14 minutes ago, david_neitz_is_my_dad said:

GF favourites after tonight?

I thought the GF was last night .....or is there another one tonight? 

Great idea Gil.

How about a GF after each half of footy, then add them all up at the end of the season, multiply by SFA and announce the premier of premiers without bothering with a finals series.

So have we got another game tonight?

5 minutes ago, Jaded said:

I mean he’s awesome haha

Maynard has been good. 

Really? I thought he was very ordinary, terrible decision to not got for the ball on the goal line. I can't really see what tricks he has, just looks vanilla to me.

Skills of the usual suspects were very average in this game.

It’s actually a pretty great concept. 

 

#cozwewon

8 minutes ago, --coach-- said:

Officially the highest score ever in AFLX!

World record

I don't get the hate for this game. Most of us get zero chance to see them train over the summer so a glorified match simulation like this is better than nothing!

We played a pretty boring team with no new faces. Hope we bring them out next game.

2 minutes ago, Watts the matter said:

Really? I thought he was very ordinary, terrible decision to not got for the ball on the goal line. I can't really see what tricks he has, just looks vanilla to me.

Skills of the usual suspects were very average in this game.

On a positive note- thought the jumper looked great.

4 minutes ago, Watts the matter said:

Really? I thought he was very ordinary, terrible decision to not got for the ball on the goal line. I can't really see what tricks he has, just looks vanilla to me.

Skills of the usual suspects were very average in this game.

LOL, I knew there'd be one.

 

A couple of rule changes and it could be alright. 

Play on a bigger oval. 

Have 18 a side on the field. 

4 20 minute quarters with time on. 

Get rid of super goals, add rucks, tackling and contests. 

Jumper was great and digging T Macs black boots. Need everybody in those beauties.

The one thing the game showed we have tackling as a priority even in this game, actually more interesting than I thought to watch live

Never in doubt.

3 hours ago, rjay said:

For one thing the ground is not long enough for the length of kicks

At this level, no. But it's not designed for elite athletes, it's not even designed as a spectator sport, it's designed to give easy access to jo/joanne average who just want to try Aust. Rules football. As I mentioned earlier, I watch something similar to this all the time here in Europe, and you are NOT seeing players who can regularly and accurately hoof the ball 50 m. Scores in the game I watch are similar to/lower than regular footy, even though they play 4 x 20 minute quarters.

I definitely think it will help to increase participation internationally. What place it has in Australia on a professional/serious level, difficult to say, and like most here, I wouldn't be queuing up to watch it.

Does it count as a broken record if we beat North Melbourne or is that wishful thinking?

1 minute ago, Moneider96 said:

Does it count as a broken record if we beat North Melbourne or is that wishful thinking?

Doesn’t count. We’ve beat them in NAB cup in the past few years. Having said that, I still want to crush them tonight!

22 minutes ago, Sylvia Saint said:

LOL, I knew there'd be one.

 

 Well it's hard to take anything from these games, and I found it hard to watch. Clearly Maynards game isn't suited to this style of football.

Did you think he was good?

Takeaways from our first game................

Jake Melksham isn't just pretty, he can kick a footy.

Petracca has a great vertical leap.

McDonald can take a contested grab.

Carlton has the spoon in the bag.

 MFC for the flag this year.

Jonnie Red makes me positive about 2018

North have a pretty experienced side in

Zooper effort, premiership a certainty. Better get a membership

Missed the Dees game

But from the few minutes I watched last night, not excited about the concept.

One thing that (used to) set footy above the American  games of basketball and gridiron at least from my enjoyment point of view, was the lack of artificial props like the blaring “music” after goals, lack of cheerleaders and lack of smoke and mirrors.   Heaven forbid if these ever intrude into our true game - these things make this version basically crap. 

If we beat North let’s all meet in the city and go on a Philadelphia Eagles style rampage. 

9 minutes ago, Watts the matter said:

 Well it's hard to take anything from these games, and I found it hard to watch. Clearly Maynards game isn't suited to this style of football.

Did you think he was good?

I don't think it's worth analysing anyone's performance, except for maybe TMac's contested marking.

Batsmen are going off in the T20 against the Kiwis

Paddy Dow is going to be a handy player.