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Expansion Joondalup Falcons in the AFL?
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- May 26, 2014
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I initially considered them to be too unlikely, given all the extra travel they would have to do, but you could easily just put Darwin in with QLD and NZ with NSW/ACT.
Optus Oval would have a better overall percentage capacity usage than the MCG.
Most of the Eagles powerbrokers were from the top end of town and that is the western suburbs. Post game functions were at the Wembley Hotel in the western suburbs (as you probably know). As a Subi fan always felt Eagles were close to Subi and Claremont.
All changed now they moved to Lathlain. I think a ground share with Subi at Stirling was the answer.
I think Subi should still relocate to Stirling and East Perth to the WACA. Leederville can become flats.
Auckland is almost the exact same distance as Perth is from the East Coast, and in addition you have to go through customs and immigration both ways so it’s a much worse flight.
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Exactly why I didn't include them in my initial post.
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Or:
A: 5 Vic (Vic West)
B: 5 Vic (Vic East)
C: West Coast, Fremantle, Joondalup, Bunbury, Darwin (Western)
D: Adelaide, Port, Norwood, Sturt, Tasmania (Southern)
E: Sydney, West Sydney, Canberra, Newcastle, NZ (Eastern)
F: Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Cairns, Southport (Northern)
30 teams, conference teams play each other twice = 8 games + play three other conferences once = 23 rounds a year (can still have Gather Round each year). They eventually play other conferences in different seasons, but Vic East and West conferences always play each other once each season to ensure ANZAC day etc are kept.
Conference winners + two best runners up = top 8, top 8 get double chance
Next best 8 ranked teams qualify for final 16
Week 1: 1 v 8, 2 v 7, 3 v 6, etc, QFs; 9 v 16, 10 v 15 etc EFs
Week 2: Four QF losers v Four EF winners
Week 3: Four QF winners v Four week 2 winners
Week 4: Four week 3 winners play each other
Week 5: Two week 4 winners play each other
tl;dr I think it's good to try and keep the same number of teams in each conference wherever possible. I can't see there being the need for ever more than 30 teams max, with perhaps one or two struggling Vic clubs in the future relocating to regional Vic instead of moving interstate i.e. Ballarat Bulldogs.
A 30 team conference... imagine the standard of footy in comparison to now 
Well, we're talking about the reserves comp but I doubt it'll ever happen.A 30 team conference... imagine the standard of footy in comparison to now
If you look at the existing secondary markets, or secondary markets used in recent years, teams in the ACT and NT after Tasmania don't seem far fetched at all.
I don't see Ballarat ever getting a team, but a struggling Vic club might be more persuaded to relocate there than interstate if things ever got dire for them.
I don't see NZ, SC, Newcastle, or wherever else getting a team unless we start seeing 2-3 games played a year there with good results, and Vic clubs that are unwilling to sell games to these places will probably stop expansion from happening there.
Apparently the Hawks are gonna play some games in Cairns after Launceston, and I doubt the AFL completely pulls out of ACT and NT, so I could see the ACT, NT, and NQ getting sides eventually, but I'm not sure beyond that.
3rd Sydney/2nd Brisbane may be seen as less of a risk since they already play games there frequently.
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Less travel.
Won't happen, I don't think there's ever going to be 4 teams in WA, and I doubt there'll be 3 in SA and so on.
But what I do know is that if the AFL keep adding 2 teams every 15-20 years then a single-tier competition will eventually become unviable.
And we won't get promotion and relegation since fans are used to seeing their teams play in the top league every year.
It's not.
In my layout, Fremantle would play 7 games within their conference in WA (1 in Darwin/NT). With the 15 other-conference games, 7 of those would be at home, 7 away, and 1 neutral. So that's 7 Optus games within their conference, 7 against others, so the Dockers would be playing 14 games a year at Optus.
Not sure where you’re getting your info but a quick google search confirms my plentiful experience of flights to Auckland. 3:35 Sydney to Auckland, 4:10 Perth to Sydney. Air New Zealand is as trash as the rest. Only airline I’ve had refuse to acknowledge cancelling my flight without informing me was something g they should apologise for
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Love this idea
What are you talking about? Because I’m talking about the number of home and away games they’re playing.
The Dockers play 12 games in 2024 at Optus, 1 away against the Eagles. I think that’s usually the case each year. Under my proposal they’d play 14 games a year at Optus.
But that said, I doubt we ever get 30 teams. I could see 26 teams of two conferences of five each in Vic, and 4 each in the others, with Tasmania going into SA, NT in QLD, NZ in NSW/ACT, and 4 teams in WA.
In that scenario, Fremantle would still get 14 games a year at Optus: 6 conference games in WA, and of their remaining 17 fixtures against other conference teams, 8 of those in WA. Sometimes they’d get 15 Optus games a year if Gather Round is in WA.
I’m pretty sure you’ve accidentally clicked miles instead of KMs on your Google search for Sydney to Auckland as it’s more than 2,100km (about 1,300 miles). It’s 2,645 from Melbourne to Auckland which is where most of the teams will be travelling from also. The difference is not big and would be overridden by the bigger inconvenience of adding clearing customs and immigration.
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