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Re: AFLX

Postby Wedgie » Thu Feb 15, 2018 4:07 pm

Looks weird seeing footy goals here.

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Re: AFLX

Postby Ian » Thu Feb 15, 2018 4:24 pm

Wedgie wrote:
Lightning McQueen wrote:
Wedgie wrote:Theres some premiership players in the squads, much better players were selected than I expected. The clubs seem to be giving it more respect than the SANFL clubs gave fast footy.
I'm looking forward to it but reserve the right to be bored of it within a few minutes.

I've been watching it for years with under 6's etc and clubs host 9 a side comps every season, pouring some glitter on it and chucking an x in the name doesn't really do a lot for me, I'm sure even you will agree after watching it for a bit.

Na, bad call ;)

Are you saying I'm more receptive of new things and wiling to give them a go more than most?
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Bahahahaha :lol: :lol:

The only positive I can see out of this is you get more work which = more $$$$ in your pocket, other than that I'd rather watch paint dry, even worse I'd rather watch NAFC circ 2017 again :shock:
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Re: AFLX

Postby amber_fluid » Thu Feb 15, 2018 4:55 pm

carey wrote:As with AFLW I have zero interest in this at all.


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Re: AFLX

Postby RustyCage » Thu Feb 15, 2018 8:17 pm

At the very least it’s better than what’s usually played at Hindmarsh Stadium
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Re: AFLX

Postby LaughingKookaburra » Thu Feb 15, 2018 8:46 pm

It's dead set rubbish. Takes away the excitement of a goal as a viewer for me.

It's ironic that the Women's field is far bigger than it needs to be and then they play a game on a postage stamp with the blokes.
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Re: AFLX

Postby Old Red » Thu Feb 15, 2018 8:54 pm

How embarrassing for Gilligan. SANFLs version IMHO is the better of two evils
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Re: AFLX

Postby woodublieve12 » Thu Feb 15, 2018 9:01 pm

Not a bad concept this AFLX. As long as none of the key players play, it could work. Much better than the big bash rubbish
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Re: AFLX

Postby Moe » Thu Feb 15, 2018 9:26 pm

woodublieve12 wrote:Not a bad concept this AFLX. As long as none of the key players play, it could work. Much better than the big bash rubbish

Why is it better than the Big Bash?
Comparing apples to oranges.
Why wouldnt you want the key players playing it?
Id love to see Buddy having a crack from 75 metres, or Danger and Gazz going at it.

For a sporting forum, we seem to knock a lot on here.
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Re: AFLX

Postby Brodlach » Thu Feb 15, 2018 9:33 pm

Got redemption already ;)
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Re: AFLX

Postby valleys07 » Thu Feb 15, 2018 9:44 pm

February premiers. Is it a good thing now?
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Re: AFLX

Postby woodublieve12 » Thu Feb 15, 2018 9:44 pm

Moe wrote:
woodublieve12 wrote:Not a bad concept this AFLX. As long as none of the key players play, it could work. Much better than the big bash rubbish

Why is it better than the Big Bash?
Comparing apples to oranges.
Why wouldnt you want the key players playing it?
Id love to see Buddy having a crack from 75 metres, or Danger and Gazz going at it.

For a sporting forum, we seem to knock a lot on here.

Simple, I don’t like big bash
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Postby bennymacca » Thu Feb 15, 2018 10:01 pm

2x 20 min halves would be better.

I enjoyed it more than I thought I would

Was probably just as interesting as any other preseason game. And I can see it overtaking afl nines as the social game etc.
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Re: AFLX

Postby Wedgie » Thu Feb 15, 2018 10:18 pm

Thought I might be able to get out early but it turned out a lot busier than expected. Busier than any A League match Ive worked there and even sold more food than the Foo Fighters concert which had 25k at it, Quite a carnival atmosphere, I think they're trying to mimic rugby 7s more than the Big Bash.

With onky 24 hours till the next Grand Final is played will Adelaide be the shortest reigning premiers of all time? I hope their fans are making the most of it! :lol:
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Re: AFLX

Postby MW » Thu Feb 15, 2018 10:36 pm

If i heard them refer to a goal as a Zooper one more time...ffs
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Re: AFLX

Postby hollywood7477 » Fri Feb 16, 2018 7:22 am

Watched 5 minutes of it and wow what a load a crap AFLX is. Its basically AFL9's with tackling and stupid Zooper Goals. Also AFL9's and the SANFL version is the fwds have to wear a wristband or a different colour sleeve for fwds.

Im not sure if i read it but did it take 18months for the AFL to develop this garbage. Whoever was responsible they should be sacked.

Bring back the State of Origin.

People can bag the AFLW's game for their skills and lack of goals but atleast the girls have a fair crack and go hard at it. Unlike the AFLX bruise free footy.
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Re: AFLX

Postby cracka » Fri Feb 16, 2018 7:39 am

Wedgie wrote:Thought I might be able to get out early but it turned out a lot busier than expected. Busier than any A League match Ive worked there and even sold more food than the Foo Fighters concert which had 25k at it, Quite a carnival atmosphere, I think they're trying to mimic rugby 7s more than the Big Bash.

With onky 24 hours till the next Grand Final is played will Adelaide be the shortest reigning premiers of all time? I hope their fans are making the most of it! :lol:

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Re: AFLX

Postby Magellan » Fri Feb 16, 2018 7:58 am

The always entertaining Richard Hinds from the ABC's view of AFLX:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-16/aflx-not-an-exciting-new-format-of-a-beloved-sport-richard-hinds/9452570

AFLX is the first attempted use of Victoria's voluntary euthanasia laws

It turns out AFLX is not an exciting new format of a beloved sport ''that will take the world by storm''.
Nor is it the AFL's version of T20 — or even, for that matter, of French cricket.
AFLX is the first attempted use of Victoria's new voluntary euthanasia laws.

