Opinion AFLX - What do we think of this round robin pre-preseason experiment?
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Probably not Sauce. Mobile tall.
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No talls at all. Don't need endurance athletes either as the game is 20 minutes long.
I'd go for mostly elite ball users and pace. Can't see there being too many stoppages either so don't necessarily need inside winners.
I'd go
Betts McGovern
Sloane Gibbs Atkins
Laird Seedsman
(B. Crouch Milera Hampton)
If we need a tall, I'd go for Jenkins. Wouldn't play Walker, he'd be destroyed for lack of pace. Ditto Sauce and Talia. Maybe Lynch
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If anything this junk will make people appreciate the AFLW more
Think im going to prefer to watch this than AFLW, not sure why they are using a rectangular ground though.
Would be interesting to see which group comes out as the secondary "favourite".
Also, I think most teams would use this as a test run for the main season ie. doubt if any team would go really hard to win this AFLX competition. Most likely, we'd see a mixture of the regulars and the newbies.
I can see guys like Gallucci and Doedee having a test run in this comp.
I believe it's about promotion of the sport and expanding into other countries. Most sporting countries would have rectangular grounds for soccer (most prominent sport in the world).
Yeah but you just cut the corners off? I’m not saying play it on a full size oval.
Not really sure what's the big deal if it's oval or rectangular?
It's a modified version on a modified oval...seems fair..
Maybe we should use a round ball too.Not really sure what's the big deal if it's oval or rectangular?
It's a modified version on a modified oval...seems fair..
Similar to watching Brisbane against Gold Coast this year.
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Not sure why the need for it.
T20 was introduced because test and 50 over cricket became boring.
7s was introduced to increase scoring as Union has very few tries.
AFL isn't boring, and there are plenty of scoring. The more scoring, less exciting when someone kicks a goal.
The problem with the preseason is not the game, it's the scheduling and the fact it's not on tv. I love seeing the young players run around, but it will be less appealing than the international rules rubbish
T20 was introduced because test and 50 over cricket became boring.
7s was introduced to increase scoring as Union has very few tries.
AFL isn't boring, and there are plenty of scoring. The more scoring, less exciting when someone kicks a goal.
The problem with the preseason is not the game, it's the scheduling and the fact it's not on tv. I love seeing the young players run around, but it will be less appealing than the international rules rubbish
It's a small ground right?
Only tactic is that all team members need to be able to hoof the ball 70m.
Shoot at goal from half back every possession. There's lots of space, so marking the ball 60m out should be easy.
And... defence is already flooded for when we miss.
Only tactic is that all team members need to be able to hoof the ball 70m.
Shoot at goal from half back every possession. There's lots of space, so marking the ball 60m out should be easy.
And... defence is already flooded for when we miss.
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just to make it a bit trickier, they should not let anyone use their hands
except maybe one guy, who has to protect the goals
maybe call that guy the goalstopper or something
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Think you’re right. Might be a launching pad for India, China or the US but can’t see it working other than as a novelty
It's a 2-fold plan:
1. To get the hybrid sporting lovers curious/interested. Mainly for overseas observers, most likely.
2. They might adopt it as a sport overseas, or if not, it might help to increase overseas interest in AFL in Australia.
I made the observation this concept is similar to a T20 concept. It's mainly to help keep interest in the sport, or to introduce new fans.
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I get the point of it at the grass roots level, the problem the game has now with the massive boom with women's footy is the availability of grounds for teams. I think i saw Gill have to go to schools and get permission to use there ovals to accommodate more teams. Not hard to convince principles in Victoria about this, NSW and queensland entirely different. There pathetic agenda against the sport is causing The AFL to look other ways of getting around it, this concept is one way to do it.
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Sure whatever, but no first 22 players getting injured please.
Leave them out of it entirely
Leave them out of it entirely
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That's a great plan. Maybe we can play with a round ball too so it's closer to international rules. Then let's do no tackling so it's free flowing.
That will be an awesome game!
If they put a electric current device on the players scotums which shocks them when the opposition scores, we have the Japanese market sewn up.
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I have ZERO interest in AFLX .....not even curiosity
VERY excited by the upcoming AFLW season
VERY excited by the upcoming AFLW season
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That's simply a marketing ploy by the AFL to raise the profile of AFLX ........really for AFL clubs, it should be AFLX first, followed by JLT
AFL thinks the gap between completion of JLT and season will be too large for clubs to not play their best players in AFLX ........continued manipulation by the AFL of clubs & the Comp
AFL thinks the gap between completion of JLT and season will be too large for clubs to not play their best players in AFLX ........continued manipulation by the AFL of clubs & the Comp
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