John Longmire on Vic bias in the AFL and why we should consider a new GF system - Footy Classified
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Brilliant coach,great leader
Footy classified panel saying something good about the swans challenge: IMPOSSIBLE
GONE WRONG?!? :O
COLA didn't count, Brisbane having a salary cap get them 3 flags didn't count WAAAAAAAAH WAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
I was shocked that Gary Lyon and co spoke about Freo for longer than 8 seconds
@@jimethota yeah if youre not in the bubble good luck hearing from the greath gary lyon. Dudes such a flog.. so out of touch hahaha
As a West Coast supporter when the MCG made contracts with the AFL to asure that a game in the finals at MCG was played every week in the finals, with negotiations made exclusively with Victorian club presidents and board members, leading to sides outside of Victoria having finals they earned the taken away up until 2004, is something that should be acknowledged and those in Victoria concede that was unfair policy. Also there needs to be a shift in perspective that the competition expanded not teams joining Victoria's competition. Clubs from professional levels essentially equal to the VFL in the SANFL and WAFL established over 100 years ago and deserve the proper respect for the AFL becoming the strong national game it is in 2024.
Which competition expanded though? Wouldn't have happened to be that suburban Victorian league, right?
@@jornavyr2459 everyone's State competition expanded. Victoria needs to stop looking down their nose at every other State.
â@@jornavyr2459 before the expansion teams cam in from WA the AFL was on verge of collapse almost all the current clubs at the time were bankrupt so the wa teams really helped the comp stay alive when they came in, I feel anyway
@@user-vz5cq7ey2c LOL the AFL exists only because of Victoria. Victoria doesnt NEED to do anything.
@@mark21034 No the AFL exists because of Thomas Wentworth Wills, to keep cricketers fit in the off season and happened to be living Vic. The State of Victoria's population doesn't get equally collective credit for it.
I could quickly think of 10 questions to ask a coach of that standard that is top of the ladder, yet Caro goes with Vic Bias and Clarkson's feelings.
I'd want questions and specifics about the footy they are playing to be sitting on top.
She is a gossip columnist so........
Caro reminds me of my grandma đ
I actually dont mind caro though. Half the time she is alright (on this show) but in this segment she is so bitter. Horse instantly laughs and feels uncomfortable! Why would you want a guest to feel like this? Theyre just trying to annoy him the whole time because theyâre beloved clubs are doing dogshit and somehow its the sswans fault?
one thing I know is there's little chance an interstate team will Ever get a triple premiership like say Richmond, whose home ground is Next to the MCG! They Finally put a good team together and then get all their finals at home next door to their home ground. On top of that they get 16/17 home games in Melbourne Every year. Only having to travel 6/7 times a years is a distinct advantage
What about the Lions?
@@pavementpounder7502 that was about 30 years ago! They got an extra $1m in their salary cap to get all those players in, (which I thought was a good thing for a short time back then btw) but then back ended? loaded the contracts and it all finished too soon for them. If the AFL is going to keep giving a leg up to Melbourne based teams it has to help out teams in NSW and QLD that are rugby states, if it wants to grow the game.
Itâs not the MCG. Itâs their home ground. Itâs nothing like others around the comp. Play on a small home ground and complain when you have to cover a more traditional ground. Go redevelop your ground firstâŠ
I think you added the wrong comment to the wrong forum because I didnât hear JL complaining about playing at the MCG. (And you realise that the SCG has a larger area than Adelaide Oval and Etihad donât youâŠ)
@@cmadelaide56 the 50m arcs and the center square almost touch. small.
@@aussieintexas61 2.25m shorter in length from centre square to the end, 2.5m to the sides than the MCG. Thatâs it - not even 3 strides at running pace. Itâs the biggest furphy in the AFL, normally perpetuated by Victorians. The narrow width of Kardinia Park or Adelaide make a difference (18m and 13m from centre to sides respectively), but this crap about the SCG is way over-inflated.
We need to make more MCG type grounds, so that clubs get more experience on them to be more competitive on GF Day.
An MCG type ground in NT would be a good start. Cos clubs sell their games their through the year. And clubs could change their games their close to finals time.
Iâm pretty sure the players association would be against a 3-game grand final series. 1 or 2 extra games, plus a minimum break of 5+ days between games cutting into the off season. Even more resistance if they are forced to travel interstate for each game.
