Diamond_Jim

The "streaming rules" are starting to emerge for 2025. https://www.bandt.com.au/binge-pushes-play-on-live-on-demand-sport-news-entertainment-lifestyle-content/ At the heart of Foxtel’s 2025 offering is a landmark AFL rights deal, which will revolutionise how Aussie Rules football is broadcast. Starting in 2025, Fox Footy will exclusively stream every match of the AFL season live, ad-break-free during play, and in stunning 4K quality. The first eight rounds will be available nationally, with the first 15 rounds exclusive to Victoria. The coverage will include expert analysis from a line-up of AFL greats, including Jason Dunstall, Jonathan Brown, and Garry Lyon, ensuring fans receive the best insights in the game. A bit convoluted and unclear but on another forum a poster explains it as follows: Rounds 1-8. No Saturday Channel 7 produced games. You need Fox/Kayo to watch Saturday games live. Teams outside Vic will have their teams games on a 2 hour delay on Ch 7 Rounds 9-15. No Saturday Channel 7 produced games. Teams outside of Vic will have their games live on Ch 7. So the big take away is in Victoria no FTA coverage on Saturday

says it all !!

Yep the Free Agency has been a bust but we are now seeing long term deals for relatively young players. Eagles would give Harley R a ten year deal in a heartbeat and McAndrew just signed a five year extension making it a six year deal at age 20. (Ironic given that the Suns only exist on AFL handouts). Insurance could be the answer but I suspect rates are through the roof these days. Surprisingly professional sports people often fall outside Workers compensation schemes. https://www.smartcompany.com.au/people-human-resources/injured-sports-stars-not-entitled-workers-compensation/

Transparency is a wonderful thing but brand protection is what it's all about in the real world. The present EPL imbroglio threatening man City with relegation is being fought behind firmly closed doors. The key question its examining is whether the money paid to the club by Abu Dhabi goes beyond an arms length sponsorship deal. Probably the biggest case in sporting history but.... crickets The key is that it's being decided by arbitration and not in the Courts.

Petty down back is the way Turner is a possible swing player if Lever is injured

Where were those kind of picks when we were trading LJ to Freo.... hell based on the Bolton trade we could have asked for six first round picks. Amazing .... 2 years ago everyone wanted draft picks but this year it's players going for multiple picks. No wonder Dogs were unhappy with what Geelong were offering for Bailey

Could be a late mover. Can't help thinking that we will also be facing the Caleb dilemna with Charlie Spargo this time next year

As I mentioned on an earlier thread Richmond will be looking to exchange some of the players drafted with these picks after say two years in the manner of GWS. (Think Tyson and others) I had thought they might be stymied by the Tasmanian entry but it could in fact be Tasmania itself that is interested in 21 year old players from the Tiges. Good luck to them. It makes sense PS Just noticed that Palace Dee posted similar thoughts

Agree... The published State Govt component for Dingley is under $20M. If we get that amount it may be hard to raise the rest. The other item that will increase costs is building within an active race course. The co-ordination to allow other activities doesn't come cheap... Schedule = Cost A simple example is will cranes need to be removed on race days so as not to interfere with line of sight viewing from the grandstands

I sincerely hope that this recruitment is being studied and we don't make the same mistakes again. I'm a big supporter of left field turnaround recruiting (Kolidjashnij and Harley Bennell to mention a couple) but you do it with low draft picks, limited tenure etc. Ask yourselves if he was on a year by year contract would he be playing in 2025?

You have to wonder in a system controlled at almost every level by the non-elected AFL what the role of a Club Board is. When you split out what they actually have control over it's probably less than a country council. One way of comparison is to rank the MFC Board performance against that of other AFL clubs based on agreed criteria. My suspicion is that in the AFL era we would usually sit in the lower thirty percentile

The money from a home game down there with a clean stadium is enormous. Think you may now find with the increased capacity they will want to play Collingwood at Kardinia Park Their problem is that they need a crowd of 70k at the MCG to match the money they make from a 40k crowd at the MCG. Few competing clubs will deliver 70k crowds

More money was one of his main reasons for moving. He signed a long term contract for only reasonable money and then went two times AA and his value sky rocketed. He'd be wanting $800k plus p.a.

This season has taken the competition backwards by many years. Frankly not sure how to turn it around Attendances barely over 2k even for Collingwood matches. I'd almost be tempted to start again... All games on Saturday afternoon... one game on Evening TV perhaps. Free entry... etc etc And seriously re-think the rules to encourage open and attractive football plus scoring

Or the unselfishness of young McAdam coming to us for a F2 What might have been ???

That I assume is the sweetener 13 for F1 and 25/28 was not a great deal but this one is okay. Sounds like a squeeze... expect some complaints from other clubs

You could make it work. For example you could have non tradeable draft picks rotating through clubs without reference to ladder position. Whether a club exercised the draft pick would depend on need. All VFL clubs would have an academy ruckman with guaranteed game time as well as the "normal ruckman". You could rotate these players between clubs and they would have say 3 years to be drafted before leaving the academy. Clubs would jump at it as training young rucks is such a hit and miss affair

To make 13 and 28 work we'd need to finish top 3

Total madness from an MFC perspective.... Possible pick 5 for Pick 13 and we throw in a high second round pick in what everyone says is a deep draft. Talk about mortgaging the future

can't see Smith going for free. He would need to bypass fourteen odd clubs. Only one needs to bite. It would make for an interesting watch though. It will happen one day.

Ranking surprised me. I would have thought Adelaide is up there and to rank Eagles and Dockers effectively even is amazing. Eagles are a real power brand held back only by onfield performance

Disappointed that he didn't get a senior game when our season was effectively over (Round 19 onwards??). Can't see him making an impact in 2025 but if he can have a 20 goal AFL season and take the pressure of Fritsch I'll be happy. His year is 2026 which will see Petty down back (post Tmac) and Jefferson and JVR as the two key forwards with Fritsch as the impact forward. He's still a 50/50 proposition for me at AFL level. Like most I got burned by Weid with that word "potential" not to menion "breakout."

Like many I watched McAdam closely at VFL level. After some passable early games (vertical leap and mark) he went way backwards in his return stint. No defensive skills and other than his marking he seems to have few other skills (ground skills especially). Hard to say it but Schache showed more at VFL in his first Demons year. I'm prepared to be wrong but if so I will be surprised. Very disappointed with our trading skills when Billings is head and shoulders in front of everyone else

Sounds like Richmond may do an early GWS... Draft lots and then trade the ok but not great players for more draft picks. Makes sense and gives you a much higher success rate. Amazing what GWS did in those early years but still missed out. Something tells me that Tasmania will not be given the run with draft picks that GWS and GCS received. You have to bear in mind they are not an "AFL conceived" team

Pick 10 is a reasonable swap for our F1 IMO. I project a finish between 11 and 4 next year which are picks 7-14 so okay with me if the List Management think that is where the value lies. Pick 13 was IMO not great value on a trade/risk/return basis. Doubling up on picks can have salary cap issues going forward assuming they are successful players. A nice problem to have but one to keep in the back of your mind especially if the media rights magic pudding stalls. Hope we have a medium term plan to get Harley Reid assuming he goes slow on his contract re-sign (Unfortunately every other Melbourne club will be working on the same thing)