I'm very certain the club will not earn any revenue from playing games this year but it will still cost a huge amount of money to play each game. In the business world that is called trading while insolvent. Sponsors and Media will pay if we play so I hope that alleviates a lot of your concerns. Gi...

I guess Laidley was trying to gather evidence of the other man for Court. “The court heard Laidley is accused of breaching an intervention order more than 100 times and had tried to obtain CCTV footage of his victim from her apartment block. Laidley told police his alleged victim had pressured him i...

I'm very certain the club will not earn any revenue from playing games this year but it will still cost a huge amount of money to play each game. In the business world that is called trading while insolvent. Sponsors and Media will pay if we play so I hope that alleviates a lot of your concerns. Gi...

I asssume your reference to $400 million is this years progress paynent of the media rights money? Is it still $400 million? Players recovery time due to collision injuries will be the same so if the time between games is considerably reduced then yes players will be wrecked. No. Contracts have to ...

That may be the case but this years comp will only be about craming as many games as possible into each week so it's going to go beyond bastardisation, it will be about wrecking players to get the cash flowing for the banks. The AFL has reduced game time by 17.5% this year. They will not cram regul...

Repeat

So many things from the west are succeeding in China. Banking on the Chinese wealth and their thirst for status symbols. So fashion, food and cars are all the craze. Cadillac was going broke until they started going gangbusters in China ten years ago and by 2025 will have 500 dealerships. I am sure...

I hope our club has its sights firmly set on 2021 and only use the bastardised game as preparation for 2021. With so many games being crammed into such a tight time frame and the finals and GF being played much later and in hotter weather it could really have a huge impact on the clubs ability to b...

Question: How does he feel about condensed season and possibly shorter breaks. Geary: Shorter quarters allows body to pull up better. The quarter go pretty quickly. Can play with 4 to 5 day breaks. But longer games would have benefitted us because a good running group. Thanks so much BFUSA for the ...

Our club is very safe whilst our President is there. Long arms and short pockets, completely the opposite to Lindsay. seriously though , that post saves this thread Too true Gazrat. Our Chairman is the leader you want in tough times. He has the sensibility, financial capability and contacts to navi...

Question: How does he feel about condensed season and possibly shorter breaks. Geary: Shorter quarters allows body to pull up better. The quarter go pretty quickly. Can play with 4 to 5 day breaks. But longer games would have benefitted us because a good running group. Thanks so much BFUSA for the ...

Average games played per player 70 Average age 24 Rated #2 in the AFL for the most experienced list that season Without a doubt the best balanced and experienced list I have seen us assemble The majority of players featured in finals in 04 & 05 so were experienced and ready to have a tilt at a ...

I'm assuming all 18 clubs are still contributing millions of dollars per week cashflow from automatic monthly membership payments. So they still have some incomings. The outgoings have been slashed dramatically with the players wages bill still being the largest outgoing, and that will be slashed b...

Marketing / community / admin / technology including game analysts etc will have to be slashed. It's like walking through an overbloated corporate office identifying who's output is billable and who's isn't. As an old mentor of mine used to say, if your service cant be invoiced; you are surplus to ...

Brendon Goddard deserves to be rated in top 10, also consider the following 3 to warrant inclusion in top 20, in place of Jack Steven, Steven Baker and Sean Dempster: Justin Koschitzke Barry Hall Justin Peckett As for order of merit, my top 5: Lockett Harvey Riewoldt Hayes Goddard Yeah Steven, Bake...

The clubs not accepting the AFL deal have the funding to see themselves through the crisis. This does not allow those clubs unrestricted spending on footy departments because the AFL has a cap in place. It means their spending within the cap is not monitored by the AFL. The AFL needs to change its ...

Especially now the clubs have signed full control over to the AFL and loaded up with a $billion dollars worth of extra debt only after a few weeks into this crisis. Who the hell is running to the bank right now and loading up with debt in this crisis. Could be time to simplify things and go back to...

Especially now the clubs have signed full control over to the AFL and loaded up with a $billion dollars worth of extra debt only after a few weeks into this crisis. Who the hell is running to the bank right now and loading up with debt in this crisis. Could be time to simplify things and go back to...

Especially now the clubs have signed full control over to the AFL and loaded up with a $billion dollars worth of extra debt only after a few weeks into this crisis. Who the hell is running to the bank right now and loading up with debt in this crisis. Could be time to simplify things and go back to...

I know many people have real cash flow issues at the moment but the Government are coming up with ways to help and by May we should mostly have some $s in our pocket. We need some angels to give us financial help. I think that the saints should have Rowan Marshall (#19) spearhead an ANGELS campiagn...

Interesting to read the opinions of Samuels in the media today Perhaps Graham needs a history lesson on the travails of the Docklands including the Stapled Debt offering which financed the construction along with bank debt (so effectively 100% funded by borrowings from a particular - inept - bank t...

can someone please pick the idea apart ? why won’t it work where’s the flaw The problem is cash flow and not debt and how much we require to keep going is unknown. Last year we spent $53m or roughly $1m per week. Our income and cash flow has just been cut-off. Expenditure cannot be cut to zero. Man...

You can’t look at the trades in isolation in my opinion. We had the target group and knew what we had to let go to secure them. If we are happy overall we have improved the lists and our chance of making finals we need to accept we had to let’s some go for under due to salary cap. My opinion is the...

minneapolis wrote: ↑Thu 12 Mar 2020 5:10am Luke Dunstan - 7 clangers - the most for the team. Why am I not surprised?

CL refers to clearances not clangers

I must admit, I did not see the intraclub game. I am only going by the articles on the game and the posts on here and Bigfooty. There is no way that Geary should be captain because he will not be in the starting 22. From what I can tell there is a plethora of players (small to medium defenders), th...