16 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Indigenous Round... we are playing in the Alice etc.......... you would think that we would be a story but in reality ......... no one cares.......no FTA, no press

As I understand it the fee for these away home games is around $500K per game (not sure who pays for travel etc)..... $20 per member and no more of these ridiculous journeys

Are you saying theres no local media coverage there...or here...or ?

Average Attributes
	Melbourne	Attribute	Gold Coast
	186.8cm	Height	187.8cm
	87.6kg	Weight	86.0kg
	25yr 0mth	Age	23yr 6mth
	90.2	Games	65.7
Total Players By Games
	Melbourne	Games	Gold Coast
	9	Less than 50	9
	5	50 to 99	9
	4	100 to 149	3
	4	150 or more	1

We are shunted to the backblocks, whilst TV money follows the old clubs. we are a pioneer club. Pioneering in the 1850's and now running with the dingoes miles from nowhere, spreading the word.

21 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

Are you saying theres no local media coverage there...or here...or ?

here..... the coverage in NT is a bit of a misnomer .. the total population of NT is less than 250K of which half live in Darwin

The population of Alice is around the same as Mildura !!

Even if half the town came to the game the crowd would be just over 10K

It really is  a Mickey Mouse game

Edited May 26, 20178 yr by Diamond_Jim

4 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

here..... the coverage in NT is a bit of a misnomer .. the total population of NT is less than 250K of which half live in Darwin

The population of Alice is around the same as Mildura !!

Even if half the town came to the game the crowd would be just over 10K

It really is  a Mickey Mouse game

Not disagreeing.

This indigenous ideal is nothing but a marketing ploy dressed as lip service to any real respect for the 'brothers'

Wheres the Immigration Round ? Could pay homage to the multicultural background of many of the games biggest names.

Yes..tongue in cheek but really. Its a gimmick at worst and borderline on cultural tourism otherwise.

I suppose it's up to any club to make of it what they can

Prefer the plain Red and Blue and to be focused on footy personally.

TV loves its distractions 

The indigenous debate has thankfully moved way beyond themed rounds of football.

If anything the AFL is hijacking an important issue for marketing reasons. Hate to say it but they have done the same with the ANZAC day fixture.

28 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

Not disagreeing.

This indigenous ideal is nothing but a marketing ploy dressed as lip service to any real respect for the 'brothers'

Wheres the Immigration Round ? Could pay homage to the multicultural background of many of the games biggest names.

Yes..tongue in cheek but really. Its a gimmick at worst and borderline on cultural tourism otherwise.

I suppose it's up to any club to make of it what they can

Prefer the plain Red and Blue and to be focused on footy personally.

TV loves its distractions 

You say it's tongue in cheek, but I really like the idea of an "Immigration Round". Over the years the AFL has successfully attracted immigrants as supporters and players. Silvagni, Jesaulenko, Jakovich and many, many more. Of course, it will probably never happen as the moment the idea is floated the debate would get distracted by (a) the argument that all of us, other than the indigenous population, are immigrants and (b) who knows what some of our more odious politicians and media hacks - from all sides - would do with it.

8 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

You say it's tongue in cheek, but I really like the idea of an "Immigration Round". Over the years the AFL has successfully attracted immigrants as supporters and players. Silvagni, Jesaulenko, Jakovich and many, many more. Of course, it will probably never happen as the moment the idea is floated the debate would get distracted by (a) the argument that all of us, other than the indigenous population, are immigrants and (b) who knows what some of our more odious politicians and media hacks - from all sides - would do with it.

Can't we just leave the bloody p.c crap to the ABC and fauxfacts?

Footy is about footy, not lefty agendas.

44 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

 

Wheres the Immigration Round ? Could pay homage to the multicultural background of many of the games biggest names.

Yes..tongue in cheek but really. Its a gimmick at worst and borderline on cultural tourism otherwise.

I

http://www.afl.com.au/news/event-news/multiculturalround

56 minutes ago, Fifty-5 said:

Average Attributes
	Melbourne	Attribute	Gold Coast
	186.8cm	Height	187.8cm
	87.6kg	Weight	86.0kg
	25yr 0mth	Age	23yr 6mth
	90.2	Games	65.7
Total Players By Games
	Melbourne	Games	Gold Coast
	9	Less than 50	9
	5	50 to 99	9
	4	100 to 149	3
	4	150 or more	1

Is that games average correct? I thought it wasn't long ago at all that we were sitting at about 55.

We simply can't afford to lose this game 

4 minutes ago, Luther said:

Is that games average correct? I thought it wasn't long ago at all that we were sitting at about 55.

Add Lewis, Hibberd and Melksham all in together with Vince and it lifts the average.

14 minutes ago, faultydet said:

Can't we just leave the bloody p.c crap to the ABC and fauxfacts?

Footy is about footy, not lefty agendas.

was.......once upon a time

35 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

You say it's tongue in cheek, but I really like the idea of an "Immigration Round". Over the years the AFL has successfully attracted immigrants as supporters and players. Silvagni, Jesaulenko, Jakovich and many, many more. Of course, it will probably never happen as the moment the idea is floated the debate would get distracted by (a) the argument that all of us, other than the indigenous population, are immigrants and (b) who knows what some of our more odious politicians and media hacks - from all sides - would do with it.

