Opinion You’re the AFL CEO. What would you do first?

[Carringbush2010]

Make Carlolton fold. Waste of time and money. Move North to Tassie.

Nah, we gotta have an enemy to live in hope, only to take that hope away whevever there is hope.

Much more cruel than your method.

As for North, meh, take your pick.

 

[Carringbush2010]

In all seriousness?

• 6-6-6 is no longer a warning, just pay the free
• IF a centre bounce goes wayward, the time ticks from the player touching the ball, not from the time of the bounce.
• Remove / modify the ridiculous 'deliberate' or 'insufficient intent' rule. Obviously teams are getting penalized for oob that are not intentional or 'insufficient'
• Mro to rule not just on outcome but intent as well and to accept that this is a game of collision and injuries / concussion will happen and to accept these can't be avoided.
• Umpire 'interpretation', can't have opinionated decisions based on 'interpretation' - needs to be consistent among all umpires.
• Umpires to be full time professional, the league can afford it, just do it.
• Boundary and goal upmpires to be able to pay obvious frees that field umpires miss.

 

[Leigh aka Frogs]

This is a great idea, although figuring out who stays in the top 12 and who drops down would be controversial in the early stages.

Also, how would promotion and relegation work?

i.e. how many up and how many down?

The draft could be interesting too. Do you run a separate draft across the two leagues, with the second league having first access, or one single draft across both leagues? Would you also allow a loan system, similar to what football has?

I reckon the way you’d do it is to have the first season as all 24 teams in the one comp, and everyone only plays each other once that year. There’d have to be an equal number of home and away games for all parties, and equitable travel (as much as possible).

You’d also foreshadow the introduction of the new model a few years out, to give lower teams the chance to improve and limit the surprise.

Dunno on the promotion/relegation? Maybe the Top Three / Bottom Three, I.e 25pc of either tier?

I like your idea of a flexible draft, too. Don’t know how loan arrangements might work without impacting those lower clubs and making it hard for them to progress?

 

[brysie]

I reckon the way you’d do it is to have the first season as all 24 teams in the one comp, and everyone only plays each other once that year. There’d have to be an equal number of home and away games for all parties, and equitable travel (as much as possible).

You’d also foreshadow the introduction of the new model a few years out, to give lower teams the chance to improve and limit the surprise.

Dunno on the promotion/relegation? Maybe the Top Three / Bottom Three, I.e 25pc of either tier?

I like your idea of a flexible draft, too. Don’t know how loan arrangements might work without impacting those lower clubs and making it hard for them to progress?

I think with promotion/relegation you could have a model similar to what they employ in some of the European football leagues where certain teams are automatically relegated from the higher division and then there is a play-off between other teams in the higher division and those in the lower division (e.g. Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2).

Another way to achieve it may be to relegate the bottom-placed team automatically and have a play-off between the second and third bottom team in the higher division, with the loser being relegated. The promoted teams would then be the premier from the lower division and the runner-up.

Loan arrangements would allow clubs in the higher division to loan a number of players to teams in the lower division, thereby allowing those players to gain some first team football and the lower division teams to add some depth to their lists for that season which should, in theory, raise the standard of the lower division.

 

[Jelly Bean]

Anyone recommending major changes to the fixture needs to solve for AT LEAST the same number of games (therefore the same revenue potential). No CEO is going to implement something that sees the number of games significantly reduce.