On a more serious note, the Hindmarsh match is 2 days before an Adelaide home match. As if that isn't going to screw the pitch up.

Fuck me the afl have been advertising  this everywhere. Hello ffa hello

Frustrating.

FFA are trying, they just cant find any consultants....

I just waiting for the inevitable beat up articles - "Footy fans and families experience wonderful occasion. Such a wonderful thing could never happen at the soccer where their fans must be kept apart out of fear of violence and abuse."

CC: Graham Cornes

you know it
next he will ask that united go find a new ground and let AFLX be the tennants of hindmarsh

So glad I don't live in an AFL dominated state, no idea what this AFLX is!!!!

Yeah, so good. 

Besides here I have not heard or seen a single skerrick of information regards this.

its depressing...

Me either. Can't imagine the Sydney games will be a big hit.

The most annoying part of this is that the government spent more than half a billion upgrading Adelaide Oval for them but they still have to come and destroy our pitch for their gimmicky shitshow.

And I'm still saying that's the only real reason for this whole thing.

I'm not usually one for conspiracy theories but I'm certain a big part of the AFLX gameplan is to establish a presence on rectangular pitches in the rugby league states and disturb the status quo. 

It is. The purists hate it . Its a afl version  of 2020 . Which  is targeted  to women and kids. There is going to be  side attractions  during the games and fireworks . 

I'm in Perth, but haven't heard anything about it.
All the foody media here is focused on the new stadium AFAIK.

Sad thing is, you're right. The next gen is completely fucked.

FFA are a bunch of dicks who seem to know diddly squat about the  game and whose only interest seems to be "let's grab the big wage for doing SFA, before we move somewhere where a real product is  sold"
First cab of the rank, for me, would be to lower prices and try to fill the stadiums!
$10 GA seems reasonable & extra bums on seats may pay the rent.

That's because it's only Melbourne & Adelaide for now. Once it becomes popular NIB will be used.

So much "in my days" garbage in here.

Imagine being deluded enough to actually think that a customer is inherently better because they're being rewarded or challenged instead of indulged. 

Imagine taking a kid to the cinema and instead of watching a Disney or Marvel film with popcorn, the cinema manager decides that watching Blue Velvet and eating chilli con carne is a more rewarding experience.

Fuck off. 

This is a pretty horrible concept and in no way should be compared to 20/20 cricket, the shorter form of cricket is justified reducing a 50 over match that normally takes 8 hours to complete cut down to a 3 hour match which whether we like it or not is much more fan and family friendly.

From Kevin Bartlett on SEN

I don’t know what AFLX will lead to, but I suggest it will be a curiosity training drill for clubs.

I can’t imagine fans being captured by the seven-a-side games.

It may turn out to be a social game for groups who much like indoor footy and cricket for all ages. It’ll never create a market overseas. Again expats may start up a competition for fun

Aussie Rules will never be played as a meaningful competition anywhere in the world. It’s an indigenous game that will never capture the world’s attention – despite it being in my eyes, the greatest game.

I’m KB, that’s my take.

This radio clip sums it up atm. 

http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/pm/bite-sized,-fast-paced-aflx-on-the-way/9362896

Nobody is really sure what the AFLs motive is. 

I think it is a combination of the main 3 people think - land grab over soccer fields, tv and rules. 

The first one is what this thread is about. 
The second, the market is changing. They may get a reduced tv deal next time or more, but certainly not as much gambling advertising revenue. Does this game create more ad space? yes. AFL and 7 are very good at packaging the game. Post show with highlights and so on and showing fans with their faces painted etc. It may translate very well to tv. This trail may be for 2 reasons; to see if it works and as the player mentioned they may look at shortening the current game and go to a full home and away. Sure for the AFLX it is 3 hours, but it will be 7 matches and 7 results. 
The third, I looked on an AFL forum and people seem to be convinced that this game is a way to bring in rule changes in the full game. A test ground for new rules also. 

Its hard to know what will happen. It could in a decade take over the normal game and that gets shortened to 17 rounds and AFLX is played for how ever many months. They have a lot of room to move with their concept. 

He's not really the target market

AFL is not indigenous, the definition of indigenous is "naturally occurring" in an area. AFL exists in Australia because the laws of football migrated from Europe.

Trying to associate themselves with indigenous culture is an insult to indigenous culture and simply trying to legitamise anglo-Australian culture as indigenous culture.

Dude  aussie rules was being played by tge aborigines  before the english came here.  Mangrook is the percurser of aussie rules.

Haha.....you need to you the blue font.

Marngrook, Marn Grook

A traditional game from the Gunditjmara people in Victoria. The name comes from a corroboree by the Djabwurrung and Jardwadjali clans in Victoria’s Western District [6].

Marngrook is said to be the Aboriginal game that provided the first lawmakers of football with some of the fundamentals of the game millions know and love as Australian Rules (Aussie Rules) Football [2], a view which is not totally undisputed.

‘Marngrook’ means ‘Game Ball’. The National Indigenous Television (NITV) turned the radio program The Marngrook Footy Show into a TV show in 2007. The show came to be due to a lack of Indigenous people in any of the other football shows.

Jim Poulter wrote the book Marn-Grook, Original Australian Rules in 1985.
Traditional Aboriginal ball made from possum or kangaroo skin. The ball was made in various sizes to fit the game it was used in.
Image source: [2]

Traditional Aboriginal games & activities - Creative Spirits

So can we finally accept that it isn't football?

Woggabaliri is a traditional Indigenous Australian "co-operative kicking volley game" similar to the games of keepie uppie and footbag.

The Aborigines in areas near New South Wales played a ball game called Woggabaliri. The ball is made of possum fur. It is played in a group of four to eight players in circle. It is a cooperative kicking game to see for how long the ball can be kept in the air before it touches the ground.

History[edit]

Woggabaliri is a non-competitive game played with a ball made of Bulrush roots wrapped in possum fur where the objective of it is to keep the ball in the air using association football type skills of teamwork and ball control. Played by the Wiradjuri and surrounding peoples before European arrival,^[1][2] Woggabaliri is the Ngunnawal word for "play".^[3] Author Ken Edwards notes that a similar game with a ball made of grass covered in beeswax was also played by the Jingili people of the Northern Territory.^[2]

Woggabaliri is recognised by the Australian Sports Commission (ASC) as one of the oldest Indigenous ball games and is the earliest depicted, believed by the ASC to be the subject of an engraving "never let the ball hit the ground" based on William Blandowski's observations in 1857 of camp life near Merbein, Victoria.^[1] The image is inscribed:

A group of children is playing with a ball. The ball is made out of typha roots (roots of the bulrush). It is not thrown or hit with a bat, but is kicked up in the air with a foot. The aim of the game – never let the ball touch the ground.

In 2010, Football Federation Australia referenced Woggabaliri in its Australian 2022 FIFA World Cup bid citing its similarity to football (soccer) as part of Australia's national heritage.<sup>[1]

Woggabaliri - Wikipedia</sup>