Doesn't 'Multicultural Round' cover this?

8 minutes ago, Deemented Are Go! said:

Doesn't 'Multicultural Round' cover this?

Quite right.

My apologies for raising faultydet's ire and blood pressure unnecessarily.

 

1 hour ago, Diamond_Jim said:

The indigenous debate has thankfully moved way beyond themed rounds of football.

If anything the AFL is hijacking an important issue for marketing reasons. Hate to say it but they have done the same with the ANZAC day fixture.

Luckily not the ANZAC Eve fixture

36 minutes ago, Fifty-5 said:

Add Lewis, Hibberd and Melksham all in together with Vince and it lifts the average.

Yep fair enough. Just surprising to see that jump I guess.

100 games average often correlates to a premiership window, or so they say. We're still a long, long way off... call us an anomaly. 

5 minutes ago, Luther said:

Yep fair enough. Just surprising to see that jump I guess.

100 games average often correlates to a premiership window, or so they say. We're still a long, long way off... call us an anomaly. 

16 months off

 

7 minutes ago, Luther said:

Yep fair enough. Just surprising to see that jump I guess.

100 games average often correlates to a premiership window, or so they say. We're still a long, long way off... call us an anomaly. 

That's just for the side being fielded this weekend though. In terms of the average age of the squad we are still very young, and experience wise I think would be only a few spots higher. 

OLDEST TO YOUNGEST	AVERAGE AGE
West Coast	24 years, 330 days
Greater Western Sydney	24y, 219d
Fremantle	24y, 207d
Hawthorn	24y, 184d
Essendon	24y, 102d
Geelong	24y, 18d
St Kilda	23y, 350d
Richmond	23y, 344d
Adelaide	23y, 340d
Western Bulldogs	23y, 322d
Collingwood	23y, 319d
Gold Coast	23y, 305d
Port Adelaide	23y, 286d
Carlton	23y, 299d
Sydney	23y, 265d
Melbourne	23y, 233d
North Melbourne	23y, 218d
Brisbane Lions	22y, 225d

3 hours ago, Petraccattack said:

Almost forgot we smashed them by 73 points last season on their home turf

 

Took my boy up to that game on the GC. From memory, we were only 4 pts up at half time.

glorious 2nd half, 16 goals to 6.

20 hours ago, small but forward said:

If there's a Guernsey clash and we lose this game like we did the pink lady game in the early 2000's when Beamer did the quick handball from heavy congestion with 1m to play to a "teammate" in space which actually turned out to be the umpire wearing pink, turnover...bulldogs goal (win).

Then I'll be severely [censored] off.

Clint Bartram; was a sensational high reaction speed long distance handball straight to its intended targeted. Spotted out of the periphery where your vision is blurry - so distinguishing between a teammate with a pink V and an umpire with a pink top becomes problematic.  

Another dopey AFL [censored] up.

20 hours ago, praha said:

I thought Adelaide was our statement win?

Preliminary statement?

7 minutes ago, TRIGON said:

Preliminary statement?

preamble

2 hours ago, P-man said:

 

That's just for the side being fielded this weekend though. In terms of the average age of the squad we are still very young, and experience wise I think would be only a few spots higher. 

OLDEST TO YOUNGEST	AVERAGE AGE
West Coast	24 years, 330 days
Greater Western Sydney	24y, 219d
Fremantle	24y, 207d
Hawthorn	24y, 184d
Essendon	24y, 102d
Geelong	24y, 18d
St Kilda	23y, 350d
Richmond	23y, 344d
Adelaide	23y, 340d
Western Bulldogs	23y, 322d
Collingwood	23y, 319d
Gold Coast	23y, 305d
Port Adelaide	23y, 286d
Carlton	23y, 299d
Sydney	23y, 265d
Melbourne	23y, 233d
North Melbourne	23y, 218d
Brisbane Lions	22y, 225d

On your figures there are 11 clubs including us within a 150 day range including some of the current 8. Not a very compelling excuse stat.

Edited May 26, 20178 yr by america de cali

1 hour ago, P-man said:

 

That's just for the side being fielded this weekend though. In terms of the average age of the squad we are still very young, and experience wise I think would be only a few spots higher. 

OLDEST TO YOUNGEST	AVERAGE AGE
West Coast	24 years, 330 days
Greater Western Sydney	24y, 219d
Fremantle	24y, 207d
Hawthorn	24y, 184d
Essendon	24y, 102d
Geelong	24y, 18d
St Kilda	23y, 350d
Richmond	23y, 344d
Adelaide	23y, 340d
Western Bulldogs	23y, 322d
Collingwood	23y, 319d
Gold Coast	23y, 305d
Port Adelaide	23y, 286d
Carlton	23y, 299d
Sydney	23y, 265d
Melbourne	23y, 233d
North Melbourne	23y, 218d
Brisbane Lions	22y, 225d

The whole league seems quite young this year. Maybe that's why the comp is so even and the level of footy has been a bit underwhelming? The 'Baby Bombers' had an average age of just over 24y when they took the premiership - not sure whether that's squad/team - and I think the median for a prem. team is generally between 26-28. I recall last year there were at least three teams above 25y?

Or maybe I'm just getting old.