Best of three grand final series

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Apologies if it has been done before, I 'm not aware.

I have always liked the idea of having a best of three grand final SERIES. Like the one day cricket finals.

This would be still provide an element of uncertainty as far as underdogs getting up but would give more chance for the cream to rise to the top and the better team to overcome possible bad luck with untimely injuries or controversial decisions on one day.

It would allow the tension to spread over two or three weeks and would be a great money spinner for the AFL. It would also allow more everyday fans to get to the game.

What do you think?

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Potentially 3 sets of pre-match entertainment? Ah, I think I'll pass on this one.
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For mine, the big draw of the Grand Final is the enormity of the game itself - that it is the ultimate contest of the year between the two 'best' sides (can we not get bogged down in arguing about whether the 'best' sides make the Grand Final?), with the winner taking the prize and the losers getting diddly.

From a purely 'fair' point of view, the three match series is more likely to result in the better team winning the flag, but I much prefer the 'One Day in September' - it's the occasion, and the team that rises to that occasion deserves our ultimate prize.

At the risk of rehashing a tired argument, I believe the Grand Final would be devalued under a "Best of ..." series, simply because there are at least two of them each year. No, leave our greatest contest as it is - its magic doesn't need any embellishment.

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Originally posted by Same Old's:
I thought you find the "best" team of the year through a knockout final that's just played once, so what's the point of having the potential of 3 grand finals.
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That's true but it is certainly an alternative to devaluing the Grand Final altogether in favour of the Home and Away premiership. That way the best team need not worry about one upset tripping them up, at least in the Grand Final.

I also would envisage that the Grand Final entertainment would be greatly scaled down as we wouldn't need it to pad out the so-called event. There would be more than enough footy to keep us entertained.
 
OK. Let's go all the way.

Using the example of pyjama cricket as our "inspiration", let's play a 45-round home-and-away series, with each team playing each other thrice. Then, whichever team is bottom of the ladder gets eliminated.

We then play a finals series involving the top 15 teams. (I've got no idea how you play a 15-team finals series, but we'll get Mr.McIntyre to look at that.)

Then, when you've narrowed it down to 2 teams, play a best of 21 series of super Grand-Grand-Razzamatazz-Finals ... with a Big Day Out concert before each one.

Then, if Collingwood have only won 10 or less out of the 21 games, you keep on playing until Collingwood have won the majority of them. And then you declare Collingwood premiers.

Simple!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Maybe the format for our 15 team finals competition could be each team play each other in a home and away round robin, making for 28 rounds of finals before a 21 team final series. Sounds pretty good, we can also take some inspiration from the baseball and have them playing 7 games a week, that way the competition would be rapped in 14 weeks, allowing to play a second competition, that way we can have two flags and 1182 games every year.
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ODN im with you in some aspects. Yea i like the idea of it, but how to apply it? To many variables spring to mind, for one, INJURY. You could lose your best two/three players in a game (especially in a big game where most players dont hold anything back) and be put at an immediate disadvantage for the following two games (if a third was to be required). Also as other have said, the mystique wouldnt be quite the same and the cost of having to go to up to 3 games wouldnt be easy for many families/fans to cover.

But the good points are that (and hows this for a VICTORIAN) if for instance the series was to be Port vs Western Bulldogs (just to make Westy drool) then you could have a game at the G a game at Footy park, then the decider (again if a third game was needed) at the home state ground of which ever team finished first after the home and away season ended. Also it does seem that a best of three would be an enticing prospect for viewing if it did indeed go the full three matches.

Dont hold your breath waiting for it to happen though.
 
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If we had a best of three, then there would never again be a "one-off" knockout style match to conclude the season and decide a cup. That would be sad. Whether that cup be the "premiership" like it is now, or just the final of a spearate tournamnet (like in my proposal) is irrelevant.

We need to have that "one-off" match to conclude the season. Imagine the FA CUP final being best of thre. That would take away from it wouldn't it. It wouldn't be as special. Leave it as it is.........a one-off match to conclude the season.

But as I've said to you before it will STILL be huge, even if it doesn't decide the main premeirship. If it's the final of a spearate elite kncokout tournament it will still be masive since it is still the season -culminating event it always was.
 

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Originally posted by AlfAndrews:
OK. Let's go all the way.

Using the example of pyjama cricket as our "inspiration", let's play a 45-round home-and-away series, with each team playing each other thrice. Then, whichever team is bottom of the ladder gets eliminated.

We then play a finals series involving the top 15 teams. (I've got no idea how you play a 15-team finals series, but we'll get Mr.McIntyre to look at that.)

Then, when you've narrowed it down to 2 teams, play a best of 21 series of super Grand-Grand-Razzamatazz-Finals ... with a Big Day Out concert before each one.

Then, if Collingwood have only won 10 or less out of the 21 games, you keep on playing until Collingwood have won the majority of them. And then you declare Collingwood premiers.

Simple!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
Originally posted by Grendel:
ODN im with you in some aspects. Yea i like the idea of it, but how to apply it? To many variables spring to mind, for one, INJURY. You could lose your best two/three players in a game (especially in a big game where most players dont hold anything back) and be put at an immediate disadvantage for the following two games (if a third was to be required).

You would still be disadvantaged if your best player got injured in a "one game" grand final, so it's basically the same. At least if it were a best of three grand final series they could have time to recover from the injury.
 
SameOlds i see your point too. However the difference i was trying to point out was that if a loss of injury to a 'star' player happens in a one of a kind game(such as a GF as it is now), thats tough luck. But its also why we have an interchange system. Your depth should be covered by that.


Yet if that same player was injured and subsequently missed two more games of equal importance then it throws the balance out disproportionately (yea i know i cant spell!) for those games. I guess i just think its a system ripe for an imbalance to happen.

What i wouldnt like is for a situation to arise like 89 where one side was literally the walking wounded (ie my mob lol) against a side that was also hurt (not quite as bad though) and whose stand out was fine and ready to fire the next week.

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