Ideas for Round 24 Bye.

[SgtSchulz]

Competitions

Run in parallel with the AFL season.
Some leagues may start a week or two early.

Round 1-17 AFL season

Total teams = 62

VFL has 15 teams (2 opponents twice, 12 once, 1 bye)
SANFL has 10 teams (6 opponents twice, 4 once, 1 bye)
WAFL has 9 teams (all opponents twice, 1 bye)
NEAFL has 10 teams (6 opponents twice, 4 once, 1 bye)
NTFL* has 8 teams (all opponents twice, 2 byes)
TFL has 10 teams (6 opponents twice, 4 once, 1 bye)

*Not sure how we fit in the NTFL as they play during "Summer".

Round 18-21 AFL season

State league Finals Series
VFL won by Williamstown
SANFL won by West Adelaide
WAFL won by Subiaco
NEAFL won by NT Thunder
NTFL won by Wanderers
TFL won by North Launceston

Round 22 AFL season

Hosted in states where AFL team not playing where possible.

NEAFL premier def. NTFL premier @ Darwin
VFL premier def. TFL premier @ Hobart
SANFL premier def. WAFL premier @ Perth

Round 23 AFL season

SANFL premier def. NEAFL premier @ Adelaide
VFL premier bye.

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Round 24 AFL season (Bye)

THURSDAY NIGHT

ALL AUSTRALIAN TEAM
Chad Wingard

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FRIDAY NIGHT @ Etihad

7:20pm
EJ Whitten Legends Game
South Australia* vs. Victoria

*alternate with whichever state is in the U18 Championship

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SUPER SATURDAY @ Melbourne Cricket Ground

8:50am - 11:50pm
U18 Third place match
South Australia vs. New South Wales

12:00pm - 3:00pm
U18 Championship
Western Australia vs. Victoria


3:20pm (2:50pm SA, 1:20pm WA)
Womens AFL Exhibition Match (Women's AFL Grand Final in 2017).
Western Bulldogs vs. Melbourne


7:40pm (7:10pm SA, 3:40pm WA)
Championship of Australia
Williamstown vs. West Adelaide


The broadcast of Super Saturday could include reviews of the season gone during the quarter time breaks, previews of finals, review of players. One $15 ticket gets you to see the best U18 talent in the country, the best female talent in the country and the best state league talent in the country. I think this fixture over the day could get 40,000 quite comfortably. The state league clubs didn't take the Foxtel Cup properly because it gave them no benefits. Make it to the MCG on Super Saturday and they get national attention.

 

[Tulip]

Ideal time for the EJ Whitten match if they actually only play recent retirees rather than media personalities. Would be a good spectacle.

 

[Brad Goodman]

Under 18 carnival

 

[JohnnyFontane90]

designated wedding weekend

 

[pazza]

Everyone go their state league or local league finals. I'm expecting a significant increase in attendances for those matches as a result of the AFL's generosity.

 

[Parasite]

Beer and Rugby League round.

 

[master bate]

Friday Night: EJ Whitten match

Saturday: Women's footy: Dees v Dogs
Saturday night: Under 18's Vics v All stars: Get the best 44 kids in the draft playing against each other

Sunday: All Australian team announced

 

[Augustine]

Problem with those saying EJ whitten is 9 has the rights. 7 will want something.

I like the Under 18 Vic vs Allstars!!

 

[mike123]

EJ Whitten match and Women's grandfinal.

One Friday night other Saturday whenever.

All stars shouldn't be an option as players are supposed to be resting.

 

[TheGhostOfJohnBelushi]

Why are they still bothering with the floating round 23 fixture if there's a bye the following week?

 

[TassieSaint]

Problem with any type of all star match is that there's no chance the top 8 sides will let anyone play making it a farce.

Ideal time for either u18s or state grand final if they can organise it.

 

[The Falcon Strike]

Problem with those saying EJ whitten is 9 has the rights. 7 will want something.

I like the Under 18 Vic vs Allstars!!

You might ..

Like the wank Vic fest we had a few years ago in the SoO.

SoO only works if there are... states. Allies can suck balls. Particularly for SA and WA supporters

 

[The 747]

Play the SA derby

 

[FootyJunkie]

Why are they still bothering with the floating round 23 fixture if there's a bye the following week?

They want to fixture a big TV Monday Night game as the last game of the H&A season which would have big finals implications.
It will still be hard to predict this correctly even a few weeks out though... could end up putting something like Richmond v North on the Monday Night and get a farce. If they want to do this, they should keep the 3 Sunday games still "floating" and announce which one will be promoted to Monday Night just one week before... bit like how the NFL does it with their last Sunday Night game of the regular season.

I don't see how a week off will prevent finals bound sides that have nothing to play for in the final round from resting players.

I'm not a fan of the bye week... absolutely kills the momentum going into finals... the final round this year had little interest given that the 8 was already set a whole week before and it would have had to have taken some bizarre/upset results to change the expected ladder... now add a week off on top of something like that... zzzzzzz.

The other thing is that it is more than likely the Grand Finalists will end up playing only playing 3 games in the 5 weeks leading up to the GF.... do they really need 2 byes in the lead up, I guess its a bit like 1st back in the Final 5 days.

Maybe the alternative to all of this would be to spread Week 1 of the finals over 2 weeks.... Elim Finals in Week 1, Qualifying Finals in Week 2.

 

[Stopher]

Friday Night: EJ Whitten match

Saturday: Women's footy: Dees v Dogs
Saturday night: Under 18's Vics v All stars: Get the best 44 kids in the draft playing against each other

Sunday: All Australian team announced

Throw the Brownlow in there and you are onto something. Grand Final week will manage on its own somehow

 

[BEEG]

Why not an All-Star game with the best players from the bottom 10 teams

 

[FootyJunkie]

Why not an All-Star game with the best players from the bottom 10 teams

Mad Monday/getting pissed > nothing exhibition game

 

[Thats Wright]

Brad Scott pinyata paraded and flogged by the Fans.

 

[Stopher]

A representative u-18's game (All-Star?) on Friday night. Have a whole heap of the media who cover Supercoach etc call or give special comments for the game.

Brownlow Medal Count on Saturday Night.

All-Australian Team announcement on Sunday night.

 

[doona]

18 v 17 for pick 1
16 v 15 for pick 3
14 v 13 for pick 5
12 v 11 for pick 7
10 v 9 for pick 9

Lowest ranked team gets the home game. Let's have a kruezer cup!!!

 

[eth-dog]

Nothing will happen. State league and local finals will get big crowds though, imagine a packed Windy Hill for Essendon vs Box Hill or a packed Alberton for Port Magpies vs Norwood though.

 

[pazza]

18 v 17 for pick 1
16 v 15 for pick 3
14 v 13 for pick 5
12 v 11 for pick 7
10 v 9 for pick 9

Lowest ranked team gets the home game. Let's have a kruezer cup!!!

Now that's different!

 

[Augustine]

The reason i like the under 18 thing is it would give teams who miss the 8 something to look forward to. Doesnt have to be a state thing. Two 22s of the best 18 year olds in the country head to head a month before the draft on prime time friday night with (hopefully) a decent crowd there.

Make it an event.

The draft night would be richer for it as everyone would know players a bit better. It would also be a great thing to look back historically. You could rotate the game around the country.

 

[edgie]

Why not an All-Star game with the best players from the bottom 10 teams

I like it, but more of a "best of the rest" than an all star.

 

[EssendonNick]

Problem with having the Brownlow would be that 8 clubs would be on the waters.