Opinion AFLX - Name your starting lineup

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Still miffed the AFL have given me credit for the idea. But that's in line with their ethical fortitude.

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/full-contact-afl-9s-origin.1037612/#post-30617549

I think it's a good format for pre-season training because it's more about fitness rather than contact. It's essentially a way to commercialise pre-season training before the practice matches start. Some of the rules are crap though. Limiting to 10 players is dumb IMO if you have 7 on the field. Personally I would have gone with six players on the field and not have ruckmen.
 

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We already had a better derivative game than AFLX. It’s called AFL* and consists of Stephen Dank chasing around a bunch of guys in Scum jumpers with a syringe. It is by far a more enjoyable spectacle.
 
Still miffed the AFL have given me credit for the idea. But that's in line with their ethical fortitude.

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/full-contact-afl-9s-origin.1037612/#post-30617549

I think it's a good format for pre-season training because it's more about fitness rather than contact. It's essentially a way to commercialise pre-season training before the practice matches start. Some of the rules are crap though. Limiting to 10 players is dumb IMO if you have 7 on the field. Personally I would have gone with six players on the field and not have ruckmen.
Well played.
 
Junker, Williams, Walker, Hibberd, Hayden Narrier, Xerri, Watson, Murphy, Larkey. Pick them as they drive in to the carpark, rotate them, let the kids enjoy some junk time football, show us what they can do, develop a following as they go
 

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Junker, Williams, Walker, Hibberd, Hayden Narrier, Xerri, Watson, Murphy, Larkey. Pick them as they drive in to the carpark, rotate them, let the kids enjoy some junk time football, show us what they can do, develop a following as they go

Needs more Pruess but otherwise :thumbsu:
 
Still miffed the AFL have given me credit for the idea. But that's in line with their ethical fortitude.

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/full-contact-afl-9s-origin.1037612/#post-30617549

I think it's a good format for pre-season training because it's more about fitness rather than contact. It's essentially a way to commercialise pre-season training before the practice matches start. Some of the rules are crap though. Limiting to 10 players is dumb IMO if you have 7 on the field. Personally I would have gone with six players on the field and not have ruckmen.

I wouldn't care about credit but you should hit them up for some royalties.
 
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Soccer is unlikely to be any more of a threat than basketball. All the good players leave and you watch second-graders locally.

I had previously thought up of a six-a-side competition on a soccer pitch dimensions (though still an oval) as a method for pre-season training, which could be expanded into a full-blown competition.

Pretty much the same rules would apply with some minor tweaks, with perhaps 6 on the bench and 10-15 minute quarters. That way it is more about aerobic fitness/fitness training, elite disposal and 1-on-1 contests.

With such a competition the AFL could run it during pre-season training in lieu of the 'night competition', and would be flexible enough to have multiple games per week and mid-week games. Rectangular stadiums would be more accessible as there'd be no cricket wickets to worry about and most/all would have lighting for night games - mitigating issues with heat.

With so few players per match clubs could pick players based on their training regime. It would essentially be simulated match practice for the H&A season. It could be marketed with warm up games either consisting of a women's competition, elite under-aged competition, or "legends/super rules" competition, etc.

With AFLPA support you could have AFL 'branded' matches from January through September (9 months), or even consider matches in December. The length and timing of games would lend themselves well to television, particularly to Foxtel programming.

Quoting utility post from 2013 in full - quite the soothsayer you were.

Very, very interesting. Do you have an IP leg to stand on here?
 

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Quoting utility post from 2013 in full - quite the soothsayer you were.

Very, very interesting. Do you have an IP leg to stand on here?
Unless Contra Mundum or astrovic are up for pro-bono work I don't think I'll take any action. The AFL is run by lawyers. That's how the world works, unless you're Coca-Cola or some major corporation even registered patents, copyrights, trademarks etc. are ineffectual. Just look at the amount of fake merch on Alibaba, they do nothing about it. The only law is the law of the jungle.

But I'm a North Melbourne man - originator not imitator. People who copy others can only get so far in life.

As a footnote, my old man came up with this idea (and has email trails to prove it with journos) and got no credit for it - and he wasn't after money:
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-02-08/radical-fixture-overhaul-still-on-the-cards-for-2018

As a second footnote I personally know the people who discovered the medical records of the "un-named" Hawthorn players who were under drug rehab years ago. I know the AFL's line from the top was bullshit and hypocritical. The medical records were found on the nature strip, there was no break-in (court's verdict was theft by finding); Demetriou demanded respect of privacy whilst personally wanting to know who the players were.

You can't trust the AFL. Just like most big businesses.
 

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