The Fans should get the final say

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When it comes to things like Rising Star, All Australian and particularly Rule changes, do you believe that the Fans should get the chance to vote and ultimately have the final say?

Or would you still rather a bunch of suits* sitting around a table at AFL house dictating how our sport should be run?
 
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Plebiscite for every change. Minimum 11 home game members, non-compulsory paper vote.
 

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You have to remember 'the fans' dont refer to bigfooty

If adelaide fans has their way, Scott Thompson plays 20 games this season and the Crows are not sitting 1st
 

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I love how the OP has phrased the question in such a wonderfully non-biased manner.
 

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Would rely way too much on nuffies and popularity.

Take two players who have had similarly outstanding seasons. One plays for Brisbane and the other plays for a big Melbourne club. Do you reckon there's any chance the guy from Brissy wins a numbers contest against the bloke in the Melbourne fishbowl? Nah probably not.
 

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Cool then we will have an AA team consisting of 10 WCE players and 12 Collingwood every year.

Lets make it like the nba AA teams where Yao Ming would get selected despite not playing all season because 100 million chinese voted for him

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It wouldn't be much different.

Media nuffies pick All-Australians - Dangerfield, Selwood, Franklin.
Ask them why: Their names are Dangerfield, Selwood and Franklin and it doesn't matter how poor any of their seasons are. They make the team look good.

Regular AFL and non-AFL supporting nuffies pick All-Australians - Dangerfield, Selwood, Franklin.
Ask them why: They are the only players I know. I support them because their stars, and they don't seem to get much recognition for their talent.
 

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You'd get far more value in asking r/AFL and people on here.

But the media and commentators are a dumb choice. Should be perhaps down to club captains and coaches?
 
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Umpires are up, or should I say, down there with most pollies. And pollies are too gutless to make their own decisions these days so have postal votes instead, so yeah, why not, would make sense in this gutter-grabbing world.
 

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When it comes to things like Rising Star, All Australian and particularly Rule changes, do you believe that the Fans should get the chance to vote and ultimately have the final say?

Or would you still rather a bunch of suits* sitting around a table at AFL house dictating how our sport should be run?
Surely you're not serious.
 

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The fans are ******* idiots

They'd ruin the sport, bankrupt every club in the league and then blame Andrew Demetriou.
 

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The fans know least about the game than other groups. Do we want thong wearing inarticulates controlling the game?
 

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Yeah I thought Boaty McBoatface's season was definitely worthy of AA selection.

In reality, the general public do get the final say. All-time high for people through the gates this year, why wouldn't those animal-sacrificing devil-worshipping child-laundering suits feel vindicated by that?
 

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Biggest no ever. People can't distinguish between what is reality and their biases ie. their club's player being the best/what rules are good for the game etc. BigFooty is a testament to that as is the AFL website (check the poll results). Another great example is betting odds, teams like Carlton/Collingwood/Hawthorn etc. always have far shorter odds than what they truly should be, purely on the amount of one eyed supporters from their large fan bases betting blindly or with their hearts.
 
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