Sadly the NGA's have much of the shonky deals feel about them - its zoning by stealth. At least it is limited to certain players so can't be a complete reintroduction of zoning by stealth, but there are already multiple examples of where players with already very well established pathways to AFL footy are being hoovered up by clubs under the NGA, claimed as their own - even where the clubs have had to do practically nothing to develop the talent.
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Good points Barry. Whenever one picks an argument with a Victorian based team's supporter, they always underplay the substantial advantage of playing a number of their 'away' games either at their home ground, or one just a few minutes down the road. Its a hard one to unpick, but I like the way you have presented it here.
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