Are St Kilda indirectly responsible for the AFL pushing for rules changes?

[Smeg Head]

St Kilda, expected to be an exciting side on the rise in 2018 has been fixtured in a raft of prime time free ro air slots, and subsequently stunk it up. With Ch 7 putting pressure on the AFL in light of falling ratings as people turn off from watching their insipid brand of football, are St Kilda one of the big reasons the AFL wants to tinker majorly with the rules to bring back the viewers?

Round 2, Good Friday night - kick 5 goals in a 52 point loss to North.
Round 3, Sat Night - spanked by the Crows by 49 points.
Round 6, Sat Night - another display of sloppy inaccurate footy, lose to Hawks by 35.
Round 7, Sunday - poor kicking again in a 39 point loss to the Dees.
Round 8, Sat Night - a rare nation wide free to air game from WA, lose by 5 goals to Freo.
Round 9, Sat Night - a better showing but capitulate to Collingwood in the 3rd quarter.
Round 12, Sat Night - a stand alone game, Swans put them to the sword by 71 points.
Round 17, Fri Night - finally win one, against the might of Carlton!
Round 18, Fri Night - home game against the Tigers, get spanked by 54 points.

That is a lot of free to air footy this year taken up by St Kilda playing a terrible brand of footy. Carlton gets rightfully panned for the amount of prime time games they get while also being rubbish, why has St Kilda avoided the same spotlight? One big reason why people are turning off, and the AFL is shitting bricks at the ratings.

 

[TeeJay Blue]

May I introduce you to Carlton properly?

 

[Firestarter]

No that's Sydney.

 

[Smeg Head]

May I introduce you to Carlton properly?

They have rightly copped a massive roasting already, while St Kilda have completely been ignored despite the similar situations.

 

[dave123]

Swans

Gary Rohan breaks leg ....rule changes wher taking legs out is a free
Swans ugly style for years
Swans 19 men on the ground ...it’s now 50 meter penalty
Swans cola .....that’s been nulled


Anything else

 

[TeeJay Blue]

They have rightly copped a massive roasting already, while St Kilda have completely been ignored despite the similar situations.

St. Kilda are bad, but Carlton would be the closest to having everyone (even both the AFL and VFL) wish for Bendigo Gold 13-14 back.

 

[Stan_Darsh72]

Last year we played good footy and got those slots by the afl reasonably assuming that our form will continue like a lot of people.

Next season we will get worse slots til out footy improves and earn the right for those slots.

 

[Chuckie357]

This is the worst thread I’ve read for a while. Typical Essendon supporter thinking they are owed anything and everything

 

[Ron The Bear]

Wouldn't blame the Saints. They usually try to take the game on and if they don't score big, the opposition do.

 

[officialjc]

port?

 

[Andy_Mac]

This is the worst thread I’ve read for a while. Typical Essendon supporter thinking they are owed anything and everything

You can’t seriously think you deserve to be on FTA tv? For neutrals there’s nothing interesting about the saints.

Cats vs Hawks is and always would have been a far better Friday night game.

 

[underthestars]

wow, a thread demonising a club from a supporter of the club that has done more to tarnish the game of football than any other in its long history.

 

[longsuffreosupp]

It's the AFL's fault for putting bottom 8 sides on good timeslots.

 

[blckcaviar]

The fact is, this year there have been only 4 Friday night games between teams currently in the 8. And there won't be any more this year either.

Hawthorn v Sydney, Round 8

Port Adelaide v Richmond, Round 12

Sydney v West Coast, Round 13

Port Adelaide v Melbourne, Round 14

 

[BF Tiger]

Hmmm... how about state of the game conversation reared it’s ugly head whilst Essendon were stinking it up in first half of season. AFL sees Essendon as a cash cow so thinks rules need changing to help Essendon out. Essendon improve somewhat but AFL can’t back down.

 

[longsuffreosupp]

The fact is, this year there have been only 4 Friday night games between teams currently in the 8. And there won't be any more this year either.

Hawthorn v Sydney, Round 8

Port Adelaide v Richmond, Round 12

Sydney v West Coast, Round 13

Port Adelaide v Melbourne, Round 14

8 games featuring 2 teams from last years top 8 (out of 28 possible games)

 

[blckcaviar]

8 games featuring 2 teams from last years top 8 (out of 28 possible games)

I feel like they could've done better pulling teams out of a hat

 

[Ekomaira]

on the plus side we won't have a Friday night game next year so we won't have the opportunity to embarrass ourselves on FTA

 

[theprospect]

Is it Essendon week again already? #nuffnuff

 

[Boxx]

port?

Na, OP is referring to St Kilda champ.

 

[99cents]

The fact is, this year there have been only 4 Friday night games between teams currently in the 8. And there won't be any more this year either.

Hawthorn v Sydney, Round 8

Port Adelaide v Richmond, Round 12

Sydney v West Coast, Round 13

Port Adelaide v Melbourne, Round 14

tigers v cats involved teams in the 8

 

[Demonic Ascent]

tigers v cats involved teams in the 8

Geelong is 9th

 

[Crankyhawk]

Last year we played good footy and got those slots by the afl reasonably assuming that our form will continue like a lot of people.

Next season we will get worse slots til out footy improves and earn the right for those slots.

Carlton still manage to have kept a few Friday nights (5) this year

 

[raskolnikov]

This is the worst thread I’ve read for a while. Typical Essendon supporter thinking they are owed anything and everything

Is it Essendon week again already? #nuffnuff

The OP is an Eagles supporter.

 

[Hamingja]

You can’t seriously think you deserve to be on FTA tv? For neutrals there’s nothing interesting about the saints.

Cats vs Hawks is and always would have been a far better Friday night game.

Foxtel have really flexed some muscle with the 18 fixtures.

Easy to say Hawks v Cats should be the Friday night game but the real reason it isn't is because it is a marquee game for Foxtel exclusively.