Would it fair to say 2 teams per state to even out team travel and play each other twice?

Question

sorry and terriortries

Answer 1

I have been on this point for ages. Get rid of the pre- season, lets make the league even better and make it a fully Australian Footy League.

I can see it now, the Victorians won't like that idea. Have to remember, the AFL revolves around the Victorian sides. No matter who is running it.

Answer 2

that means that there would be a....(10 teams in vic already +2 to keep them from crying, 1+1 more for NSw, 1+1 more for QLD, +1 for the Nt, +1 for the ACT +2 for Tas and WA and SA already have 2.......)

a 24 team competition (unless i added it up wrong) I only added one for NT and ACT as that would be all u get!

there are only 22 rounds in the season....23 wouldnt hurt for one game round robin per year but thats also a 12 game round, more bullcrap with TV and that, and to amny teams to keep track of and not enough people to support them.

while it would be a good idea if Australia had a population of 200 million or so, then yes but look at the A-League...trying to get 2 extra teams for next year or even 2010 is a big ask.

I would recommend asking again in a few hundred years.

Answer 3

22 rounds is about right, for spectator interest and to preserve the fitness of most footballers.

10 clubs is too many for Victoria to support. Keep Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, St Kilda, and combine Geelong and the Bulldogs, and Melbourne and Richmond. That makes 6. 2 each in SA, WA is 10 total.1 in Sydney, 1 in Brisbane, send Hawthorn to Tasmania, North Melbourne to Canberra, create a team in Grafton or Armidale NSW, and one in perhaps Cairns - everyone would be fighting to play there in the winter.

Divide teams at the end of each year into top and bottom eight. Each division plays its group mates twice, home and away, and the other division once. Over two or three years the home/away balance can be maintained. This is 22 matches.

Spread the mid winter games 2 rounds over 3 weeks but no actual break for all teams together.

A way of managing a roster that doesn't divide equally otherwise, and a way of ensuring generally good contests..

Answer 4

I'm from the ACT and even though I would love to have a team here, it's not going to happen. The Kangaroos tried to affiliate with Ainslie but the first thing they wanted to do was borrow $600k - thank God Ainslie saw the light and refused them.

Two teams from Qld, WA, SA, NSW, possibly one each from NT, ACT and Tasmania - that leaves Geelong and two teams for Melbourne.

The Vics rarely gets teams in the top 4 now so it wouldn't make much difference. The question is, which would be the two Melbourne teams to stay - Collingwood would have to be one.

Answer 5

Yeah of course it would be fair

butt....... it aint gonna happen. NT cant support 2 teams and then th vic teams would be pissed off for being moved and stuff. Maybe they should have two leagues iuno where th top teams go to th top league and th bottom top leagues go to th **** league...

pffft i dont really care anymore. I dont think they really care what i have to say so  whatever. They can make their stoopid decisions.

Answer 6

no mate, the bigger populated states can have more than 2, can u imagine trying to do that, which 2 vic teams would stay?

all they have to do is pi$$ off the micky mouse cup at the sart and play each other twice, that is the only fair wat to have it.IMO.

Answer 7

i think they should drop the NAB cup and play the season so teams can play each other 2 times

Answer 8

I think that to truly call it AFL there should be a team from every state and territory in 0zz.

That would make 14, then we could let the Vics have an extra 2 to stop them whinging :))))