Do people want to watch more live football or less? With a 19th and potentially 20th team, the scheduling is going to be nuts to watch them without overlaps.  Simply has to be more 5 and 6 day breaks if there's thursday night to sunday games, mixed with some midweeks. 

Surely a 10 percent reduction in a game length doesnt really affect the quality of and flow of an individual game (ever cared if a quarter lasted 27 or 30 minutes?) but it would def help the players recover and sustain through a full season of 5 and 6 day breaks. Although the extra bye has helped it does kill the nomentum of a season imo 

Edited January 31Jan 31 by Jjrogan

52 minutes ago, Jjrogan said:

Do people want to watch more live football or less? With a 19th and potentially 20th team, the scheduling is going to be nuts to watch them without overlaps.  Simply has to be more 5 and 6 day breaks if there's thursday night to sunday games, mixed with some midweeks. 

Surely a 10 percent reduction in a game length doesnt really affect the quality of and flow of an individual game (ever cared if a quarter lasted 27 or 30 minutes?) but it would def help the players recover and sustain through a full season of 5 and 6 day breaks. Although the extra bye has helped it does kill the nomentum of a season imo 

there will still only be 9 games a week. no change till a 20th team

An aging player in a team with questionable youth who still rely on a few older stars to carry them is saying we need shorter games.  I wonder what his motivation for that could possibly be?  

14 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Start games at 7pm. That sees them finished before 10pm.

I would not look at quarter lengths but I would be prepared to consider stoppage time. Ball ups would be the first to go and while you're at it get rid of nominated rucks.

And 30 seconds between goals for channel 7 to cram the ads in.

You can't remove time on for stoppages otherwise teams will waste time sitting on the ball to protect a score. Watch our night final vs Essendon from 87 to see the tactic where we would bash the ball over the boundary line again and again to wind down the clock.

It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt

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It really wouldn't bother me if they did this. While there are games such as our grand final where I'd have been happy to see another hour's play 😂 there are so many boring games where those few extra minutes just drag. I wouldn't want the exact replica of 2020 season but often it was enough to have the 18 or so minute quarters, and not have those extra few minutes where the leading side would probably win but it's almost like they're padded out same as many horse races where jockeys just bide their time until they reach the home straight regardless of race distance. Those 2020 matches didn't feel like they were lesser. Same I don't necessarily get to the end of a film and feel that its 95 minute run time meant it was inferior to a 100-minute long film. The percentage difference between a game with 28 minute quarters vs those with 30 really isn't much.

Would a reduction reduce injuries or prolong player's careers or mean the best players rest less on the bench? Footy will never be perfect and the AFL could certainly overdo rule changes. But little tweaks might make the game better. I can't help but think that many bemoaning cricket when the one-dayers (and T20 later on) came in now see that they didn't exactly ruin the sport. Arguably those short forms helped improve it.

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4 hours ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

And 30 seconds between goals for channel 7 to cram the ads in.

You can't remove time on for stoppages otherwise teams will waste time sitting on the ball to protect a score. Watch our night final vs Essendon from 87 to see the tactic where we would bash the ball over the boundary line again and again to wind down the clock.

I have mixed memories about that game. I was so thrilled that my team, that at the time couldn't even win a chook raffle, that night at least won something which proved we weren't completely useless, and we'd just won a premiership of sorts. I guess us making the finals later that year shouldn't have been particularly surprising.

But at the same time I had to watch that game with lines and 'snow' on the TV. It turns out my [censored] brother had left our ZX Spectrum computer plugged in so the memory wouldn't wipe his current game of Minder on it and it caused interference. Given he was probably a bigger Dees fan than me his stupidity also impacted him. Memories! :)

3 hours ago, Go Ds said:

I have mixed memories about that game. I was so thrilled that my team, that at the time couldn't even win a chook raffle, that night at least won something which proved we weren't completely useless, and we'd just won a premiership of sorts. I guess us making the finals later that year shouldn't have been particularly surprising.

