Channel 7 Melbourne just promoting MKR and AFL cos they are based in Melbourne. Pathetic.

got to love those footy states .... somehow need to make AFL relevant....

And he followed it up with a question about the Russian born Sydney team on my kitchen rules.

Fucking Melbourne can’t help themselves.

did she scratch her head and ask huh?

Watching the Australian Open. Australian (Russian immigrant) Daria Gavrilova wins her game and in the post match all the Channel 7 commentator wants to ask about is some relo that plays in the AFLW. It's a fucking cult

post wc they have 23 div 1 teams and 39 div 2 teams. 

I am interested to see how the concept transfers to tv. Imo they should be looking at spider cam



because there may be a lot of kicks at goal. 

Also it may be a tight camera angle down on the close sideline at Hindmarsh. Perhaps they will have cameramen on each side of the field at half way that go onto the pitch. 

I think they have been smart in the way they have packaged it, the 3 nights only. But made a big mistake not using Aami and choosing Sydney over Nib in Perth. Etihad will jjust remind people of full size AFL too much, and MV games dont look that great already. Sydney may not be full. Perth would have been with WCE and FD playing. This is turn would look better on tv but it may have come down to cost. They could have waited the extra year for Sydney so the fans there would look forward to having it in 2019 after seeing how good it looked on tv. 

In a world cup

The yanks prioritised owner occupied boutique stadiums for its national league.

We prioritiesed calling soccer football.




Where the fuck are we compared to the yanks right now.

No.

This is not the same.

Spoke to my girlfriend's mate who works at AFL and she said it's not even close to being finalised and everyone in the office is expecting it to be a massive flop.

That's from someone who is pretty one eyed AFL too.

I don't know how AFL would go over the summer. It is only one players idea though.

Perhaps there would be more "exciting" games as scores should would be presumably closer going into the 4th quarter.

It would be in direct conflict with AFLX though. Which is in conflict with using football pitches.

Patrick Dangerfield suggests 34-game AFL home and away season for fixture equality

Under the AFL’s current draw format and broadcast rights agreement, the home and away season lasts 23 weeks.

Speaking on SEN Breakfast on Monday morning, Dangerfield said he wouldn’t mind cutting the season to 17 games, where every team would play each other once.

But the 2016 Brownlow Medallist added that he’s also concerned the AFL might cut the players pay if they decrease the number of games per season.

“I don’t mind it, but if you said to the vast majority of players if it’s going to be a 17-week season, if you’re going to cut the season by 20 per cent, we’ll cut your pay by 20 per cent. I don’t think too many would put their hand up and say yes to it,” Dangerfield told SEN.

The Geelong superstar suggested the prospect of a 34-round home and away competition, which would see quarters cut to help manage players’ durability.

“I think 17 games make sense purely because it’s fair. The other alternative is what if you play 34 games, but instead of 120 minutes of footy, you cut it to 18 minute quarters, so you’re playing less than 80 minutes of footy,” Dangerfield said.

“I think I’ve worked it out. It’s a bit over five games extra you’d play a season, but you might not play as many games as it might be spread out differently and then publicly the revenue it would create would jump significantly because it’d be more games played.”

Patrick Dangerfield has suggested either a 17-week or 34-week home and away season.
Patrick Dangerfield has suggested either a 17-week or 34-week home and away season.Source: Getty Images
The midfielder said the clubs would come back in November, which would give players a six-week window to prepare for the expanded season.

“You speak to most team PT staff, ‘we need 10 weeks to get our players ready’ or ‘we need 12 weeks to get our players ready’,” Dangerfield said.

“Put it as mandatory you’ve got six weeks, good luck — and that’s what you’ve got and you’ve got to adjust to it.”

The Geelong star said he is excited for new innovation AFLX to begin, imploring the public to give it a chance before judging.

“It’s interesting when it was first released there was a bit of scepticism around it,” Dangerfield said.

