The thing I have against expansion is that every time a new team pops up outside Victoria it makes things harder for non-Victorian clubs.
1. Victoria dominates where footballers are from, it's the dominant state for supplying talent to the AFL.
2. There are only x amount of players willing to play outside of Victoria and who will stay outside of Victoria and not go home.
3. You add another team like Tasmania or another two such as Joondalup and that x amount has to be spread over even more team, which dilutes the talent outside of vic.
It just appears to me that since the AFL created GWS and GCS that teams outside of Vic have just dropped off a little. Players tend to go home and a lot of that involves players wanting to go home to Victoria.
I'm just wondering whether it puts extra pressure on clubs to find players who won't leave.
I understand that the long term idea is to give people a team and keep the game strong.
I also have questions about that many teams diluting the talent in the competition and weakening the spectacle that is AFL football.
Then there is the issue of rebuilding teams taking a long time to rebuild. If you are bottom before GCS and GWS you get picks 1, 17 and so on. Now it's pick 1, 19 and so on, then it will be pick 1, 20 or 21 and so on. So you may just slightly be bringing in less quality as a team desperate to bring in significant numbers of good players. Or does it even out?
There is plenty of for and against with expanding the AFL.
1. Victoria dominates where footballers are from, it's the dominant state for supplying talent to the AFL.
2. There are only x amount of players willing to play outside of Victoria and who will stay outside of Victoria and not go home.
3. You add another team like Tasmania or another two such as Joondalup and that x amount has to be spread over even more team, which dilutes the talent outside of vic.
It just appears to me that since the AFL created GWS and GCS that teams outside of Vic have just dropped off a little. Players tend to go home and a lot of that involves players wanting to go home to Victoria.
I'm just wondering whether it puts extra pressure on clubs to find players who won't leave.
I understand that the long term idea is to give people a team and keep the game strong.
I also have questions about that many teams diluting the talent in the competition and weakening the spectacle that is AFL football.
Then there is the issue of rebuilding teams taking a long time to rebuild. If you are bottom before GCS and GWS you get picks 1, 17 and so on. Now it's pick 1, 19 and so on, then it will be pick 1, 20 or 21 and so on. So you may just slightly be bringing in less quality as a team desperate to bring in significant numbers of good players. Or does it even out?
There is plenty of for and against with expanding the AFL.