Hardwick wants 17-game season (Herald-Sun)

[Hellenic Tiger]

No way dimmer 17 game season
I couldn't bare an extra 5 weeks of waiting
The afl won't do it they will lose millions on tv rights plus ticketing
Clubs memberships will also be affected
This is my system


The only way to square up the draw is as follows
Each team plays each other once : 17 games
The draw is then divided into 3 groups of six
Top six
Seventh to twelfth
Thirteenth to last
These teams play each other once which is 22 games
Now if you finish in the top six you can't drop out of it but position can change
7 th to 12 th can only make the eight
13 to 18 fight for the draft picks
To stop tanking
13 th get no 1
18 th get no2
14 gets 3
17 gets 4
16 gets6
15 gets 5
This system stops dead rubbers and stops people losing interest and creates five rds of block busters
Rfc

You cannot fixture for 6 weeks when positions have not been determined.

Affects home and away games for clubs, sponsors, travel arrangements club and fans ground usage, club memberships. The number of hot dogs and pies the staff from spotless have to cater for. Beer deliveries light beer at night full strength during the day. Too difficult.

Six weeks of blockbusters and whose to say if the season is close as it is now with Freo in 13th one win outside the 8 can they still make the 8 or b/c they are 13th they play the last third of teams and the best they can do is 13th. Does not will not work. Does not cater for a number of scenarios.

[Judge Roughneck]

Can you think of a english top flight club having to play manutd twice and norwich one?

Ie. Collingwood or geelong oncd and gws twice?

It would be laughed at.

[Hellenic Tiger]

Can you think of a english top flight club having to play manutd twice and norwich one?

Ie. Collingwood or geelong oncd and gws twice?

It would be laughed at.

Do not compare to EPL or European football. Although they play each other twice and some clubs have Euro fixtures and Cup fixtures and some players also have National Team Duties the season has always lasted for 9 months and in every 2 years for some 10 months given they are on Euro or World Cup Duties and the season begins in 6 weeks in England.

Players are conditioned to play for that long but the physical demands on the players whilst great they have huge squads transfer windows to buy players at 2 stages during the year have no salary caps as we do and can loan players from other clubs with the only restriction being that a player loaned out cannot play against the parent club.

In AFL we don't have such rules and mechanisms in place as Euro football does and therefore taking all the aforementioned points into account you cannot sit there and compare apples to oranges.

In theory playing every team home and away and having a 34 week Home and Away season and then four weeks of finals would be fair but in the current climate you cannot do that and whilst Coll travelling interstate less than others and having 16 games at the G is not fair given they use their b/s membership figures as an excuse for that to happen we will have to deal with the current system. Plus the demands and physicality of AFL are far far greater than an EPL game.

[tigs2011]

Must happen. Current system is not fair

It's not fair for teams trying to make the 8 but realistically it doesn't affect who wins the flag.

[gerkin greg]

yep the draw really only effects the mid table teams

[Coach]

I've always thought that if you're good enough to play finals, you will play finals. No excuses. If you miss the 8 then you were never a chance for the flag anyway.

Cop at fat one Dimma and keep your theories to yourself.

[rfctigers05]

My system is much fairer than the current Collingwood fixture
You have to do something about this embarrassing setup and the only way to do it is to revise the last five rounds otherwise north gets to play the minnows twice as seen and probably sneak in the 8 and be involved in a non watch game

[rfctigers05]

The fool who was comparing the epl to the afl needs a brain transplant since the epl have a fair draw not a fixed fixture certain clubs
The Trojan horse is killing our game with all these hack teams

[Coach]

The fool who was comparing the epl to the afl needs a brain transplant since the epl have a fair draw not a fixed fixture certain clubs
The Trojan horse is killing our game with all these hack teams

8 posts on a footy ground is enough
Sorry Jayden get tough and fly out of Terry's

[tigs2011]

The fool who was comparing the epl to the afl needs a brain transplant since the epl have a fair draw not a fixed fixture certain clubs
The Trojan horse is killing our game with all these hack teams

8 posts on a footy ground is enough
Sorry Jayden get tough and fly out of Terry's

EFA

[rfctigers05]

Brendan and Cameron both need to be swabbed
That proposal will kill the game for good you can't set a fixture preseason
The last five rounds need to be set at end of round 17
Remember it's a fixture not a draw for a fixture to be fair it needs to be looked at the time of implementation ie rd17 end of
Come on Dimmer get our boys fit enough to play 26 games premiers asap

[mightytiges]

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

no way they will drop their TV rights revenue for a shorter and fairer draw

Exactly TV rights went into billions a shorter season and the cake will get dramatically smaller next time. Furthermore NRL season runs for much longer than 22-23 rounds that we have and if AFL shorten the season you'll find the AFL will lose TV rights and sponsors to the NRL and the AFL is priding itself in growing the sport in Western Sydney and South East Queensland. It will only make their job just that little bit more difficult.

Won't happen too many teams and lots of footy nuts who'll go crazy.

Spot on TM and Tucky. A 17 week H/A season wouldn't be that unusual for oldtimers as up until the late 60s the VFL had just 18 rounds before moving to the 22. However no way will the AFL commissioners, coaches and players take a 25% pay cut as that's what reducing the season to 17 H/A rounds would mean.

[Smokey]

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

no way they will drop their TV rights revenue for a shorter and fairer draw

Exactly TV rights went into billions a shorter season and the cake will get dramatically smaller next time. Furthermore NRL season runs for much longer than 22-23 rounds that we have and if AFL shorten the season you'll find the AFL will lose TV rights and sponsors to the NRL and the AFL is priding itself in growing the sport in Western Sydney and South East Queensland. It will only make their job just that little bit more difficult.

Won't happen too many teams and lots of footy nuts who'll go crazy.

Spot on TM and Tucky. A 17 week H/A season wouldn't be that unusual for oldtimers as up until the late 60s the VFL had just 18 rounds before moving to the 22. However no way will the AFL commissioners, coaches and players take a 25% pay cut as that's what reducing the season to 17 H/A rounds would mean.

Hey hey hey, watch out who you're calling old timer!   

 

[cub]

$200 & $300 Richmond and mcc memberships respectively then, won't happen

[WA Tiger]

FFS.... Yep let's stuff it up even more, what's the go Damien, too hard to get into the 8 with 22 games???