“I think that was the same where the Twenty20 cricket was released and we saw what happened in India with the $3.2 billion dollar TV rights and how the Big Bash has really taken off.

“It’s a great concept the AFL’s come up with and I think if the public give it a chance, I think it’s something everyone’s going to enjoy.

“It’s the best part about the AFL, packaged into a more free-flowing game that something goes a bit quicker which perhaps we could introduced into the regular season.”

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https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/patrick-dangerfield-suggests-34game-afl-home-and-away-season-for-fixture-equality/news-story/f3cdc30fac238ef9fb22a85c83a525a5

Geez I hate it when the LA times says "soccer" You'd think the Yanks would know by now there's a gold medal in the Olympics for football but zilch for soccer.
Their women have won the gold medal for football too, but they can't seem to get it in their head that their Chuck & Run game is more like Red Rover than football

Probably. Ottawa come every year to Stockholm and San Jose also, although Sweden is a ice hockey country. And sooner rather than later NFL will place a team in London.

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/how-nfl-matches-in-uk-will-work-at-spurs-new-stadium/gens4wkceil810dxx2jxuyprt

China is really investing in rugby, because of WC and Olympics. I cant see locals playing it.

Apart from the fact NFL is actually popular in europe

so much like NFL Europe then ? just a junket ?

It will most likely be like the Port thing. They can send 6 teams, 1 from each state, and try to get more sponsorship money. There is also the media they generate for themselves in Australia. 

It may be easier to watch for the people in the crowd. If you dont know the rules, its over in 20 mins and you would be much closer to the field (ball). 

It may just develop into a yearly trip to showcase the sport, which isnt actually the sport. 

If the Giants have already set them back $200 mill, it will cost them ten times that to just the scratch the surface in China.

cant beleive they ( the AFL and its media army ) think the AFLX is going to win the chinese over.

lol

If the ball isn't at your feet don't bother. Seen many classes in China and they look absolutely ridiculous. 

General manager of China

LOL

http://www.latimes.com/sports/soccer/la-sp-china-soccer-20160514-story.html

Lol I like how they break up the regions

- Vic, SA, WA, Tas
- China, India, NSW, Qld

Meanwhile theChinese government is incorporating soccer into the school curriculum

manager of China David Stevenson is looking to have the new format launched beyond Australian borders.

"Absolutely (that's our goal)," he told afl.com.au.

"I think there are two reasons for that. One is we're targeting at kids and families, that's our primary audience. That's why we have a shorter format, 10-minute halves, high scoring, lots of active play in that time. It's targeted at young kids, which will work in New South Wales and Queensland, as well as China and India.

"The second reason is logistically, in those (international) markets, there are no venues. In China as we found there are not a lot of venues that are oval. In India, it's a little easier as they play a lot of cricket, but in China it's harder.

"Some part of New South Wales and Queensland there's a lot of rugby and soccer fields, so AFLX could work there too."


https://www.triplem.com.au/sport/afl/news/afl-is-looking-to-take-aflx-overseas?station=brisbane

lol

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-11-17/aflx-revealed-who-your-club-plays-and-when

Jackson said the newly devised concept AFLX could further strengthen the AFL's international ambitions and could help unearth new talent.

"I love the idea of [AFLX], particularly when you go into areas in Sydney and the eastern coast where there a lot more smaller grounds," he said.

"I think it's a great idea in principle. It's something that can be adopted overseas if you wanted to."

A Victorian AFL club should be moved interstate, or overseas - Wayne Jackson

Why the fuck are all of you obsessed with talking about the AF fucking L?

It struggles to recreate the almost cult-like following in QLD and NSW that it has in the southern states. We all know it's a plastic fucking sport for retards. And it will never gain any significant traction outside of the country as the AFL and its broadcast and corporate partners do not even have 1/20th of the clout the NBA or NFL and its broadcast and corporate partners do.

Kill this thread.