1 club per city- a theoretical competition

[ag6858]

How do you think the AFL would go in a theoretical competition where each city only housed one club, and the top 18 cities by population had the teams.
The teams would be
1. Sydney Swans- SCG/ANZ/Skoda
2. Melbourne Demons- MCG/Etihad
3. Brisbane Bears- Gabba
4. Perth Eagles- Subiaco
5. Adelaide Crows- AO/AAMI
6. Gold Coast Suns- Metricon
7. Newcastle City- Newcastle Sportsground
8. Canberra Giants- Manuka
9. Wollongong Lions- North Dalton Park
10. Sunshine Coast Rays- Maroochydore multisports
11. Hobart Tigers- Bellerive Oval
12. Geelong Cats- Kardinia Park
13. Townsville City Lions- Tony Ireland Stadium
14. Cairns City- Cazalys
15. Toowoomba Bombers- Harristown park
16. Darwin Buffaloes- Marrara
17. Albury-Wodonga Hoppers- Lavington Sports Ground
18. Launceston Blues- Aurora

If this competition was to happen, what do you think would be the success and crowd figures for each team. Would Melbourne sell out the MCG every week, and would teams like Toowoomba struggle to hit 4 figures.

 

[The_Reaper]

How the hell did you pick the stadiums?

Why wouldn't Albury play from Lavington or Townsville from Tony ireland?

Not to mention that Ballarat and Bendigo would have teams.

 

[ag6858]

How the hell did you pick the stadiums?

Why wouldn't Albury play from Lavington or Townsville from Tony ireland?

Not to mention that Ballarat and Bendigo would have teams.

I picked the stadiums from a few google searches of local teams, some of them were probably wrong. I chose the top 18 cities by population, with Ballarat and Bendigo not making the cut.

 

[parano1a]

The competition would be less successful and financially viable than the NBL.

 

[Colonial]

1 thing, western Sydney is actually "classed" as a seperate entitiy to Sydney proper. With a population of 3 mill id say we earned our team.

 

[Dont be a lemon]

1 thing, western Sydney is actually "classed" as a seperate entitiy to Sydney proper.

Not officially.

 

[jethro11]

Melbourne would sell out the 'G three times over every week.

 

[Hoops]

How the hell did you pick the stadiums?

Why wouldn't Albury play from Lavington or Townsville from Tony ireland?

Not to mention that Ballarat and Bendigo would have teams.

Bendigo and Ballarat are bigger than Albury. Albury-Wodonga however...

 

[Hoops]

You would pick th 18 biggest football cities not cities due to population.

18 biggest football cities

Melbourne
Perth
Adelaide
Sydney
Brisbane
Geelong
Hobart
Darwin
Albury-Wodonga
Launceston
Ballarat
Bendigo
Mandurah
Canberra
Gold Coast
Cairns
Burnie-Devonport
Latrobe Valley

 

[boncer34]

I picked the stadiums from a few google searches of local teams, some of them were probably wrong. I chose the top 18 cities by population, with Ballarat and Bendigo not making the cut.

Albury has about 55K. Bendigo has 94K.


Um... what?

 

[Magpies2010]

Nup, just wouldn't work, even as a theory I don't like it.

 

[ag6858]

As I should have stated clearer earlier, I knew it wouldn't work, I just wanted to know what the competition would be like if it was actually played.

 

[The_Reaper]

Albury has about 55K. Bendigo has 94K.


Um... what?

Albury-Wodonga has over 100k. They form one metropolitan area with Wodonga in the Victorian side of the Murray and Albury on the NSW side.

 

[boncer34]

Albury-Wodonga has over 100k. They form one metropolitan area with Wodonga in the Victorian side of the Murray and Albury on the NSW side.

And the Greater city of Bendigo has 140k.

 

[The_Reaper]

And the Greater city of Bendigo has 140k.

Did not know that.

In any case if we were to have a 20 city competition then all three would be in. Hell if we had a 12 team city comp they would be in.

 

[speedpeck23]

Not officially.

Nothing in life is really "official"

 

[Jakeeboy]

It would depend on whether Australia was a AFL dominated country, or if it still had the 50/50 split with the NRL.

 

[Hodge is God]

How do you think the AFL would go in a theoretical competition where each city only housed one club, and the top 18 cities by population had the teams.
The teams would be
1. Sydney Swans- SCG/ANZ/Skoda
2. Melbourne Demons- MCG/Etihad
3. Brisbane Bears- Gabba
4. Perth Eagles- Subiaco
5. Adelaide Crows- AO/AAMI
6. Gold Coast Suns- Metricon
7. Newcastle City- Newcastle Sportsground
8. Canberra Giants- Manuka
9. Wollongong Lions- North Dalton Park
10. Sunshine Coast Rays- Maroochydore multisports
11. Hobart Tigers- Bellerive Oval
12. Geelong Cats- Kardinia Park
13. Townsville City Lions- Tony Ireland Stadium
14. Cairns City- Cazalys
15. Toowoomba Bombers- Harristown park
16. Darwin Buffaloes- Marrara
17. Albury-Wodonga Hoppers- Lavington Sports Ground
18. Launceston Blues- Aurora

If this competition was to happen, what do you think would be the success and crowd figures for each team. Would Melbourne sell out the MCG every week, and would teams like Toowoomba struggle to hit 4 figures.

Good idea but, Tasmania wouldn't be able to hold 2 teams. Just hasn't got the population to do so.
North Queensland would probably only be allowed to hold the 1 team.
Darwin, population? 4,000 would be an achievement.
Wollongong, don't think it would have the support and North Dalton Park hasn't got the right landscape to build a big stadium, would rather a ground like Win Stadium but that is built for RL.

 

[stmookeyj]

Toowoomba could not financially support a Statewide Rugby League team, so there's no hope of them financially supporting an AFL franchise. There already is a Townsville City Lions, they're on the bottom of the ladder in the Townsville comp.

 

[Karnezis_13]

Would be a pretty crazy concept if it worked, just want to add that Sunshine Coast would more than likely play at Stockland rather than Maroochydore.

 

[raskolnikov]

and would teams like Toowoomba struggle to hit 4 figures.

I lived in Toowoomba for ten years and played in the Aussie Rules competition there. I reckon a team in Toowoomba would do well for a number of reasons.

1. The Aussie Rules competition there is probably the best in Queensland outside of Brisbane and the Gold Coast.

2. Unlike Townsville and Cairns which already have sporting teams in the NBL and NRL Toowoomba doesn't currently have a professional sports team so there would be no opposition.

3. Even though Toowoomba has just over 100,000 people it has a huge outlying area with towns like Warwick, Dalby and Kingaroy. It is only just over an hours drive from Brisbane and the Gold Coast so you would even have fans at the games from there, especially at the local derbies.

 

[stmookeyj]

1. The Aussie Rules competition there is probably the best in Queensland outside of Brisbane and the Gold Coast.

Cairns and Mackay would wallop the DD team by 15 goals, Capricornia and possibly Townsville by 5....

 

[Sewell Rules]

Did not know that.

In any case if we were to have a 20 city competition then all three would be in. Hell if we had a 12 team city comp they would be in.

That figure includes all of the council area which extends much further than the actual city.