One-Eyed Richmond Forum
Football => View from the Outer => Topic started by: Judge Roughneck on May 11, 2012, 09:54:01 AM
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How much longer can we have the current set up where some play gws twice and others do not?
You must play everyone once home and away. Even over the course of two years.
A non australian must look at the afl draw as a joke
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How much longer can we have the current set up where some play gws twice and others do not?
You must play everyone once home and away. Even over the course of two years.
A non australian must look at the afl draw as a joke
As opposed to the NFL where there are 32 teams you play each of the other 3 teams in your division home and away for a total of 6 games and then you play ten other games against teams from the NFC and the AFC. Teams can go for years without playing each other.
A couple of seasons back Washington played Pittsburgh for the first time in Washington for 20 or so years. Now is that a joke or what.
Yep thems are the breaks Nought and Adelaide played GWS and GC twice yet I am sure if we had this sort of blessing next year I don't think many will be complaining.
Furthermore the TV channels and the sponsors cater for a 22 week season and finals.
17 weeks this aint no suburban league we are talking about.
The reason we find the draw so unfair is that we have been crap for so long and playing the Blues Bombers, Pies, Hwaks in 6 or 7 games a year in recent history means 6-7 losses but good revenue to keep the cash flow ticking over. Once we are competitive we won't have to worry about Etihad or Cairns or Timbuktoo and we will be beating anyone anytime at the G.
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34 weeks play each other twice, 2 bye weekends, 4 weeks of finals, 40 week season, 3 months off, harden the eff up and get on with it
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34 weeks play each other twice, 2 bye weekends, 4 weeks of finals, 40 week season, 3 months off, harden the eff up and get on with it
Would be the fairest way wouldn't it, but we can't have Victoria play Tasmania in the Sheffield Shield at Junction Oval now can we? Has to be at the MCG in front of a four day total of 50 people.
Whoa :shh
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:shh ;D
Cricket can have Dec, Jan, Feb, you know "summer"
Season goes too long as it is
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34 weeks play each other twice, 2 bye weekends, 4 weeks of finals, 40 week season, 3 months off, harden the eff up and get on with it
Would be the fairest way wouldn't it, but we can't have Victoria play Tasmania in the Sheffield Shield at Junction Oval now can we? Has to be at the MCG in front of a four day total of 50 people.
Whoa :shh
Why not?
1. Great cricket grounds.
2. Pubs 25 meters away
3. Its fun to shout at shane watson
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AFL football is the most physically intense and demanding football code. Players are sore for days afterwards which is why such a priority is placed midweek recovery these days and why you could no longer have a midweek Escort cup competition like we use to in the 1980s. Playing 34 games and then finals would be brutal on the body and most players' careers would be finished by their mid 20s. The players would go for a 17 game H/A season (provided they got paid the same as now) but the tv networks would want a cut in the tv rights which obviously the AFL would say no to. The problem with this year's fixture is some teams get to play both GWS and GC twice while others only get to play each once. That's what is totally unfair. The AFL couldn't even simply make it that sides don't play both newbies twice ::). Thankfully we at least get to play the Dees and Port twice.
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wah wah wah turn it up
increase the size of lists or let rookies play whenever, or both
More games = more money from tv rights = more money to spend on playing lists
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The competition at this stage doesn't have enough elite talent to fill 18 competitive teams/lists. Right now one third of the comp. are rabble or youth sides. I'm not knocking the idea of managing lists like in Soccer gerks and maybe in 10-20 years time when the population is larger and the AFL current $$$ investment in NSW and Qld starts producing reliable quality kids each and every year from these non-traditional states we may see more depth across all clubs. However right now the overall talent pool is being stretched. Imagine being a Melbourne or Brisbane supporter going through an extended nine-month season losing 30 games :help.
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Nope
Don't buy the talent argument
Poor list management and draft choices
Talent is there
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Daniel Motlop. ;)
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Will Thursfield, Full Back of the Century
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At the end of the day the system is not right. Can you think of one small english club having to play manchester united twice. And another once per season?