about them and look after number one for once.

We have to get on the front foot and demand it, none of this begging hat in hand stuff.

Edited September 10, 201311 yr by Django

Priority 2 Jarryd Roughead Gippsland Power Hawthorn

Their best player was a priority pick and has been a star for almost 10 years.

And they got a PP after only one bad season.

[censored] off Newbold you weirdo.

Seems to be concerted effort to stop us from getting a PP is building up steam. Quite frankly if we get it then yippee, but if we don't then I am sure we will survive. I just wonder what the effect of the fuss that the other clubs and outstanding journo's like Damien Barrett will have on the Independent Commissions whose scope is to look at the issue from a holistic approach and not from a club centric view.

Two points about the article

The title when looked at in isolation is good news for us.

"Hawthorn president Andrew Newbold angry at AFL plans to give Melbourne cash, priority pick"

Secondly Newbold is quoted as saying "In the context of equalisation, I reckon it puts everything up for grabs," " "Why should Hawthorn be tipping money in when the AFL are underwriting Melbourne and these anomalies continue to exist?" Seems to me the point of equalisation is to equalise clubs which means that strong clubs like Hawthorn need to step up to ensure that the competition remains strong.That may mean putting there hands in their pockets and assisting the weaker clubs like us.

P.s by outstanding journo I mean Tool of the Highest Order

Edited September 10, 201311 yr by PugtheMagician

Priority

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Jarryd Roughead

Gippsland Power

Hawthorn

Their best player was a priority pick and has been a star for almost 10 years.

And they got a PP after only one bad season.

[censored] Newbold you weirdo.

Their captain Hodge as well as Xavier Ellis were both Priority Picks also

Their captain Hodge as well as Xavier Ellis were both Priority Picks also

thats right

man Newbold is a joke

Who cares?

They are also heavily favoured by the free agency rules with a number of players leaving their clubs to try and win a flag, i.e. Lake, Young, Gibson(not free agent but similar situation).

Free agency was thought to give the free agents a chance at a pot of $s before retiring (thus helping (?) the lower clubs. Instead the free agents from poorer clubs are chasing the top clubs for a chance at a premiership (for minimal $s).

So it goes.

IMO, MFC may well get a priority pick, but on the condition it is on traded (and AFL sanctions the trade).

You heard it here first.

Free agency was thought to give the free agents a chance at a pot of $s before retiring (thus helping (?) the lower clubs. Instead the free agents from poorer clubs are chasing the top clubs for a chance at a premiership (for minimal $s).

So it goes.

IMO, MFC may well get a priority pick, but on the condition it is on traded (and AFL sanctions the trade).

You heard it here first.

...are, no I wrote something along the same lines a few days back and I'm pretty sure 'rpfc' mentioned the idea of an AFL sanctioned trade a while back.

All this from a club who have sold more home games as. The saints dogges and dees put together. If they did not sell so many games they would lose. 4 mill

Going by Andrew D's comments on SEN I don't think we will be getting much draft help at all. He reports that the 17 other clubs say NO and AD went on to talk about the importance getting the management structure right and the rest follows it seems. Yes this important but don't tell me we have a bunch of elite midfielders playing dead because the management structures weren't set up right. We need on field help and yes we have made a mess of things but we have now moved all the incompetence on and have people from top to bottom who hopefully have some idea of running a professional organisation.

I would like to know what equalisation looks like. The club presidents just back from their US study seem to be ruling out draft assistance and money. What else is there? Free agency is working the other way to unequalise the competition. Maybe their idea of equalisation is just more condolences that things will get better, while they raid our best kids every trade period.

cant help but get the feeling there was some understanding between PR and AD. Only time will tell I suppose.