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This isnt the epl
What American sports have divisions with promotion and relegation?not this american sports bullshit again
yeah i realize after i read it properly i ****ed up. but we dont have enough talent for promotion relegation. the vfl/wafl/sanfl sides don't have the funds training facilities to work like over in europeWhat American sports have divisions with promotion and relegation?
So if we applied OP's idea to this season, it would mean Geelong and GWS would be playing in div 2 while Fremantle and Richmond play in div 1. So you'd still see wide discrepancies in quality of teams, because teams can decline and improve drastically from year to year in the AFL.
And you're telling half of the sides' supporters that their team isn't going to be relevant for at least a year, and if they're a struggling, then they'll likely remained mired in division 2 for years, which will kill all interest in the club and then probably the club itself. Then you have those examples of teams who make inroads from being a bottom side to top side within a year, and that year of improvement is wasted in a second-tier league.
So the competition, its clubs, supporters and broadcasters would lose money, their would be widespread loss of interest in the game, all for the benefit of reducing the season (which many parties would also consider a negative) and trying to reduce the frequency of thrashings. But I don't know if you would even accomplish the latter; I think what you'd just see is those sides in div 1 who do deteriorate in a year, like Richmond and Freo this year, getting smashed most weeks, much to the chagrin of their fans, and in div 2, you'd have those teams who have improved smashing other teams most weeks
Half the teams know they can't win the flag now. Teams get stuck down the bottom for years now.
div 2 teams won't be irrelevant.
They will be fighting it out for promotion, that generates huge interest a lot more than we see now if you follow a rebuilding side.
That's not the reason why soccer is shitno thanks
soccer is shit because it HAS divisions
Can you imagine a Melbourne club getting stuck in a division with both Perth clubs, both Adelaide clubs, both NSW clubs, they would have to leave the state almost every second week.
They will be drummed out of that group very quickly.