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  • bloodog
    bloodog
    22 days ago
    No public auction, Victoria have it all sewn up from day one and not even Shane Warne can change it 
  • bloodog
    bloodog
    22 days ago
    Go Uncle Fester supper coach 
     
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  • Hilly
    Hilly
    22 days ago
    Good luck next week mate, I got no irons in the fire 👍
  • bloodog
    bloodog
    22 days ago
    trying to keep a lid on my enthusiasm but hey fuck it, check out Ports  wins over Sydney 
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  • Stuart
    Stuart
    22 days ago
    Quoting obisteve on 15 Sep 2024 10:37 PM

    Do they hold a public auction for the umpire just before the start of the game in AFL?

    Didn't know that.

    You make a good point. I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist, but this year I've started to think the AFL has become - at least partially - scripted entertainment. Or the umpires have money on the outcome of some of the games.
  • obisteve
    obisteve
    21 days ago
    Well if you blokes reckon it doesn't happen, but just think of the opportunity they're missing.
    They could hold it midfield, right in the centre, before the whistle. The clubs chief financial officers, dressed in the club colours meet there to bid for the ref's for the games, all covered in the TV broadcasts. There could be extra value added to the bids for a bit of biff......
    It would help recognise that it's not sport any more, just business.
  • bloodog
    bloodog
    20 days ago
    Quoting obisteve on 17 Sep 2024 11:28 AM

    Well if you blokes reckon it doesn't happen, but just think of the opportunity they're missing.

    They could hold it midfield, right in the centre, before the whistle. The clubs chief financial officers, dressed in the club colours meet there to bid for the ref's for the games, all covered in the TV broadcasts. There could be extra value added to the bids for a bit of biff......
    It would help recognise that it's not sport any more, just business.

    speaking of business. This World Series Footy talk is caching no! 
    Ran in similar fashion to World Series cricket the state teams would play a same same format.Victorian teams can just play there VFL and some may get an invite from World Series AFL 
    Interesting stuff
  • Hilly
    Hilly
    20 days ago
    Where you find that little gem Bloo? I'll have to do a bit of googling 
  • bloodog
    bloodog
    20 days ago
    Just google topics around the subject like:
    Would the extra revenue be used to create 2 NT teams 
    Would the Victoria state of VFL supports, support World Series AFL 
    how many teams could a state enter into Worlds Series AFL 
    Would other countries be asked to enter Australian World Series AFL 

  • Hilly
    Hilly
    18 days ago
    How ya doin Bloo? I think fester popped! He looked drained....
  • Hilly
    Hilly
    17 days ago
    That was a ripper game, well done Brisbane, the sort of game you hope for as a spectator in finals footy.
  • bloodog
    bloodog
    17 days ago
    Quoting Hilly on 20 Sep 2024 11:45 PM

    How ya doin Bloo? I think fester popped! He looked drained....

    'Fester popped' Thats pretty funny, Hilly 
    Yer Yer another year of footy almost over, was a ripper and looking forward to the big one, all the songs and hype that goes with it. Don't have a prediction on the outcome, 
    GO THE POWER 2025
  • Hilly
    Hilly
    10 days ago
    I thought the Swans played football........what a whitewash 
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    9 days ago
    I am not a AFL fan at all but watched it at a bbq ....very lopsided and underwhelming. Hopefully Storm v Panthers will be a contest to remember. 
  • 408
    408
    9 days ago
    Quoting paulybronco on 29 Sep 2024 10:30 AM

    I am not a AFL fan at all but watched it at a bbq ....very lopsided and underwhelming. Hopefully Storm v Panthers will be a contest to remember. 


    The first quarter was a classy, skilled display of fast high pressure football from both sides and was as good a contest as would be seen anywhere.
    The Brisbane boys were the underdogs going in but stepped it up a couple of notches in the second quarter and the Swans cracked.
    The Broncos would do well to go round and talk to them and find out a bit about attitude and self belief.
  • Stuart
    Stuart
    9 days ago
    Quoting paulybronco on 29 Sep 2024 10:30 AM

    I am not a AFL fan at all but watched it at a bbq ....very lopsided and underwhelming. Hopefully Storm v Panthers will be a contest to remember. 

    Yep - expected a bit more of a contest. Very un-Victorian perhaps - my side not in it - but I ended up loading the ute and doing a tip run. No queue at all.
  • Humbug
    Humbug
    2 days ago
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    Can anyone tell me how old this may be?
  • Hilly
    Hilly
    2 days ago
    I'm not certain but because it has Vic Hill in the label I'm thinking early 70's, they were around before then but I read somewhere that Vic Hill had a resurgence of them around that time, pretty sure they have been used off and on by Vic and SA clubs from way back.
    I remember some of the footy cards I had as a kid some of the old legends definitely had them on.
  • Humbug
    Humbug
    yesterday
    Thanks Hilly,I thought it might be a bit older as the person whom owned it was 95 and I thought it might have been her husbands, now it might even be a grandson that wore it and she kept it all these years.

  • Hilly
    Hilly
    yesterday
    You could do some digging at club level probably, it might be older than what I thought, my memory isn't that great lol
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