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Dee*ceiving Redleg

Dee*ceiving   1,674

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The AFL website is mutton dressed up as lamb.

They are trying to make out its a Ferrari but have committed to paying for a Hyundai. Unfortunately this is becoming more and more common in business and life.

rolling fog Redleg

rolling fog   1,207

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An institution such as the AFL with massive cash resources has no excuse for such an unreliable site. Clearly they are targeting the tech savvy demographic with video on demand, live match feeds, stats etc. but cannot deliver. As a keen stats analyser ive given up on site and gone elsewhere, bout time somoeone bought this up!

Nasher Legend

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The AFL website is mutton dressed up as lamb.

They are trying to make out its a Ferrari but have committed to paying for a Hyundai. Unfortunately this is becoming more and more common in business and life.

More like they paid for a Ferrari but delivered a Hyundai. I'll bet anything the AFL paid an absolute fortune for the development of that website.

Jeff's absolutely spot on and I'm surprised no other presidents have raised this earlier. I'm yet to speak to a single person who is happy with the way the club/AFL websites operate.

Kit Walker Mighty Demon

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Interesting to see Essendon is the only club with its own website. Easily the best, fastest, most complete, etc.

Apart from the moving pictures on their player descriptions. Looks like something from Harry Potter. Disturbing

Dee*ceiving Redleg

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I disagree Nasher, it might be a fortune compared to what they previously would have been spending but in comparison to what a competition generating the kind of money that it is i bet its a drop in the ocean.

Put it this way, and i am only going by assumption here not on fact. Say for instance the MLB or EPL or NBA might spend 5% of its total expenditure on its website, i bet the AFL only spends about 2%. That's what I reckon you would find.


CHAMP Redleg

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It is about time someone brought this up. It is a terrible functioning website

With my broadband throttled to 60 kbps last month it took 3 mins 30 sec to load. There are footy fans out there who still dial-up and they are taken out of the equation with all the paraphernalia and razz-a-matazz.

DemonDave Redleg

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From what I know, they updgraded their backend of the website to run Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and this new version of SQL is quite frankly a pig. You can see some of the underlying code when they're having issues or applets aren't loading. Many people and businesses are rolling back this product to the old reliable one, and I'm almost certain this is what the AFL has now done to stop all these issues...

Deano74 Mighty Demon

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I thought their site was good last year, I dont know why it changed, because its hardly worth going into now.

barpen Demon

barpen   0

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sportal arent contributing any more and the AFL has gotten a new company to provide information

the site was fine last year but the changes make it terribly hard to use

Demon Rob Demon

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each year the afl website gets a little worse.

finding what you want to find is just a little harder.

quick signs of a good website:

- is it cluttered? bad

- does it use flash? bad

- does it overuse flash when it doesnt need to? very bad.

a bunch of overpaid amateurs.

(from a website developer who goes here before there)

deanox Trident

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i think toyota game day live or watever is quite good... u can listen to the footy and see the stats

the only good thing about the site.

the news is average, the video feed ive found to be slow, the site takes ages to load, and the stats are useless...

Yze_Magic Redleg

Yze_Magic   3

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Worst website on the net

I dont even go there anymore

Last time I tried a few weeks ago, couldnt find any stats, the whole thing was overun by Flash, impossible to navigate...

Never again

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