From: psgjf@gamgee.cc.flinders.edu.au (<G.J.Fraser>)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.australian
Subject: Re: Second WA Team!
Date: 8 Oct 92 08:21:38 GMT
Organization: Flinders University

In article <10764380.14.718359227@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au> 10764380@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (ANDREW DOCKERY) writes:
>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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>*         Andrew Dockery             *     "Let's waste him...no     *
>*  10764380@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au   *            offence."          *
>*    dox@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au       *        -Corporal Hicks        *
>*  Monash Uni, Melbourne, Australia  *           "Aliens"            *
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I'm a Melbourne supporter and if you read my recent article you would
have seen that one of my suggestions was a possible Demons/Tigers
merger.  Get off your high horse and engage in some civil debate.

Geoff.
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