Blog Your Brains Out: Where is the AFL’s new frontier?
The Demons want to play more games at Manuka Oval (despite drawing a crowd of less than 12,000 last weekend.) They reckon they make a loss on the games they play against the Brisbane Lions and Sydney at the MCG, so they need to look at alternative venues. Where could they play these troublesome games?
Jeff: Why not move a game to Mount Bulla? It might snow but they play soccer in the snow in England. They use a special orange ball.
Paul: It’s a longshot but I think maybe they should think about playing in front of some big crowds at a little ground that I like to call the MCG. If they focussed on finding some supporters in their home town then maybe, just maybe, they’d have a successful club on their hands.
Tell us where you think the new AFL frontier could be?
June 24th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Another good show guys. Paul can try and justify Collingwood’s loss anyway he likes, but I think the Pies have had it. But I would like to thank Collingwood for using their best performance of the year to whip the Cats into gear. So now when it comes to finals time we will be well prepared if we meet the Pies. Also the Cats are fantastic to watch when their at full flight and the weekends game was no exception.
As for the AFLs new frontier, I reckon they should have some games at Wagga. Even though its in NSW it has a big Aussie Rules following and would get more than 11000 to a game. It’s the sporting capital of NSW and some big stars have come from there. Wayne Carey, Paul Kelly, The Danaher’s, Cameron and Jason Mooney, Adam Schneider and Henry Playfair. Oh and speaking of Bogans, go for a walk down the main street of Wagga on a Saturday. I guarantee you’ve never seen so many people wearing ugboots and flannelette shirts in the one place.
June 25th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
hahaha. Thanks Scott. Wow, I didn’t know all those players came from Wagga Wagga. Quite an impressive list (although you’re pushing it with Henry Playfair.) Maybe the 18th Club should be based there instead of west Sydney or whatever.
Jeff
June 26th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
good show as always fellas. A few trivia corrections from last week. The Southern Stand was opened as you say at the Cricket world cup. This was held in 1994 and the final was between England and Pakistan. It was a great game, with Pakistan, led by Imran Kahn prevailing by around 40 runs. The official opening of the southern stand was that evening. Regarding Setanta O’hAlpin, many people don’t know, but he is actually from a hurling background. Unlike other Irish footy players he has never played Gaelic football. Hurling is similar to lacrosse, with lots of contact. The O’hAlpin boys (his brother Aisake also is a listed Carlton player) were young champions in hurling but decided to try footy in Oz. Their rapid development is quite impressive given that they only picked up a footy 3 years ago. So maybe the new frontier is more international players and taking our great game to the world. Everyone will realise how good it is and take to it with gusto. The year 2064 could see the Grand Final played between the Wellington Kiwis and the Johannasburg Zebras in Singapore.
June 26th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Now im not a nerd that has to correct everything and always be right. But the Great Southern Stand was opened in 1992, which was also the year of the World Cup.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:58 am
My mistake Scott, you are correct- it was 1992. And nothing wrong with being right- sure beats being wrong. There was a funny ground announcer on the night. Periodically throughout the game, the announcer would ask that a Ben Dover or a Mike Hunt come to the admin office in the Olympic stand - the 90,000 odd crowd was in stitches. It happened a few times over the evening- can’t imagine it happening now though.
June 28th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Melbourne should give up on Canberra and the AFL should go for a real frontier.
No-one is worried about playing Melbourne at the moment so maybe the AFL should go the whole hog and expand into Bagdad with Melbourne as the Guniea Pig. That would ensure the teams playing them would at least be filled with trepidation whenever they drew Melbourne at home.
Can you imagine the 2007 Geelong premiership team piling into a bunch of blackhawk helicopters and flying into the green zone to take on Cam Bruce and the boys. Bullets are wizzing by and maybe Andy Mahr would be an unfortunate casualty before he could fill our ears with his cliche wonderland. Television Gold!!
With the bullets wizzing by and pinging off the choppers before landing Bernie Eccelston style in the middle of Bagdad Park (Known as Blackwater Dome), the only player that would probably feel comfortable would be Didak who seems to be used to that sort of thing happening.
While he is there Garry Jnr could probably stay and broker a peace agreement between the factions, there seems to be nothing this man can’t do.