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afl reveals plans for 2 new teams

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Willo

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A team on the Gold Coast in 2010/11 another to be based in Sydneys' Western Suburbs a year later. This will be done by tender process as it looks like the afl can't persuade a Melbourne club to relocate.
afl already talking to broadcasters in regard to 9 games per round to lynchpin the next broadcast rights.

Commission chairman Mike Fitzpatrick wouldn't rule out the possibility of a 17 round home and away season, after 2012 where each club plays each of the others once.

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why is the AFL so ambitious? What are they trying to achieve? Dont we have a great system already? What is there vision? Why are there so many questions?
 
willo said:
Commission chairman Mike Fitzpatrick wouldn't rule out the possibility of a 17 round home and away season, after 2012 where each club plays each of the others once.
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...with Collingwood never leaving Melbourne and playing 17 games at the "G" ::)
 
Western suburbs of sydney is an interesting one,

The working class area of sydney, traditional rugby league Country.
 
Lonthalion said:
why is the AFL so ambitious? What are they trying to achieve? Dont we have a great system already? What is there vision? Why are there so many questions?
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Answer One - Money
Answer Two - More Money
Answer Three - Not enough Money
Answer Four - Much More Money
Answer Five - You dont watch enough Monty Python and the Flying Circus, Lonthalion
 
look at whats happening in Cricket with the IPL, youve got to keep growing the market; I think its very couragous of the AFL and I think its the kind of vision & ambition the sport's lead administrator needs to display:

17 rounds with a totally equiable draw over 2 years; plus an extended (& higher prestige) preseason tournament to allow the traditional rivals to clubs to play each other twice each year.... at least 2 clubs in every state (apologies Tassie) I absolutely love it.

Its the future of the game: I think it would be wonderful
 
I agree Astroboy, they will be doing it tough in the first few years of this strategy, but I do think they can do i, if all the right things are in place Western Sydney is apparently an un tappedmarket, therefore it will be a more suburban type of a team. Its a bold move and will create state rivalries in QLD and NSW which will tickle a few feathers.
 
Djevv said:
With more teams it makes me wonder about two conferences. Victorian & non-Victorian?
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yes, I'd actually been thinking lately- how does the AFL continue to grow if the no of teams are capped?.. and I thought maybe they could introduce a 2nd tier national competition made up of the top WAFL, SANFL, Vic teams with representative teams from ACT, Tassie and NT.
.. to obsticle would be funding- but the cost of flights is the only major new cost overhead which could be com secondpenstated for by having new TV content and attract better sub-AFL sponsors who nevertheless are willing to pay a bit more for national rather than local exposure.
The second major problem would be the potential desctruction of the SANFL and WAFL leagues

I would hate to see relegation/promotion introduced to the AFL..i dont thnk that would work but you could in the AFL "Championsip League"- ie year 1: top 4 VFL teams, top 4 SANFL, top 4 WAFL, Tassie, ACT and NT. Each year the bottom placed Victorian team is relagated and replaced by the VFL premier, the bottom placed SANFL team is relagated and replaced by the SANFL premier etc etc Tas, ACT, NT would not face relegation...you couldround out theConference league to 16 teams by adding the 'the next best team' from an F.A. cup style knockout the previous year.
I know it would never happen, but I do think its the way grow the game in a healthy way...
 
Must say I'd like to see an NT team in a more national comp. This year we enter the SANFL which is a step forward.

People think there is talent in Ireland and South Africa :hihi, in the communities here, the kids grow up with a footy in their hands!!
 
god, listen to the emotive language being thrown around in the media and by the Rugby League boys!

Apparently putting a team in the west of sydney is a "Raid" on the heartland, an "attack" on Rugby, etc etc...

um, no its not. Its just a new football team. No one is being forced to abandon RL or RU or Soccer. If people out there want it they'll go, if not they wont. I think the AFL admin has struck a pretty big nerve.... and thrown the RL's et al into a bit of confusion.

I know alot of people dont like the idea at first glance; but RL has very little scope to expand itself and is now fighting fires on its doorstep. Strategically the AFL have set the cat amongst the pigeons here: and shows that RL is a 'national code' with clay feet. I hope the AFL plunges the dagger in deep as it goes.

20 years ago we had no idea how big and credible the expanded VFL would become (under 3m attendance in 1988 - over 6m 2007)... it is a 10 year project for sure (remember the Swans25years of toil has not converted the market, but it has warmed it up a little. A second team probably wont have to deal with the same level of indifference the Swans did for the first 15 years)..


God I hope they actually do it
 
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