Opinion Football Feast

[Elite Crow]

Yep fired it in just to the general AFL address

Will keep you posted!

You should send it to one of the main media guys, maybe Robbo if he’s sober

 

[El Doederino]

I’m pretty certain you stole this idea from me.

 

[Mong]

Yeah but you just know the AFL would schedule the non-Victorian teams for the least desirable nights. It’s what they do.

 

[Bob Neil]

Yep fired it in just to the general AFL address

Will keep you posted!

Drugs Are Bad Mackay? did you include the invoice for $1,000,000???

 

[1970crow]

Yep fired it in just to the general AFL address

Will keep you posted!

Our very own version of Port’s 8 year old guernsey designer.

 

[John Who]

I think it’s an overall excellent idea in the OP!

The only thing I can see might get affected is the crowd attendance during the normal hectic weekdays, which are likely to dip drastically more than crowds of weekends attendance.

 

[FR0GGY]

Yep fired it in just to the general AFL address

Will keep you posted!

When the $’s start rolling in remember as the first reply poster in the thread I really got things off the ground for you.

 

[1970crow]

I think it’s an overall excellent idea in the OP!

The only thing I can see might get affected is the crowd attendance during the normal hectic weekdays, which are likely to dip drastically more than crowds of weekends attendance.

Thursday nights would be a good starting point. If those numbers are ok, then there’s no reason to think Monday to Wednesday would be any worse, they’re all school nights. Exception being Geelong or regional grounds, you wouldn’t schedule outside the cities mid week.

 

[1970crow]

Drugs Are Bad Mackay? I’d change Roos and GWS in Tassie on that Tuesday. Tassie subsidise to get travelling Vics and missing 2 days of work will decimate those numbers. Saturday arvo or play it at Etihad.

 

[latinoheat]

I hate the bye rounds. A boring handbrake on the football season. So I've solved it for the AFL and they can use this idea for one million dollars.

This is the situation this season: Round 11 is as per normal. Then Rounds 12, 13 and 14 are the bye rounds with six teams having a break each week. Then back into it for Round 15.

So there are 18 games over those three affected weekends. My idea is that instead of bye rounds, we have a Football Feast where there is one game on every night. Eighteen nights of fantastic football action IN A ROW for people to get their winter football fix.

The Big Bash has a great format during the summer and has struck a chord with the public. There is a game on every night of the week. It becomes part of your summer routine. Work or holidays or whatever during the day. Then grab dinner, a few beers and flick on the cricket at night. It's built for the fan, whether at the games or watching on tv. Fill the fridge full of piss and strap into that favourite chair of yours...

In the AFL Football Feast, one game per night would mean that all the clubs get two matches (one home, one away) in prime time. All stand-alone matches too with nothing up against them.

A few qualifiers:
- It would need to be timed so that it coincides with school holidays as the BBL does. So about a month later than now.
- Games would probably need to start at a family friendly 6:30pm rather than 7:10 or 7:40pm.

Instead of a handbrake, it would feel like football is cranking up a notch when in reality the players are still getting their two-games-in-three-weeks midseason breather that they demand. Turning what is a negative into a positive.

A spin off benefit would be that Saturday/Sunday afternoons on those weekends are freed up for local footy. Back to grassroots, show your true colours, where it all began, all that crap.

Here's how it would look using the 2019 draw

ROUND 11 (normal round)
Friday, May 31
North Melbourne v Richmond, Marvel Stadium (7.50pm)
Saturday June 1
Collingwood v Fremantle, MCG (1.45pm)
GWS Giants v Gold Coast Suns, Sydney Showground Stadium (1.45pm)
Geelong Cats v Sydney Swans, GMHBA Stadium (4.35pm)
Brisbane Lions v Hawthorn, Gabba (7.25pm)
Melbourne v Adelaide, TIO Stadium — Darwin (7.40pm)
Sunday, 2 June
St Kilda v Port Adelaide, Jiangwan Stadium — Shanghai (2.40pm)
Essendon v Carlton, MCG (3.20pm)
West Coast Eagles v Western Bulldogs, Optus Stadium (5.20pm)

FOOTBALL FEAST BEGINS

Round 12 (Bye Round)
Friday Jun-07 Richmond v Geelong Cats, MCG
Saturday Jun-08 Carlton v Brisbane Lions, Marvel Stadium
Sunday Jun-09 Gold Coast Suns v North Melbourne, Metricon Stadium
Monday Jun-10 Adelaide Crows v GWS Giants, Adelaide Oval
Tuesday Jun-11 Sydney Swans v West Coast Eagles, SCG
Wednesday Jun-12 Collingwood v Melbourne, MCG