What is AFLX?
• The game is played on a rectangular field (100-120m x 60-70m)
• Each side has 10 players - seven on the field, three on the interchange
• Two 10-minute halves will be contested
• A super goal is worth 10 points
• A ruck ball up will be used

If you wanted to kill AFL stone-dead surely you would turn it into this hollow, unappealing, pressure-free, atmosphere-deficient, oval-in-a-rectangle hole yawn-fest.

AFLX is a nothing of a game. One that combines neither the best aspects of Australian Rules, nor those of any other sport, but rather dilutes them so greatly that even the leather-lunged commentary box spruikers struggled to maintain their well-paid enthusiasm.

That said, it would be churlish not to list the highlights of AFLX's debut in Adelaide on Thursday night. So, in order, here they are:

1. The final siren.
Otherwise from just the second game of AFLX, it became apparent this ill-conceived and hopefully short-lived experiment has only one thing in common with the real game — Collingwood can't make the finals.

We were promised AFLX was the format that would make the game accessible to a vast international audience that, deprived of the game they play in Wangaratta, has only the meagre talents of Cristiano Ronaldo or Tom Brady to occupy their footballing hours.

AFLX would not only raise awareness of Aussie Rules in these heathen lands, it would allow said heathens to play this modified version of a game that had not yet heard of on their rectangular fields and in their local parks.

Crocodile Dundee 2, uranium, Air Supply and now AFLX. Can Australia do any more for humankind?
But as night one in Adelaide quickly demonstrated, AFLX will not ''take AFL to the world''.

It will take a version of the game that mostly entails players running up and down the field in something closely approximating a bog standard low pressure training drill to New Zealand for an experimental trial ... if it lasts that long.

Of course, a bog standard low-pressure training drill has the added attraction of a red-faced coach standing in the middle of the ground screaming obscenities as well as the considerable consolation the players would soon do something more entertaining, like spray each other with water bottles.
We can't say we weren't warned. AFL club fitness staff had told us they weren't too concerned about injuries because players did something similar to AFLX during most training sessions.

Which begs the question: Who at AFL thought a virtual training drill would be an attractive, prime-time TV sport when usually only diehard fans, autograph hounds and dog walkers turn up to watch this hamstring stretching?

The smaller rectangular ground would be, we were told, perfect for the seven-a-side game, allowing a free-flowing demonstration of the game's great skills and hard-running aerobic athletes. (Oh, and the use of ''soccer'' grounds was definitely not a land grab for facilities currently being used by football. Oh no!)

Instead, the reduced dimensions and team sizes merely created a tedious demonstration of how meaningless any football code becomes when the essential battle for possession and territory is removed — or, in the case of AFLX, the territory itself is removed.

In that regard, you might as well play AFLX on a ping-pong table and make it ''ideal for indoor use'' too, so ludicrously quick was the transition from (notional) defence to attack.

A basketball guard dribbling up the floor without pressure is one thing. An AFL defender eating up half the playing field while attracting as much interest from the opposition as a sausage roll at a Vegan picnic is an abandonment of the game's greatest fundamental.

Collingwood captain Scott Pendlebury was torched on social media after tweeting before the first AFLX game: ''Who's looking forward to footy being back on the screens tonight?''

It turns out Pendlebury's great sin was not to forget the AFLW had started two weeks ago. It was to suggest that AFLX in any way, shape or form deserved the title ''footy''.

The reflexive condemnation of Pendlebury's faux pas was over the top. However, AFLW players can feel justifiably miffed that the game's charisma-free new cousin was allowed to rob their second season of some media oxygen.

It was hard enough for AFLW to come straight after the conclusion of the Australian Open tennis. It did not need the AFL introducing a ''game'' that robbed it of attention and — even worse — inspired the patronising assertion that ''this could be a great game for women to play''.

This was just one of the pre-packaged claims uttered by the TV spruikers whose enthusiasm for AFLX was only slightly less transparent than that of the North Korean cheerleaders for ice hockey and luge. Particularly when a player attempted to score a long range goal cynically named for a ubiquitous iced confection.

''Great game for the kids'', ''Will be the ideal game to be played in the park'' and — yes — ''A great advertisement for the game overseas'' were the kinds of inanities perpetrated on those who watched to the anticlimactic end.

Surely only happy cricket executives will have lasted that long. They will have been reassured the AFL, despite its slavishly devoted media, cannot dominate every inch of the disputed late summer months, let alone every inch of Australian sporting turf. At least not with this soulless dross.
About the best that can be said of AFLX is that it will soon become another quirky addition to the AFL's history alongside Angry Anderson in a Batmobile, Warwick Capper's singing career and Richmond winning a premiership.
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Re: AFLX

Postby Dogwatcher » Fri Feb 16, 2018 8:04 am

I may be considered Xist, but it was footy with all the good parts removed. Long kicks, high marks, big bumps and tackles all but missing.
They have actually taken the X factor out of Aussie rules.
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Re: AFLX

Postby Magellan » Fri Feb 16, 2018 8:13 am

Dogwatcher wrote:I may be considered Xist, but it was footy with all the good parts removed. Long kicks, high marks, big bumps and tackles all but missing.
They have actually taken the X factor out of Aussie rules.

More Ex-AFL that the other way around, one might say.
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Re: AFLX

Postby Feenix » Fri Feb 16, 2018 8:32 am

I went to Hindmarsh to check it out. It was terrible, there was nothing to get Xcited about. All I was thinking was this would be a good training drill for local footy teams to practice their short kicking.
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