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2011年7月2日星期六

Lions stung for cap breach

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Posted July 1, 2011 18:56:00

Brisbane has been fined more than $21,000 for breaching the AFL Player Rules this season.

The AFL found the Lions had breached the Total Player Payment rules through an administrative error.

AFL football operations manager Adrian Anderson says the club had voluntarily disclosed the breach as soon as it was discovered.

Tags: sport, australian-football-league, australia, qld, brisbane-4000

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AFL throws Port $9m lifeline

Struggling Port Adelaide's future has been guaranteed for the next three years with a $9 million AFL welfare package.

Port will be given $3 million a year until 2013 ahead of the club's move from Football Park in suburban Adelaide to the redeveloped inner-city Adelaide Oval.

AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou said the league would provide $1 million a year direct to the club starting this year.

The remaining $2 million a year will come from an AFL loan to the South Australian Football Commission, which will then provide the money to Port as a grant.

It is part of a $12 million financial package for South Australian football.

Crosstown rival Adelaide will also be provided with $1 million a year until it also shifts to Adelaide Oval.

Demetriou said the financial support would help Port shore up its future ahead of the ground move, with the club drowning in red ink and attendances spiralling downwards for home matches at Football Park.

"We don't want them not to be competitive on the football field for three years ... hopefully this financial injection gives them that opportunity," he said on Thursday.

"We need to ensure both clubs are protected until they get to Adelaide Oval.

"We need ... to shore up South Australian football to keep them going, keep them strong so they compete at the highest level."

But Demetriou said Port's package would come with strings, including a board revamp with two new members, a new governance structure and financial targets the club must reach.

Port's licence is owned by the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).

As a test run for the eventual move to Adelaide Oval, Port Adelaide will play its round 24 match this year against Melbourne at the ground.

Port president Brett Duncanson said the bail-out was a welcome relief for the cash-strapped club.

"The reality is that we have faced challenging times. But through a lot of hard work we have begun turning around our bottom line while still generating significant revenue for football in South Australia," Duncanson said in a statement.

"We have worked hard to help ourselves but the reality is that we needed to get something back to allow us to move forward."

Demetriou said the AFL was happy with how the Crows were travelling financially.

Their financial package is just to help ease the strain ahead of their Adelaide Oval move.

"They are a very, very well run club. There are absolutely no conditions with the Adelaide Football Club," Demetriou said.

"They are a club which will lose money this year mainly as a result of AAMI Stadium and the transition from AAMI to Adelaide Oval."

- AAP

Tags: sport, australian-football-league, australia, sa, adelaide-5000, port-adelaide-5015

First posted June 30, 2011 16:04:00

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Hawks flying under the radar: Malthouse

Collingwood coach Mick Malthouse says there has been too much focus on the AFL's top two sides this season.

Malthouse says fourth-placed Hawthorn - which the Magpies face in a blockbuster game at the MCG on Sunday - has flown under the radar, even though it is one of several sides breathing down the necks of ladder leader Geelong and reigning premier Collingwood.

"Geelong right now are undefeated and we're the reigning premiers, so the focus seems to go to how those two top sides are going," Malthouse said.

"But directly underneath us are three or four sides only one or two games off that and Hawthorn's one of those.

"Their form has been outstanding and I believe their kicking skills are the equal of any side I've ever seen, collectively."

Malthouse said the Hawks have been the major innovators in recent years.

"Our game is shuffled and shifted and, for a number of years now, it has gone in various directions, but Hawthorn actually defensively took it to a new level a few years ago," he said.

"Then Geelong took their mass possession rate from the mid 300s to 500, and I don't think we'd ever think a side would get the ball 500 times (in a game).

"Now the Hawks are either first or second in total disposals and we know they use it by foot better than anyone - so they've gone another level again.

"They're a very dangerous side and (forward Lance) Franklin coming back in the side makes them even more dangerous.

"He's one of the most influential players playing league football."

Hawthorn is missing a host of key players including forwards Cyril Rioli and Jarryd Roughead, midfielder Brad Sewell and key defenders Ryan Schoenmakers, Stephen Gilham and Ben Stratton (all injured), plus the suspended Jordan Lewis, but Malthouse said that was irrelevant.

Malthouse said the strengths of some of Hawthorn's younger players was a focus of Thursday morning's team strategy meeting.

"They're winning a lot of games and they're winning them because of these kids who are performing at a very, very high level - as high as their main players," he said.

"We're very aware of it."

However Malthouse said the Magpies would not be panicked into changing their tactics.

"I don't want to sound as if we know it all, because we don't, but this game structure has been in place now for three or four years," he said.

"We've condensed it, we've shuffled it, we've screwed it down here and released it in other areas and it's served us well.

"We will worry about Hawthorn but we are not going to go 'well, we need to change our whole structure'."

- AAP

Tags: sport, australian-football-league, vic, collingwood-3066, hawthorn-3122

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Saints, Kangas hunting each other

St Kilda coach Ross Lyon suspects his team is hunting North Melbourne as much as the other way around.

Their twilight AFL clash at Docklands this Sunday comes at a crucial stage of the season for the two teams.

North are just out of the top eight and are on a roll with four-straight wins, but they have a terrible record against the Saints.

St Kilda is coming off the bye - a big problem for teams this season - and was regaining form before the break.

While the Saints are 13th and only have four and a half wins from 12 games, they are on the tail end of a tight battle through the middle of the ladder.

They sit only two wins behind eighth-placed Melbourne.

St Kilda has won nine of its last 12 games against North and easily beat them twice last season.

"They've made big inroads, they've won four in a row, they're looking for five," Lyon said of North.

