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This thread should be exclusive for those who want to hear only positive things about other codes. First up, RA have amended "Giteau's Law" to allow two internationally based players who haven't had 60 caps / 7 seasons of service...

This year provides a perfect opportunity to imagine how are 17-5 system would work by considering the current season as a "real-time" simulation As a basic background, the 17-5 is a fixturing approach where the ladder after a single full round robin home and away season determines who you play...

Melbourne's oldest newspaper is calling officials in Australia's most popular sport "refs"

This is a model in part lifted from a thread on the main board Under this model all teams will play each-other once in the first 17 rounds In the last 5 rounds teams will play repeat matches based against teams in the same third they finished in the previous season The key is that matches...

So it turns out OzTAM have has a measure of internet streaming based on data provided by "participating" outlets https://reports.oztam.com.au/#/live The guidelines which set out what is gathered are provided here https://oztam.com.au/documents/Other/OzTAM_Guidelines_to_VPM_Reports_1.pdf...

What a pair of muppets In furious agreement that the Giants "window has closed"....delivered not as speculation but as a fait-a-compli Barrett has even asked Giants supporters to ring in and "tell us how they feel" about their team missing their window How are these people payed to do what...

Who is this muppet? https://www.insidesport.com.au/news/is-this-football-or-afl-512927 Apparently this guy is actually a professional academic. “The problem is all of the stories that are told of that period are told by people who are Australian rules supporters who love Australian rules and...

After 15 games I think it is worth reflecting on the hypothetical of existing in a 17-5 season structure environment Though things have gone quite on the 17-5 front with a focus on the #stateofthegame #codeincrisis, watching "the couch" this week, there was unanimity among the players...

OK, I'll preface this with conceding this could only possibly happen following the successful implementations of 17/18-5 system, which looks less likely now. It was triggered by reading yet another promotion-relegation-from-the-state-leagues thread from the main board. The idea would be to...

This is obviously an April fools joke... http://websites.sportstg.com/assoc_page.cgi?client=1-7259-0-0-0&sID=154776&&news_task=DETAIL&articleID=61721143 ..but how is it really that implausible for an AFL X (hopefully 9 a side) type game at the comm games? Once GB is split into four there are...

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/pies-close-in-on-ground-breaking-deal-to-sell-pokies-to-racing-club-20180215-p4z0ic.html

OK, so given the news that the AFL is likely to add 6 teams in 18/19, this is my proposed fixture Key is, that the season starts in the middle of october, not November....I am suspect that this will occur because the AFL will go conservative and and try to shoe horn a 7 game competition in...

As per the subject, I think there is a strong case to move the women's league to spring, culminating in a grand final in early december. The whether is better, and there is a lot more clean air from the AFL You could kick off the season in what is currently the pre-finals bye - giving the...

There have been a couple of threads floating towards the top of the main board recently relating to hypothetical state of origin teams. This inspired me to set out a SOO idea I think may well be a goer Basically a three week 8 team "knock out" where each team ultimately plays on to determine...

If you're like me and you like getting wound up by appalling nonsense written by journalist-cum-pundits, do your self a favour and read this nonsense by Greg Baum... http://www.theage.com.au/afl/today-the-forward-pocket-tomorrow-the-world-20161202-gt2u79.html Apparently the afl and the clubs...

As is done in occasionally in these forums, I have decided to use OP privileges and develop an issues summary that distills the "learnings" garnered from the "conversation" in this thread. It should be pointed out that this OP status was "foistered" upon me. I initially bumped an old thread but...