They really don't seem to like Horse, Caroline looked like she ate a lemon just asking those questions
she had a really narrow squint going on the whole time lol
She always looks like that. The Wall was brutal to her decades ago ⊠đ
Yes John, speak of "Victorian Bias" whilst remaining silent about the academy rort that is the sole reason why the Swans are currently atop the AFL ladder (Mills, Heeney, Blakey, Gulden, Campbell.......).
Rort haha for the entire existence of the interstate clubs there has definitely been a bias for vic kids to return home. The northern states pour money into the academies to try build a list where 80% of the players donât want to just leave and go back to Victoria. GC and GWS were just deadset feeder clubs for likes of Richmond, Collingwood and Carlton. Also leaving Victoria 5 times a year must be nice over the 10-11 times an interstate club has to do
@@christopherryan7780 Melb is the bread and butter of supporter base of the competition. If they played more interstate games less ppl would watch it.
Get real dude. NSW and QLD are rugby states not AFL. Gold Coast and GWS are lucky to get 10k through the gates unless they play the big teams.
Yeh lets play more games intersate and watch the whole competition go down the drain within a few years because its just not financially viable.
Do you know how many thousands of kids have gone through clinics etc paid for by the northern Clubs? And would you prefer the brilliant players you listed playing rugby instead? Ridiculous comment ⊠đ€Ą
@@ma3stro681 Yes I do know that and I know this investment has an explicit return. It's no charity. As for "rugby', do you mean Paul Kelly & Wayne Carey? How about John Longmire, Brett Allison & Alex Jesaulenko? Ridiculous is your myopic understanding of the matter.
Iâd love to see a NT team in the comp.
definitely
Same, and we don't need 19 or 20 teams. Move one Vic team to Tassie and one to Darwin. Will help even up the travel.
@@markbrown4521 I have the same thoughts too. But in NT I think they would have a good few indigenous players there.
Who the f*ck would want to live and play regularly in the NT?!
@@555KL plenty ⊠there is a wash of indigenous players up there.
What an awful final question from Caroline. Who knew Alastair's problems were John's fault.
Swans, with 2 recent flags & in the finals every year pretty much for the last 20 years, shouldn't complain too much. O & did i mention odds on for their 3rd flag this year..
More interstate games in Darwin(TIO), Townsville(Riverway), Newcastle(No1), Alice Springs(Traeger), Cairns(Cazalyâs), Tasmania(York and Bellerive) and Canberra(Manuka) as well as Optus, Accor, SCG, Engie, Adelaide Oval, Gabba and People First
Sydney actually gets home games, though. Nine clubs are based in Melbourne, so when they play each other there is no home ground advantage.
Genuinely the stupidest thing Iâve read all year.
Yeah but those Melbourne based teams get less actual away game, it kind of evens out I guess
Typical eyes wide shut vicbaby response. Having 10 teams in Victoria naturally slants the competition towards one state. I bet you think the 12 business class seats west coast and freo gets makes up for 20 hours flight travel every two weeks
Interstate teams get 10 home games, 10 away games and 2 'neutral games' as they always play the other team from their state twice. A Victorian teams have about 6 true home games 6 true away games and 10 neutral games against other Victorian teams in Victoria. Interstate teams have a big advantage for home games because the team had to travel to play them, while Victorian team doesn't really get an advantage when playing at home against a Victorian team. However for away matches Victorian teams get an advantage because they aren't try away matches. How can you really say one is better?
U genuinely have rocks in your brain đ
Caro is truly classless and shameless. Got one of the best coaches if not the best in the game whoâs got his team firing on all cylinders, and the first thing you ask is about VIC bias. And then straight into her rubbish about Clarko, just a typical journalist never wanting to report on proper topics and do some real journalism, just looks for headlines. âSydney Coach John Longmire reaches out to struggling Clarkoâ. Had to rely on the other boys to ask some real questions about football.
To be fair, she can't ask footy questions coz she's got absolutely zero clue about the game
Sheâs just a bitter old feminist Karen ⊠đ€Ąđ”đ©
... and that's why the Swans (and Geelong) are such great clubs
CULTURE
LOL, free agency, COLA and academy rorts?!
We saw that last year when the entire team were instructed to go out and attack the smallest youngest player on the opposition in his second year - what a culture!
â@@user-kw1gp3dq4oplease explain in detail what these so-called 'rorts' are? I'm sure your response will be as entertaining as it will be misinformed.
