Talking Footy

Fred wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 11:49 am

All a storm in a tea cup. I would love to hear from a sociologist about all the hysteria and people being drama queens. People love a crisis when they can react but really doesn't impact them.

Fred wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2020 9:51 pm

Response to Ross Lyon re getting rid of suns fron tony Cochran

old Coast Suns chairman Tony Cochrane has blasted former Fremantle coach Ross Lyon for his comments about the future of the expansion club.

Speaking on Footy Classified, Lyon said scrapping the Suns and continuing with a 17-team competition could help save the league as the coronavirus pandemic takes its toll.


Cochrane said he couldn’t understand why the AFL’s second-newest club comes under such constant attack.

“One thing you learn up here is the effort of defence,” he said on Sportsday.

“I can’t believe how often I have to step forward and defend our young club, it’s borderline ridiculous and incredibly frustrating.

“Everyone single person in the world has the current problem but the only real ongoing problem we have up here is one of success.

“We’ve built 28 new ovals in the last five years in the Gold Coast region and it’s not enough. We’ve got junior football in both girls and boys absolutely exploding from one end of Queensland to another and that’s because the AFL commission have done 10 years of hard work and used the TV rights money to get us in that position.

“Why anybody would even consider chopping thar growth just proves they’re not only a failed coach, but they don’t know much about economics either.”


28 new aussie rules ovals .... numbers up .... see long term thinking from a business man .. a successful one.

Fred wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 6:56 pm

I think that is the governing body i suspect. There are still the local leagues of course in each area. Which makes sense from an administrative point of views. (Just quietly .. did you actually go and research this after my post?). Just a question and not having a go... just curious.

A lot of the expansion I believe is due to the women’s game. It’s quite big here in the Gold Coast and in south east qld. This has seen a need for more ovals for training and games as there simply isn’t the room and the grounds are not coping with increased games. Re: grounds and questioning the number of new ones... I think it is healthy to be sceptical whilst remaining objective and wondered whether you obvious skills at researching such things would be able to find out one way or another? I guess there would be council records or permits or even these ground having names associated with them ? If you did find out it was not true or hazy at best I’m sure you’d be posting ... but would you also post if you found it to be true?

AFLcrap1 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 9:57 pm

On topic please

leagueiscrap wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 9:48 pm

Fred wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 6:56 pm

I think that is the governing body i suspect. There are still the local leagues of course in each area. Which makes sense from an administrative point of views. (Just quietly .. did you actually go and research this after my post?). Just a question and not having a go... just curious.

A lot of the expansion I believe is due to the women’s game. It’s quite big here in the Gold Coast and in south east qld. This has seen a need for more ovals for training and games as there simply isn’t the room and the grounds are not coping with increased games. Re: grounds and questioning the number of new ones... I think it is healthy to be sceptical whilst remaining objective and wondered whether you obvious skills at researching such things would be able to find out one way or another? I guess there would be council records or permits or even these ground having names associated with them ? If you did find out it was not true or hazy at best I’m sure you’d be posting ... but would you also post if you found it to be true?

thought you were going to stop messing with crapbot!

he triggered again