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9 hours ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

About the biggest thing I took away from it is what a punchable head Patrick Dangerflog has.

Dangerfield was like a kid doing Fantasy Football for the first time and picking all the players from his own team. 

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Hocking claims a ‘schoolyard’ concept. The only modification we made as kids was to use a plastic bottles to kick around when a ball couldn’t be found. 

Fine if the AFL want to add preseason entertainment, but keep it simple especially if you want to target a younger audience. My eldest two are confused reading all the ‘extras’ and more confused as to why Gaff is participating. 

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13 minutes ago, Dee Zephyr said:

Hocking claims a ‘schoolyard’ concept. The only modification we made as kids was to use a plastic bottles to kick around when a ball couldn’t be found. 

Fine if the AFL want to add preseason entertainment, but keep it simple especially if you want to target a younger audience. My eldest two are confused reading all the ‘extras’ and more confused as to why Gaff is participating. 

That Gaff is participating is a bad joke.

Break a guys jaw - here Gaff, have a $2000 bonus for your good behavior.  It's stupid without precedent (sorry I forgot this is the AFL, there is plenty of precident for stupid there)

He should be loudly booed every time he gets the ball in this AFLX farce.

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3 minutes ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

That Gaff is participating is a bad joke.

Break a guys jaw - here Gaff, have a $2000 bonus for your good behavior.

He should be loudly booed every time he gets the ball in this AFLX farce.

Yes, definitely a good look for the AFL if indeed Gaff receives boos during AFLX.

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12 hours ago, Skuit said:

Why is Tmac nominating for this rubbish?

Money and a jog around ... at a guess I reckon the AFL/Marvel are putting up a million for the players.  50k each for the captains & 20k for each of the players.  All for 20-30 minutes of tackle-free footy

Give me some of that!

As an aside, I wouldn't be letting any of our top dozen players play in the JLT practice games. The risk of injury is far far worse.

Another aside ... AFLW has gained an audience despite most people that I run into having zero interest in the concept.  Good on AFLW I say.

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45 minutes ago, Macca said:

Money and a jog around ... at a guess I reckon the AFL/Marvel are putting up a million for the players.  50k each for the captains & 20k for each of the players.  All for 20-30 minutes of tackle-free footy

Give me some of that!

 

We should have just given Tmac the 20 grand not to play and sent Preuss out there to break some bones. $100 apiece

Robbie Gray, Travis Boak and Pepper-Powell would be handy outs for round one alongside Ollie Wines.

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1 hour ago, Skuit said:

We should have just given Tmac the 20 grand not to play and sent Preuss out there to break some bones. $100 apiece

Robbie Gray, Travis Boak and Pepper-Powell would be handy outs for round one alongside Ollie Wines.

In the practice games  players do get targeted ... a young Hogan had his vertabrae feactured in a game against Geelong.  Missed a year because of it.

Brayshaw had his head knocked about (purposely?) and missed a ton of games as a consequence.

I am way more concerned about the 2 practice games yet most here probably 'Just want some footy' The practise games are becoming more meaningless every year. 

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34 minutes ago, Macca said:

In the practice games  players do get targeted ... a young Hogan had his vertabrae feactured in a game against Geelong.  Missed a year because of it.

Brayshaw had his head knocked about (purposely?) and missed a ton of games as a consequence.

I am way more concerned about the 2 practice games yet most here probably 'Just want some footy' The practise games are becoming more meaningless every year. 

Tend to agree but with the first VFL outing being scheduled for after the completion of Round 3 by the AFL team I still see them as important for the 15-25 ranked players. Preuss, KK, Hunt, to name but a few.

It's interesting but there seems to be little appetite among the clubs to bring back meaningful pre- season practice games.

On the AFLX I get the original concept etc but this circus has really lost me. I suppose it's for the kids because I can't think of anyone else.

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33 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

AFFLX I get the original concept etc but this circus has really lost me. I suppose it's for the kids because I can't think of anyone else.

You shouldn't feel offended ... you are not the target audience.  You never were. Neither am I

Who are we to judge  what other demographics can like and dislike?

