Grand Final decided in 2 games?

[telsor]

3) There is also the unfairness of accumulated travel throughout the season. To offset this, from January-August, players from Victorian clubs must also partake in SIX midweek football clinics in Broome, Darwin, Cooktown, Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Mooloolaba, Toowoomba, Ballina, Coffs Harbour, Port Macquarie or Kalgoorlie in order to receive their eligibility to play finals. These must be separate trips to their club's scheduled interstate travel during the home & away season. Flights must originate from Melbourne Airport to these regional centres.

AFL charters planes for all teams for every game to ensure travel time is equal. All teams will take off, and fly around in circles for a duration not less than that of the team that has the longest trip that weekend (if they do need to travel a lesser distance, an indirect route is chosen to meet the time requirements). This must be performed before and after every game and no player may do anything that involves their home between when the 'before' flight departs and the 'after' flight lands.


Of course, as a consequence of this, all WA fans will need to be put into counseling due to the massive hole left in their lives from losing their favorite whinge.

 

[99cents]

Rubbish. That would mean a 199 to 100 first match would lose to a 20 to 10 second match. Much easier to win the second game than the first

percentage of percentage..
construct a Duckworth Lewis method
itcanbedone

 

[99cents]

No, it was a bitter fan from the Geelong saltworks.

Actually Geelong is a good example of why this is a dumb idea. Does anyone think we should have the GF played at KP in front of 34K?

i thought the prevailing wisdom was that real fans are effectively locked out of the grand final anyway?
15 k members from each club still applies to gmhba stadium

 

[Grin]

Adelaide probably would have chosen to have game 1 in Adelaide, so I think there may have been a different result... Even with a 48 point start, I think Adelaide may have gotten close at their home ground against the Tigers, plus they wouldn’t have given up towards the end of game 1.

Anyway, I think it makes for an interesting topic of conversation.

I just love these threads so much.
Still so much salt from entitled supporters franchise and the smaller Victorian clubs about the Tigers utter domination of September

 

[Grin]

Um, could you give examples of everyone?

Also since you clearly believe it to be so, can you point me to any examples of non-Richmond fans saying that 2017 Richmond is one of the best teams of the modern era?

Most dominant September this century.
Saltiest summer ever

 

[TBoyleSuperstar]

I wish Richmond fans would stop acting like this thread is an attack on them. It isn't.

I really think that a 3 leg Grand Final is the best solution

Leg 1
At the top teams Home Ground

Leg 2
At the MCG

Leg 3
At the second teams Home Ground

or if the home ground of the second team is the MCG, then leg 3 is played at a neutral venue. I strongly believe that Adelaide Oval or Optus Oval would sell out for a Grand Final even if two teams that weren't from those states were playing.

3 is absolutely ridiculous and stupid.

The beauty of one game is it means you have to perform on the day. Would remove the chances of upsets.

Look at 2012. Sydney played an outstanding game and managed to beat us. There is no way in hell you'd have beaten us that year over 3 legs. Firstly, Goodes wouldn't have been able to play the last two legs. Secondly, the top side gets a chance to reset. 2010 a classic example of this.
2008, no way the Hawks would have beaten the cats over 3 games. Especially losing croad and young.

We are trying to make changes for the sake of making changes. The game is fine. Adelaide choked on the day, it had nothing to do with the crowd

 

[TBoyleSuperstar]

I actually didn’t say Adelaide lost because it was at the MCG. It definitely contributed to it, Richmond were better that day.

I am not sure if there is any other sporting competition in the world where a team fights all year for home ground advantage and then at the final game gives that advantage to it’s opposing team.

Can happen in the NFL ( though oddly never has) and was close to happening this year, can potentially happen this year in the FA cup, with Tottenham playing home games at Wembley, and can happen in the champions league and Europa leagues as well. Champs league final in Rome and Roma topped their group.

 

[tigs2010]

If your team is so good and could win anywhere then you wouldn’t be so fussed about where you played.

Lol the irony

 

[Ron The Bear]

Having more than one 'grand final' renders all of them less grand. Too many flaws with this concept that are peculiar to Australian football for it to be seriously considered.

 

[Ron The Bear]

I just love these threads so much.
Still so much salt from entitled supporters franchise and the smaller Victorian clubs about the Tigers utter domination of September

What other club could have the term 'Richmondy' coined to mock it and win the flag in the same season?

RFC - keeping BigFooty alive.

 

[Sir_Loin]

Lol the irony

It’s a rule created by crows supporters that only applies to the Tiges for the 2017 season. Apart from that it’s fine.

 

[Drewie11]

It’s a rule created by crows supporters that only applies to the Tiges for the 2017 season. Apart from that it’s fine.

Really? So this is the first time moving the grand final or the unfair advantage for home teams at the mcg has mentioned before? Get off your high horse, you are acting like a child.

