Inaugural Crows captain Chris McDermott receives an OAM in this year’s King’s Birthday honours list, for service to Australian rules football and the community.
AFL 360 is reporting that the Commission has agreed to a 2:30pm Grand Final start for this year
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Western Bulldogs have extended coach Luke Beveridge’s contract for two more years.
The annual Australian Football Hall of Fame ceremony was held in Melbourne tonight.
North Adelaide forward and premiership coach Ken Farmer (1910-1982) was posthumously elevated to Legend status.
Inducted tonight were Nick Riewoldt, Luke Hodge, Garry Lyon, George Owens, Peter Darley, John Leedham, as well as Erin Phillips and Daisy Pearce (see AFLW thread).
The Sydney Swans recently celebrated 20 years since their 2005 premiership just over two decades to the day since that infamous mid-season clash against St Kilda and now they’ll hold a Melbourne function in the lead up to their round 18 game against them at Marvel Stadium.
https://x.com/sydneyswans/status/1932353691333587190?s=46&t=pH8Nbt9ccJOMPCwK9J4Wtg
It was also the Saints whom the Swans beat in the preliminary final on their way to the flag.
Sydney Swans CEO Tom Harley is joining the AFL this October in the new role of chief operating officer, as a deputy to CEO Andrew Dillon.
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The Geelong takeover of the league is nearing completion 
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Just the integrity unit to go and then you can finally win a flag!
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Didn’t they win a few years ago?
We’re working on it (both the takeover and the next flag 
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Bulldogs really know how to dismantle a bottom 10 side. If they were an interstate club they would have been labelled flat track bullies.
Confirmed this afternoon.
It’s crazy to me the AFL hasn’t given more Thursday night games to SA and WA clubs. They have no problem drawing big crowds for those games unlike victorian based clubs.
They probably don’t rate as well on TV in Melbourne as if it was a VIC team playing (moreso if playing another VIC team).
St Kilda and Western Bulldogs was never going to get more than 4 men and a dog.
Play Adelaide v bulldogs or Adelaide v st Kilda at Adelaide and you get 48k
Sure… but teams have to play each other at some stage, and they have to get a reasonable number of Thursday night games each.
With all the issues of the AFL fixturing (and there are many), I don’t think this is the hill to die on.
(Not to mention the WA timezone issue… no one is going to a 6:10 Thursday game at Optus, and no one on the east coast is staying up to watch Eagles and Saints kick off at 8:10.)
I just feel south Australian and western Australian teams have a proven record with the Thursday night slot. Why not give more than 2 games to them in that slot.
I have to assume the bad TV deal impacts the scheduling - lots of blockbuster games involving Melbourne teams used to be Saturday night, but Seven will want those to be Thursday and Fridays to maximise ratings, especially later in the season when they no longer need to delay the games into Adelaide/Perth.
Adelaide’s performances so far this year certainly warranted more key slots, but the AFL seem like they don’t really have a floating fixture in practice, just a delayed announcement to get an extra cycle of hype - there’s no real flexibility to adapt to how the season is going.
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