Besides which,  the AFL has already got our money.

 

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56 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Tend to agree but with the first VFL outing being scheduled for after the completion of Round 3 by the AFL team I still see them as important for the 15-25 ranked players. Preuss, KK, Hunt, to name but a few.

It's interesting but there seems to be little appetite among the clubs to bring back meaningful pre- season practice games.

On the AFLX I get the original concept etc but this circus has really lost me. I suppose it's for the kids because I can't think of anyone else.

For those posters who have children or grandchildren who this product appears to be targeted at, it would be good to get your feedback on this site after the AFLX event (competition? tournament?) as to whether your children/grandchildren enjoyed it. It would be especially interesting if you were able to form a view as to whether it piqued any interest in those who previously had not shown much or any interest in AFL.

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2 hours ago, FireInTheBelly said:

Why is one of our key premiership opponents allowed to select/force our player (with a highly publicised foot issue) to play in an unusual position for him (that would put added stress on said foot), in a game that means nothing?

Let's hope he doesn't take it seriously and avoids jumping.  It seems there are no real ruckmen in this 'comp' anyway.

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4 hours ago, Macca said:

Money and a jog around ... at a guess I reckon the AFL/Marvel are putting up a million for the players.  50k each for the captains & 20k for each of the players.  All for 20-30 minutes of tackle-free footy

 

Havent seen the teams but would be interested to see how many players the captains selected from their own AFL sides, or even their friends from other teams.

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30 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

For those posters who have children or grandchildren who this product appears to be targeted at, it would be good to get your feedback on this site after the AFLX event (competition? tournament?) as to whether your children/grandchildren enjoyed it. It would be especially interesting if you were able to form a view as to whether it piqued any interest in those who previously had not shown much or any interest in AFL.

Under 35's is more the demographic

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2 hours ago, Petraccattack said:

Havent seen the teams but would be interested to see how many players the captains selected from their own AFL sides, or even their friends from other teams.

I don't reckon it matters ... the concept is an attempt at a potential cash grab that may or may not happen (down the track)

At Melbourne we take the NT cash and the pokies cash ... without it we'd be cactus by now.

As individuals we take the cash ... and why not?

 

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If the AFL wanted the concept to work at a local level you'd reckon they'd be more inclined to want to get most of the locals onside.  But instead of that,  there seems more of a backlash to the new wiz-bang ideas.   With each new innovative idea comes more scorn.  It's as if they're doing it that way deliberately.

Which makes me think they can really only be aiming at a younger audience (35 or under) and a possible international audience in the same demographic.  Play to your audience.  A percentage of those in the older brackets could jump on later (that often happens)

I do like the idea of Aussie rules being played at a number of those classic arena's around the world but that would be years in the making.  Also,  their business model might be decades long (think China)

It's one evening,  probably paid for by sponsors but lets face it,  the AFL is cashed up so the cost would be a drop in the ocean anyway.

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13 hours ago, ProperDee said:

Only the Indigenous team can select Indigenous players? Goodbye inclusion. Welcome back racial segregation. Whose idea was that?  

Why not go all out and call the teams The Landowners,  the First Fleet Floggers, the Botany Bay Burglars and the Port Jackson Pirates? 

 

I would imagine this piece of brilliance originated from that genius pairing of Gil and Shocking. 

Surely nobody else could be so inane. 

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41 minutes ago, monoccular said:

I would imagine this piece of brilliance originated from that genius pairing of Gil and Shocking. 

Surely nobody else could be so inane. 

Oh yes they can Mono.  We have seen the past, we know the present and can imagine the future. 

A massive mega dollar operation, obscenely paid executives and the whole tribe at AFL House trying to justify their existence, meet their KPIs to ensure a nice fat bonus, and to satisfy their masters, namely, TV, Media and advertisers. 

Macca talks about appealing to a younger demographic the under 35 year olds. I reckon it's actually the kids under about 16. 

As for an overseas market pull the other one. If there is a potential market for this great national game excluding a couple of states and territories, it will be so obscure to be almost invisible except on pay TV Channel 950. 

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