Dangerfield Wants Shorter Quarters

[BORNADO 14]

2 minutes ago, Roost it far said:

I wonder if you reduced the game length and then had 35 rounds in a season with everyone playing everyone twice. 4 and 5 day breaks, footy on 7 days a week.
It’s a no from me

Shorter more frequent games would really diminish the significance of each game. Not a fan either.

[PaulRB 6,430]

AFL version of shrinkflation. 
Leave it alone.

[Ghostwriter 2,884]

10 minutes ago, BORNADO said:

I know it would be annoying for supercoach and tipping competitions, but having footy matches spread right out across the week would be huge for free to air TV and pubs.  MLB and NBA have games across 6 or 7 days a week and works really well for them. It would also help a lot to support less popular teams like North Melbourne whose game is often overshadowed by another game playing at the same time.

I understand your reasoning but footy every day of the week would suck. I think we need at least four footy-free days between rounds because in that time you can process the round that’s just finished and preview the next round.

[drdrake 3,200]

The game opens up and is enjoyable to watch when players become fatigued and can't work as hard defensively.  Shorter quarters less fatigue more defensive slogs.

[sue 9,155]

40 minutes ago, DistrACTION Jackson said:

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Shorting the quarters you would think would also affect that, given it would be less available ad times....

Don't worry, the AFL will change the rules to make scoring goals easier.  How about 10m between goal posts.

[ManDee 7,252]

2 minutes ago, sue said:

Don't worry, the AFL will change the rules to make scoring goals easier.  How about 10m between goal posts.

That makes a very short oval. 😄

[whatwhat say what 23,152]

1 hour ago, DistrACTION Jackson said:

I personally don't think shorter games will make me any more inclined to watch other games.

I will generally watch a Thursday night and Friday night if I'm not doing anything and then maybe a Sunday arvo game.

Do people really want to sit at home all day on the weekend watching 9 games? I doubt it.

no, but we on demonland are the rusted on footy followers

what they're concerned about is the likes of my children - a near 18, 15.5, and 13 year old who have little / no interest in the sport despite growing up in a household where their dad is an avid fan, worked in the industry, etc. etc.

their #1 complaint is about the length of time it takes, from going to the game (and we live 5 stops from richmond station) to being there and actually watching it, to getting home after, as it's quite a significant commitment

the near 18 year old will happily go to a game every few weeks, especially while the weather is pleasant, but the younger two have little to no interest outside of 'did the dees win? great!'

[Little Goffy 14,683]

After the resounding success of the X league or whatever it was called, this is definitely a good call commercially.

[FireInTheBennelly 4,099]

3 hours ago, DistrACTION Jackson said:

100%. One of the worst rule changes they brought in. Would be a simple change and reduce delays in the game.

Which was, coincidentally, caused by Dangerfield for the most part.

[biggestred 5,195]

shorter quarters are yuk. i hate that the women play shorter quarters. so much happens in that last 3 minutes of play that the women dont play (and that takes about 5 minutes to happen). 

[whatwhat say what 23,152]

51 minutes ago, Little Goffy said:

After the resounding success of the X league or whatever it was called, this is definitely a good call commercially.

we won that!

[Little Goffy 14,683]

2 hours ago, whatwhat say what said:

no, but we on demonland are the rusted on footy followers

what they're concerned about is the likes of my children - a near 18, 15.5, and 13 year old who have little / no interest in the sport despite growing up in a household where their dad is an avid fan, worked in the industry, etc. etc.

their #1 complaint is about the length of time it takes, from going to the game (and we live 5 stops from richmond station) to being there and actually watching it, to getting home after, as it's quite a significant commitment

the near 18 year old will happily go to a game every few weeks, especially while the weather is pleasant, but the younger two have little to no interest outside of 'did the dees win? great!'

I wonder if there might be some benefit to a more multi-tasking friendly environment at games. You know, less of the relentless wall of idiotic noise at every pause in the game?

It would be ironic if the AFL's desperate attention-seeking-from-the-inattentive strategy was actually driving the low-attention-span markets away by preventing them from being able to comfortably engage with their other flows of activity.

I also wonder if better seating plans and the like would actually be appreciated by the multi-tasking youth just as much as it would be appreciated by the sore-butt elderly? For example, what if the MCG's capacity was 90k instead of 100k, and just that little bit more comfortable for the first 50k seats?

[leave it to deever 17,574]

I don't mind if they shorten them. 

 

As long as they give us back five quarters to make up for it.

Oh wait.

Doh.

[leave it to deever 17,574]

16 minutes ago, Little Goffy said:

I wonder if there might be some benefit to a more multi-tasking friendly environment at games. You know, less of the relentless wall of idiotic noise at every pause in the game?

It would be ironic if the AFL's desperate attention-seeking-from-the-inattentive strategy was actually driving the low-attention-span markets away by preventing them from being able to comfortably engage with their other flows of activity.

I also wonder if better seating plans and the like would actually be appreciated by the multi-tasking youth just as much as it would be appreciated by the sore-butt elderly? For example, what if the MCG's capacity was 90k instead of 100k, and just that little bit more comfortable for the first 50k seats?

It's the big bash that does me in.

The constant koo ees and chants.

WTH.

As for footy it's the greatest game in the world and doesn't need soundtracks or bytes or songs.

 

[monoccular 17,625]

Night games need to start at 7pm

Breaks need to be shorter NB half time. 
 
I rarely stay up to the end of “neutral games” because half time is filled with boring gumph 

[Brownie 6,034]

34 minutes ago, leave it to deever said:

I don't mind if they shorten them. 

 

As long as they give us back five quarters to make up for it.

Oh wait.

Doh.

At least our sub might get a decent run 😁