"We're a scalp they traditionally haven't been able to get lately, maybe once or twice.

"They'll probably see us as a scalp, but where they're at now, we're probably hunting them just as much."

The Saints have won three of their last five games and felt they were competitive against top sides Geelong and Collingwood.

"Certainly we're, in a weird way, in the mix aren't we - with 10 games to go we're capable," he said.

"We've shown against the best we're not out of our weight division ... we haven't given away the season."

The form of captain Nick Riewoldt remains a talking point and he only managed seven touches in their last game against Geelong.

Riewoldt spent some time training away from the main group on Wednesday, doing extra ball work with Raphael Clarke.

Lyon said the issue was as much about the ball supply to Riewoldt in attack as it was about how the captain was playing.

"He's been steady and he's had some good games - (against Geelong) he worked really hard, but we didn't actually kick it to him much, I think we only kicked it to him nine times inside forward 50," he said.

"He's not quite at those lofty standards, but I'm sure if he keeps working hard, he will attain them at some point."

St Kilda won its previous game after the bye, narrowly beating Brisbane in round five.

Lyon said unlike back then, the club had given the players plenty of time off over the last week.

They were allowed to travel, provided they stayed fit.

"They spend time anywhere they like and do what they want, as long as they keep their physical conditioning up - that's a trust issue and traditionally we've been able to deliver on that," Lyon said.

"If you're taking a shortcut, we'll soon find out Sunday [at] 4:40 against the Kangaroos."

- AAP

Tags: sport, australian-football-league, australia, vic, north-melbourne-3051, st-kilda-3182

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AFL says players rejected $1.1b offer

AFL players have been offered $1.1 billion over five years for their new pay deal but have rejected it, says league chief Andrew Demetriou.

Demetriou said the players had offered a deal which could be either taken up front in salary or split as part-wages, part-pension plan.

But instead they are holding out for a percentage of between 25 and 27 per cent of total AFL revenue.

Demetriou said he believed agreement would eventually be reached between the league and players' union.

Players all but ruled out strike action at a meeting in Melbourne on Wednesday night, although they remain united in their demands for a percentage-based cut of AFL cash.

Demetriou said he would be happy to address players directly on the issue, and on the AFL's opposition to a fixed percentage pay deal.

"The more we can inform them the better," he said.

"The package we've offered is around the $1.1 billion (mark) and that really equates to what the broadcast rights cash component is.

"We'll work collaboratively and constructively to get an outcome."

- AAP

Tags: sport, australian-football-league, nsw, sydney-2000, qld, brisbane-4000, sa, adelaide-5000, vic, melbourne-3000, wa, perth-6000

First posted June 30, 2011 17:09:00

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AFL players strike unlikely over pay dispute

Posted June 29, 2011 12:57:00

The AFL Players' Association (AFLPA) says a play dispute with the league is unlikely to end in strike action despite a mass meeting of players in Melbourne tonight.

The players are expected to formally reject the league's offer of a three per cent pay rise.

They want a bigger cut of the increased revenue generated by the latest broadcast rights deal.

The association's Ian Prendergast says the players will look at their rights, but hope to avoid a strike.

"I think players are strongly committed to playing football. That's not to say that there aren't other options available to players," he said.

He says the players want a cut of the increased revenue generated by the latest broadcast rights deal.

"Players are really looking to be considered genuine partners in the game and the proposal that the AFL have put quite simply doesn't meet that objective."

Tags: australian-football-league, melbourne-3000

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Port boss quits troubled club

The chief executive of debt-ridden Port Adelaide has quit a day after detailing a multi-million dollar bailout which ensures the AFL club's survival.

Mark Haysman resigned as chief executive within 24 hours of the AFL-endorsed $9 million rescue plan for the cash-strapped Power.

Port will receive $3m a year until its move of home games to Adelaide Oval in 2014, a switch the club says will guarantee its financial future.

Haysman, who joined the club in October 2008, denies his resignation was a condition of the AFL rescue deal.

But the SANFL, the holder of Port's AFL licence, was known to have moved to replace Haysman in the past month.

"I reckon there is more politics in footy than there is politics," Haysman said.

"That plays out as it does.

"You have just got to keep your head down and focus on what it is you are trying to achieve and that is certainly what I have done.

"What has been out there over the last six to eight weeks hasn't been helpful. Potentially, you could argue it has been destabilising for our football club.

"All of that worked its way into my mind as I made some decisions about what to do with my life and what was next.

"One, the club doesn't need to be in a destabilising environment.

"Two, I don't need that in my life. I have got other things I can do.

"As much as I have loved my time here, it's time to do something different now."

The chartered accountant said he realised when joining the club that drastic change was needed to "put Port Adelaide back together".

"When I got here, I realised there was a big change agenda that was required," he said.

"There was no holding back. That needed to be done.

"I didn't shirk any issues on behalf of this football club ... to make change can be uncomfortable."

Port Adelaide president Brett Duncanson said the club will utilise AFL networks in a nationwide search for a new chief executive, to be appointed before the end of the season.

Meanwhile, emerging Port midfielder Hamish Hartlett will play against Brisbane on Sunday knowing his season could end at any moment.

Hartlett dislocated his left shoulder during Port's loss to North Melbourne last week, but has surprisingly been cleared for the Brisbane trip.

Power coach Matthew Primus said Hartlett would be sent for season-ending surgery if the shoulder dislocated again.

"If he has another episode, we'll put him out for the season and get it operated on, so whether that is this game or in another four or five games, time will tell," he said.

- AAP

Tags: australian-football-league, sa, adelaide-5000, port-adelaide-5015

First posted July 1, 2011 15:09:00

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