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Redleg
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AFL looking at giving the Roos the whole of NT as their recruiting area.

After being the Alice Springs club, that could be wasted now.

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    We really need to get ahead of the curve and start a sweepstakes for what the next shafting will be.

    After all, it'll help our relationship with AFL HQ if we're seen to be actively promoting spot gambling.

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    Would hurt the suns more than us. Would be nervous if I was a Norf supporter, don’t the NT want their own AFL team. This could be the first step In a relocation. If that means we don’t have to play a home game at Alice Springs instead of the MCG I won’t shed a tear. 

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    1 minute ago, Dee Viney Intervention said:

    Would hurt the suns more than us. Would be nervous if I was a Norf supporter, don’t the NT want their own AFL team. This could be the first step In a relocation. If that means we don’t have to play a home game at Alice Springs instead of the MCG I won’t shed a tear. 

    It makes sense.

    The NT is most def north of Melbourne.

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    5 minutes ago, binman said:

    It makes sense.

    The NT is most def north of Melbourne.

    Comedy Gold.

    But seriously the mind boggles about an n t team.

    There's barely 200k population in the nt. 

    North are welcome to it. Sounds like a joke rumour to me. 

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    We should be loud in our protest against the academy systems unless (our zone is the same size as Sydney's). There is a reason they never miss the finals.

    And indigenous Australians should not be in the academy systems. They are not a group which is under represented in the AFL on a percentage of population basis. Players like Jamarra Ugle-Hagan started playing Australian rules before the academies existed.

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    2 hours ago, Little Goffy said:

    We really need to get ahead of the curve and start a sweepstakes for what the next shafting will be.

    After all, it'll help our relationship with AFL HQ if we're seen to be actively promoting spot gambling.

    My money is on them changing the Father-Son rules to prevent us getting access to any of the kids coming through in the next few years.  

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    1 hour ago, Fat Tony said:

    We should be loud in our protest against the academy systems unless (our zone is the same size as Sydney's). There is a reason they never miss the finals.

    And indigenous Australians should not be in the academy systems. They are not a group which is under represented in the AFL on a percentage of population basis. Players like Jamarra Ugle-Hagan started playing Australian rules before the academies existed.

    Ha? What?? 🤨🤔

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    We should plant our flag in the South Pacific.

    Plenty of talent available and yet to be tainted by the stain of the AFL.

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    21 minutes ago, RalphiusMaximus said:

    My money is on them changing the Father-Son rules to prevent us getting access to any of the kids coming through in the next few years.  

    The change has already happened because our gun father/son Kalani White might end up at Gold Coast under their academy 

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    Wait for the AFL to justify a NT team - despite the insanity of a team playing in the Darwin heat and humidity all season (even with some Alice games)  - on the basis of "with the Tasmanian team we will have an unbalanced number necessitating byes and nobody wants that.   10 rounds a week - gosh, Thursday nights will be a permanent thing, and probably Monday nights too.  Is that OK Fox and 7??"

    Talk about killing the goose that laid the golden egg.

    Of course the talent pool will be further diluted, and the cesspool from which they find maggots will have to be even deeper, despite the FACT that they cannot get enough half competent umpires already.  At least 4 more required.

    But we can't afford 21st Century goal line camera technology.

    I love the Demons. I despise the AFL as an organisation.

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    Your source, @Redleg?

    On second thoughts, doesn't matter; let's just treat it as a source of fun.

    2 hours ago, Dee Viney Intervention said:

    Would hurt the suns more than us. Would be nervous if I was a Norf supporter, don’t the NT want their own AFL team. This could be the first step In a relocation. If that means we don’t have to play a home game at Alice Springs instead of the MCG I won’t shed a tear. 

    👍 North Kangaroos. Seamless. And once Daddy AFL has sorted the Hobart/Launceston tensions, the NT/Vic challenge will be a doddle.

    23 minutes ago, Jibroni said:

    We should plant our flag in the South Pacific.

    Plenty of talent available and yet to be tainted by the stain of the AFL.

    All of the Pacific, Jib; we need a BIG ambit claim cos Daddy AFL will duly redistribute our rights to the 'Pacific' Queensland and NSW clubs, and leave us with (if we're lucky) Cook and Pitcairn Islands...

