Radical new fixture idea!

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darylcowie
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Radical new fixture idea!

Post: # 1155000Post darylcowie »

How about instead playing footy from February to September, the season could run from April to September instead (which it always did pre-AFL!)

This would solve the following glaring fixturing problems:

1. The NAB/Challenge Cup is currently played on hard grounds in late summer/early autumn promoting "hot spot" injuries to players before the real season has even started.

2. The MCG is unavailable until the end of March due to cricket.

3. The old Anzac Day chestnut about who should play on that day could be solved by playing the NAB Cup Grand Final on that day!
(i.e. the NAB Cup would be run and won in April instead of March)

4. The uneven draw would balance completely over 2 seasons if every team played every other team once over a 17-round season!

5. The new young teams would be less likely to burn out and put the cue in the rack for next season.

6. Due to a shorter season there would be no need for a mid-season bye and the associated fawning over the Sydney-Collingwood clash!

7. Speaking of the Filth, because every team plays every other team only once, the richer teams play fewer "blockbusters" thereby reducing the financial gap at the gate for the poorer clubs.

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Post: # 1155008Post plugger66 »

Simple answer is they cant do that for at least 5 years. Anyway I certainly want 22 games. People say the last few games mean nothing when are 22 games. They would mean even less if you got a bad start with 17 games. We wouldnt have even got close to making the finals you would think. People will say that doesnt matter because we went straight out but we would have completely lost interest after round 8 this year.


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Post: # 1155039Post End Of An Era »

Once 2 more teams are introduced for a total of 20, then we can have a 20 round season. Play every team once plus have a rivalry round. Then the next season the teams you played at home you then play away.

Simple yet Perfect, (and fair).


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Post: # 1155040Post noreason41 »

End Of An Era wrote:Once 2 more teams are introduced for a total of 20, then we can have a 20 round season. Play every team once plus have a rivalry round. Then the next season the teams you played at home you then play away.

Simple yet Perfect, (and fair).
Still not fair


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Post: # 1155041Post End Of An Era »

noreason41 wrote:
End Of An Era wrote:Once 2 more teams are introduced for a total of 20, then we can have a 20 round season. Play every team once plus have a rivalry round. Then the next season the teams you played at home you then play away.

Simple yet Perfect, (and fair).
Still not fair
Why is it still not fair?


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Post: # 1155042Post PLUGGER14 »

End Of An Era wrote:Once 2 more teams are introduced for a total of 20, then we can have a 20 round season. Play every team once plus have a rivalry round. Then the next season the teams you played at home you then play away.

Simple yet Perfect, (and fair).
How do you pick the rivalry?........ I can think of 3 for us


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Post: # 1156259Post End Of An Era »

PLUGGER14 wrote:
End Of An Era wrote:Once 2 more teams are introduced for a total of 20, then we can have a 20 round season. Play every team once plus have a rivalry round. Then the next season the teams you played at home you then play away.

Simple yet Perfect, (and fair).
How do you pick the rivalry?........ I can think of 3 for us
The rivalry round can and must change every year. 2012 it can be Co-Ling_Wood, 2013 it can be Geelong and 2014 it can be Carlton and so on and so forth.


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