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Merge sun's and giants

Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2018 7:24 pm
by woodys_world69
Western Sydney region is a disaster. Nobody going to the games.
Gold coast sun's on field is a disaster.

Gws are a decent team on field and sun's regularly fill their stadium against the big teams even while their team gets smashed.

It's time to join the 2 and move GWS to metricon ASAP! The afl needs to stop losing money on these whales hand over fist

Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2018 8:10 pm
by ronrat
The last merge worked out well, we lost 2 straight GFs. No bloody way,

Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2018 10:29 pm
by Dave The Man
Or Move Suns to Tassie

Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2018 3:59 am
by David
Lol. A better option would be to wind up the Suns and mark them as a failed experiment, University style. And then introduce a Tasmanian team, as should have always been done to begin with.

Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2018 9:13 am
by woodys_world69
Dave The Man wrote:Or Move Suns to Tassie
lol what? u wanna move a shit team to tassie, to play shit football, and ur still stuck with GWS not getting anyone to their games.

My point was we need to get rid of this Greater Western Sydney team, but the AFL wont while they have been getting into 2 prelims.
No Victorians or football family's would never move out to West Sydney because its a dump, where-as alot of them move to the gold coast to raise kids etc. the original reason why the AFL wanted a team up there.

Plus with 1 less team, you get a greater depth of talent at each club.

Plus Tassie is not an option for the AFL, as its not financially feasible, and its a market already owned by AFL and cricket.

The AFL should never of started 2 teams, dimitripoo's greatest mistake.

2018 Crowds Gold Coast:

Average home crowd Gold Coast Suns - 14,270

Average home crowd Gold Coast Titans - 9278

Sources:
https://afltables.com/rl/crowds/titans.html
https://afltables.com/afl/crowds/goldcoast.html


Gold Coast an NRL heartland gets less supporters to watch an NRL game than an AFL game. This is why the AFL is their and never going to leave. Imagine if the AFL had a team that where actually decent on the field?

Take off your biased collingwood hat for a second, and just look at the figures.

Bellerive Oval:
2018 Average: 10,730

Source: https://afltables.com/afl/crowds/vn_bellerive_oval.html

Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2018 10:28 am
by roar
David wrote:Lol. A better option would be to wind up the Suns and mark them as a failed experiment, University style. And then introduce a Tasmanian team, as should have always been done to begin with.
Won't happen but it would be best. Same thing with GWS.

Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2018 12:19 pm
by David

Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2018 7:00 pm
by Dave The Man
woodys_world69 wrote:
Dave The Man wrote:Or Move Suns to Tassie
lol what? u wanna move a shit team to tassie, to play shit football, and ur still stuck with GWS not getting anyone to their games.

My point was we need to get rid of this Greater Western Sydney team, but the AFL wont while they have been getting into 2 prelims.
No Victorians or football family's would never move out to West Sydney because its a dump, where-as alot of them move to the gold coast to raise kids etc. the original reason why the AFL wanted a team up there.

Plus with 1 less team, you get a greater depth of talent at each club.

Plus Tassie is not an option for the AFL, as its not financially feasible, and its a market already owned by AFL and cricket.

The AFL should never of started 2 teams, dimitripoo's greatest mistake.

2018 Crowds Gold Coast:

Average home crowd Gold Coast Suns - 14,270

Average home crowd Gold Coast Titans - 9278

Sources:
https://afltables.com/rl/crowds/titans.html
https://afltables.com/afl/crowds/goldcoast.html


Gold Coast an NRL heartland gets less supporters to watch an NRL game than an AFL game. This is why the AFL is their and never going to leave. Imagine if the AFL had a team that where actually decent on the field?

Take off your biased collingwood hat for a second, and just look at the figures.

Bellerive Oval:
2018 Average: 10,730

Source: https://afltables.com/afl/crowds/vn_bellerive_oval.html
People on the Gold Coast don't give a Shit about the Suns at Least Tassie Fan would Actually Give a Shit.

What about Auroa Stadium.

They could Put Money making Belireve Bigger

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2018 5:08 pm
by Presti35
I cant see the AFL giving up on both teams (or either team) any time soon.

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2018 10:06 am
by Pi
And now ... wait for it ...they want retention allowances / priority picks and umpiring concessions

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/sun ... 4zl0m.html


(ok... I made up the bit about umpiring concessions)

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 11:01 pm
by Jezza
18 teams is too many for this competition. The effect that the inclusion of Gold Coast and GWS has had is that the talent pool has become diluted.

16 teams was the optimal number. It wouldn't bother me in the slightest if both the Suns and Giants were removed from the competition.

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 11:02 pm
by Jezza
Presti35 wrote:I cant see the AFL giving up on both teams (or either team) any time soon.
Agree. They've invested too much money for it to fail now.