Yep SportsDay SA, which is an extension of the 5aa sports show..
basically paid mouthpiece of the AFL and Cricket Australia
Malcolm Blight suggesting AFLX for the Olympics , goes to show how much they are being paid to peddle the AFL kool aid..
As for 5aa , they cant even promote the local A league team. Years ago they were media partner of AUFC and one of the old owners ( griffin, gerrard , coopers etc ) was on radio being interviewed about something and made a comment on how poorly their media partner promoted the club
needles to say , 5aa arent a  media partner anymore

Really!
We each have our own code to worship if someone enjoys it just be happy for them.
There's enough stuff going on to be shit-scared of or to be really, really angry. AFL is a joke of a sport if that's how you want to see it. When it was invented ( probably the same drunks that invented golf - hitting a wee ball with a long stick, curved at the end, into a wee hole 200 metres away ). They didn' think of transporting it overseas.
We follow a sport where all you need is 4 jumpers and a ball. The English will claim that railway workers and other English manual workers transported the game and the copious little towns began the leagues. I'm probably quite wrong, but I don't care.

If the AFL mob want to do this & someone enjoys it who cares? 
The way they carry on about the women's game shit's me though, anybody think they'd found out how to change lead into gold!

i think even know it got made fun of online it will be deemed a success and they will do it again next season with states vsing each other

I believe their motivation for creating AFLX was for the sole purpose of kicking grassroots football clubs off what few grounds they can get, so yeah, I care.

I dare say they were just fans of the Bolts and Deadly clubs who were disappointed that their team didn't make the Grand Final.

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I dunno if anyone could have a team, they have never existed before this day. Surely all just there for the spectacle...or car crash as it turned out.

It's all about brand reinforcement.  

i read somewhere yesterday that the AFL has no plans to play this game overseas. wasn't this the whole point? so they could play in stadiums overseas, which are predominently rectangular? 

Overseas? AFL?  

This is like the opposite of when someone goes to cross and they score a goal and pretend they meant it.

This shot went into row z and they pretended they wanted that.

‘Oh we wanted everyone to treat it as a joke and for it to be ridiculed so much we’re already scrapping plans to send it overseas’.

laugh all you want there are people on the afl's facebook page who believe it will takeover overseas because there are a few amtuear clubs with expats set up  

They state that in the article in the first post.

If you want a good laugh, head over here and go thru a few of the threads (although traffic has dropped off dramatically in the last few years): https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/forums/international-footy.12/

IMO, if the AFL seriously wanted an international competition, they support a WA and/or SA secessionist movement, which would instantly turn the AFL into an international tournament. More chance of WA and/or SA becoming independent than anywhere else seriously taking up AFL.

The funny thing about the afl going international was even if it did I can’t imagine countries like Germany or France missing some of those set shots from 20 metres out those countries will work harder then the players in Australia do

They should put a team of 18 blokes together and challenge Austeralia's best.

NEWS: Bankwest Stadium (Parramatta) could host next AFLX pre-season showpiece

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“The AFL is looking at bringing their new pre-season extravaganza to the heartland of rugby league and soccer in Sydney by staging next year’s AFLX tournament at Bankwest Stadium.

“AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan has confirmed the league is considering moving the event to a non-traditional market, where the 10-a-side format of the game has a much larger role to play at a grassroots level.”

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“McLachlan told the Herald he believed there was merit in bringing the event to Sydney or Brisbane, given the shortage of suitable oval grounds in those cities was one of the reasons the condensed format of the game was created specifically to be played on rectangular fields.

“It’s certainly an option to bring AFLX to Sydney or Brisbane but we haven’t finalised our plans for next year,” McLachlan said.”

International Footy!!

The people on that bigfooty forum are seriously crazy. And they love quoting meaningless figures and stats- just like Mr Football used to on here.

Why dont they just admit AFLX is a disaster and concentrate on destroying the knee ligaments of Australia's female athletes.

Because afl hq are so far up their own areas that they don't hear the criticisms.  

Why should they quit? They're in desperate need to expand their operations given their corporate situation and have guaranteed billions of dollars to burn. With areas to expand into seriously limited, they can afford to flog this until it gets up and gallops, even if it takes decades. 

Fish where the fish are, as they say. Sydney and China have the kinds and numbers of fish they want and they won't care how silly their bait looks.

Why don't they spend those billions on building their own stadiums instead of sponging off the tax payer

i hope the RBB go 

This exactly. Thankfully so far it has been a monumental flop as the average aussie rules fan doesn't care about destroying other football codes as much as the AFL heads do.

dude i played touch footy it was terrible it doesn't work because you can kick the ball to far 

SEN Breakfast co-host Tim Watson believes we’ve seen the last of the AFL’s controversial brainchild AFLX.

Watson revealed the coaches strongly disliked the concept and have seemingly gotten their way.

“I’ve got an acronym for you. I’m hearing this, but you’ve got to put the pieces together: AFLX RIP,” Watson told SEN Breakfast.

“What do you think that means?

“I’m hearing there was a lot of opposition to it from AFL clubs.

“There’ll be no more AFLX, that’s what I’m hearing.”

The spinoff competition has existed for the last two seasons and has featured current AFL players on a rectangular field playing with eight per side.

AFLX was revamped in 2019 with players paid significant amounts of money to take part in the one-night tournament.

They are still pushing it and they've also revealed the annual E.J Whitten Legends Match will be changed to sn AFLX format this year. 

Thanks for the article melbcityguy but can you please get into the habit of posting the link to it as well?

They are desperate to get it going to help wage their war against football/league so they will try at nothing to establish a foothold. 

Problem is most AFL fans and the club's don't care about performing a hostile takeover of western Sydney. If anything they seem to view it as neglecting the games true heartlands.

At last! The AFL  has finally conquered the world...as racists

Goodes story to go global as NBA star Ben Simmons jumps on board

Vince RugariJuly 25, 2019 — 11.59pm

Australian NBA superstar Ben Simmons has jumped on board with a new documentary about Adam Goodes to ensure the story of the AFL great's battle with racism will be spread around the world.Simmons has become an executive producer of The Australian Dream, which will premiere next week at the Melbourne International Film Festival and includes fresh interviews with Goodes about the sad end to his career with the Sydney Swans.

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/sport/afl/goodes-story-to-go-global-as-nba-star-ben-simmons-jumps-on-board-20190725-p52auq.html