@@Jnoooooo I don't have any crayons laying about, so I suppose you're out of luck.
@@Jnoooooo you haven't been paying attention... Longmire admitted the flaw and good on him.
I don't mind clubs and coaches finding flaws in the system bit it's when that AFL don't do anything too fix them that gets me angry.
Are they really referring to Eddie ?đ
The journey to get to the mcg each year is what every player wants to do who cares who you play best team on the day wins full stop
God we are lucky to have this man. What a fantastic representative of our club.
Sydney saying they dont get a fair deal is just laughable.
I missed the bit in the interview where JL or Sydney said they donât get a fair dealâŠ
It takes bare faced lying to a pathological level.
great coach.
I agree with horse. Go and ask the Gold Coast Suns. And look at them over their history. But, I don't think the GF system should be changed. The wider grounds make for better finals. But I do advocate interstate sides building secondary MCG like grounds that can also be used for cricket, and more access to the MCG for interstate sides.
Why don't they convert the old Football Park to an MCG type ground that holds 25 thousand, use it for cricket and a ground where home games are transferred to, to even up the comp. And the other sides likewise. I am an advocate of diversity of grounds and evening up the home ground advantage of the MCG for finals.
There is too much history at the MCG to change it. Although it's a massive advantage.
NO, a best of 3 series is a HORRIBLE ideaâŠ.
I hate this.
They keep trying to make it like the nba, but the nba has never been more irrelevant than it is right now.
Non Vic Fans: Give us less travel! đ§łđ«
Non Vic Fans: Give us more games at the G' so Grand Finals aren't so biased!
Yeah that's exactly what we're asking for, what's your point? The idea is that teams like Adelaide and Freo shouldn't have to travel to places like Launceston, Ballarat, Darwin, Alice Springs, Townsville etc when instead they should be getting more games in Melbourne and ideally at the MCG so it's not so unfair come time for finals.
If it wasnât for the VFL there would be no AFL.
True as the VFL were broke and needed to be propped up. AFL over the years destroyed the game.
The interstate clubs saved the VFL. How many of them were broke in the late 80âs? Only reason they added West Coast and Brisbane was for the money.
Change up from Brownlow and Norm-Smith? Even Sir Doug Nichols is a eastern stater
Everyoneâs an eastern stater unless you are from WA champ đ
Talks about even competition yet does not discuss all the ambassador payments made to non Victorian clubs..
Swans have sold out the SCG every week for the last ten years, bring it interstate!
I am a dons supporter and a Victorian and I do agree with you to a certain degree.
I'm not going to talk about tradition or anything like that but it won't move from the MCG because the MCG can hold 100,000 and that means $$$ for the AFL.
Unfortunately, until we see a world where other states have similar size stadiums it'll never move and I don't think the AFL really cares lol
@@dilloncoleman144 Optus Stadium should of been made to hold at least 80,000. I can't see the Grand Finals ever leaving the MCG.
Best of 3 GF's would be a nightmare. Is he making a joke? My brain is exploding with all the horrors that could come out of that. Which one counts? If you are guaranteed a second GF what do you do in the first one? Getting beaten so save it for the next one? Injuries...let's have some VFL players in the GF. Imagine what a 3rd GF would look like, what a spectacle that would be. So many more...
NHL, NBA, MLB, plenty of major sports have multiple round finals. Not really that odd.
Someone said recently that the bombers are not travelling for the rest of the yearâŠ.
Wrong tree mate. Of the 6 interstate teams we've played, Essendon has been the home team twice.
Of course there's a bias. Those in Vic just won't see it. Carlton, Richmond, Collingwood get the best draws and hardly havet to travel compared to others. How is that an equa/fairl draw? When a non Vic club wins a flag it shows they've had to beat even greater odds to do so.
Collingwood also has to play home games at marvel against marvel tenants, itâs not really a home ground advantage. Would you like the WA clubs to play home games in Darwin to make up for it?
@@Comatosedpeanut Annnd there's the typical Vic bias. You think the pies having to travel to marvel is an equaliser? LOL.
Melbourne play 1 less game than Collingwood at the MCG, and they sold 2 of their games to Alice but yeah go off king.
Having the grand final in Melbourne is not an issue... I support West Coast and since we joined only hawks have won more flags than us.... it may have held other clubs back but not us
2015 would disagree. Hawks and Eagles played twice during the regular season, split 1 -1 with the home team winning. Eagles qualified higher on the ladder, beat the Hawks week one of finals and by all rights should have had home ground advantage for the GF. Instead the Hawks were gifted another MCG GF they hadnât earned and the result speaks for itself.
