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Re: 2019 AFL Fixture

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Isn't the bottom line thought that your ability to hit back without repercussion is very much dependent on your position both off-field and on-field.
If you're strong in both areas it gives you a fair bit of leverage.
Weak in both areas and they'll walk all over you!

Quite true Lods.

But I cannot help but feel that much of the AFL Media are basically bullies, and a heavily biased bunch of bullies at that, which means going meekly into the night won't save you! They'll always choose the soft target, they have no honour!

I've no doubt that this draw is a reaction to those bullies, because late in the season when the OzTam published the numbers our TV ratings were actually 3rd on the AFL table behind the Filth and Nthmond. So if nothing else we are victims of a political campaign, regardless of whether subjectively it is justified or not, it has become the fashion to blame us for all the AFL's ills, a confirmation bias covering over the real problems like the horrible broadcast line up and the slovenly cheap coverage! The time has past for CheatsTV, they are yesterday's men but they are determined to go down fighting! Why not us?

They want high scoring not because it's better to watch, but because the Sydney HQ of CheatsTV demands more advertising opportunity! They hated our 2017, we put the brakes on and made closer results after they complained about blow-outs, and then they complained about low scoring. There is only one thing that makes them happy, shoot outs, uncontrolled random crap shoots!

CheatsTV really want an AFL version of Basketball with 30 goals each plus timeouts(60 or more Ad breaks in 2hrs of sport) and a final term 2pt result for the highlight reel! Even some of the suggested rule changes seem to support this! Nobody within the trade will highlight that, because most importantly AFL is not about the fans, and this is not about making the game better to watch for the people who actually go to it, it's about making money for players, clubs, coaches, media and contractors!

The less scoring there is, the less Ad breaks they have, the more dependant CheatsTV becomes on it's bargain basement broadcast crew, and the worse the final product! SydneyHQ knows that if clubs like Carlton turn games into an arm-wrestle the broadcast talent budget will have to go through the roof, because the current set of slovenly downhill skiing spuds do not cut it!

As old mate Dylan states,

Rage, rage against the dying of the light!

By the way Lods, do you get the irony of the current barrage of media commentary talking about the unfair fixture, yet it's the very fixture they asked for?
The Force Awakens!