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Bombers after Sylvia

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With all due respect, how did everyone not see the problems with FA coming when it was first brought up years ago? Im sorry but this was so obvious. It will only benefit the stronger clubs and will only get worse as the system is worked over more effectively by the big clubs. To my absolute bewilderment there seems to be a few people who are genuinely suprised as the penny is finely dropping that FA is not a good thing for the weaker clubs. No S%*t.

Fair enough. Suppose I've realised it for quite a while, but sometimes these threads are more about venting steam than anything else. I just get so angry sometimes. Kind of live in hope; maybe we'll uncover another RDB or a Carey, or stop picking duds, or fluke a flag. Just one, before I die, would do me.

Then, alas, reality kicks in.

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    With all due respect, how did everyone not see the problems with FA coming when it was first brought up years ago? Im sorry but this was so obvious. It will only benefit the stronger clubs and will only get worse as the system is worked over more effectively by the big clubs. To my absolute bewilderment there seems to be a few people who are genuinely suprised as the penny is finely dropping that FA is not a good thing for the weaker clubs. No S%*t.

    FA was always going to come. There would have been a legal challenge otherwise...

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    FA was always going to come. There would have been a legal challenge otherwise...

    It's inevitable in sports, and we have a soft one with compensation, and that comp is tailored to the lower clubs when they lose players.

    Tinkering can be made and should be done, but FA is here to stay and it will not destroy those not already heading for destruction.

    There is no evil here.

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    It's inevitable in sports, and we have a soft one with compensation, and that comp is tailored to the lower clubs when they lose players.

    Tinkering can be made and should be done, but FA is here to stay and it will not destroy those not already heading for destruction.

    There is no evil here.

    So if you think it was inevitable on legal grounds, is it not also inevitable that some day someone will also challenge the restrictions the AFL currently puts around it? Then say goodbye to the clubs and the comp as we know them.

    Not a world I want to see, but it is the result of the commercialisation of every aspect of society in recent decades. Maybe evil is too strong a word but it's not far off.

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    FA was always going to come. There would have been a legal challenge otherwise...

    we can't control the players in the pursuit of their careers, but the Clubs ability to participate in the F/A can be controlled...

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    It's inevitable in sports, and we have a soft one with compensation, and that comp is tailored to the lower clubs when they lose players.

    Tinkering can be made and should be done, but FA is here to stay and it will not destroy those not already heading for destruction.

    There is no evil here.

    ashes to ashes dust to dust, the ways of nature are all about recycling & regeneration. we have to give more support to regeneration & the air is naturally thinnner the higher you venture... as it should be. naturally.

    this is the essence of balance & regrowth.

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    So if you think it was inevitable on legal grounds, is it not also inevitable that some day someone will also challenge the restrictions the AFL currently puts around it? Then say goodbye to the clubs and the comp as we know them.

    Not a world I want to see, but it is the result of the commercialisation of every aspect of society in recent decades. Maybe evil is too strong a word but it's not far off.

    All it would take it a few powerful clubs to act up and you will end up with an EPL setup.....marvelous :huh:

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    All it would take it a few powerful clubs to act up and you will end up with an EPL setup.....marvelous :huh:

    Public ownership of football a la the 60's, the 70's, the 80's has already been forgotten. Punters are being gently massaged into the new normal all the time. It is a sure thing that the rich and powerful will rule the roost and we will forget it was ever any other way. You only have to listen to BBC World Sport, (EPL) and the commentators only ever mention the power clubs , it's like the others don't exist. And Australia is supposed to be more egalitarian than the poms...

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