12 hours ago, Demonland said:

• No centre bounces (kick-ins from full-back after each goal)
• One umpire

Melbourne ruckman Max Gawn said he liked the plan, but hoped he wouldn’t be playing at the launch competition.

"If I’m not playing finals, and Melbourne don’t make finals, it would be a great concept," he said on Thursday night.

"I wouldn’t mind the IPL format, where you can go play for a different team … if you look at the IPL and the Big Bash, the guys love the Vic Bushrangers but some of the guys end up playing for the Queensland Twenty20 team.”

with only 7 a side and no centre bounces would max even be picked to play in any side??

Thats what I call trashing the brand. The game is great, why introduce an inferior product?

On 6/22/2017 at 0:20 AM, Demonland said:

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-06-21/afl-x-is-this-footys-version-of-big-bash?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=RSS+feed%3A+AFL+Latest+News

What is AFLX?

• Played on a soccer-sized oval
• Played between two sides of seven, three on each interchange bench
• Ten-minute quarters
• No centre bounces (kick-ins from full-back after each goal)
• One umpire

Melbourne ruckman Max Gawn said he liked the plan, but hoped he wouldn’t be playing at the launch competition.

"If I’m not playing finals, and Melbourne don’t make finals, it would be a great concept," he said on Thursday night.

"I wouldn’t mind the IPL format, where you can go play for a different team … if you look at the IPL and the Big Bash, the guys love the Vic Bushrangers but some of the guys end up playing for the Queensland Twenty20 team.”

What do you think of this concept?

 

Edited June 23, 20178 yr by AzzKikA

Would only be fringe players playing I would have thought, clubs still need to send players off for surgery asap and won't want to risk our stars, I would be interested to watch though something different 

What I wouldn't give to be 12 again. And be running a national sporting competition. Maybe they could introduce sticks for the players. And put them on horseback.

2 hours ago, ArtificialWisdom said:

with only 7 a side and no centre bounces would max even be picked to play in any side??

You're right, Max is definitely not good enough to play in this joke. 

What the...?

Did someone drop acid in Gil's coffee as a joke?

So exciting.... 

yawn.

6 minutes ago, PaulRB said:

So exciting.... 

yawn.

Looks like three ex-footballers are about to punch a few kids in the head.

Should be AFLY...

1 hour ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Looks like three ex-footballers are about to punch a few kids in the head.

If the kids are going to grow up and support AFLX, then maybe they need it.

Can only assume they're doing this to [censored] the game overseas where there are heaps of soccer pitches but not many cricket ovals. Plus smaller pitch means smaller team, means smaller talent pool required to run a league.

And of course, as has been suggested, more games to place bets on.

With the money spent on this, surely they could professionalise the umpire squad instead? Make our great game better, instead of bastardising it for an entirely different market.

Why the AFL wants to be soccer, I'll never know. We have the greatest game on earth here, and all they want to do is monkey with it.

7 hours ago, Skuit said:

What I wouldn't give to be 12 again. And be running a national sporting competition. Maybe they could introduce sticks for the players. And put them on horseback.

And trampolines would be cool. And pyrotechnics, of course. And boundary throw-ins are launched back in by cheerleaders with a modified semi-automatic T-shirt cannon. And multiball mode.

12 minutes ago, Deestroy All said:

And trampolines would be cool. And pyrotechnics, of course. And boundary throw-ins are launched back in by cheerleaders with a modified semi-automatic T-shirt cannon. And multiball mode.

and the millenials will probably love it

AFLx. Or, as we mortals know it, 'having a bit of a kick and a laugh down at the park'.

The long-term plan for the AFL is clearly to introduce merchandising and ticketing for every casual kick of the ball.

There will a law passed kind of like the free assembly restrictions under martial law. "Nobody is allowed to gather in groups larger than three persons unless first booked through ticketmaster and while wearing appropriate branded products".

I keep reading this thread title as APEX

11 hours ago, daisycutter said:

and the millenials will probably love it

and that is the point

A quick easily accessed game that families and younger ones will flock to see if Big bash and AFLW is anything to go by.

The AFL game day attendance product is increasingly becoming a product for rusted on supporters and some of their kids. (As a percentage of the population attendances are way down on the attendance in say the sixties... understandable given the alternatives available for entertainment. On the other hand the TV audience is not too bad.)

 

Over paid executives trying to justify their inordinate salaries.

They should focus on improving the match day experience for attending supporters, growing womens footy, and seeding the game into new territories (countries) with a long term plan.

5 minutes ago, PaulRB said:

Over paid executives trying to justify their inordinate salaries.

They should focus on improving the match day experience for attending supporters, growing womens footy, and seeding the game into new territories (countries) with a long term plan.

Actually, I assume AFLX is being developed as part of "seeding the game into new territories (countries)". One of the biggest problems when taking AFL overseas is finding suitable playing fields because of the size and shape required. Given the popularity of soccer internationally, AFLX will be playable virtually anywhere. 

Should be on a full oval 12 a side, 6 on the bench.  two zones max of 6 players per side in each zone.  Make it about speed and skill, similar to Rugby 7s

20 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Actually, I assume AFLX is being developed as part of "seeding the game into new territories (countries)". One of the biggest problems when taking AFL overseas is finding suitable playing fields because of the size and shape required. Given the popularity of soccer internationally, AFLX will be playable virtually anywhere. 

All Commonwealth / Cricket playing countries have ovals available in Winter. Maybe the AFL geniuses should start with them? They also have a sporting link to Oz via cricket... etc.

If the AFL were to offer $500,000 prize money plus low level club support for winners of a domestic AFL footy comp in each of the current Cricket playing nations (i.e. NZ, SA, India, Packistan, England, Ireland, etc...).

Perhaps then the premier clubs or the all-star teams of each nation could then come to Australia in September and play a multi-national competition around the final series.

But no, let's reinvent the wheel... 

Edited June 23, 20178 yr by PaulRB