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You want a super league like war with another aussie rules comp? Are you nuts?Only if you think the AFL is the only version of a national competition that can ever exist.
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You want a super league like war with another aussie rules comp? Are you nuts?Only if you think the AFL is the only version of a national competition that can ever exist.
You want a super league like war with another aussie rules comp? Are you nuts?
No. A Super League would still have the same structure, and would be detrimental to the old clubs. I would never propose a rival league being built with new franchises.
Soooo what do you mean then?No. A Super League would still have the same structure, and would be detrimental to the old clubs. I would never propose a rival league being built with new franchises.
Soooo what do you mean then?
There are only a myriad ways if you assume a clean slate. There isn't a clean slate, there are not a myriad of ways, I would suggest there are actually very few at this point. As for making it wider and deeper, that's great. A balanced national budget with increased spending, and reduced taxes would also be great.There are a myriad of different ways you could structure a national league, or a national system.
My personal favourite at this point in time is to have the state leagues as tier one, with a national competition for the best teams in each state at the end of the season in order to crown a national champion. If people only want to go to the 'top tier' (which is very much the case in Australia), then make the top tier wider and deeper and more people should be both willing and able to attend and follow.
So you want the natioal league to be an Australian Champions League?There are a myriad of different ways you could structure a national league, or a national system.
My personal favourite at this point in time is to have the state leagues as tier one, with a national competition for the best teams in each state at the end of the season in order to crown a national champion. If people only want to go to the 'top tier' (which is very much the case in Australia), then make the top tier wider and deeper and more people should be both willing and able to attend and follow.
There are a myriad of different ways you could structure a national league, or a national system.
My personal favourite at this point in time is to have the state leagues as tier one, with a national competition for the best teams in each state at the end of the season in order to crown a national champion. If people only want to go to the 'top tier' (which is very much the case in Australia), then make the top tier wider and deeper and more people should be both willing and able to attend and follow.
Sounds like a good way to halve AFL revenues overnight.
Spending should only be a problem if it is more than revenue right? I think 500 million a year is enough to keep a few teams afloat if need be.AFL revenues arent a problem. Its spending which is a problem.
So you want the natioal league to be an Australian Champions League?
Yeah no. Youll have every player going to the top state league for the cash.
The vfl rep would murder every other states rep.
Sounds like a good way to halve AFL revenues overnight.
The AFL (which would return to being the VFL) wouldn't be the custodian of the game.
Spending should only be a problem if it is more than revenue right? I think 500 million a year is enough to keep a few teams afloat if need be.
There are a myriad of different ways you could structure a national league, or a national system.
My personal favourite at this point in time is to have the state leagues as tier one, with a national competition for the best teams in each state at the end of the season in order to crown a national champion. If people only want to go to the 'top tier' (which is very much the case in Australia), then make the top tier wider and deeper and more people should be both willing and able to attend and follow.
I get what you are saying - get rid of the one elite tier and run with multiple secondary tiers - which sounds like a good way to halve revenues overnight.
Anyway, as someone has already suggested, over time, one of the secondary tiers (let's call it the VFL) prospers and reaches a position where it can lead the charge to form a national league in the pursuit of greater revenues (let's call it the AFL).
There are several problems with this.
1) The AFL would have to allow itself to break apart. As Others have said it has rights to various club materials that make this practically impossible.
2) Assuming the AFL clubs would allow themselves either to break apart, or to be integrated into state competitions, the AFL itself is presently in effective control of the licenses of Adelaide, Port Adelaide, GWS and Gold Coast. Brisbane would fold after being unable to service debt.
3) Youd return to the old problem, Victoria would simply be too big, and the other markets would be tiny in comparison. In fact, its entirely possible that the AFL could continue in Victoria without the non victorian clubs, with only minor adjustments. Couldnt compete on attendances, memberships or tv audience money. And then guess where the players end up? And around we go.
3) See above. They would not be in competition. I would recommend the VFL would have more clubs than the SANFL and WAFL to account for the natural playing population differences.
I only had to work out the value of all the other state based sports comps (nothing), and the tv revenues the WAFL made prior to the Eagles (sweet FA). Didn't take Nostrodamus like fortune telling.Thanks Nostradamus, your knowledge of the future value of sports for television channels must have earned you plenty over the years.
I only had to work out the value of all the other state based sports comps (nothing), and the tv revenues the WAFL made prior to the Eagles (sweet FA). Didn't take Nostrodamus like fortune telling.
In these days of internationalised broadcasting, and fragmenting markets, sports teams with valuations in the billions, what do you think a suburban sports comp largely based in 1, 1 million pop city (Adelaide), with little to no interest outside the state is worth? Try and put a dollar value on it.
No idea. Why should I? The circumstances under which such a thing should be established would require a massive change in mindset from all parties, which is not going to happen this year or next.
or ever. This works great in theory, but will never fly in practice. For the same reasons it never had a chance to fly in the 70s and 80s.