Foxtel Cup expansion

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Jascave

Jascave

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To make the Foxtel Cup more interesting, why couldn't the competition be expanded to be a 24-team knock-out comp, with club teams from the VAFA, VCFL, EFL, SFL, WRFL be given a chance to mix it with the big-name clubs like Port Melbourne, Williamstown, Port Adelaide Magpies, Norwood, East Fremantle and Subiaco? For example, how would Premier/A Section VAFA premiership team Uni Blacks go up against ie Subiaco at Etihad Stadium?
 
Jascave said:
To make the Foxtel Cup more interesting, why couldn't the competition be expanded to be a 24-team knock-out comp, with club teams from the VAFA, VCFL, EFL, SFL, WRFL be given a chance to mix it with the big-name clubs like Port Melbourne, Williamstown, Port Adelaide Magpies, Norwood, East Fremantle and Subiaco? For example, how would Premier/A Section VAFA premiership team Uni Blacks go up against ie Subiaco at Etihad Stadium?
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They'd get their s**t kicked in.

The problem with Australian Football as opposed to soccer is that it's a big jump between standards in tiers.
 
Firstly, given they recently cut the competition in half they won't be expanding any time soon.
Secondly, they would get pummelled.

I'd really like to see an SANFL side take this comp as anything other than a joke; just to see if VFL and WAFL sides could come near them if they did. In stead
SANFL teams seem to gomout with an almost complete 2nd/3rd string side every match. VFL and WAFL sides don't seem to play their full first team either, but usually somerthing far closer to it.

A suburban team from any of Melbourne, Adelaide or Perth would wipe the floor with the TSL premiers, because Tasmanian footy is basically dead, and might beat most NEAFL teams but that's it.
 

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FootyJunkie said:
It's a shame... it's the closest thing to an FA Cup style comp for Aussie Rules... if only all leagues co-operated.
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You only have to see how successful the FFA Cup has been to the FFA and why the AFL are lagging so far behind when it come to organising competitions such as the Foxtel Cup. If the comp was called the AFL Champions League, then comps such as the SANFL might force their top clubs to play in the event.
 
MortlockWatcher said:
Australian Rules, more like.

They need to be drafted by an AFL club to play AFL
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"Australian Rules" ? What Australian, rules what ?
Oh, you mean "Australian Rules Football". Why the need for "rules" ?
One would imagine that Australian Football uses rules from Australia just like American, Canadian and Irish football uses rules from their country.
The use of "Rules" is redundant. In fact there are no rules in Australian Football - they are LAWS.
Sounds like Dodgeball - the Australian Rules Football League of Australia!!!!
Historically and up to recently it has been called just plain old "football" - even in NSW.
Of course we need to put an adjective up there to distinguish it from other football codes.

But seriously.
The problem with the Champions League is that it is/was constructed for television to fill a perceived gap in their programming.
Take the same idea, take the state premiers and have playoffs AFTER the AFL season and you have...
A premiers league, no AFL distractions, media focus, state vs state implications - in effect a second NATIONAL competition.
Play it at night under lights to avoid any heat problems.
It should be profitable.
 
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