Also, the St Kilda having to play twice in WA every year argument is nonsense.
If starting off with 20 teams you’d have a Victorian conference.
Two divisions: Victoria East and Victoria West. Division teams play twice, conference teams once. 5 home and 5 away against interstate conference teams.
Interstate conference, north and southwest divisions. North = NSW/QLD/ACT, south west = WA/SA/TAS.
Then it can be tweaked from there.
But the general idea is to give clubs more to play for. Division champions, conference champions, and the big one, GF winners. It’s true that a problem would be no one caring about anything besides the being GF winner but maybe over a generation that would change.
If starting off with 20 teams you’d have a Victorian conference.
Two divisions: Victoria East and Victoria West. Division teams play twice, conference teams once. 5 home and 5 away against interstate conference teams.
Interstate conference, north and southwest divisions. North = NSW/QLD/ACT, south west = WA/SA/TAS.
Then it can be tweaked from there.
But the general idea is to give clubs more to play for. Division champions, conference champions, and the big one, GF winners. It’s true that a problem would be no one caring about anything besides the being GF winner but maybe over a generation that would change.