What size should the AFL be?

[HavUEvaSeenTheRain]

More travel more equal, think we agree on that.

Yep much more even if every side is travelling every second week derby’s,

 

[rdrdrdrd]

Yep much more even if every side is travelling every second week derby’s,

If it became 2 conferences (a VIC conf & a non-VIC conf) then SA and Perth fans wouldn't get any chances to boo the Victorian teams lol

 

[Tasmanian saint]

That's a nice idea, but not really going to work in our game. The gap between the top tier of full professionals and the second tier, where maybe one or two SANFL players are on half an AFL rookie salary, is too vast. And "park the bus and hope to score one on the counter" isn't really viable.

If we still had a pre-season comp, adding rep teams from those leagues might add a bit of flavour (and a way to scout for mature age rookies for the following year) but not individuals clubs. SANFL v St Kilda or WAFL v Gold Coast might be competitive games, particularly if the AFL club rested some players; Subiaco v Gold Coast would not.

Not sure when they played it but didn’t they have a comp kind of like this in the eighties ? remember seing highlights of Claremont from the wafl playing Richmond

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Not sure when they played it but didn’t they have a comp kind of like this in the eighties ? remember seing highlights of Claremont from the wafl playing Richmond

Yeah, I think it was early 80s. The gap between the VFL, WAFL and SANFL was nothing like the gap between the AFL and all others is now.

 

[kaiserchief13]

It should be

Adelaide
Brisbane
Collingwood
Essendon
Geelong
GWS
Hawthorn
Melbourne Blues
Port Adelaide
Richmond
Sydney
WCE

22 games fixture fixed play everyone twice

Fold St Kilda North GC Fremantle and Bulldogs and merge Melbourne and Carlton

Melbourne only gets to stick around due to being called Melbourne

 

[Carringbush2010]

It should be

Adelaide
Brisbane
Collingwood
Essendon
Geelong
GWS
Hawthorn
Melbourne Blues
Port Adelaide
Richmond
Sydney
WCE

22 games fixture fixed play everyone twice

Fold St Kilda North GC Fremantle and Bulldogs and merge Melbourne and Carlton

Melbourne only gets to stick around due to being called Melbourne

Folding and merging would've already happened if the clubs and the league viewed it as viable and put it to a charter vote. Not happnin.

 

[mdavideedee_man64]

shouldve just merged the vfl, sanfl, wafl & the tasfl, and if it had more than 20 teams, then itd be divided into a tier competition
qld & nsw wouldve had a conjoined nrl (without the storm & rams, though it'd be funny if the Melbourne Storm & Adelaide Rams were added into the VFL,WAFL,SANFL,TASFL merged league)

 

[Johnny Bananas]

I think 18 teams is exactly the right number. I'd prefer not to see more than that, but we have the players to fill out 18 teams. I don't believe we need fewer.