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Anyone know if there's going to be a replay available?

I saw a few minutes of our game against PA and it didn't look that bad - as others have said, it would be quite good to play with your mates (except for the danger of being hit by fragments of 40+ y.o. hamstrings letting go!)
 

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Okinakashi said:
Anyone know if there's going to be a replay available?

I saw a few minutes of our game against PA and it didn't look that bad - as others have said, it would be quite good to play with your mates (except for the danger of being hit by fragments of 40+ y.o. hamstrings letting go!)
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Here is the full Port Freo match, couldn't find the other Freo game, hoping the club will upload soon.

Btw popped in here to say that I was sitting behind Stefan Giro's family/friends at the game. When he kicked that first goal they went absolutely nuts, all decked out in club gear. On the replay you can see Giro gets a kick out of the reaction too.

Might have been my highlight of the night. Looks a player for sure.
 
Fred Ziffel said:
Ross was distracted talking to that fella wearing the novelty mask..... what a peculiar looking dude he is.
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Budget restriction option I think.

Some changes I would make with this game;
  • get rid of the points posts, bring in the net as in the Irish game. Also bring in the goal keeper.
  • marks paid only in the arc.
  • the game using two balls, starting the game simultaneously kicking in from each backline. I really want to see Walters streaking through the middle alternate bouncing both balls. If you are going to bastardise our game, do it fully.
 

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"About the best that can be said of AFLX is that it will soon become another quirky addition to the AFL's history alongside Angry Anderson in a Batmobile, Warwick Capper's singing career and Richmond winning a premiership."

Let's not forget this AFL hit:

 
IAMJUNGLEMUFFIN said:
Not for me. I'm not a super huge fan of AFLW, but once you get past the lower skill level and lower your standards, it can still be watchable.

AFLX on the otherhand is literally like watching a warmup drill. Kick the ball out to a bloke who has a shot at goal. There's no build up, no intensity, no theatre. Even the scoring system makes no sense. Shorten the field, make it a non challenge to score and then award even more points, except if the ball bounces?

It's a poor mans Big Bash Cricket, which despite being dumbed down to the point it's Baseball more than Cricket, can still be fun to watch people slog sixes. If rhey were banging 70m torps, ok, but kicking a goal from 40m out is just meh.

What makes watching sport fun to watch is the build up and release of tension from contest. In AFLX there is no tension, there is contest, it's watching a training drill where two sides take pot shots at goal.

Watching Auskick is more enjoyable for me.

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Don't usually agree with the muffin but he is pretty spot on here.

It has no substance. Some intrigue watching the draftees but otherwise a complete bore.
 
They will play it again next year I bet you. It was just a hit and giggle lightning carnival, I don't know why everyone's getting so up in arms about it. Not even the clubs who actually played cared as much about it as the punters that are currently angry. It's basically just a no stoppages pre-season drill, but with other clubs involved
 

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What I didn’t like was that the game was basically if you took AFL, put in on a rectangular field and then tried to make it as much like basketball as possible. Basically a combined horrible mess of three different sports. If you want to take the game overseas you probably need to be able to play it on a rectangular field but outside of that and reducing the number of players on the field (which was overdone imo - 10-12 players would’ve made it more AFL-like) I wouldn’t have changed much.

For me it would’ve been better if:
1. 10 players on a team (3 start forward fifty, 3 defensive fifty, 4 in between). 4 interchange.
2. Play free kicks, ball ups and out of bounds like a normal game of footy. Maybe simplify ball ups (throw it up) and boundary throw ins to make it more simple for umpires - which we should be doing anyway in real AFL games if we can. Ball ups after goals like normal footy.
3. No super/zooper goals especially from 40 metres. 40 metres is nothing for an AFL footballer. I wouldn’t have them at all personally.

This is meant to be about showcasing the game overseas - not a completely different made up game. They’ve tried to be too clever imo. Sometimes the simple solution is the best one.
 
Okinakashi said:
Ouch...

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-...chard-hinds/9452570?pfmredir=sm&section=sport
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There's too many creative lines in this to think he came up with it overnight (unless he's a real talented writer, in which case he wouldn't be covering AFL). Me thinks this came together over the past week or so and was completed so, and filed to fill his pre-prepared narrative rather than give a fair appraisal of what he saw yesterday.

I watched it while at the gym and thought it was good fun to watch and fast scoring with Adelaide able to kick 20 points in under a minute. That shows how quickly the outcome of a game could change, like twenty20; compared to the long term pressure of AFL over the 2h, like a cricket test, and the realisation (often by the end of the first quarter) that the outcome is inevitable. Also looks like it would be fun to play in social comps not requiring the backing of a whole football club.
 
Eski3 said:
They will play it again next year I bet you. It was just a hit and giggle lightning carnival, I don't know why everyone's getting so up in arms about it. Not even the clubs who actually played cared as much about it as the punters that are currently angry. It's basically just a no stoppages pre-season drill, but with other clubs involved
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Same. It's the same types of people having a cry as when one dayers came in and then twenty20.

And the nitpicking on the rules! Seriously, it's not like the 100+yo game of AFL doesn't get significant rule changes and interpretations every year (and during the season, and even during games). If anything needs tweaking I'm sure they will tweak it, twist it, rotate it, and bend it just like AFL House always does.
 
While I didn't watch a full game, so I'm going to hold my judgement on the concept itself.

I do think that there's benefits for our team especially - getting the young guys used to the travel process / recovery etc. without much pressure on them is going to pay off for us in the long term.

Hopefully the concept is like T20 - most people hated it when it started - but as the rules have been tweaked and teams figure out how to play it properly, it could end up as an enjoyable addition to the AFL world.
 

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