From: 10764380@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (ANDREW DOCKERY)
Subject: Re: Second WA Team!
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University 
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 08:13:48 GMT

In article <1992Oct2.110734.3375@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> CS19241099G@LUST.LATROBE.EDU.AU (CRAWFORD, TROY) writes:
>	Hey footy fans, being a Geelong supporter this will sound like sour
>grapes, but it's not!  What I want to know, is when the hell are the AFL
>going to bring in another team in WA and SA?

I heard a rumour that a side from Fremantle was going to enter the 
competition maybe as early as 1994.

 Sure, the Eagles won the flag -
>good luck to them - but unless something is done soon, eagle v crow grand 
>finals will be all the rage, which is good for the national comp, but 
>considering 11 clubs are victorian, it leaves it a little bare inside the
>state lines.  
>	Fair enough, the AFL are planning to bring in another team, prov-
>ided feasibility reports are positive, but why not just bring in a team from
>Fremantle and another from Adelaide in the next two or three, years and
>start them off with slight concessions, and see how they develop?

CONCESSIONS!!!!!!! ARE YOU KIDDING????!!!! Look what happened to West
Coast after they got their "concessions". Now look at the totally useless
case of the Bears...it seems to me that concessions completely wreck the
competition!!!

>	An envisaged problem is the failure of Brisbane and Sydney and the
>over-abundence of Melbourne clubs! I feel that the AFL needs to show some
>balls if they want to continue the national comp!  Either re-locate or merge
>some teams, and although traditionalists and fans of the teams in question
>will go bananas, it is the only way the national comp will fully develop!

Yes, I agree, it is the only way it can develop. A solution to this 
problem to me is:
FUCK THE NATIONAL COMPETITION!!!!!!!!!!!
BRING BACK SYDNEY TO SOUTH MELBOURNE WHERE IT BELONGS!!!!!!!!!!
GET RID OF WEST COAST, ADELAIDE AND BRISBANE ( NEVER WANTED THEM IN THE 
FIRST PLACE )!!!!!!!!!
RENAME THE AFL TO VFL!!!!!!!!!
In case you hadn't guessed yet, I happen to be a fan of a team that 
nearly got merged a couple of years ago ( Fitzroy ), and so probably is
one of the prime candidates for merger if your plan goes ahead. And, yes,
I'm going bananas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>We need a greater balance of equality nationwide!
>	Sure I may cop some flack over this, but c'mon, it is for the good
>of footy....and no, Geelong shouldn't be one of those teams!

Well, don't worry about your seemingly selfish view that we should merge
teams and that your team shouldn't be one of them...I've noticed in 
particular that Hawthorn fans are the same...in fact any team that has
been pretty successful in the past few years. In fact, the only people who
seem to complain about it are the Richmond, Footscray, Fitzroy, probably 
North Melbourne and Melbourne fans ( the ones most likely to be merged).
I've noticed that people never EVER suggest that their team should
be merged, and I would like people in future who say that teams should be
merged, to suggest that their team should be the first one!
Otherwise, shut up!

Andrew
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