Shannon Gill

Now, the fact that players were asked to take pay cuts and a lot of them end up playing in this game is, hold that thought, we'll get back to it later, that a bit of money wouldn't be frowned upon at this point in time.

So it is seen as a huge mismatch.

In the New South Wales defence though, they had done very well at the 1988 carnival and

By all means, they were the next.

If you weren't playing South Australia and Victoria were scheduled to play a game against WA, the next team on the ladder, so to speak, was New South Wales.

But it was probably a handy smokescreen for what the AFL were trying to do.

Yeah.

I mean, look, this was Lou Rich's stock and trade, but it might be his best ever.

And he talks about New South Wales coach, was coached by Colin Kinnear, who was also the Swans coach.

And he says, the truth is cunning Cole is still checking with the register of births, deaths, and marriages to see who else he can sneak in.

We might use that one later on.

Poor.

Yeah, it wasn't really exciting people in Sydney.

And there's a quote from Mike Coward writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, arrogance and hypocrisy rule as AFL set up needless sacrifice.

This idea that this...

The war that they're waging in South Australia has actually set up New South Wales as the sacrificial lamb, that they're going to get blown off the park.

The game is going to be attended by a very low crowd.

It's going to be terrible for footy in New South Wales, and it's all because Victoria wants to make a point to South Australia.

Oh, shout out to Craig because he is a big part of this.

All right.