But at the same time I had to watch that game with lines and 'snow' on the TV. It turns out my [censored] brother had left our ZX Spectrum computer plugged in so the memory wouldn't wipe his current game of Minder on it and it caused interference. Given he was probably a bigger Dees fan than me his stupidity also impacted him. Memories! :)

Lines and snow hey Go Ds? The 80’s were the good ole days… 

16 minutes ago, Nietaphart said:

Lines and snow hey Go Ds? The 80’s were the good ole days… 

Hey! As a traditional Dees supporter snow means snow! 😂

Have been watching the Super Bowl on and off since about 10.30am. Now after 2pm and it’s still going… 🥱 

58 minutes ago, Spirit of '87 said:

Have been watching the Super Bowl on and off since about 10.30am. Now after 2pm and it’s still going… 🥱 

kendrick won

1 hour ago, Spirit of '87 said:

Have been watching the Super Bowl on and off since about 10.30am. Now after 2pm and it’s still going… 🥱 

Gridiron has been perfectly designed for advertisers: 2 mins coverage, 3 mins of ads OVER AND OVER AND OVER. 🙄

47 minutes ago, Go Ds said:

Gridiron has been perfectly designed for advertisers: 2 mins coverage, 3 mins of ads OVER AND OVER AND OVER. 🙄

maybe danger should switch to nfl?  he could play beyond 40.

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The average NFL contest has roughly 18 minutes of actual gameplay, with more than 100 plays jammed into those 18 minutes. This average has increased, as there were just 11 minutes of live action back in 2010, per the Wall Street Journal.

and you can roughly cut those times in half for the respective offence and defence players

The last Super Bowl 15 minute quarter went for 45 minutes and 10 seconds. In other words, they spent twice as long NOT playing as they did playing. What a joke.

On 31/01/2025 at 23:13, Jjrogan said:

ever cared if a quarter lasted 27 or 30 minutes?

Yes, when we lost it in the last three minutes. 

All the people saying "Hey, not a bad idea!", I hope you weren't the ones bitching and moaning about shorter games with 16 minute quarters during the 2020 Covid season.....

The 16 minute quarters were a joke. Don't do that again.

On 01/02/2025 at 01:14, Dr. Gonzo said:

And 30 seconds between goals for channel 7 to cram the ads in.

You can't remove time on for stoppages otherwise teams will waste time sitting on the ball to protect a score. Watch our night final vs Essendon from 87 to see the tactic where we would bash the ball over the boundary line again and again to wind down the clock.

Is now 45sec when a goal is scored. Channel 7 gets more ads.  Fox etc can claw back viewers with replays & comments on the game & players get more rests. This was explained on radio today …

42 minutes ago, Deestar9 said:

Is now 45sec when a goal is scored. Channel 7 gets more ads.  Fox etc can claw back viewers with replays & comments on the game & players get more rests. This was explained on radio today …

And they wonder why quarter lengths are creeping upwards 🙄

 

10 minutes ago, Demonland said:

 

My typing fingers are in disbelief but.... onya Toby Green

Good stuff, Toby.

Is Danger pushing his own agenda or those of the AFLPA’s? I don't recall this being a push from AFL players?

If he's so concerned why doesn't he actually survey its players and AFL its fans to get an idea instead of banging on about it and publicly pushing his own agenda?

Why can't things be left as they are?

Personally, that 2020 season was ugly viewership. If I recall, some games had half a dozen or so goals scored collectively for the games, it was not very attractive to watch. 

Game length is fine, just wish they'd get rid of 7.50pm games and make them all 7.20pm or even 7.10pm.

On 31/01/2025 at 23:21, RalphiusMaximus said:

An aging player in a team with questionable youth who still rely on a few older stars to carry them is saying we need shorter games.  I wonder what his motivation for that could possibly be?  

Cows

On 31/01/2025 at 08:09, Demonland said:

 

The staff are getting uppity.  :(