We used to suck at the MCG partly cos Subi was so differently shaped. Optus our new home ground is much more similar so no surprise after that we improved there, before our fall.
Relocate Sydneyâs home ground to Accor Stadium
Eh, I think one Grand Final is enough. I think the AFL is the type of sport where it should just be one game to decide it all + overtime if needed.
My competition equalisation measure is a fixture overhaul where every single team plays each other once and then we have an 18th game held in Round 20 known as rivalry round where no team has to travel (all teams get 2 byes, hence 20 rounds). The interstate teams play their instate opponents and big Vic teams get to play their main rivals which sets up really exciting win-and-in scenarios (e.g. Adelaide must beat Port to make the finals). This schedule also opens up the possibility for State of Origin to return. This should also reduce injuries and we can return to having 3 preseason games so players can get game time under their legs
Put 10 teams in Sydney all playing at the SCG (in fact move them all - including Sydney swans- from the SCG out to Olympic Stadium) then ask them if the competition is biased?
That sounds a lot like the NRL.
Put the GF is Sydney, but take Academies away.
Yeah, make it harder for teams outside Victoria to retain talent and let them go to the opposite sporting code. Thatâll really teach Sydney for spending hundreds of thousands of dollars of their funds to grow and develop the game, find players from very young ages, teach them afl and help pay for location costs and introduce talent that grows the AFL in an NRL-dominated state! How terrible of them to do that!
No one will turn up
Ridiculous comment đ€Ą
@ma3stro681 look at their NRL crowds...
Joke of a topic, these interstate teams have been in the league for 30+ years now, gather rounds. Ruled the afl premiership count from 2001-06. Merged a classic old victorian team up North. Have academies, proper home grounds, top draft picks for years to the newer teams eg. Gold Coast/GWS. A game created in Victoria has done a lot to spread this game nation wide. First world problem's brudda's
Edit: Even the 2020/2021 seasons/grannies were interstate! Not that they won em đź
The coach with all his talented players from unfair academy drafting complaining about bias đ
I don't think Swans have been hard done by...
Having a discussion about vic bias without even mentioning WA is laughable
Its a not for profit, Moneybis a consideration, but lets fave it, the AFL could take a hit every 4 years, theyll still make money, just not quite as much
Longmire wants a grand final played at SCG. No way on that soccer ground. When all teams in the AFL have their own home grounds, then we can talk about moving the Grand Final away from the MCG.
He never said that
MCG 160 meters. SCG 155 meters
@@ma3stro681 no. MCG is 180m long and 147 wide. SCG is 154m long 156m wide a circle.
There are a lot of South Melbourne supporters though. I feel worse for Fremantle and West Coast.
Freo travel 63000 kms this year Carlton and Collingwood travel under 15000kms
Just be thankful your in our the league sook
Yep, Im losing interest in footy a bit, I dont want to, I love my club, but Im naturally juat drifting away a bit.
They should move the GF every4 or 5 years, its fair.
Swans are one of the biggest looked after teams in the ALF. Whats John harping about.
Players get relocation bonuses and extra funding through their salary cap.
Wheres the bias there Johnny.
And Caro has been around way after her use by date. The more she hangs around, the more her chest is sagging.
I'm a West Coast supporter and he's 100% right. If you don't think the Victorian football league is biased towards the Victorian football league teams you are kidding yourself. It is not the AFL. I look at the fixturing. I look at the umpiring. I look at the way the games are scheduled the travel and everything else that goes on even 85% of the umpires are from one state. How do you explain 85% of the umpires are from one state and that Victoria can you also explain to me how the Victorian teams are constantly propped up with money that the interstate teams are bringing in? It is beyond a joke this league now move the AFL out of Victoria. Yes I actually think AFL House should be either in Canberra or somewhere neutral maybe even Adelaide or Perth but take the actual league itself out out of Victoria and then they might get an idea of what it's like. There are so many Victorian bias things that I see with the league it is beyond a joke. Why does the grand final need to be played in Melbourne? It's got nothing to do with how many people can fit in a ground. That's a ridiculous argument. We've seen grand finals in Perth and we've seen them in Brisbane and have a great matches. It had nothing to do with how many people could get into the ground. It should be at the highest rating team gets the Home grant advantage just like everything else, but that would upset the bloody Victorians
Everything you said is well and good. But the afl being based in Melbourne is for one reason and one reason only.