Round 13 (Bye Round)
Thursday Jun-13 Fremantle v Port Adelaide, Optus Stadium
Friday Jun-14 Essendon v Hawthorn, Marvel Stadium
Saturday Jun-15 Carlton v Western Bulldogs, Marvel Stadium
Sunday Jun-16 Gold Coast Suns v St Kilda, Riverway Stadium — Townsville
Monday Jun-17 Adelaide Crows v Richmond, Adelaide Oval
Tuesday Jun-18 North Melbourne v GWS Giants, Blundstone Arena — Hobart

Round 14 (Bye Round)
Wednesday Jun-19 Port Adelaide v Geelong Cats, Adelaide Oval
Thursday Jun-20 West Coast Eagles v Essendon, Optus Stadium
Friday Jun-21 Sydney Swans v Hawthorn, SCG
Saturday Jun-22 Western Bulldogs v Collingwood, Marvel Stadium
Sunday Jun-23 St Kilda v Brisbane Lions, Marvel Stadium
Monday Jun-24 Melbourne v Fremantle, MCG


FOOTBALL FEAST FINISHES

ROUND 15 (normal round)
Thursday, June 27
Essendon v GWS Giants, Marvel Stadium (7.20pm)
Friday, June 28
Geelong Cats v Adelaide Crows, GMHBA Stadium (7.50pm)
Saturday, June 29
Hawthorn v West Coast Eagles, MCG (1.45pm)
Sydney Swans v Gold Coast Suns, SCG (4.35pm)
Collingwood v North Melbourne, Marvel Stadium (7.25pm)
Port Adelaide v Western Bulldogs, Adelaide Oval (7.40pm)
Sunday, June 30
St Kilda v Richmond, Marvel Stadium (1.10pm)
Brisbane Lions v Melbourne, Gabba (3.20pm)
Fremantle v Carlton, Optus Stadium (5.20pm)

Needs to be called “football festivus” to have any credibility.
Winner of each game gets a festivus pole.

 

[GameofSloanes]

I think it’s an overall excellent idea in the OP!

The only thing I can see might get affected is the crowd attendance during the normal hectic weekdays, which are likely to dip drastically more than crowds of weekends attendance.

The AFL won't mind, they'll just get the 'interstate' clubs to play those nights, who cares if no one is watching as long as the vic clubs have prime time

 

[Brenton Davy]

Drugs Are Bad Mackay?

You, sir, are a genius.

What the hell are you doing on this board???

 

[hey shorty]

Theres good ideas and then theres this.

Fantastic idea.

 

[brucetiki]

I like it, nothing could be worse than what they do now, but I expect that there will be complaints about people having to go to work the next morning etc. i go to work too, and I would go to the footy regardless, it's all about priorities.

Same issues you have with the BBL. Easy to make it happen though if you work out the right strategy.

I'd stick to 7:10pm starts for the weeknight matches though - happy compromise between people being able to get from work to the matches and not finishing too late for the kiddies.

 

[Thetrader15]

Yep fired it in just to the general AFL address

Will keep you posted!

It will be rolled out in 3 years time when the AFL have a great new initiative they have just thought of

 

[ManInTheArena]

After reading the title I'm so disappointed there's no food.

 

[ams4crows]

Its not really about the crowds though its about TV ratings which earns the AFL the most money.

The only issue I see is that different states have different times for School Holidays so if they center it around the Vics it would mean you put the interstate games on the usual Thursday, friday, Saturday, sunday slots

 

[Paladin]

Great idea. Borderline genius.

 

[FR0GGY]

After reading the title I'm so disappeared there's no food.

Disappeared as in wasted away because there’s no food!

 

[Dirty Bird]

Its not really about the crowds though its about TV ratings which earns the AFL the most money.

The only issue I see is that different states have different times for School Holidays so if they center it around the Vics it would mean you put the interstate games on the usual Thursday, friday, Saturday, sunday slots

I actually view that as a positive rather than an issue

Each state gets 4 games in 3 weeks, 2 home, 2 away
Just ensure the week there’s no holidays, 1 team is on the bye and the other is away (or playing on the weekend)

My question is, are the weekdays or weekends more desirable for tv ratings?
More people at home on weekdays to drive ratings up....

 

[cm_perfect]

After reading the title I'm so disappointed there's no food.

I was hoping for dinner at the Colonel’s house

 

[1970crow]

Yep fired it in just to the general AFL address

Will keep you posted!

If you really want to make it happen you should fire it into channel 7 and Foxtel.

 

[1970crow]

I was hoping for dinner at the Colonel’s house

I read that the coffee is good at Sanders ’s

 

[Huntercrow]

I love it but I can’t see the networks rescheduling their reality shows to fit this in. My wife would have a fit.

 

[El Doederino]

It’s a great idea. If you made tickets half price for the midweek games and had some other specials around it, it would be a hit

Needs to be called “football festivus” to have any credibility.
Winner of each game gets a festivus pole.

In all seriousness this is an interesting additional concept. For the 3 weeks, have a mini ladder and the team with the best record wins something.