Above I’ve detailed what it is, which is just 3v6 and 4v5 included in that 1st week.
A top 10 finals series works like a top 5 anyway. No need to split them into two groups.
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AFL Introduces Wild Card Round
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A top 10 finals series works like a top 5 anyway. No need to split them into two groups.
They aren't good points though.
The only reason to do it is money.
It's not wanted or needed, those are the best points.
I like it just for the fact the bye week now has games and the AFL look silly for the reason they bought it in, in the 1st place.
Now we might have teams 7-10 resting players in the final round again, if they can’t drop down. For example Sydney in 10th could have done that this year.
Andrew Dillon also said they liked the bye to give all the teams an even chance. Now he changes that haha.
Why’d we have the pre finals bye again?
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I think this all raises an important question:
Is Andrew Dillon running the game into the ground with his incompetence?
Is Andrew Dillon running the game into the ground with his incompetence?
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Wildcard is shit.
Do it like this:
Wk 1
A: 3 v 6
B: 4 v 5
C: 7 v 10
D: 8 v 9
Wk 2:
E: 1 v Winner B (4 or 5)
F: 2 v Winner A (3 or 6)
G: Loser B v Winner D (4 or 5 v 8 or 9)
H: Loser A v Winner C (3 or 6 v 7 or 10)
Wk 3:
I: Loser E v Winner H (1,4 or 5 v 3,6,7 or 10)
J: Loser F v Winner G (2,3 or 6 v 4,5,8 or 9)
Wk 4:
K: Winner E v Winner J
L: Winner F v Winner I
Wk 5:
GF
Hope that confuses you more than Eddie’s plan.
The bye prior the finals has become awkward so that rationale about giving all teams an even chance has been quietly forgotten
Another option was to keep the final 8 as it is
AFL stick your fookin wild card round right up your fooking arse....the complete Morons running this game are destroying this once great game ....I'm looking at you Dillion you peanut and ya lacky Laura Kane...Swan has proven he's just an AFL stooge & fook you Hocking for being the biggest fookwit for the stand rule ....all of you are complete fooking Morons !!!
This is the main point for me.
Of all the things in the game that could or should be improved, the final 8 system was not one of them. Nobody complained about the finals system. They complained about home ground advantage and scheduling/days rest - but not about the system itself.
Given how much footy fans complain about literally everything - it is so bizarre to change the only thing they don't complain about.
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It doesn't bother me too much. Many decent sides/reigning premiers have slipped to 9th/10th and this gives them a look in to finish the season on a high. 2024 Carlton (8th) v Collingwood (9th) would have been great. 2009 rematch of Essendon v Hawthorn after what Lloyd did the week earlier etc.
I do want to see the Marvel tenants/Geelong be able to host these wildcard games at their home ground. Wildcard games should not be part of any MCC agreements with the AFL
I do want to see the Marvel tenants/Geelong be able to host these wildcard games at their home ground. Wildcard games should not be part of any MCC agreements with the AFL
or we could use these wildcard games to fullfill mcg commitments so that when geelong earns a home prelim final against pies, richmond, hawthorn, sydney, lions its actually played in geelong.
why are we trying to be America here for our game is unique
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Mediocre club’s executives and coaches are going to love this, another metric to keep your head above water.
‘We lost the wild card game by a goal - lots to build on for next year.’
Going to be ****in painful.
‘We lost the wild card game by a goal - lots to build on for next year.’
Going to be ****in painful.
Current system has a massive advantage between 4 and 5, and then 8 and 9.
Top 10 (if you actually implemented the old final 5 principles) just staggers the advantage better
1&2 get the big reward, the big advantage is 2 over 3
3-6 next grouping, 6 a big advantage over 7
7-10 the final grouping, 10 a big advantage over 11
The other thing too is, it is NOT the "YOU'RE LIVING IN THE PAST YOU HATE CHANGE!!!" hysteria that can and has been thrown out. It isn't about change, it's about whether it improves the game and/or the competition.
Some changes have been very, very good for the game. For instance:
- Centre square. It wasn't introduced until the mid-1970s (there was the weird diamond for a season or two beforehand), but it's hard to argue the ground looks much better with it. Easier for umpires to adjudicate decisions to do with distance as well.
- Out of bounds rule. Back in the day, it was like soccer - last team to touch the ball, free kick to the other team. Having a boundary throw-in was a sensible adjustment. And you still had a free kick for kicking it out on the full. Common sense.
- Interchange bench. Once upon a time it was a 19th or 20th man, and they were like substitutes in soccer. Once you were on that was it. Changing this to a true interchange was a very good idea. You can argue about how many should be on the bench (I think 4-5 is absolutely enough), but it was an excellent tweak.
The answer is NO!
He knows it matters not what they implement or change the fans will keep watching it. There is nothing at all the AFL can do to get the fans to stand up to them. Even changing it to a round ball the fans will flock to watch it.
The Fans don't give a crap about the sport and that has been crystal clear the last 25 years. There is no way in hell a league could of changed all these rules and got away with it back 40 years ago, the fans loved the sport then. Now AFL is simply a cool place to attend.
To late, it's already done.
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This reads like a "back in my day" old person rant.
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The AFL loves naming things after people. They should rename this to 'Bob Murphy Round' - celebrating those who don't deserve to be there but insert themselves into it anyway.
The entire thread does.
Not at all. endless amount of rule changes over the last 20 years and not a peep from the fans. No other sports fans would allow that. My point is simply that the fans don't care what the sport is or looks like. They follow their club and it matters not what the rules or the game is.
There's been plenty of peep. There hasn't been any action, and there won't be this time.
If you want the product to change, stop consuming the product.
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EFAYeah cos the team that previously finished top 4 more then anyone else by a country mile is who this change was made for
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Maybe the AFL could give out Bob Murphy Medals to the players from the clubs that win the 2 wildcard games?
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