Financial benefit.
Where they are makes them the most money
Iâm getting sick of this from you interstate boys the grand final is held at the mcg cause it can fit close to 100,000 people no interstate club comes close to that, itâs also weâre the grand final traditional is held the afl house is in Melbourne because weâre most of the teams are? In MELBOURNE. Why on earth would we have a grand final in small stadiums? To appease smaller interstate clubs? If you want the grand final maybe just maybe build a staduim but at least comes close to the MCG. And as for fixturing to you want to know why so many Victoria teams donât travel because most teams are in Melbourne most of the Victorian teams use the mcg for home games then you have the rival clashes as well what kind of dumb fixture would not have Collingwood v Essendon twice or Collingwood v Carlton itâs the same for the derby.
Hey, the interstate wanted to join the Victorian league, not our problem they can't deal with the consequences
Ahh yes that demons grand final win by 74 points in Perth was a classic đ
its funny cause most of what youâre complaining about has logical and reasonable explanations, like did you not think for 1 second that maybe just maybe there are hugely larger numbers of football leagues/clubs/players/umpires in victoria due to its population and love for the sport and thus that might reflect in the % of numbers that come from victoria? no đ© things are skewed in vics favour when TEN of the 18 sides are from the state⊠like mate use your brain, why and how does it not make sense to you that the birth place of the sport which also overwhelmingly has the most professional teams and participants at amateur level is also the centre of the sport⊠woah what a crazy concept! i cant believe they wouldnât put important afl facilities in places like perth or adelaide which inherently would get far less use our of them due to their population oh and it would make it incredibly more difficult for the people that actually need to use the facilities to get there, good thinkin tho mate very good logic used there!
Of course there is Victorian bias.
10 teams in Victoria should be reduced to 8.
Merge the Dogs & North, send St Kilda to the VFL and a lot the issues will be solved.
Merge Dees, North, Saints and Hawks to be Melbourne United.
Bring in Tassie and Newcastle and Northern Australia (Cairns/NT). And possibly PNG.
@@chasindigopng, are you off your rocker đ
@@chasindigoyes, playing home games in March in the tropics! Wonât that be fun! 35 degrees and 80% humidity!!!
Mergers, manufactured teams making up half the league⊠league will go the way of the aleague in no time. Big or small people like clubs with history
Im from perth. There is massive vic bias. But still, grand final should always be at mcg.
Horse đ!!!!!!
Of course the first question and half of this interview is about Vic bias. Anything to create headlines to get people talking trash about the Swans. Classified is bottom of the barrel journalism
You're 100% right on this, could've asked any other opening question about the club, players, swans current success etc but they open with that horrid question. To top it off they didn't really have much good to say about the swans.
Also there is more than 7 articles released within the last 7 hours mostly consisting of "Longmire opens up on Victorian bias in AFL"
yeh this is dumb. just listen to Mike Fitzpatrick talking about COLA (cost of living allowance). not to mention one of the most succesful team since 1996 grandfinal against Longmire's kangaroos.
There really is nothing we can do about the travel issue for interstate teams currently, clubs just have to suck it up. The only thing would be to stop making interstate teams travel to Tasmania etc when they play north Melbourne or Darwin against Melbourne.
The grand final debate is completely different and regardless of capacity if a team wins the right to a home grand final they should be able to play it at their home ground. The supporters shouldn't have to fork out thousands of additional dollars in travel expenses to watch their team play in a grand final because the MCG can fit more people in the stands. It's completely unfair for the club and the supporters and if you argue against it you're a flop. The AFL inking that long term deal with the MCG should be torn up it's a joke
Hey hey c'mon now. Some of those poor Richmond supporters have to cross over Punt road to get from the pubs to the MCG. That's a genuine hardship.
There is no bias , wen the vfl the biggest league in Oz footy decided to open their competition to Australia other states , those state teams new exactly what they were going to get , travel yet they all wanted in stop whinging , the grand final has to be played at the mcg itâs the home ground of all Australian rules footy , grew up in NSW support carlton from vfl days late 70s followed the swans also , wen then south Melbourne relocated north , other states stop whinging or go back to ur own leagues
sydney, the afl's love child. no biases most of us just dont care..... hahahah
Amen brother
Nuanced and intelligent discussions are obviously a bit much for the likes of you....
