Don't know if anyone has seen this, but Jeff Kennett has brought up the old one about the 30 round season.
http://foxsports.news.com.au/story/0,8659,19372719-32466,00.html
http://foxsports.news.com.au/story/0,8659,19372719-32466,00.html
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30 round season proposals are back
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yeah...i cant see it happening. its just too much football. there would have to be some serious changes to the sizes of lists. like they would need to add about 10 or 15 to each one, and increase the rookie list size too.
personally, id prefer to see the NAB scrapped, add two SOO weekends early in the season then add 3 split rounds later in the season to give everyone breaks later in the season.
personally, id prefer to see the NAB scrapped, add two SOO weekends early in the season then add 3 split rounds later in the season to give everyone breaks later in the season.
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zero said:
exactly, plus the season would start in late january in the hot weather.
Your idea is good, the NAB should be scrapped
30 rounds?!
Thats getting a little too much, it would be hard on the players.
Thats getting a little too much, it would be hard on the players.
but it would be fair. each team playing each other twice would be great. you could also cut the finals series down to three weeks (top five) and get rid of the preseason cup. all players can only play a miximum of 25 games in a year. its a 33 week season compared to a 31 (with the split included) week season.
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You cant limit players games, cant imagine Yze and Crouch liking that one!
Id love to see a 30 week season but its just not viable, unless you were to have unlimited interchange players (think NFL, 38 man team!). And the song would have to change...
"oh, theres one day in early November..."
Id love to see a 30 week season but its just not viable, unless you were to have unlimited interchange players (think NFL, 38 man team!). And the song would have to change...
"oh, theres one day in early November..."
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Richo83 said:
exactly, 30 is way too long and the NAB is proving to be a waste of time
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aza80 said:start the season earlier then, play all the games at night. so what if it gets too hot for the vic teams we go over there and play in the arctic tundra. you can come over here and sweat a little.
Early morning or twilight games at Aurora Stadium (hey, we have a siren now!) in February, sounds good
ashy_magpies
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Scrap the preseason stuff and the international rules, add an extra 3 rounds, keep the bye weekend and introduce another bye weekend for State Of Origin and have a top 6 not 8. The extra rounds make it a little bit fairer and half the competition shouldnt qualify for finals.
evo
Let's hit the f*ken road!
Where do I sign.
ashy_magpies
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aza80 said:start the season earlier then, play all the games at night. so what if it gets too hot for the vic teams we go over there and play in the arctic tundra. you can come over here and sweat a little.
Starting the season earlier...what about cricket season the MCG, GABBA and SCG are all out of business untill after the labour day weekend in march.
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ashy_magpies said:
MCG was out til ANZAC day this year
Telstra Stadium is always an option in Sydney
The GABBA? Well the AFL want games at Carrara dont they
Solved, solved and solved
most of that is state cricket anyway. send em somewhere else. or with all that great daylight saving you people from the east have maybe we could have a few midweek twilight games. think outside the square.
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ashy_magpies said:
Telstra dome, AAMI, Telstra Stadium, Subiaco, York Park and Carrara could be used
Also need the possibility of some of the old Victorian grounds opening
22 weeks of misery will do me. Maybe once we start winning again, but at the moment, no way.
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Victorian grounds will not be opened back up because the costs involved in opening them, but the other grounds that you listed would be used. And to the wacka that suggested moving state cricket, **** off footy can wait for the final 2 or 3 weeks of the cricket season to finish.Sir_Adrian84 said:
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The fixture isnt right at the moment, it needs to be fixed. There are too many advantages for clubs each year.
Its either every team plays each other once
or
we merge 4 teams into 2 (which we know wont happen) and then each team gets to play each other twice.
It means there isnt the huge advantage for interstate teams that there is at the moment in the current fixture. And a team wont have the possibility of getting to play some of the very weak sides twice and strong teams only once. The fixture needs amending.
A 30 week season is a bit too much.
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Its either every team plays each other once
or
we merge 4 teams into 2 (which we know wont happen) and then each team gets to play each other twice.
It means there isnt the huge advantage for interstate teams that there is at the moment in the current fixture. And a team wont have the possibility of getting to play some of the very weak sides twice and strong teams only once. The fixture needs amending.
A 30 week season is a bit too much.
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I was reading the other day back in the late 90's (and is still possibly done this way, im not sure could some one find that out) the fixture was done by splitting the ladder from the previous year into two groups (top 8 and bottom 8) and those in each group would play each other twice (so all of the top 8 played each other twice and all of the bottom 8 played each other twice) with the AFL taking out "blockbuster" games (anzac day, queens birthday, etc). which is as fair as it can be with out the players vatiguing to much come seasons end with a 30 round season.OldMav said:
Players would drop dead after 30 rounds....
22 is hard enough...
22 is hard enough...
Pre-season should stay. Gives youngsters are chance to impress, and provides proper match fitness before the main season starts.
Nothing wrong with the current system, except SOO needs to be slotted in somewhere.
Nothing wrong with the current system, except SOO needs to be slotted in somewhere.
There's not enough talent for 22 rounds. If they have 30, they'd need to increse the playing lists. It's not practicle.
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