Game Day AFLX Draft

[Avalor]

zero interest in this concept. Can't wait for Rd 1 is all.

 

[Matt_TY]

Be careful what you wish for...think of the burden of having to let others know of you disdain / disinterest at every opportunity

"My sporting organisation right or wrong! If you don't love it, leave it!"

Some of us don't like where this is going and if we don't call it where we see it, they get away with it. Sorry for being concerned about this poorly conceived and executed event.

 

[Pessimistic]

Is anyone else questioning Powell peppers suitability for this format?

And Did May withdraw cos they took the piss out of him in the ‘draft meeting’

 

[Pessimistic]

Also as a concept why stick to a rectangle field at an oval venue. Play the whole field with 10 a side

 

[Milanista28]

Is anyone else questioning Powell peppers suitability for this format?

And Did May withdraw cos they took the piss out of him in the ‘draft meeting’

Turnovers will be noticeable but the kicker will be under less pressure to execute, He'll be fine out of the middle with his power.

 

[Farang83150]

Pass. SOO is a wank concept.

You obviously never went to a SOO game, they were brilliant.

 

[Farang83150]

I think it could work as a Vic vs the Rest

That would be way worse the AFLX....you know nothing Milanista28!

 

[RUNVS]

I still find it amazing how scared AFL supporters are of representative football. No other fan base in the world is this scared/terrified of the concept.

I for one want it, as I want to see the best our game can be, with the best players in the league all on the field at once. Now AFLX isn't my first choice, as I would much rather representative football with proper AFL rules, but I will take what I can get.

 

[Pessimistic]

You’ll never get SOO back. It’ll never happen in pre season, and in the season proper, is financially vastly inferior to a round of footy.. warts and all

 

[Bostonian]

You obviously never went to a SOO game, they were brilliant.

They only worked when it was the VFL. Once it became the AFL and teams from all the other states nobody with a brain gives a toss about state rivalry.

 

[Leeda]

sheesh... get off the grass.... this sounds like an amusing way to um put the very good players into a position to
tell other players what to do... away from the "soorigen"

 

[RUNVS]

They only worked when it was the VFL. Once it became the AFL and teams from all the other states nobody with a brain gives a toss about state rivalry.

State rivalry isn't a serious thing. Victoria were not going to summons an army and take Western Australia by force if the Big V lost but rivalries are still fun, and if we are being honest states are as good a reason as any to support a side. I mean you are a Carlton supporter, so you feel a strong connection to Carlton. So, why is that? I mean, I am guessing you are not a Carlton player, and probably don't have a direct connection to the club, so why do you support them? I would say your reasoning for supporting Carlton would not be much different to a persons reasoning for supporting Victoria in State of Origin.

 

[Bostonian]

State rivalry isn't a serious thing. Victoria were not going to summons an army and take Western Australia by force if the Big V lost but rivalries are still fun, and if we are being honest states are as good a reason as any to support a side. I mean you are a Carlton supporter, so you feel a strong connection to Carlton. So, why is that? I mean, I am guessing you are not a Carlton player, and probably don't have a direct connection to the club, so why do you support them? I would say your reasoning for supporting Carlton would not be much different to a persons reasoning for supporting Victoria in State of Origin.

And the teams I hate the most are other Victorian teams. I have absolutely no interest in interstate teams, zero sense of any kind of rivalry.

 

[RUNVS]

And the teams I hate the most are other Victorian teams. I have absolutely no interest in interstate teams, zero sense of any kind of rivalry.

Rivalry is just a construct though. I mean logically there is no reason why you support Carlton over Collingwood, or Essendon, or any other of the Melbourne based clubs since after all each of those clubs, like Carlton, is filled with around 45 players whom you don't personally know, who the only thing they have in common is wearing the same uniform, a uniform that means when on the field they are for 2 hours enemies, but if one of those players goes to a new club, then he is wearing a different uniform, and suddenly he is a friend.

 

[Leeda]

And the teams I hate the most are other Victorian teams. I have absolutely no interest in interstate teams, zero sense of any kind of rivalry.

and the teams I don't follow at all are the 'other' teams... those who come from a greater distance of say about five hundred miles or more.. very far away
from this state... Vicruels... cruel... getting...Tassie excluded of course...

 

[Farang83150]

They only worked when it was the VFL. Once it became the AFL and teams from all the other states nobody with a brain gives a toss about state rivalry.

So I was correct you never went to a SOO game and the above shows how little you know about the format or the fierce rivalry it creates, it had FA to do with the VFL.

 

[Carl Spackler]

You get a 10 point goal if you mark inside the forward pink area or kick from behind the midfield pink area. I'm amazed no one took Suckling and made him the last 10 minutes double points guy. He sits back at the half-way mark and bangs them in from long for 10 points at a time, 20 points a pop in the last few minutes.

Take one big marking forward to perhaps clunk a couple in the front super goal area. And a single big back man to annoy him. You don't need intercept marks, you just need knock it to the ground. The six point goal is like a behind to the super goal. The rest of the team filled with two-way runners. They don't have to be good kicks, just good runners. Handball it in a forward rush and kick a short six pointer. Or collect and dish it back to Suckling for a bomb.

Anyways, it's stupid game, nothing like AFL. It's a long-kicking contest if strategised properly.

 

[Asapartyhat]

I am really not into the made up teams with no affiliation to anything.I don't see the point.Maybe if it was players who have a Toyota v those who drive a Mazda or those who like a soy latte v the flat white drinkers you could have a commercially sponsored rivalry.

 

[Pessimistic]

I keep saying...dreamteam v SuperCoach

 

[ManOfClay]

You could even scrape together an international team if you used foreign born as the basis (basically the irish guys plus the likes of Cox, Allir, McGrath

Would be well suited to Johannissen’s game too.

 

[Mitchell54]

Hopefully Hawks do the right thing and announce wingard bruest and Smith have calf soreness or something tomorrow and rule them.out of this aflx crap.

Wright has confirmed that Wingard won’t play due to calf soreness...

 

[Underarm]

Wright has confirmed that Wingard won’t play due to calf soreness...

Why did they offer him up if they knew he couldn't play?
Robbie Gray and Joel Hamling have both pulled out, with more to follow.

AFL should demand any players pulling out of the competition should be replaced by other players from the same club.

 

[Mitchell54]

Why did they offer him up if they knew he couldn't play?

I guess they didn’t know at the time.

 

[FUS_RO_DAH]

How does anybody **** this up so badly? And why does it seem to always happen with the indigenous players?

 

[Pessimistic]

Gee Eddie and brad hill could be twins