Another legend dying too young
-
Mobile App Discontinued
Due to a number of factors, support for the current BigFooty mobile app has been discontinued. Your BigFooty login will no longer work on the Tapatalk or the BigFooty App - which is based on Tapatalk.
Apologies for any inconvenience. We will try to find a replacement.
RIP AFL X
- Thread starter Jedi Tiger
- Start date
-
- Tags
- afl x
- Tagged users None
🥰 Love BigFooty? Join now for free.
AFL-Y? i think we ask that question regularly. Why,AFL-why?
Vale AFLX, we hardly knew ye.
- Jul 16, 2013
- 18,366
- 25,000
- AFL Club
- Essendon
Never went far enough.
Should have brought in a laser tag system instead of tackling.
Should have brought in a laser tag system instead of tackling.
Log in to remove this Banner Ad
- Nov 21, 2013
- 8,599
- 7,080
- AFL Club
- Melbourne
I wonder how much money the Dorba's who invented it got for it?
I wonder how much money it cost the AFL? but with its past history being opaque i doubt will ever know the truth
I wonder how much money it cost the AFL? but with its past history being opaque i doubt will ever know the truth
- Aug 13, 2018
- 916
- 1,083
- AFL Club
- West Coast
- Other Teams
- New York Mets
Good, waste of time, money and talent. Imagine the uproar if Danger, Dusty or Fyfe did a ACL playing a gimmick game.
If the really AFL wants to take AFLW seriously then they should be putting the preseason money to them instead
If the really AFL wants to take AFLW seriously then they should be putting the preseason money to them instead
30 a side played on the infield at flemington, goals 500m apart
Toump Ass
The Big Deal
- Jun 14, 2015
- 21,856
- 49,717
- AFL Club
- Melbourne
- Other Teams
- Port Adelaide Power
The longer the season goes the greater the fixture inequalities become.
The should make the AFL season shorter so every team players each-other once. As a bonus, that leaves plenty of room for both AFL-w and AFL-x
- Nov 25, 2017
- 17,787
- 18,015
- AFL Club
- Brisbane Lions
I think my favourite memory is falling asleep while watching this year's edition of AFLX.
Hawk_francais
Cancelled
- Sep 20, 2015
- 3,509
- 7,041
- AFL Club
- Hawthorn
Played on horseback, Gillon and Hamish both brought in on rookie contracts to co-captain 'The Rompingwins'.
- Nov 21, 2013
- 8,599
- 7,080
- AFL Club
- Melbourne
That wont happen as we wont get access to the Cricket grounds.
- Nov 21, 2013
- 8,599
- 7,080
- AFL Club
- Melbourne
What?
JT_the_Man
Draft King
Can we all agree to never mention this... thing, again?
- Oct 9, 2003
- 51,631
- 53,822
- AFL Club
- North Melbourne
- Other Teams
- Eagles (NFL), Suns (NBA)
Shame on you people prematurely dancing on its grave! It's not dead, just taking a hiatus. As per the article in the OP:
"the decision to pause scheduling of AFLX matches."
"the decision to pause scheduling of AFLX matches."
The moment that AFLX jumped the shark
- Nov 21, 2013
- 8,599
- 7,080
- AFL Club
- Melbourne
This season can't start any earlier than it does due to the Cricket season. The season can't get any longer due to the Cricket season.
Remember that the MCG, the SCG, the Gabba and the Adelaide Oval and the Wacca are Crickets grounds.
🥰 Love BigFooty? Join now for free.
- Nov 21, 2013
- 8,599
- 7,080
- AFL Club
- Melbourne
We would still have to play on Cricket ovals somewhere and with the big 5 out of the question a majority of Suburban grounds wouldn't have the capacity, even if we could access them which is highly unlikely.
76woodenspooners
Brownlow Medallist
The point of the AFLX format was to offer an alternative to social touch rugby which is quite a large participation sport. The pre-season AFLX comp using AFL players was merely a way of promoting the format.
It seems like it was a worthy idea, but maybe poorly executed?
Or maybe an experiment that didn’t work out? I don’t know the participation rates of social AFLX - but could imagine that they are very low.
Can’t knock the AFL for trying.
Nah, They already have AFL 9's which does exactly what you are saying AFLX was suppose to do.
In my opinion, AFLX was just a copy of the success of T20 cricket in Australia. When it was blasted the first year, they doubled down and even copied the style, colours and feel of the competition thinking that was the problem. A game of footy is still shorter than a T20 game Gil, why do we need a shorter form?
They are clueless. The same ivory tower clowns think China is going to work too just because it's worked for primary industries and is big in the media.
I fundamentally disagree with this point.
China might work you dont need a massive % of a billion to make it profitable
You need to market it differently though,you need celebrity endorsement maybe to break in like lavender teddys
AFLX is really just touch park footy for anywhere that has a soccer rugby pitch.
It might have worked as AFLXW as suggested or as a Veterans game format or State of Origin,unfortunately not so well as a tag team wrestling format
Similar threads