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    2 hours ago, Dee Viney Intervention said:

    Would hurt the suns more than us. Would be nervous if I was a Norf supporter, don’t the NT want their own AFL team. This could be the first step In a relocation.  

    LOL.  Wasn't that mooted at the time of looking to set up the new GC team?  Was talk of that being a Nth relocation.  At the time, they had dispensed with the name "Nth Melb", and just wanted to be called "The Kangaroos".  When talk turned serious about the relocation, they suddenly "rediscovered" their Nth Melb identity!

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    5 minutes ago, monoccular said:

    Wait for the AFL to justify a NT team - despite the insanity of a team playing in the Darwin heat and humidity all season (even with some Alice games)  - on the basis of "with the Tasmanian team we will have an unbalanced number necessitating byes and nobody wants that.   10 rounds a week - gosh, Thursday nights will be a permanent thing, and probably Monday nights too.  Is that OK Fox and 7??"

    Talk about killing the goose that laid the golden egg.

    Of course the talent pool will be further diluted, and the cesspool from which they find maggots will have to be even deeper, despite the FACT that they cannot get enough half competent umpires already.  At least 4 more required.

    But we can't afford 21st Century goal line camera technology.

    I love the Demons. I despise the AFL as an organisation.

    With you all the way, Mon, except for the talent pool aspect, which is often cited in discussion of additional teams.

    Each new team would take 2-3 players' worth of quality from each of the other teams. They would be replaced, effectively, by the best 2-3 players from those teams' 'seconds'. Would we really notice a difference in the quality of games?

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    57 minutes ago, monoccular said:

    Wait for the AFL to justify a NT team - despite the insanity of a team playing in the Darwin heat and humidity all season (even with some Alice games)

    Won't be an issue, they will build a $2 billion fully enclosed air conditioned stadium with federal funding, hey, they could build it big enough to hold all of Darwin's 132,000 residents at once.  Or just play all their local players who are conditioned for the climate and have a second lineup of cold weather players for the away games.

    North is pretty much a first round draft pick team at the moment.  If they keep their team together they can be the next GWS...

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    1 hour ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

    Your source, @Redleg?

     

    Tom Morris on 9 News.

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    42 minutes ago, Redleg said:

    Tom Morris on 9 News.


     

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    That's an amazing effort from the AFL.

    Year by year i am growing tired of these changes that completely screw us over, time and time again.

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    What a joke, how many more handouts is that pathetic football club going to get

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    4 hours ago, Wilson7 said:

    What a joke, how many more handouts is that pathetic football club going to get

    Probably as many as our pathetic club got between 2007-2014.

    Don't forget that apart from the priority picks in 2008 and 2009 we were also basically given Peter Jackson and Paul Roos by the AFL and the AFL also ensured that the Frawley trade gave us pick 3.

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    Hopefully this is the catalyst for the club to say goodbye to Alice Springs once the contract is up, and play that 11th home game at Marvel.

    Yes, you read that correctly. I'd rather play a home game at Marvel than Alice.

    15 minutes ago, FearTheBeard said:

    Probably as many as our pathetic club got between 2007-2014.

    Don't forget that apart from the priority picks in 2008 and 2009 we were also basically given Peter Jackson and Paul Roos by the AFL and the AFL also ensured that the Frawley trade gave us pick 3.

    Yeah that's a fair point.

    We were at out lowest ebb and the AFL did all they could to get us to a minimum standard AFL professional organisation. 

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    19 minutes ago, FearTheBeard said:

    Probably as many as our pathetic club got between 2007-2014.

    Don't forget that apart from the priority picks in 2008 and 2009 we were also basically given Peter Jackson and Paul Roos by the AFL and the AFL also ensured that the Frawley trade gave us pick 3.

    Would be interesting to see a compare / contrast between north’s last six seasons and ours 2007-2013

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    20 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

    Would be interesting to see a compare / contrast between north’s last six seasons and ours 2007-2013

    Our lowest point of 2013 is the lowest an AFL club will be allowed to get to but I think they are worse over the 2020-2024 5-year period because it has been bottom-2 every season.

    We at least were a competitive side on the up in 2010/2011 (8.5 wins both years) before everything went balls up. 2014 Melbourne was a far more competitive side under Roos than what North have had.

    North have been bottom-2 now since 2020. In that 5-year period they have won 13 games and imo you cannot allow a team to be like that for 5 years straight.

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