I hate the look of the VFL league. We have AFL sides aligned to sides like Williamstown, first Collingwood, then Bulldogs, then half of North wasn't it, now stand alone. Other suburban sides are the same. I may of got those alignments with Williamstown wrong, but that is not because I have not been following at all, it is because it is so confusing.
I hate the fact that there is Richmond Tigers and the Werribee Tigers, and wasn't it the Coburg Tigers at one point. And Bendigo Bombers, and now the Essendon Bombers. It just seems a messy chuck together by the looks of it.
I can't understand how reject players, who can't become AFL players, play in sides like Port Melbourne, and now Williamstown, and they beat sides that have half a side with AFL talent. It is just a highlight that AFL recruits got it wrong.
And year after year they don't take these players that play all over our reserves, and leave them in the VFL competition. Then when they take the punt, they get products like Sam Dwyer, Michael Barlow and Podsiadly.
I think it needs an over haul. I think firstly, we need to get as many of the AFL sides to be proud enough in their own name, and have a side in the VFL. Pies have there VFL side, Bombers, Richmond, I love the Footscray side, that is really great to see. Fitzroy should be aligned to Brisbane. Although I am not sure that the Lions players that don't get a game for Brisbane Lions could fly down and play, but to have Fitzroy would be great.
All Victorian based sides should have there own VFL side. Then although not afiliated with an interstate side, they should line the same number of stand alone sides with interstate sides. This way, if the Pies played a Victorian side in the AFL, they play their VFL counterpart on the same weekend. Then when we play say Lions, we play Fitzroy in the VFL, Port Adelaide, Port Melbourne, line another stand alone like Bendigo with Crows, so you have some order in comparison to the AFL fixture.
I would love to go back to the days where the VFL (Reserves in the day), played as Curtain Raisers for the AFL game. It would certainly get more people to go to the footy if they got two games, and the stands would be fuller, but it would cut up the grounds like it did back when they had it that way, so I understand that, but why not have VFL games prior to the AFL game at a nearby oval. Richmond could play at Punt Road before the MCG or Etihard for the AFL, Pies could play at Vic Park, prior to the MCG or Etihard. Then supporters could go to one, then head over to the other. This would make a day out of it.
I dislike this play VFL side on Saturday, and AFL side on Sunday. Or Friday night AFL and Sunday for the Twos.
Whatever they do, if anything, try to have some common sense involved, because the way it is, and the amount of chopping and changing, is really quite ridiculous. They really need to give Victorians a decent competition we can learn to love. SANFL and WAFL are killing us, because they get to love their state side. How do kids learn to love a side that keeps changing their name, and alliance.
I hate the fact that there is Richmond Tigers and the Werribee Tigers, and wasn't it the Coburg Tigers at one point. And Bendigo Bombers, and now the Essendon Bombers. It just seems a messy chuck together by the looks of it.
I can't understand how reject players, who can't become AFL players, play in sides like Port Melbourne, and now Williamstown, and they beat sides that have half a side with AFL talent. It is just a highlight that AFL recruits got it wrong.
And year after year they don't take these players that play all over our reserves, and leave them in the VFL competition. Then when they take the punt, they get products like Sam Dwyer, Michael Barlow and Podsiadly.
I think it needs an over haul. I think firstly, we need to get as many of the AFL sides to be proud enough in their own name, and have a side in the VFL. Pies have there VFL side, Bombers, Richmond, I love the Footscray side, that is really great to see. Fitzroy should be aligned to Brisbane. Although I am not sure that the Lions players that don't get a game for Brisbane Lions could fly down and play, but to have Fitzroy would be great.
All Victorian based sides should have there own VFL side. Then although not afiliated with an interstate side, they should line the same number of stand alone sides with interstate sides. This way, if the Pies played a Victorian side in the AFL, they play their VFL counterpart on the same weekend. Then when we play say Lions, we play Fitzroy in the VFL, Port Adelaide, Port Melbourne, line another stand alone like Bendigo with Crows, so you have some order in comparison to the AFL fixture.
I would love to go back to the days where the VFL (Reserves in the day), played as Curtain Raisers for the AFL game. It would certainly get more people to go to the footy if they got two games, and the stands would be fuller, but it would cut up the grounds like it did back when they had it that way, so I understand that, but why not have VFL games prior to the AFL game at a nearby oval. Richmond could play at Punt Road before the MCG or Etihard for the AFL, Pies could play at Vic Park, prior to the MCG or Etihard. Then supporters could go to one, then head over to the other. This would make a day out of it.
I dislike this play VFL side on Saturday, and AFL side on Sunday. Or Friday night AFL and Sunday for the Twos.
Whatever they do, if anything, try to have some common sense involved, because the way it is, and the amount of chopping and changing, is really quite ridiculous. They really need to give Victorians a decent competition we can learn to love. SANFL and WAFL are killing us, because they get to love their state side. How do kids learn to love a side that keeps changing their name, and alliance.
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