Mega Thread Port Forum General AFL Thread Part 25

[Festerz]

No Thursday night footy this week? Why the feck not?

 

[Festerz]

He'll probably end up at Geelong with all the other headband wearers sporting that wanna-be "surfie" look.

Surfie look?

Nah....

 

[Grave Danger]

No Thursday night footy this week? Why the feck not?

We'll go-a-waltzing, etc, etc

 

[gbear]

No Thursday night footy this week? Why the feck not?

It’s due to the Matilda’s opening the women’s World Cup.

 

[240volt]

No Thursday night footy this week? Why the feck not?

Thursday night is and should always be Melt day, stupid playing footy on a religious day like that.

 

[Doctor Feel]

It’s due to the Matilda’s opening the women’s World Cup.

The what?

 

[JimmyBC]

You gotta laugh when victorian clubs that barely travel whinge about anything.

 

[Duck Farmer]

He has no problems with self-validation

I like to think of him as the TRADE BLASTER

 

[simba_]

Matilda opening the world cup? i wonder what she'll find inside!

 

[Schulzenfest]

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Congrats to Ratten for picking absolutely the worst possible way to defend himself. Is everybody who walks through the door at Norf a giant tosser?

 

[Schulzenfest]

Gee these Vic clubs who hardly have to get on a plane whinge a lot about fairness


Scott believed it would be unfair for teams outside of SA to have to play Adelaide and Port Adelaide in Gather Round on a weekend that is supposed to be neutral.

Chris Scott said this? Chris Scott? The coach of Geelong, Chris Scott? The Geelong that is the one and only team in the league that still gets to play other Vic teams at their suburban home ground while also barely ever having to travel interstate? That Chris Scott?

More than happy with this as long as Geelong don't ever get to play teams from Melbourne at Kardinia Park any more. Wouldn't want them getting an unfair advantage. Also we'll have to stop playing the Grand Final at the MCG every year.

 

[Steve Dore]

It’s due to the Matilda’s opening the women’s World Cup.

Tim Minchin?

 

[RossFC]

This almost sounds like satire how cringe it is. From the bloke who brought you “West Coast will play finals in 2023”…Also point 1 and 3 are the same lol

Avoid North Melbourne. Wise words.

 

[Steve Dore]

Surfie look?

Nah....

Tennis look

 

[Festerz]

Sam McClure just now on Footy Classified backing out of his 'scoop' claim about Harley Reid not wanting to go to West Coast is cringeworthy. Flip flopping and talking about past history in an attempt to obfuscate from his own idiocy.


Sam McClure earlier today... "Harley Reid has essentially told West Coast that he doesn't want to be drafted there"

Sam McClure later today : "If he gets called out by West Coast at pick 1 he will happily go there"

And no apology, the idiot pretends as if there is no discrepancy at all.

FMD.

 

[Grave Danger]

Sam McClure just now on Footy Classified backing out of his 'scoop' claim about Harley Reid not wanting to go to West Coast is cringeworthy.

Zero credibility.

Is that what that BEEP-BEEP-BEEP noise was

 

[Buget]

Speaking of West Coast. McCLure has pulled out another 'sources tell me....'

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Hahaha. Coordinate attempt to drive down the trade value of pick 1? So fox has something to talk about during the off-season.

 

[malcheski]

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[davesnothere]

Avoid North Melbourne. Wise words.

North take Reid and Sanders then get 1st round compensation for McKay and use that on Mckecher or Duursma that's close to the best draft haul Clarkson has ever picked up.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

Every side could play each other once before the ladder is divided into three groups for the last six rounds as part of a future fixture revamp being considered by the AFL and club chief executives.​

Senior figures gathered for a two-day conference to discuss the key issues facing the game including increasing the soft cap, a mid-season trade period, Tasmania’s new team, AFLW and ways to revamp the fixture. It included a left-field idea to move to a best-of-three grand final series which has support from interstate clubs, but the longshot proposal would be difficult to implement.
Officials present at the meeting on Wednesday said the 30-minute discussion on the fixture was designed to stimulate ideas to enhance and add value and fairness to the competition. There were mixed views on the wildcard concept which would see the seventh-placed side take on 10th-placed team and eighth challenge ninth to secure a finals berth.
But sources on Wednesday said there was potentially stronger support for an overhaul of the fixture to divide the ladder into three pools of six after each club had played each other once. It means at round 18 the fixture would be redrawn so teams in the top-six would play each other, the middle-six teams would be grouped together, and the bottom-six would all lock horns.
But sources were at pains to say the concepts were only discussed broadly and that any changes to the AFL fixture could be three years away following significant input and development. The fixture redraw has significant benefits as it would help create more even competition among the teams who are slated to play the other sides from the same bracket.

 

[PortWTF]

Wouldn't it make more sense that after you've played everyone once, you then play 2 teams from each of the block of 6? Then everyone gets a reasonably even draw.

 

[Capital Power]

The way I read the original proposal is that the sixth placed team would play 5 games against teams higher than it (places 1-5) but the seventh placed team plays 5 games against lower placed teams (7-12). So you'd finish up with some teams tanking mid season, as finishing 7th or 8th in the first 18 games is a better outcome than 5th or 6th.

I can't believe that with the hundreds of staff and billion dollar budgets the AFL has, a fair fixture continues to elude us.

 

[Skindy]

The way it would (should) work is that after you have played every team once you get put in a mini conference of 6 and your final ladder position is determined by where you finish within that conference. E.g. if you end up in the 1-6 conference the lowest you can finish is 6th overall. If you end up the 7-12th conference and win all your conference games you finish 7th overall.

 

[Schulzenfest]

If they're going to do the conferences thing they can't just split it up with each ladder position in it's own group, that would be grossly unfair. What you could do though is something like 1st 4th 7th 10th 13th and 16th go in the same pool, 2nd 5th 8th 11th 14th and 17th go in the same pool, and 3rd 6th 9th 12th 15th and 18th go in the same pool.

 

[El Zorro]

The way I read the original proposal is that the sixth placed team would play 5 games against teams higher than it (places 1-5) but the seventh placed team plays 5 games against lower placed teams (7-12). So you'd finish up with some teams tanking mid season, as finishing 7th or 8th in the first 18 games is a better outcome than 5th or 6th.

I can't believe that with the hundreds of staff and billion dollar budgets the AFL has, a fair fixture continues to elude us.

I assume the teams in the different brackets compete for different things. e.g. top 6 already qualified for finals, play for the top spots, middle six compete for 2 finals spots. I don't know what the bottom 6 would play for.