Most aussie fools players max out at 60m kicks on goal. they can kick longer but need that clearance so the 6 guys standing there don't touch it. With there being no limitation on the size of the goal like in football it basically makes 2/3 of the playing area within scoring distance. 

They should just keep the name AFL for this

Absolute Fucking Lunacy

Didnt you read the latest article?

It will be high-octane, it doesnt get any higher than that

Have you heard AFL standard commentary? That's the baseline which is roughly equivalent to the English "ordinary." After that you've got very high, extremely high, massively high, greatest of all fucking time high (which only gets used 15 times a day). Then after that they fully exploit their bogan advantage that they can just make up bogan noises and expressions on the spot, like "boy oh boy wowee."

world class response

Pathologically obsessed with gaining foreign acceptance and expanding overseas, starting a women's league, moving onto getting teams in FIFA video game tournaments, changing the rules every single season and now this.

Says something about the AFL's long term vision for themselves.

It is like a "how improve boring soccer" article

- make goals bigger
- less players
- use a footy
- unlimited interchanges/changes

I dont see why they would have behind posts in this sport though. I think using 2 posts  instead of 4 would be the way to go. 

Agree, but then it would be too obvious that they are trying to recreate sokkah. 
Has any hybrid sport ever been successful? Sevens and Bog Bash are still essentially the same game.  
Maybe MMA fighting the closest? TO make AFL like Big Bash it would be more like taking players down to 15 a side, limit on subs, extra points outside/inside different zones and 15 minute quarters etc 

Ice hockey which came from bandy but that was a while ago

*GOOGLES BANDY* 


Fark - interesting 

Has many links with football eg one of the oldest clubs

  Forest were founded in 1865 as Nottingham Forest Football and Bandy Club^[3] by a group of shinty^[4] players (Bandy is similar to shinty, but is played on ice. In fact bandy is called "camanachd-deighe" in Scots Gaelic, which literally means "ice shinty".) 

my football club plays bandy

^ Learn something new every day. Cant believe I have never heard of it

Yep I can just see those AFL players looking forward to their off season just bursting at the seams to get on board!

Inside sport wouldn't have boards if this community wasn't what it is. Feel free to fuck off.

Except that they're playing it between the home and away season and finals series

Or they're all over their Americanisation so i should say "between the season and post season"

It's such a huge community, geez, there must be about 25 posters all up.

Shame you're one of them. 

I'm the one poster capable of adding some quality to the discussion.

This is just an engineering problem though. They just have to make the ball slightly heavier or softer or change the shape to ensure that it can't be kicked 60m +.

They redesigned the javelin years ago because they were running out of room inside athletic stadiums because they were throwing them so far.

It's still a leather ball (all other codes use bouncy rubber ones).

Football doesn't - all leather with a thin PVC-like coating to waterproof them.

ON AFL Matters on a football website, of which it's a national forum & halve the country aint interested.

half the country
do not do things by halves

My apologies, some do it by quarters, those who need more rest & scores when you MISS.  

Why the f does it matter if AFL still use leather balls? Are you suggesting they will put the balls in the front yard and have mum turn the hose on before she takes them to the game?

They should just introduce a round ball and make it a mini-version of Gaelic football already; this would take out all that useless fumbling. It's laughable seeing grown packs of supposedly co-ordinated athletes swarming around a ball in an attempt to bring it under control gracefully; the closest thing real football has to this is in an under 8s game or the odd occasion where ground security are forced to chase a dog or cat off the pitch so the game can resume. All that fumbling takes up precious space also? Going to be hard to contain such shenanigans within the relatively narrow confines of a football pitch.

Whatever ridiculous concept the AFL comes up with and the rest of the world laughs at, there will always be enough fools in Melbourne to swallow it, and give the illusion that it is worthwhile.

If this wasn't real, I wouldn't believe it was.

I think one poster mentioned that it would be worthwhile making the footy heavier, well, I am simply stating that it is already heavier, given that it remains the only football which is still made with real leather.

The modern soccerball has the weight and consistency of a rubber winnie-the-pooh ball, the sort you buy at K-mart for $2 - not that there is anything wrong with that.