17 Round Season!

[zippadeee]

Why do they have to shorten the quarters?
Does the virus get tired after 16 minutes (+ time on)
Stuff me I'm sick to death of this bunch of incompetent w@**€rs ruining OUR game. P155 off stuff wits.

Excatly.
Corona virus has an inbuilt detonator.
It goes off at 15' 59"

 

[seven]

Dangerfeild is the biggest muppet going around.
The jerk has been campaigning for shorter quarters, shorter season for a few years.
Okay, now you got it, but your salarly is reduced by 20%. So now is throwing a complete tantrum about it.

So, you wanna work short hours but get paid the same?

 

[Tigertough1974]

Agree this is about getting through the current period. But, are you asking us to trust the idiots who run the AFL not to use this as an opportunity to shorten the game permanently? I wouldn't trust them to make me a cup of tea, let alone not wreck our great game.

If they can't get through enough H&A games, then, depending on the particular circumstances, they could go for a conference system with a final 4 in each conference and the winners play off. Again, my worry is that they would try and run it like the NFL in the USA with conferences permanently - no thanks.

DS

I agree I don't have a lot of confidence in their integrity or ability to read the room, thus hoping they leave the game alone going forward, but these are extraordinary times and im glad they are trying to get through it, just my opinion, each to their own.

 

[CarnTheTiges]

Dangerfeild is the biggest muppet going around.
The jerk has been campaigning for shorter quarters, shorter season for a few years.
Okay, now you got it, but your salarly is reduced by 20%. So now is throwing a complete tantrum about it.

So, you wanna work short hours but get paid the same?

He was all for it before this happened. He managed to handwave it away whenever anyone asked ‘If we get less football are we paying less?’ Push has come to shove and just like in the PF he’s folded.

 

[Maneevo]

I

So, Gill says:

* Games will be shortened to 16 minutes plus time on giving the AFL room to push more games into a smaller
window at the start of the season. - not sure what this really means if he declared just 17 this season.

* "We don’t know how many games we will get into this 153-game journey before we have to pause,"
- uh, 153 games?

* McLachlan said the League was still looking at pushing in more games into the opening block of the season, but
that the first four rounds of match-ups remain locked in.

"It's going to be day-by-day, but if we can accelerate it we will," he said.
- so, Rounds 1 - 4 are locked but what about the rest? Do we get a new fixture?

* Every year I created my own AFL fixture on an A3 size sheet and hang it on the wall. Now it's going to the bin.

Less than 24 hours before the round one opener between Richmond and Carlton, the League announced on Wednesday night it would be progressing with the scheduled fixture after mammoth meetings involving the AFL Commission.

But with supporters already unable to attend games indefinitely, the AFL has forecast that could extend throughout the newly shaped 17-round season.

CEO Gillon McLachlan forecast the chance of fans being unable to see their teams live as Government regulations clamp down on mass gatherings.

"It depends how this plays out, but it feels that's a possibility, isn't it?" he said.

- surely we can't be this ridiculous?

I’m sorry for the loss of your A3 fixture...

 

[TigerForce]

I’m sorry for the loss of your A3 fixture...

All that work for nothing.