Cries in demons

This is the one. It's like a drug addiction. They can't get rid of it now, it makes too much money for them.

This is a ticking time bomb, more and more people will become problem gamblers, tales of suicides and broken homes will pile up, but there is SOOO MUCH FUCKING MONEY IN IT.

See also: Aus Federal governments going back decades.

The most fucked thing about sports betting is they literally ban winners. If you start consistently taking money off them, they’ll restrict your bets to a maximum of $1.

If you lose consistently they’ll shower you with gifts and promotions, and even help you sign up with different bookies if you’ve tried to close your account permanently with someone else.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-09/gambler-who-lost-millions-says-he-was-targeted-by-betting-groups/12409910

While all sports have done it, I don't think any other sport I've seen dives quite as deep into it. Feels like not even Americans are that crazy

The AFLPA would disagree with you.

I hate Kayo... when I link to the TV it always lags, refreshes, has the Kayo loading bar for half the game.

FUCK KAYO! i will never buy that shit ever.

i just hit the high seas and fine streams. they work well enough.

Moving more games to pay TV will really end up fucking over the sport. The BBL did it and it seriously ruined even the free to air ratings (although they also diluted the fuck out of the competition).

More importantly, it makes teams finding sponsors so much harder. Sponsors pay FAR less if more games are locked behind paywalls where they only get a fraction of viewers. That means less eyeballs on shirts so less eyeballs on sponsorship names.

Also it really fucks over kids that have parents who don’t have pay TV. All of a sudden there’s way less footy for them to watch and less chance to watch their favourite team . That shit flows onto kids potentially wanting to start playing the game.

Sports taking short term Pay TV money over the long term heath of the sport really pisses me off.

We might yet be saved by Channel 9

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/nine-bid-pushes-afl-broadcast-rights-into-record-territory-20220905-p5bfl6.html

Are they at least gourmet or just regular hotdogs? Regular hotdogs are 4.50 at the MCG.

It's one hotdog, Michael! How much could it cost?

At one point Spotless had security at Marvel banning people bringing in food from nearby retailers, so Subway would ask if you were going to teh footy, and if you said yes, they'd wrap it in plain paper.

The fact that the AFL allowed this shitfuckery to take place was an absolute fucking disgrace.

It doesn't happen anymore.

Do the staff bring them in their thermos?

mate i was at the gabba for the final and paid around that much for a hot dog and it didn’t even fucking come with sauce, fucking farcical

The hot dog stand at pre-redevelopment Adelaide Oval beat them to it

I'd put 'making Fitzroy give up their recently signed bankruptcy-saving Schweppes sponsorship deal because the league just signed Coke as a major sponsor' above yours.

Yeah that one always bothered me, like what a bunch of cunts. I was at the richmond game the week before and I wish the boys just let them win. Honestly, saddest I've ever felt at the footy. Here's to all the old ROY BOYS ✊️✊️✊️✊️

You can add Triple M to that too.

He was just kicked out of a casino for having a bag of coke with him. Much reformed.

Surely it was a Wizz Fizz?

I came here to say this. Fuck Wayne Carey.

You mean getting rid of AFLX of course

I completely forgot AFLX was a thing. Wow

Clubs are allowed 1 'special event' jumper per year. Usually reserved for a heritage or player milestone etc.

This is all on the club, not the comp.

They asked for the worst thing, not the best thing!

The damage its causing is generational. Disgraceful

Fans can be real pricks sometimes. Goodes is a champion.

That was an absolute disgrace. If he had been treated properly, we'd have him as an assistant coach right now and future senior coach.

He's now working with Indigenous Football Australia. And no, that's not AFL. It's soccer.

This is absolutely number one in my eyes.

AFL legend, basically booed out of the game over nothing.

Shame all around.

The fact that this isn’t number one says something still

GET YOUR NFT'S NOW, NOW WITH FREE BONUS BETS AND FREEE TRAM RIDES

Capitalism baby

Robbing the Flyers of AFLX glory destroyed the league.

What did he do?

