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What unpopular AFL opinions do you have? (Part 1 - cont in Part 2)
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That the game was actually faster 20 years ago than it is today.
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You're gonna have to explain this one
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What?
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Yep 100kg pie eating, durry smoking, stubby at half time drinking blokes with guts hanging out were defienitely faster.....to get to the bar after the game.
Afl should fold.
Each state should go back to state leagues only, with a champions league set up for top 2 from sa, wa, 3 from vic, plus one each from qld, nsw, tas.
Each state should go back to state leagues only, with a champions league set up for top 2 from sa, wa, 3 from vic, plus one each from qld, nsw, tas.
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Just so Gold Coast can make the champions league... yeah nah
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The thread title says "unpopular ideas", not "insane ideas".
In what bizzaro land alternative universe would this actually work?
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It will be something like the movement of the ball. Instead of the rolling scrums and the high handball to kick ratio we used to have the simple Sam Newman mentality of kicking it long to a forward who is 1-out. Explaining it that way though would make it accurate and therefore popular so I'm not sure what he's on about.
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Are we the fans genuinely unhappy about the state of the AFL at the moment (ticket prices, food prices, rules etc etc etc)? Or is it over-reacting?
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i was just taking the p!55...
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Dom Tyson you superstar.
Thanks for doing the right things bro.
Integral in the win of a struggling Melbourne team today. Awesome to see.
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Half-forwards have become more important to sides than key position forwards.
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-The free kick count is completely irrelevant to the result of a game of football. Free kicks supposed to be paid to either side when necessary - not to be distributed evenly between the two sides. I know that really shouldn't be an 'unpopular' opinion, but I'm amazed at the hundreds of idiots each week on this site that bring up the free kick count when trying to prove that the opposition was not hard done by in terms of umpiring.
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AFL should go to 17 rounds a season + finals and have an FA Cup style competition with all 18 clubs and all clubs from the VFL/WAFL/SANFL/NEAFL and a few NT/Tas clubs to make up for the loss of H&A games during the year.
Red Black and Blue
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I like the rolling maul. Nothing better than seeing a Watson or Pendlebury surrounded by opponents some how maneuver through to space. Also some of the best games of all time were midfield floods, 05, 06, 09 Grand finals included.
FA Cup style wouldn't work in the AFL. It works in Association football because you only need one fluke goal to win and the better team to be slightly off their game.
Australian football isn't tactical enough to have a team of armatures/semi professionals beat professionals.
Geelong beat Melbourne by 180+ points a few seasons ago.Hell, Hawthorn beat St Kilda by 140 points this season - that's two top tier clubs playing each other. You'd see 200+ wins against State league clubs more often than not.
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Sure a loss is the likely result. But hey, so was GWS V Sydney Rd1. There is nothing stopping a state league club like Port Melbourne from pulling of an upset against an AFL side. Don't get me wrong, it'll be hard to do.
Obviously though, the AFL clubs would have to enter the competition after a few rounds to avoid such smashings, but they do this with the EPL clubs too who enter after the 3rd round in the FA Cup.
How I'd run it
*The non AFL affiliated WAFL/SANFL/VFL/NEAFL/TSL/NT clubs battle it out for a maximum of 6 spots (likely during February/March, the competition acts doubles as pre-season games for them). Format: 48, 24, 12, 6.
*Qualifying Round: Then the bottom 10 AFL clubs play a round against the best interstate sides (Maximum of 6 can enter this round and will be usually six. If say Port Melbourne make the quarter finals in the year previous, then it would be 5 for the next year's competition.
*Round of 16: Quarter Finalists from last year (generally all AFL clubs) play the winners of the previous round. The 8 winners go through to quarter finals.
*Quarter Finals: 8 sides play off against each other. 4 winners go through to Semi Finals.
*Semi Finals: 4 sides play off against each other. 2 winners go through to Final.
*Final
Rd16/Quarter/Semi/Final are all played during the H&A season. Could allow for SoO games on Semi Final/Final weekends too.
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I don't like Gary Ablett
I don't like his face, annoying voice, fake smile, clean cut image, paleo diet, prayer groups etc.
Sick of him being worshiped, don't care about his clever snaps for goal or 40+ possessions, sure its impressive but i'm over it, boring.
I don't like his face, annoying voice, fake smile, clean cut image, paleo diet, prayer groups etc.
Sick of him being worshiped, don't care about his clever snaps for goal or 40+ possessions, sure its impressive but i'm over it, boring.
Red Black and Blue
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Hahahahahahahaha couldn't help but piss myself laughing at that.
Might've been possible before the VFL became the national competition. Don't see how it could happen today.
If its labelled as courageous it's not accurate I don't think. It is however very tough, so one must be tough to run themselves to exhaustion, ignore burning lungs and heavy legs and just keep pushing through the pain of fatigue. A not so great example would be a standard beep test, where some with greater mental fortitude will outlast others who may have the greater aerobic capacity.
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