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The future of the Pre-Grand Final Bye
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I'm only ok with it long term if they aligned all the state league grand finals to be on such a weekend as this.
Thinking outside the square, maybe we can have our own version. Last plays second last with the lower getting the #1 draft pick. Imagine how laughable the game would be.
Entertainment Gold I tell ya!!!
No problem if you have other footy on. Could schedule all the other footy Grand Finals around the country for this weekend. ....build the atmosphere. Would be great to televise and highlight the lower profile comps....
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Is a pre finals by even necessary? Less said about pre Grand Final bye the better. Credit to the Bulldogs for making it through and doing it so convincingly, but the reality is that the Dees have now had a week off on either side of the prelim. They’re doing full scale match simulations to try and stay as active as possible. How is that a fair reward for finishing first?
GET RID OF BYES ALTOGETHER !!!!
No byes at all at any time ..... they are for softcocks only.
No mid-season byes
No pre-finals byes
No pre-GF byes
* them off and * off the clown who came up with the idea too.
No byes at all at any time ..... they are for softcocks only.
No mid-season byes
No pre-finals byes
No pre-GF byes
* them off and * off the clown who came up with the idea too.
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There should be No BYE at all, just have a month of Finals footy and build up to the Grand Final. This weekend is terrible.
I agree, if players need a week off they should just be dropped.
This bye has nothing to do with footy or the players.
It is about getting all the hob knobs, sponsors, politicians etc through quarantine and into the stadium.
It is about getting all the hob knobs, sponsors, politicians etc through quarantine and into the stadium.
Agreed!!! Demons are being disadvantaged for being the best team through to the GF.
And why is that so? See below. Madness!!
Great bye. Footy fans who watched the two SANFL finals yesterday were lucky - (SANFL and VFL footy in the 70s 80s 90s was better to watch than most 'new rules/style' footy today). The AFL should be promoting/showing the WAFL SANFL VFL finals rather than saying - oh, it's a bye, oh, no footy - rubbish
Excellent point. The AFL's myopic attitude however won't allow them to extend to other states comps.
Hate the pre finals bye, this is a better option in a s**t situation.
The momentum is lost a bit as much because the GF is in Perth and Melbourne and Sydney are in lockdown so there is absolutely nothing to do.
But in future seasons, it's a clear weekend for all local footy grand finals which are usually on this weekend with no clashes with the PF. Gives the grand final teams a rest for any niggles and as another poster pointed out that I also thought of watching the PF last weekend, it removes any concussion issues.
Imagine a gun player gets a cheap shot and has to miss the GF because of concussion protocols? Would be ridiculous.
It would be interesting to see if they did it again if they went for the parade or other activities this weekend instead of the Friday?
The momentum is lost a bit as much because the GF is in Perth and Melbourne and Sydney are in lockdown so there is absolutely nothing to do.
But in future seasons, it's a clear weekend for all local footy grand finals which are usually on this weekend with no clashes with the PF. Gives the grand final teams a rest for any niggles and as another poster pointed out that I also thought of watching the PF last weekend, it removes any concussion issues.
Imagine a gun player gets a cheap shot and has to miss the GF because of concussion protocols? Would be ridiculous.
It would be interesting to see if they did it again if they went for the parade or other activities this weekend instead of the Friday?
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I like the bye because players concussed in the Prelim can still be available for selection. It would be a true hard luck story for a player fully recovered from a minor concussion to miss the GF on protocol. And the protocol is appropriate.
I’d like to see an Under 18s carnival televised over the bye weekend because for 16 clubs the draft is the next exciting event on the horizon and most of us don’t really follow the potential draftees until 5 minutes before the draft.
I’d like to see an Under 18s carnival televised over the bye weekend because for 16 clubs the draft is the next exciting event on the horizon and most of us don’t really follow the potential draftees until 5 minutes before the draft.
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Pre grand final bye would work better in a normal year. A covid year doesn’t help it’s case.
If you had some football festival the week before with some state GF’s etc…. Then it would be better. AFL just need to get creative with it.
If you had some football festival the week before with some state GF’s etc…. Then it would be better. AFL just need to get creative with it.
I know Melbourne fans not been first very often but it is exactly the reward you got if you finished first in the final five and a lot of teams won the premiership this way. I think I seen my team win three grand finals by having a week off before and after the final we won to advance to the grand final. Never did us any harm.
In recent history, teams that have only two games of footy in a month (like Melbourne) haven't done that well.
If Melbourne lose on Saturday, they'll have a good case against the bye.
The bye was a free kick for the NRL last weekend, with two prime time finals on, and no AFL alternatives.
Scrap the bye, it unreasonably disadvantages teams that have done well in the normal season..
If Melbourne lose on Saturday, they'll have a good case against the bye.
The bye was a free kick for the NRL last weekend, with two prime time finals on, and no AFL alternatives.
Scrap the bye, it unreasonably disadvantages teams that have done well in the normal season..
Scrap it.
I don't like any finals bye at all, pre or during. Most coaches and players seem against it as well, from what I have seen? (Although that might just be bias and seeing what I want.) I can guarantee Melb would have wanted to go straight into a Grand Final after that Geelong win.
Even Beveridge said recently he doesn't like it, and the Bulldogs are the team that have probably been advantaged most by it.
Even Beveridge said recently he doesn't like it, and the Bulldogs are the team that have probably been advantaged most by it.
When the pre-finals bye started this was brought up. At that point, IMO there weren't enough data points. I actually supported the move, given the nature of the problem the pre-finals bye was supposed to solve. I think there are now.
If we need to byes, best to make it two split rounds - over two weeks, rather than three. It does seem one week off is better than two, which is better than zero.
One just before the halfway point of the season and one a couple of weeks before finals. Maybe split round 20 or something. We all know the reason for the pre-finals bye was because a couple of teams certain of their position picked half-arsed sides for the final round. But the impact seems to be on the best performing teams, the ones who should not be systemically disadvantaged at finals time.
22 rounds over 24 weeks. Oh, and sides coming off a bye should play against sides coming off a bye. (Slightly less important, sides going into a bye should play sides going into a bye.)
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I forgot the season hadn’t finished yet TBH
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