Sam Edmund | The latest footy news (02.04.26)

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But if don't drive walk John County senior Gary ears. You've got your diesels your premium unlettered

Your high octanes your low octanes. We need you to not panic and play business as usual

Shitty don't let those service stations dominate you

And luckily let's wrap our arms around the service station attendance and show them love and care

Chris Scott could have given the the elbow speech. Yeah, it's looking like maybe one or two weeks

Alan jeans would have inspired us to pay the price

Our footy coaches are better at these things than our leaders

My little pit theory of the day Sam Edmund for Alex Scott and stuff to sell your livestock or sell your home

Howie Sammy Jared. I think we needed it

I don't know if you mentioned in there. We're needed in Adam Kingsley. How many high-speed how many high-speed

kilometers of you drove the suggestion was not in prime time and certainly not live right?

Okay, I needed that halftime speech re-worded. I reckon the now infamous one

Hey, just while we're on the subject of counseling each other

Can you provide me with some counseling like NFL experience yesterday? I listened to you

Safe to say it was unpleasant

And I'm sure I'm not on my own

Gee, we it was a steep learning curve under pressure when you did finally get in

After being five thousand thin the cue to find out hang on a minute

We've got to go into the map and individually click these tiny little dots

Abbott process thinking thinking only to say no

Sorry, these tickets are taken back in we go again needle in a haystack

What one wouldn't have been taken? No missed out and so on and so on and so on now I drew the line at 190

I wasn't gonna go any further one 90 in the nose bleeds

But geez, I saw some some prices laid out by the NFL yesterday

So I think I went right through this slate yesterday afternoon with a mate who had an amix card

So it was I would have just take my time once the madness had passed and the two brackets of tickets that

Ideally you would have wanted was 760 and 910. Yeah, I can't come at that that that and people will of course if you are a die-hard

Then it's and I heard a lot of your feedback yesterday

It'll be worth every cent I'm sure for those people absolutely will but did I see something like six at 100 for restricted view as well

Yeah, which seemed particularly odd

So I wonder how many are actually left over now? So there was a lot left at I would know I was I was it quarter to five

And you could get tickets in nearly every bay that had been made available if you were prepared to pay the price

so that that was an interesting

And this is the warm-up for what happens next week now people are aware

So you go okay that the mad scamper for the tickets in the 260 to

Well, I think there was 140 and 140's avatar. I couldn't say 140. No, that's the come on the 8th

There'll be a mad crush for those and then it's the what what are your price points going in it was a rude shock yesterday

There was a few different takeouts on it one was it was a bit of a reminder of

Week to week how cheap our

I was just going to say that I think the I felt that we jump up and we give them a kicking and we were often glass half empty

But our ticketing now. No, this is a one-off and it's a novelty event. So it's probably not apples

That's probably apples and oranges, but our ticketing comparatively speaking I reckon is excellent value

Excellent value and the initiatives that have been struck up

And I think the AFL is going to do more of this and they shoot over these next couple of months

So the $11 tickets for Gorns game the $3 pies at the $15 for Saturday gathering. Yeah, that's there's so much good

Will to be one with the football community and to ease you know in line with elbows

Speech last night is these are these are the most troubling times we've had since COVID

There's a lot of good will to be had here if you just find the right moments to discount

Yeah, exactly in my conversations with the league last night

There'll be some broader innovations out of gather around as well that fuel discounts for app users and so on and so on

So they'll do everything they can anyway even though it's a it's a that's a much much much broader issue than what the

Their purview covers off. I did like this from John Kennedy. Don't think fuel. Do you like that one?

Don't think fuel

Romborassi give me show me petrol and I'll shut up

Went at the petrol bowser. There's too much finesse

Yeah, indeed and there's a few Terry Wallace spew up references in here of course. There's a little bit of

Rodney Eid. How good. Yeah

Mints and off that pump

All right, so talk to me about the changes that are coming in father son and academy

Yeah, now listen clubs that I've this morning spoken to are convinced you're that the AFL has actually pulled the trigger on the most radical change to the draft

That is gifting an extra pick to those who's early picks are moved back because of bids nest day with me

Kelton reported in March that the league was considering giving clubs a pick at the end of the first round if their top five pick

Is pushed back at least one position. So Richmond last year they had picked three and four they became seven and eight

Was shunted back amid a glut of rival bids as well. So under that scenario

Both the tigers and the bombers would be given an extra pick now

The clubs I was spoken to this morning are adamant that the league has now decided upon this

There's been no official word from the league

But a couple of clubs I spoke to said it's been decided it will come in and that in fact these clubs are claiming

It is the AFL commission that's driven this rather than the league's list management department

And it's fair to say they're not overly thrilled by Jared

They're asking questions like how does subsidy equal a fair market

How do you explain trying to uncompromise a draft by adding more compromise because this is all on top of the other changes

That'll be revealed maybe next week the top four tax for the best performing clubs

Which you'll see them pay more to match father son and academy players and as we know they'll only have two picks to do it

Rather than the banking the swag of back end picks like we've seen in years gone by so bottom line blues and power

We'll cough up a record price for Cody Walker and Dougie Cochran

But when the bids come for them early, which they definitely will not even be one and two

It'll see other clubs with top five picks get an extra at the end of first round

So bottom five clubs this year Jared. Let's say maybe it's Richmond might be resonant

They're going to get an extra pick as a result of the early bids for Cochran and Walker

So instead of moving towards a pure

Draft we are actually going to convoluted further it would appear that way under the guise of let's fast track the rebuilds

Why should suffering clubs

Suffer further by having their pointy end draft picks which they desperately need move back because of rival bids

But gee, we's it'll be open to all sorts of compromise some would say manipulation some would say I'll scratch your back

You scratch mine. I think we'd be naive to think that doesn't happen

It's been workshop by the league behind the scenes now for several weeks

But the clubs I've spoken to this morning multiple are saying this is definitely coming in. I actually hope they're wrong

But that's what they're saying at the moment

That's not the answer

That we should be going the complete other way to that yeah, how about we just look this would be incredibly harsh on clubs

But how about we just open it up the top five the top five picks in particular don't don't have them being able to be

Tied to clubs now. It's a that's a bigger conversation of course

And maybe needs a longer runway, but uh the longer it's gone. I've sort of coming around to your line of thinking

Let's just start 18 first round draft picks and they go to the worst clubs only yeah

And then if you want to make small concessions along the way, but there are only 18 and it serves

The draft and it also serves the trading period instead of this preposterous idea of offering three first round picks

And they're somewhere in the 20s. There's this esoteric idea of what they're going to update your worst possible result

Is if you're bargaining partner wins three straight flags. Yeah, three 18s. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah

I can't to not be heading in that direction and instead be strained towards oh

Let's just give away a few more picks at the end of the first round. Yep to try to cover for what's happening earlier on that that is self-defeating

Yeah, so look I hope they're wrong is don't official word from the AFL yet

But I'll tell you a couple of people high up in club land that I spoke to today said on art's done

It is absolutely done and and it's coming in and

When it does land and the stack of changes in and within it will be a talking point for a while

I think so and and all this by the way I need to repeat will be instituted this year

We're talking just a few months down the track here in november. Yeah, so this is the overdue homework

It's a couple of years overdue. Yeah, yeah, so it's a it's a it's a big it's a big watch this space that one

So anyway, we'll see how it goes

Sam. Thank you. Thanks to Sam Edmunds whether it's selling your livestock or selling your home contact Alex Scott and staff today

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