Williamstown want to join Frankston and Port Melbourne as stand alone teams in 2013.
This would mean a 15 team competition in 2013.
Thoughts?
Williamstown want to join Frankston and Port Melbourne as stand alone teams in 2013.
This would mean a 15 team competition in 2013.
Thoughts?
Coburg Bulldogs?
BrekkyDJ wrote: NorthPort
Burbank's biggest worry would be is where they are going to find the extra half a million bucks that will be needed to make the team competitive !!!
Great initiative if they can pull it off.
Coburg Bulldogs could be the one.
Two battlers together.
Jono Nash Herald Sun is probably worse. Richmond and Coburg have a meeting soon. Wonder what will happen and whether Footscray could come into calculations down the track. We will end up with at least 15 teams in comp in 2013 and maybe even 16 ? In the 2000 season we had the most since the VFL was revamped.
Sixteen would be a good number and harder to pick the eight winners ?
Hope this is true, as I've said before I've had a gutful of these AFL clubs dictating what happens & treating the clubs as a plaything just to serve their own interests. It'll be a more expensive proposition but I think we have the resources to fund it. The Bullies can't even pay their bills as it is, so how could they possibly go it alone in the VFL? I would suggest we are far more financial than they are, and can think of a few instances such as the establishment of The Club at Caroline Springs & the fact they take months to pay the hot dog man when we pay him the week after a home game.
Williamstown as a standalone team to join Port, Frankston and Bendigo would be fantastic for the comp. Would be more expensive for the seagulls but they are in a great position to do it. Plenty of businesses would hopefully jump aboard as would supporters. Hopefully this would offset the costs. Players would of course be attracted to a club that is one club and not a reserves for some AFL team. Worse is when the AFL team decides not to play their players in the VFL so they can have a rest, how pathetic. Just as bad is when they (AFL team) want their players having only a short run where a good VFL players are banished to the reserves. Throw in players playing in positions where the afl team wants them to irrespective of what the vfl team requires for it to win the game.
Williamstown as a stand alone GOOD MOVE !!!
I discussed it at Etihad yesterday with some fellow Bulldog supporters. None of us could see a workable solution for the dogs that they could afford or make workable. I have a feeling the AFL might step in to try and mediate to keep the alignment going. Willy can manage.. I just can't see how the dogs could at the moment.
Ive got a very bad feeling about Footscray FC and yes thats their real name they only trade as the "Western Bulldogs"
Smorgans all piss and wind reign at the top has amounted to nothing as the Dogs are well and truly stuffed both on and off the field and it can only get worse for them from here on in.
The AFL will most likely bail them out during this current TV deal but after that who knows?
To me Footscray are typical of teams that sold their soul by turning their back on their roots which are the now flourishing Western suburbs and now its coming back to bite them on the arse!
Geographically-speaking, the western suburbs may be the only thing that will save the Bulldogs long-term. They seem to have lost a lot of members & always struggle to attract new ones, money is always an issue, most of their good players are nearer the end than the start, and their recruiting is crap, if Zeb Skinner ever gets more than a token game i'll make a comeback myself ;-)
They also have free-agency to contend with in the next few years. The Dogs & North have to be on the critically-endangered list in their current form once the TV rights deal expires. Relocation is always an option. North to Hobart & the Dogs to where?Darwin? Don't think so.
Wally from Williamstown
I hope Williamstown do cut their ties with the Bulldogs at the end of the season and go stand alone in 2013, as it could be the shot in the arm the VFL needs.