@@Jnoooooo i can lie about how popular the swans are to other supporters.
Sydney complaining is actually quite funny. Theyâve had so many advantages over most other clubs (Victorian or not) for decades.
Here come the non Victorians having a whinge.
Name 3 of them
The AFL should do what the NFL do pick a stadium at the start of the season
Yes It should be a raffle of all the stadiums that can fit minimum 50k still but it should be random
They ain't throwing 50k worth of revenue away for us to get another Brisbane grand final or Optus grand final, let's be honest compared to MCG they were grim.
@@Fashpeaked yeah I understand that is one of the reasons
Brisbane should be band from hosting a GF again...their pregame build up tends to put people too sleep.
The AFL don't even play replays for a Grand Final these days yet you want them to play a best of 3?
I don't think so, you're just trying to sound off over nothing for controversy sake.
Victorians are gonna go to the footy people in nsw cant even turn up to nrl games
Yeah Swans sold out the SCG every week for nearly the last ten years but continue on
@@jackwaite4035scg holds less then 50,000 champ.
â@@jackwaite4035wow 50k sell out Victorian teams do that every week so what's your point?
Why have a GF at a venue where 100k people can attend when you can pack out a 50k stadium in another state.
Because Melbourne, Richmond, Collingwood and other Melbourne clubs play numerous home & away games at the MCG every year.
PROOF:
The long term "GF @ the MCG" deal came on the back of a few non-Melbourne sides winning Grand Finals. The Victorian fans got upset and the press picked up on the story and the extended-VFL (aka the AFL) acted shamefully
and BLATANTLY balanced the ship back on track for the Vic's.
No other football code around the world has (or would have) sych a biased set up.
It's about the each finalist having equal opportunity. Money from the gate is chicken feed compared to TV income etc.
It
@@peterfreeman1585the nrl has the grand finals played in Sydney every year champ. Might wanna look in your own backyard. Same with the A-League.
â@@peterfreeman1585every interstate club administrators all agreed that the MCG be the host for said time... without resolution.
These interstate coaches are right too complain but they're complaining too the wrong people.
@Comatosedpeanut
Check the records on that one Sport (Sport could be Mug in this instance).
Keep the Grand Final for the MCG but I think you could rotate the preliminary finals between two of SA, Queensland, WA, and NSW every year also elevating those games to special status.
The game should be for the local fans. I canât stand the commercialisation of the game is causing the wrong types of people to go to the game for its long term future. Itâs what the AFLW does so much better.
Rotate preliminary finals taking away the actual deserved home game of those teams who finished top 4? Dumbest comment... no.. rotate the GF location..
Longmire whinging again. Sore loser after the 2016 Grand Final and now complaints about the 'bias'. I'll have a big glass of COLA and with a side of massive concessions over the past 30 years, thanks.
Trying affording housing in Sydney champ - let's see how you go.
@@Jnoooooo Or anywhere. Who makes sure the allowance is spent on housing though and not just a player recruitment slush fund?
John Longmire to complain about VIC bias is ridiculous. COLA helped them get people for years before it was removed and their academy system is just ridiculous.
An academy system that we were forced to implement and invest in with an area that has a lack of footballing talent unlike Victoria. The academy isn't something you can blame on the Swans, more to the contrary that a lack of development by other clubs is an issue. The Swans academy was literally funded by the Swans themselves. As always VIC clubs will get what they want with these new academy rules coming in soon
He also never complained about vic bias, he just responded to a question that was asked mate. God forbid he answers a question
@@abdimohamed2945 I never stated he complained. John Longmire "complaining" would imply he did. And if you knew anything about the academics it's clear that they're not investing in underrepresented regions. They're just finding players that already play football and investing in them. The VIC and WA academies are still extremely limited in who they're allowed to sign anyway so even with the new rules it's not the same
They asked him a question and he answered it. I dunno how that is complaining.
These questions were setup as rage baits to get people to comment this kind of thing
First on the ladder and will choke in the finals Sydney ain't no threat to any club đ€Š
who do u go for
@@amazingalexap5977 sorry I don't comment back to people that ain't Aussie and love's wire be gone..
@@chriscoyne4827 u like kids
@@chriscoyne4827 I am from victoria, u from america
@@amazingalexap5977 yeah of cause you are came over here with your family I bet to take our jobs