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AFL 20-team competition
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It comes down to economic viability at the end of the day. 16 teams is becoming to hard to manage for some...not naming club names at all. Like it or hate it, the AFL will eventually cull club numbers not increase.
And stadium running costs can be flexible if you're expecting a smaller crowd. If you only expect 20,000, you can close off parts of the ground (eg. the top decks) and therefore employ less staff. You might find that if a club plays 11 games a year there the rental costs drop as well.
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- Aug 31, 2003
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Re: Re: different idea
The FA in England also are the dominant football code and have a population of 70 million to work with -could never work in Australia just pie in the sky dreaming .
IF IT AINT BROKE DONT TRY TO FIX IT = AFL
The FA in England also are the dominant football code and have a population of 70 million to work with -could never work in Australia just pie in the sky dreaming .
IF IT AINT BROKE DONT TRY TO FIX IT = AFL
If you had 20 teams, you would only play each other once (19 rounds) or have 2 divisions of ten, there by having 18 rounds in each & everyone playing each other twice & having Promotion/Relegation but how viable is an extra 4 teams & where do you put them?
Sydney cant make a profit with one team so why would they even consider giving them another.
The Tassie govt. would probably bankroll a side but for how long?
ACT & NZ is there enough support? & you would have to put heaps of money into promotion & both would probably be financial distasters for the AFL.
Southport, already established club. If they had a ground on the Gold Coast big enough than maybe they could enter a 2nd Div.
Maybe give WA & SA another team each??
In conclusion 12 teams is the right number, 22 Rounds, everyone plays each other twice so 4 Melb. teams have to go, (Western Bulldogs, Kangaroos, St Kilda, Melbourne) are the most likely.
Sydney cant make a profit with one team so why would they even consider giving them another.
The Tassie govt. would probably bankroll a side but for how long?
ACT & NZ is there enough support? & you would have to put heaps of money into promotion & both would probably be financial distasters for the AFL.
Southport, already established club. If they had a ground on the Gold Coast big enough than maybe they could enter a 2nd Div.
Maybe give WA & SA another team each??
In conclusion 12 teams is the right number, 22 Rounds, everyone plays each other twice so 4 Melb. teams have to go, (Western Bulldogs, Kangaroos, St Kilda, Melbourne) are the most likely.
I'm no fan of St Kilda but why would you kick them out? Would another team in WA or SA be any better than those teams you want to remove. I would think another team in those states would just be another Western Bulldogs sized club (if not smaller) except they don't get to play as many same state teams to boost attendances.
I don’t think Western Sydney could support a new club just yet. If the money spent bailing out the Dogs and Kangaroos (this coming from a Bulldogs supporter) was spent on trying to get a West Sydney club up and running, it MAY prove successful in the long run. Eventually Sydney will need two clubs, that’s for sure, but the chances of it being successful at the moment are in my opinion based on how well the Swans and the new club perform. It would take Sydney winning a premiership to really give it a good chance of success, because the Swans have struggled for so long, its dumb to think that Sydney could support two teams straight away. Like I said, eventually Sydney will be able to support two teams but not now.
Canberra’s own AFL team is a joke. They’d b no better off than the most struggling Melbourne team with no hope IMO of growing. Give up on that idea.
Southport/Gold Coast… why not? Considering Brisbane’s recent success, they’ve grown a considerable fan base, and even if half of their new-found fans fall away once the club hits a rough spot, they’ll still have the fan base to remain financially successful IMO. It would be a rather large punt on the behalf of the AFL, and they’d need to address the problem of a decent Stadium on the gold Coast, but I think it could b successful.
New Zealand is a joke. A team based in Ireland has more chance of a. remaining financially successful and b. winning games. Haha but the travel time’d be a killer!!!!
Tasmania could support on AFL club. When I heard that Hawthorn and then the Saints were playing home games here, I must admit I was a bit disappointed because neither of those clubs would relocate here. Say for instance if the Kangaroos made the initial move down here, then three years down the track they are in serious trouble and need to relocate, so they come down here. Tassie’s VFL team has been okay financially especially because of all the media attention it gets, but a lot of people just arent that interested in the VFL unless their AFL team’s reserves are playing then they’ll go. Personally I’ve never watch a VFL game unless Werribee were playing, but I’d definently go and watch a Tassie AFL Team, and I reckon heaps of other people are like me. Rodney Eade once said that Tasmania would have a guaranteed 20,000 members, and if you add that with state government assistance etc they could really turn into a successful club, but it would take a brave move on the part of the AFL, and York Park and Belerive could prove too small…
Bulldogs in the Western Suburbs For Ever!!! (not on the Dogs we’ll find our feet and so will the Kangas, and both will be around in another ten years)
Canberra’s own AFL team is a joke. They’d b no better off than the most struggling Melbourne team with no hope IMO of growing. Give up on that idea.
Southport/Gold Coast… why not? Considering Brisbane’s recent success, they’ve grown a considerable fan base, and even if half of their new-found fans fall away once the club hits a rough spot, they’ll still have the fan base to remain financially successful IMO. It would be a rather large punt on the behalf of the AFL, and they’d need to address the problem of a decent Stadium on the gold Coast, but I think it could b successful.
New Zealand is a joke. A team based in Ireland has more chance of a. remaining financially successful and b. winning games. Haha but the travel time’d be a killer!!!!
Tasmania could support on AFL club. When I heard that Hawthorn and then the Saints were playing home games here, I must admit I was a bit disappointed because neither of those clubs would relocate here. Say for instance if the Kangaroos made the initial move down here, then three years down the track they are in serious trouble and need to relocate, so they come down here. Tassie’s VFL team has been okay financially especially because of all the media attention it gets, but a lot of people just arent that interested in the VFL unless their AFL team’s reserves are playing then they’ll go. Personally I’ve never watch a VFL game unless Werribee were playing, but I’d definently go and watch a Tassie AFL Team, and I reckon heaps of other people are like me. Rodney Eade once said that Tasmania would have a guaranteed 20,000 members, and if you add that with state government assistance etc they could really turn into a successful club, but it would take a brave move on the part of the AFL, and York Park and Belerive could prove too small…
Bulldogs in the Western Suburbs For Ever!!! (not on the Dogs we’ll find our feet and so will the Kangas, and both will be around in another ten years)
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