 

[Sir_Loin]

Really? So this is the first time moving the grand final or the unfair advantage for home teams at the mcg has mentioned before? Get off your high horse, you are acting like a child.

I’ve never seen it sooked about at such levels before. It’s cringeworthy.

 

[RUNVS]

I’ve never seen it sooked about at such levels before. It’s cringeworthy.

Before my post there were 14 replies on this page, and 9 of them were from Richmond fans. It seems Richmond fans are taking this rather personally even though it has been already stated this thread is not about them/you guys.

 

[Sir_Loin]

Before my post there were 14 replies on this page, and 9 of them were from Richmond fans. It seems Richmond fans are taking this rather personally even though it has been already stated this thread is not about them/you guys.

So Richmond fans can’t comment? Where’s all the threads from before the GF last year on it. Can’t seem to find them.

Were you complaining this much when the swans won their last flag at the G? Or when they had their arses handed to them by the Hawks?

 

[Toump Ass]

If the premiership was decided with a second game at Adelaide oval last year, would any Crows supporters have rocked up?

Imagine spending hundreds (thousands?) on a home grand final knowing there was zero chance your team was gonna win. WHAT AN ATMOSPHERE!

I wonder what Geelong's aggregate score would have been over Port with thee matches. 500?

 

[RUNVS]

If the premiership was decided with a second game at Adelaide oval last year, would any Crows supporters have rocked up?

Imagine spending hundreds (thousands?) on a home grand final knowing there was zero chance your team was gonna win. WHAT AN ATMOSPHERE!

I wonder what Geelong's aggregate score would have been over Port with thee matches. 500?

Don't play the 3rd leg if a team wins the first two.

 

[Lsta062]

I wish Richmond fans would stop acting like this thread is an attack on them. It isn't.

I really think that a 3 leg Grand Final is the best solution

Leg 1
At the top teams Home Ground

Leg 2
At the MCG

Leg 3
At the second teams Home Ground

or if the home ground of the second team is the MCG, then leg 3 is played at a neutral venue. I strongly believe that Adelaide Oval or Optus Oval would sell out for a Grand Final even if two teams that weren't from those states were playing.

Couple of questions:
- Would we still have 3 games if both teams are MCG tenants?

In principle it sounds alright, but I don't think it would stop people from complaining. They may still complain about the higher seeded team not having an overall advantage over the lower seeded team for finishing higher since your proposal ends up being a net neutral Grand Final series for both teams.

Yes, it is probably a better solution than the single Grand Final at the MCG that we have now, but some will probably still complain about it. They may also complain that the Grand Final series would take too long to finish as it would be over 3 days, possibly spanning over a couple of weeks.

Not a bad solution, but I don't think it would make everyone content.

 

[underthestars]

i live in fear that one day, somehow, some idiot in the afl manages to climb to the top of the heap and turn such absurdities into reality. this is how once successful businesses die.

 

[RUNVS]

Couple of questions:
- Would we still have 3 games if both teams are MCG tenants?

In principle it sounds alright, but I don't think it would stop people from complaining. They may still complain about the higher seeded team not having an overall advantage over the lower seeded team for finishing higher since your proposal ends up being a net neutral Grand Final series for both teams.

Yes, it is probably a better solution than the single Grand Final at the MCG that we have now, but some will probably still complain about it. They may also complain that the Grand Final series would take too long to finish as it would be over 3 days, possibly spanning over a couple of weeks.

Not a bad solution, but I don't think it would make everyone content.

I had not thought about it in a huge amount of detail but now you bring it up, 2 MCG tenants would mean 2 games at the MCG and 1 game at a neutral venue.

 

[RUNVS]

i live in fear that one day, somehow, some idiot in the afl manages to climb to the top of the heap and turn such absurdities into reality. this is how once successful businesses die.

Lots of sports have these sort of legs for important matches. In the NBA I think they have 7 matches to decide the winner of the NBA that year, or is it baseball. Either way, it is a much fairer system.

 

[Maylandsman]

Really? So this is the first time moving the grand final or the unfair advantage for home teams at the mcg has mentioned before? Get off your high horse, you are acting like a child.

But he is right...most of you lot are so salty it isn’t funny...talk about acting childish.
After the game and talking to crows supporters they were very gracious. Freely saying the better team won and the crows didn’t show up. Fools and horses.

 

[Drewie11]

I’ve never seen it sooked about at such levels before. It’s cringeworthy.

What’s cringeworthy is Richmond supporters thinking everyone has a vendetta against their team.

 

[Sir_Loin]

What’s cringeworthy is Richmond supporters thinking everyone has a vendetta against their team.

No just those interstaters who can’t handle their team choking on the big day

 

[tigs2010]

No just those interstaters who can’t handle their team choking on the big day

Choked at the parade