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You can't talk rationally with VictoriansLol.
How can you have a bye before the comp starts for your team?
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You can't talk rationally with VictoriansLol.
How can you have a bye before the comp starts for your team?
It’s still the late 90’s in WA20% of your membership base is in WA? I call bullshit.
First of all I am WA born and bred.You can't talk rationally with Victorians
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.