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Do you support a shorter regular season?
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collie dog 

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 11:34 am
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Damien Hardwick has called for the regular season to be shortened to 20 weeks. Do you agree?

I would be happy for a regular season where every team plays each other ONCE (home and away alternates every second year like in the NFL). That makes for a regular season of 17 rounds.

Now obviously that is too short for a lot of fans and certainly for the television stations.

MY SOLUTION

After the regular season where 10 teams go into mothballs, how about a round robin finals tournament in World Cup finals format.

The final eight is seeded so that two groups of four play a round robin tournament of 3 matches each.

GROUP A: 1,3,5,7
GROUP B: 2,4,6,8

The top two in each group go through to the Preliminary Final knockout. The first team in group A plays the second team in group B, and the first team in group B plays the second team in group A.

The grand final is between the winners of these Preliminary finals.

Simple. That's a shorter and fairer regular season and an extended finals seasons that really matters. Clearly the best team will win the flag every year under this system.

Come on AFL make it happen.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 11:48 am
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OR we could just leave it as is......
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 12:16 pm
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Hardwick is just trying to do the humanitarian thing by minimising the time Richmond supporters have to watch their team.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 12:31 pm
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jackcass wrote:
Hardwick is just trying to do the humanitarian thing by minimising the time Richmond supporters have to watch their team.


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PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 12:41 pm
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I'm all for anything that can sort out the unfair draw we currently have
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 12:42 pm
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All I want is an even fixture.

So I'd support 17 rounds and then finals.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 12:45 pm
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rand corp wrote:
I'm all for anything that can sort out the unfair draw we currently have


The ONLY fair method is to play each team twice (home and away) as with the old VFL comp draw. Get rid of the NAB cup games and make it a long season like the EPL, just with one bye during the season for each team.
However this is never likely to happen, therefore we will never have a fair draw............ Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 12:47 pm
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September Zeros wrote:
All I want is an even fixture.

So I'd support 17 rounds and then finals.


Wouldn't this make the season too short for the AFL, especially when they are already starting to lose crowds at games?
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 12:51 pm
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Lazza wrote:
September Zeros wrote:
All I want is an even fixture.

So I'd support 17 rounds and then finals.


Wouldn't this make the season too short for the AFL, especially when they are already starting to lose crowds at games?


Most definitely. which is why it will never happen. Still it's all I want..... a fair fixture.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 12:57 pm
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It depends on how well we're tavelling.

If we're premiers,i'd like a 30 round season.

If we're finalists,a 22 round season.

If we're near the bottom,a a 6 round season.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 1:28 pm
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September Zeros wrote:
All I want is an even fixture.

So I'd support 17 rounds and then finals.

This.

The only way to have a completely fair fixture is for teams to play each other only once. Won't happen because of TV rights etc, but I would certainly support the concept. Hell it would likely reduce injuries too since players would have more time over the preseason for their bodies to recover, but we all know the well being of players sits at the bottom of the list of things that concern the AFL.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 1:35 pm
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Playy everyone once. 17 round season. That is all.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 1:37 pm
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Merge four teams into two ( making the comp 16 teams)

Greater western sydney and Western Bulldogs. Based in Sydney

North Melbourne and Gold Coast based on Gold Coast

Eradicates the fights over Etihad stadium deals and equalisation.

Use Etihad for agistment for the Australian Olympic Team equestrian horses.


30 round season, no NAB cup and top five as per the 1970's.

Current set up is 198 home and away games plus 9 finals

Proposed set up is 240 games plus 6 finals.

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LALU Sagittarius



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 1:39 pm
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Shorter season.

Never gonna happen!!

Just leave the game alone.
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Wish the h & a season had finished about 5 weeks ago, as we would have finished in the top 4. Wink
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