AFLX......why, oh why?

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  • S.S. Bleeder
    Senior Player
    • Sep 2014
    • 2165

    #31
    Originally posted by CureTheSane
    I love the schoolyard pick system - if it is genuine.
    That's about all my interest
    Are they seriously doing that? How embarrassment.

    Get rid of all pre-season comps and add extra rounds of finals rounds to the main season.

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    • Legs Akimbo
      Grand Poobah
      • Apr 2005
      • 2809

      #32
      There are lots of things they could do... including nothing.

      Anyway, i think if it was club based and included an incentive, say draft points, the interest would be greater.

      How about dissecting every element if the game that people love and working the structure and rules to deliver.

      7 a side with zoned areas and ability to call subs. There are lots of things they could do but they need to THINK about what the point is. If the point is creating a viable alternative short format that people may one day play here or abroad then then AFL are delusional.

      But really WTFKs what they are trying to achieve.
      He had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.

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      • dejavoodoo44
        Veterans List
        • Apr 2015
        • 8721

        #33
        AFLX? More appropriate would be AFLY.

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        • Nico
          Veterans List
          • Jan 2003
          • 11342

          #34
          Originally posted by wolftone57
          Probably. I know the club has not really said anything about AFLX and other than the AFL advertising there has been nothing on our website.
          What lunatic thought up AFLX?
          http://www.nostalgiamusic.co.uk/secu...res/srh806.jpg

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          • dejavoodoo44
            Veterans List
            • Apr 2015
            • 8721

            #35
            Originally posted by Nico
            What lunatic thought up AFLX?
            My guess would be that it starts with Gill and ends with MacLachlan.

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            • liz
              Veteran
              Site Admin
              • Jan 2003
              • 16786

              #36
              Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...now they are planning on having "joker" players whose scores count for double...

              AFLX game changer: Get ready for 20-point supergoals - AFL.com.au

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              • dejavoodoo44
                Veterans List
                • Apr 2015
                • 8721

                #37
                Originally posted by liz
                Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...now they are planning on having "joker" players whose scores count for double...

                AFLX game changer: Get ready for 20-point supergoals - AFL.com.au
                Hopefully, the jokers will have to wear a special costume, or at least have their underwear on the outside.

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                • Bloods05
                  Senior Player
                  • Oct 2008
                  • 1641

                  #38
                  Originally posted by barry
                  The "I hope my players dont get hurt" is such a pessimistic, insular viewpoint. The AFL seems to suffer from it cronically and kills any representative/all-star type games.
                  Not sure why this matters.

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                  • 707
                    Veterans List
                    • Aug 2009
                    • 6204

                    #39
                    Originally posted by liz
                    Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...now they are planning on having "joker" players whose scores count for double...

                    AFLX game changer: Get ready for 20-point supergoals - AFL.com.au
                    Jack Watts would be one of the "Joker" players wouldn't he???

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                    • stevoswan
                      Veterans List
                      • Sep 2014
                      • 8570

                      #40
                      Originally posted by liz
                      Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...now they are planning on having "joker" players whose scores count for double...

                      AFLX game changer: Get ready for 20-point supergoals - AFL.com.au
                      How stupid is this whole concept? I saw that headline and just laughed.....then I cried. It just smacks of comic book desperation. A complete joke.....I hope none of our players are involved.

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                      • erica
                        Happy and I know it
                        • Jan 2008
                        • 1247

                        #41
                        Originally posted by stevoswan
                        How stupid is this whole concept? I saw that headline and just laughed.....then I cried. It just smacks of comic book desperation. A complete joke.....I hope none of our players are involved.
                        If they are "chosen" by the captain, do they have a choice?
                        All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke

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                        • Molly dooker
                          Lifer!
                          • Jun 2007
                          • 247

                          #42
                          I heard the AFLX comp was created to launch the game into China (by Koschi), as there's billions to be made if that market opens up.
                          Now, if you think about it, of course there's not going to be appropriately sized pitches there but there are lots of soccer fields, ergo, AFLX.
                          Fail, fail, fail AFL. Dumbest idea in the history of the game.

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                          • Captain
                            Captain of the Side
                            • Feb 2004
                            • 3602

                            #43
                            Absolute joke.

                            Having a team of just indigenous is just so wrong and racist. Sorry you can't play with Eddie and his team because you are white.

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                            • stevoswan
                              Veterans List
                              • Sep 2014
                              • 8570

                              #44
                              Originally posted by Captain
                              Absolute joke.

                              Having a team of just indigenous is just so wrong and racist. Sorry you can't play with Eddie and his team because you are white.
                              Not the "R" word again.....

                              Let's stay on topic....no politics.

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                              • Ludwig
                                Veterans List
                                • Apr 2007
                                • 9359

                                #45
                                I'm going to skip the AFLX games. Not much interested in the AFLW either.

                                I'm holding out for the AFLGBTQ games.

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