Do we need another AFL Club or are there too many as it is?

[DangerIsLove]

With A League expansion being on the agenda is it time to start talking about another new AFL team. Currently Canberra, the Northern Territory, Tasmania and Cairns do not have AFL teams. Should a new AFL team be formed

 

[kane249]

No

Relocate one of the Melbourne teams from the over saturated Victorian market if you had to.

 

[Colonial]

Nah we are good. For now

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[Maddhew]

I would say no, but this is a fresh, unique and original question.

 

[JayJ20]

Nah we are good. For now

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To be honest, we were good before your team came in as well

 

[Pea Nut]

Certainly don't need a new start up franchise. First Victorian club to go broke, moves.

 

[The King!]

Barely got 18

 

[kane249]

I vote Hawforn. The rest of Victoria disowns them already so let's get this done!

Move Hawthorn to Darwin and Geelong to Alice Springs.

Instant local rivalry for the Northern Territory!

 

[ep2018]

Cull the league to 12 teams, 22 round season where everyone plays each other home and away. No way do we need more teams.

 

[im_a_lazy_sod]

Less is more. Unless they extend the season significantly to allow every team to play each other twice and remove finals, then removing teams or splitting them up is the only way to go. Whether that be conferences or divisions - whatever - 18 teams is too much for a 22 round H&A season

 

[Bulldog1954]

Cull the league to 12 teams, 22 round season where everyone plays each other home and away. No way do we need more teams.

So how much less money will come into the game with 6 games on TV every week instead of 9?

 

[Colonial]

To be honest, we were good before your team came in as well

You were incomplete and you know it.

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[ep2018]

So how much less money will come into the game with 6 games on TV every week instead of 9?

True it will never happen because AFL will lose heaps of $$$

 

[Verdun]

Certainly don't need a new start up franchise. First Victorian club to go broke, moves.

Nope that has happened .....North and Hawks both went broke before being bailed out by another state.

Will not happem

 

[Trip3101]

We need 3 less

 

[smasha]

The AFL only needs one,Richmond.

 

[Pea Nut]

Nope that has happened .....North and Hawks both went broke before being bailed out by another state.

Will not happem

Both pre the introduction of the Suns and GWS. I think it could be more of an option now that we have an 18 team comp and two relatively young teams. It would certainly face strong opposition, but I just don't see how you could introduce another new side into the league in the next 10 years.

 

[HairyO]

I would say no, but this is a fresh, unique and original question.

Im hoping he has a newsletter or some other periodical I can subscribe to.

 

[Established1870]

If we're culling sides to make way for new ones then North surely have to be Gill's #1 target on that front.

 

[Roovolution]

Nah we are good. For now

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Scared you'll no longer be the golden child handed a ridiculous amount of draft picks anymore?

 

[Sweet Jesus]

With A League expansion being on the agenda is it time to start talking about another new AFL team.

What does "time" have to do with it?

There is either a sound rationale for another team or there isn't. Saying "it's time" is not an argument either way.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Move Hawthorn to Darwin and Geelong to Alice Springs.

Instant local rivalry for the Northern Territory!

Move West Coast to RSA. You're that far away from civilisation anyway that it's already an overseas trip!

 

[Mr Gurns]

The bravest and boldest move would be to expand into Melbourne. The city is currently occupied by names and brands that are decades, in some cases a century old. Modern marketing and branding, designed to target the rapidly increasing population, and abandoning all the prohibitive norms and traditions of footy as we know it, would be a winner.

This would be a disaster

 

[kane249]

Move West Coast to RSA. You're that far away from civilisation anyway that it's already an overseas trip!

There's probably more South Africans in WA then there is over there

 

[Verdun]

Both pre the introduction of the Suns and GWS. I think it could be more of an option now that we have an 18 team comp and two relatively young teams. It would certainly face strong opposition, but I just don't see how you could introduce another new side into the league in the next 10 years.

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Pleased other states have subsidized GWS and the Suns to their own detriment