What would you do to fix Trade Week?

[iameviljez]

OK, so you are now AFL God. Congratulations.

Trade week is, naturally, a boring shitshow that follows the Uni Assignment rule - nothing, nothing, nothing for a week, and then a mad cramming rush at the end.

Here's how I'd fix it:

• Trade radio declared illegal. No reason apart from that it is, of course, shit.
• Remove the rule that clubs cannot speak to, or table contracts with, in-contract players before this time. It's a charade, everyone knows that terms between clubs and new players have been discussed ad nauseum well before Trade Week, players and key staff meet on the quiet to make sure everyone gets along, the sport needs to grow up.
• Have an hour at the end of each Trade Week day for paperwork submission, and make Trade Week last all of three days.
• No need for the AFL to sign off on future trading. You want to cut your own nose off, be our guest.

What would you do?

 

[PhatBoy]

Literally ban Fox Sports from covering it.

Never in my life have I seen such a wank beyond what they dress up as coverage of trade week.

 

[HairyO]

2 days for free agents.
3 days for trades.

 

[swingdog]

Trade Day.

And with the club reps dressed in Speedos in a vat of jelly with Benny Hill music playing. The ones who can't get to the side to make a trade, drown in jelly.

The jelly is green.

 

[Dirty Bird]

Kick Tom Morris and Kane Cornes out of the media.

 

[Underarm]

Make it a month. Longer trade periods lead to more trades being suggested which leads to more opportunities. Every year there's always one or 2 trades that couldn't have happened if trade period was made shorter.

 

[Dirty Bird]

Make it a month. Longer trade periods lead to more trades being suggested which leads to more opportunities. Every year there's always one or 2 trades that couldn't have happened if trade period was made shorter.

That's why it was extended from 1 week to 2 weeks.
But then the AFL realised nothing happens between days 3-12 so they shortened it to 10 days to allow that extra time, but not bore us shitless in the process.

 

[Colonial]

Make it only 5 days.

 

[M Malice]

2 days for free agents.
3 days for trades.

Spot on.

 

[Breretonisahood]

Bring back the Dodo! It’s like the Addams Family without Uncle Fester!

 

[Jim Prideaux]

Shorten it, similar to HairyO suggestion.

No AFL interference.

Put every commentator on trade radio on an ice flow and cut them off.

Remove points, picks are picks, bidding is stupid.

 

[Borussia Teeth]

Get rid of it.

 

[Hollow Knight]

Nothing.

People just need to accept that not every activity in the league has to be mined for maximum drama.

Turn off Trade Radio, stop LARPing as a list manager negotiating on opposition team boards and find something else to do. Log on in the arvo and see if anything happened.

 

[Xtreme]

Whenever a successful trade is made play John Denver - Country Roads (sorry Charlie).

 

[Dirty Bird]

Whenever a successful trade is made play John Denver - Country Roads (sorry Charlie).

Willie Nelson - On the Road Again probably more apt

 

[Headless]

Needs more MULTIBALL.

 

[Retzlaff]

Introduce trading

 

[austinnn]

Make it 48h straight, no breaks, all list mangers in a room 100% televised, reality TV style. No journos and only stupid pundits who think they understand it but don't get anything doing cutaways.

 

[Jim Prideaux]

Make it 48h straight, no breaks, all list mangers in a room 100% televised, reality TV style. No journos and only stupid pundits who think they understand it but don't get anything doing cutaways.

Eric Andre to do all interviews

 

[bobs head soup]

If we could incorporate some form of physical challenge for the list managers it would be more entertaining, possibly involving greased pigs? Would be apt.

 

[Handsuper47]

Only thing I would do is get rid of Trade Radio and all the footy journalists with their hypotheticals. There's too many people in AFL media that value their opinion way too highly.

 

[Deadly Darcy]

It’s the only thing to do to it….

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Nothing wrong with it at all.

The only change I’d make is probably to push it back a week. It’s too soon after the GF, the premiership should get some time in the sun.

All the whinging is just stemming from the media because their revenue and KPIs are tied to it and they need something to talk about. It is literally costing them money. In the grand tradition of the tail wagging the dog, the AFL will probably start rewarding clubs who trade for these reason.

 

[Libbaaaa]

If you are out of contract but haven't reached restricted free agent status you can't nominate a club of choice should you want to leave your current club.

 

[Billy ray]

first trade done gets both clubs exra money in soft cap. second trade done ditto, but slightly less, encourage them to happen faster