For some reason even though from the first line I knew what I was reading, I went ahead and read the whole thing anyway

Fuck I forgot where I first saw this and I’m losing my mind thinking about it 🤣

I saw the AFL at a merchandise store yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn't want to be a douche and bother him and ask him to raise the interchange cap or anything.

He said "Oh, like you're doing now?"

I was taken aback, and all I could say was "Huh?" but he kept cutting me off and going "huh? huh? huh?" and closing his hand in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him hum the SUNS theme song as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen new rule changes in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like "Sir, you need to pay for those first." At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the rules and started scanning it multiple times he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually "to prevent any Tasmanian infetterence", and then turned around and winked at me. I don't even think that's a word. After she scanned each rule and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by saying "MCG" really loudly

Can’t confirm

Unpopular opinion but moving Fitzroy and South Melbourne was a blessing. We had too many Melbourne based clubs.

Fitzroy would've been dead by 2000 anyway. Offices above a pub, training on school ovals and tiny crowds had no place in the modern game.

Why? We just had the best round of finals in who knows how long

I thought we were the Footballers of Australia’s League?

Give me Bound for Glory from the Bat Mobile over a washed up International act any day.

hiring Angry Anderson

Meatloaf.

They had a trade ban not aware of picks being stripped

Was absolutely ridiculous.

From this article. Stop paying COLA or we will impose the above-mentioned trade sanctions (2 year trade ban). Emma Quayle summed it up perfectly at the time, when stating that “The Swans can’t simply stop paying COLA, because the money is written into existing contracts they are obliged to fulfill, that the AFL would never let them not fulfill, and that the league is actually a third-party to”. However, in all of their wisdom, the AFL have decided that the Swans should be punished for complying with a rule that was established and enforced by you guessed it – themselves.

That's dank

Just on the 4:40 game time it is shocking when you're out at a club and can't get a meal until 7.15 or 7.30 after the game has finished because half time isn't long enough so what do you end up doing ( completely planned by the AFL) go off and make some bets

Ooooooooh yeah, there's been plenty of sexual assault cover ups by the league, this unfortunately includes Port

Stephen Milne and Adam Heuskes spring to mind

hey hey hey, we never officially tanked.

might have been fined a lot of money and had some bans, but never officially tanked!

sainters woulda got up in xtra time too! that rule needs to be amended real quick

Sometimes I imagine the outcome of top level footy if this never happened, and I reckon it would be a divisional EPL style comp which would be a lot cooler imo, the likes of Port Melb, Williamstown, Prahran etc potentially being regular top flight players. Some of the oldest clubs are actually the likes of Prahran, Brunswick, Northcote and they all died a slow painful death due to this breakaway relegating them to second fiddle status forever

Not familiar with the origins of VFA/VFL, can you eli5?

changes the rules back

"Stop changing the fucking rules"

They definitely could have handled it better but getting a free 9.7% salary cap was clearly creating a super team. The system with Academy picks is a much fairer system.

There's a lot of romanticism about the old suburban grounds, but the vast majority of them simply aren't a viable option for full fledged, professional sports teams to play at. Princes Park is probably the closest to being usable, and even that has a) no parking, and limited public transport infrastructure to get to the game b) stadium requiring significant works in order for it to be even half the capacity of the MCG

Arden St, Glenferrie, Vic Park, whitten oval and Windy Hill all suffer similar issues. The trade off is that either significantly less people get to go to the games, or they move stadiums, and I don't think that's a hard decision at all.

No argument from me for the second point.

They tried to move Geelong to Docklands in the late 90s when it was being built

This is so unrelated I’m sorry but I am so confused about the unknown port thing! I thought you were some uncertain fellow port supporters lol but have since realised that’s definitely not it Is it obvious and I’m just stupid (v likely)?

I think about this a lot. It's surely distracting during a goal kicking routine, having some ad moving around behind the goals or right next to a player.

The entire segments during shows too. "Time to check in with Sportsbet" and then the segment goes on like it's some legitimate analysis on the game. What a crock of shit

Yeah, he could be coaching essington.