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You can't talk rationally with Victorians
North want to play 2 home games in WA next season
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If North want to do this then let them go for it. I would imagine it is a strategy that they would only want to employ while they are down the bottom though, particularly if they were rising at the same time as one or both of the WA clubs. They'd hate to miss top 4/ top 8/ home final because they lost a close game to Fremantle played in WA, which they may otherwise have won at Docklands.
It would also be a good way for the WA sides to have an extended stay at home mid-season.
For example:
Freo play away in the eastern states
Freo play WCE away (7 days at home)
Freo play at home (14)
Freo play NM "away" in Perth (21)
Freo get the bye (28)
Freo play Bris at home (35)
Freo travel east (+/-42)
Of course that would need the AFL on-board to fixture. Using the bye round and the local derby it could possibly be worked that WCE get +/- 4 or 5 weeks without travel as well.
The following season they flip it so WCE have the longer stay at home.
It would also be a good way for the WA sides to have an extended stay at home mid-season.
For example:
Freo play away in the eastern states
Freo play WCE away (7 days at home)
Freo play at home (14)
Freo play NM "away" in Perth (21)
Freo get the bye (28)
Freo play Bris at home (35)
Freo travel east (+/-42)
Of course that would need the AFL on-board to fixture. Using the bye round and the local derby it could possibly be worked that WCE get +/- 4 or 5 weeks without travel as well.
The following season they flip it so WCE have the longer stay at home.
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First of all I am WA born and bred.You can't talk rationally with Victorians
Tassie come in to the comp in a couple of years time. One team won't play rd 1, what will the fixture say that team is doing?
Would it say its having a bye or would it say season has started for that team yet?
Why would the AFL schedule a bottom 4 team to play a home game in WA against a top 4 team in 2025?
How would the side who missed the top 8 feel if Freo pipped them by a win or percentage? Fans would be seriously pissed off and fair enough.
It's fine if the additional home game doesn't gift a contending side or side who are just make the top 8 by getti g a win against a bottom 4 side.
Pretty sure that's why it was knocked back years ago when the Eagles were contending g.
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Is that really so different than the feeling of fans who see a team in the top 8 that had double ups against Richmond, WC, and North whilst their team had double ups against Brisbane, Sydney, and Geelong?
The fixture being unfair is not a great reason to knock this back, the fixture is always unfair
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Why not sell it to Geelong? Cats get 11 games at GMHBA, reserve 10000 seats for North fans so there is a bit of atmosphere
Your first suggestion is spot on and what should happen. It's a no-brainer IMO.
The WA teams travel away with a 5 or 6 day break and play 2 games in Melbourne. They stay in Melbourne between matches.
Later in the season they spend two weeks at home.
Do that twice and all of a sudden the km travelled drop down and nights away from home remain the same. It's just you play two away games 8n a row.
Eddie McGuire suggested something similar but with a mini Gather Round in WA with 4 teams. Two WA side and two visiting sides saying the week.
Later the WA teams do the opposite.
I think a better way to manage WA. sides is for both to play away in zero round in Brisbane and Sydney and to have a bye around round six. It would give them two byes during the year rather than start the year a week later.
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If one of Freo or West Coast gets one extra week at home - omigawshsounfairthe world is fallingdown.
Anyone dares to suggest that Collingwood, Carlton or Essendon have to travel to Tasmania for a game and the land arises with outrage. Indeed even travelling to far away Manuka is too much to demand of them!! Since 2001 the pies have played once at Manuka, and Essendon and Carlton haven't had to worry about regular season games here at all. Ever.
Some great research a while back by the mob at the ARC shows the basic concept -
https://thearcfooty.com/2016/08/28/...ther-than-any-other-player-in-aflvfl-history/
In rough terms - by the end of his career - Pav had travelled enough to do 21 complete laps of the globe at the equator - or go to the moon and back twice and get nearly halfway there again.
And others have added on:
So one extra game at home for the WA teams (who don't get opening round, gather round or any other bloody round) somehow destroys the comp???
Anyone dares to suggest that Collingwood, Carlton or Essendon have to travel to Tasmania for a game and the land arises with outrage. Indeed even travelling to far away Manuka is too much to demand of them!! Since 2001 the pies have played once at Manuka, and Essendon and Carlton haven't had to worry about regular season games here at all. Ever.
Some great research a while back by the mob at the ARC shows the basic concept -
https://thearcfooty.com/2016/08/28/...ther-than-any-other-player-in-aflvfl-history/
In rough terms - by the end of his career - Pav had travelled enough to do 21 complete laps of the globe at the equator - or go to the moon and back twice and get nearly halfway there again.
And others have added on:
So one extra game at home for the WA teams (who don't get opening round, gather round or any other bloody round) somehow destroys the comp???
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What a coincidence the 200+ game players with fewest kms travelled happened to all play for the same club.
I can understand why North want to do this, but it doesn't really sit right with me.
The poorest club has to sell a home game to the rich WA clubs, to be played at their home ground.
It will be interesting to see if The AFL allows it.
The poorest club has to sell a home game to the rich WA clubs, to be played at their home ground.
It will be interesting to see if The AFL allows it.
Is this ‘a form of tanking’? If North want to make any money in Perth they will need to play WC. And North would be favourites against WC at Marvel or Hobart, but underdogs at Optus. This is a strange move. Equally idiotic as Hawthorn hosting Tasmania in Tasmania!
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It’s just so obvious…. the rootin tootin Sainteroo’s
19 team comps gunna be diabolical
Red , blue black and white jumpers will look sweet
Kangaroo with a halo as the mascot
See how many ‘ I’ll burn myself in the street if this happens “ types stay away if they win a flag or 2 early on
Sainteroo’s get the cream of the lists but Tassie also gets a nice bundle of depth to help them not be crap from the get go
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19 team comps gunna be diabolical
Red , blue black and white jumpers will look sweet
Kangaroo with a halo as the mascot
See how many ‘ I’ll burn myself in the street if this happens “ types stay away if they win a flag or 2 early on
Sainteroo’s get the cream of the lists but Tassie also gets a nice bundle of depth to help them not be crap from the get go
On iPad using BigFooty.com mobile app
Cam Payne
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There will be no equality in the AFL until the big four vfl clubs automatically qualify for finals.
North beat west coast at Optus last year.
I would assume some of the appeal for selling a game to WA is the ticket sales at Optus.
North aren't going to sell 40k tickets at Geraldton or Bunbury.
They are doing it for the money. 40k @ Optus > 5k in a regional venue.
Are you saying that you are. Ore chance of winning in Perth?
threenewpadlocks
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One would assume that governments would be chipping in to promote development/tourism in the SW government, but they wouldn't be chipping in to buy the North game any more than the fact that more tickets will be sold in total than a Hobart game, with that money being split between North and the local stadium.
It would also require investment in a stadium in the SW to increase the crowd from 5-8k to a 10-15k type capacity though
I'm saying if you were tanking a game you probably wouldn't take it to a place where you have a better recent record than your own home ground.
I'm not sure what you are saying lol
Then whats the point? Who exactly is paying North and Gold Coast to play in WA?
The idea is to make money out of it
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You could merge half a dozen Victorian clubs, it wont change the number of times the janitor at the Cockburn aquatic and recreation centre has to dust the cobwebs in your empty trophy cabinet.
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