Just read the AFLW is losing 50 million per year, clearly expanded too quickly. I’ve been saying for a while the AFL can’t handle more teams, as established club must make way for Tasmania, now a wild card weekend.

There’s a pattern emerging, they’re slowly killing the game.

I dont know if the AFL comes up with these ideas themselves or pay consultants to come up ideas that a five year old could devise.

I’d prefer that my team sell a home game to Antartica than participate in whatever they come up with.

4 minutes ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

Just read the AFLW is losing 50 million per year, clearly expanded too quickly. I’ve been saying for a while the AFL can’t handle more teams, as established club must make way for Tasmania, now a wild card weekend.

There’s a pattern emerging, they’re slowly killing the game.

NRLW season 8 kicked off on the weekend. 12 teams currently and not sure when it expands next. Standard is pretty good and having Origin and Tests clearly helps this.

Edited July 7, 2025Jul 7 by Clintosaurus

Will likely be coming in next year according to X McGuire on Ch 7 news.

If this is legit, it’s the correct, logical, inevitable and quite frankly obvious decision made by the AFL.

2 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Will likely be coming in next year according to X McGuire on Ch 7 news.

If this is legit, it’s the correct, logical, inevitable and quite frankly obvious decision made by the AFL.

Oh FFS, it’s a classic modern-AFL money-first-decision that a very large portion of the industry don’t want.

You’ll get your way, and the AFL will continue to cook the goose which laid the golden egg.

2 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

it’s the correct, logical, inevitable and quite frankly obvious decision

Sneaky way of having a top 10, pretty [censored] if you end up 7 th or 8th as you have to play an extra game in rest week.!!!

A knee [censored] reaction to the top 9 being decided at the mid season bye.

Hell let's have a top 14.

I'd prefer a big prizemoney Europa cup type comp open to teams outside the 8 at the mid season bye. This would allow the bottom teams to pick their best sides for that comp while the higher teams have to keep an eye on making the 8.

A $2M prize to the winner (funded by a State Gov't such as WA in return for hosting the final)

wildcard weekend will make more sense when there's 19, then eventually 20, teams in the competition

you wouldn't want to be the first team to finish 7th or 8th and not make finals

Edited September 6, 2025Sep 6 by whatwhat say what

Wildcard weekend will never make more sense neither will more teams. I read that next year Tasmania will have an AFLW team, so another team into a league that has already expanded way too quickly. I read in another article that the AFLW is currently running at a loss in the millions each year. I’m all for a women’s competition but it should have been 4 teams from Vic with 1 each from QLD, NSW, WA & SA. Bringing a ninth team in Tassie would mean they could have a top five playing finals and had a decent product, and it should remain at this many teams for the next twenty years. The men’s competition has been around for how long and we don’t have talent for 18 teams.

Just the game alone & fix the basics ie umpiring, tribunal.