Mythical Creature wrote:magpieeagle wrote:Talking to a little bird today, 1 monition being talked about, depending on a SANFL announcement Monday, will possibly a July start, After starting training mid June, playing each other once then September finals as not to clash with cricket, apparently some clubs are struggling financially and maybe unable to host home games .
How can any club be struggling financially? Yes, there is power to pay but there is no real expenses.
How is playing away games cheaper and going to financially save clubs.
This part makes no sense to me.
Totally agree re. clubs struggling financially.
As it stands, clubs should have had virtually no outgoing expenses, unless they employ people.
Surely that doesn’t happen in the APFL?
Pending government announcements, I’m hoping the season gets going in early/mid-June.
Obviously this depends on when clubs are allowed to start training, although I’m optimistically expecting to be able to start next week week.
I’m also assuming that there’ll be guidelines set out by the state government as to when larger events (up to 500-1000 people) will be able to take place as well, which will be the real indicator as to when footy seasons can begin.
Will be very interesting to see how many games the APFL want to fit into the season as well - an example, if we had everyone play each other twice and the season started June 13th, we’d be done by the last week of September if Saturday/Sunday finals were played.
This would also mean 14 matches without any byes though, which may be a stretch.
Another, more interesting way to go would be that everyone plays each other once, then the competition split into 2 groups based on their ladder placing (Group A 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th. Group B 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th) and everyone plays each other within their group. From there, the top team in each group plays the second team in the opposing group and the winners play off in the grand final.
This would ensure that everyone plays each other once in the initial round, and can only play a team twice (unless 2 teams from the same group meet in the GF), as well as giving every team 10 regular season games and making room for a bye at some point during the season.
Certainly an out of the box idea, but i think it’s a great opportunity to do something different for a year to keep things interesting in what will most likely be a shortened season.