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AFLX

Will it be any good?

  • Yes

    Votes: 14 13.3%
  • No

    Votes: 50 47.6%
  • Undecided

    Votes: 21 20.0%
  • Cheese Sandwich

    Votes: 28 26.7%

  • Total voters
    105
TJsFurrow said:
I’m not a hater. I like new stuff and I’m a believer in growing the game overseas or interstate. But it was kind of sh!te. Luckily, I’ve come up with a few tweaks to soup it up a bit:

- Umpires are clogging the TV view. Let’s put them in a blimp. Instead of throwing the ball up they could just hover over the middle and drop it. They could make decisions from an SMS machine in their dirigible. Interactive. We could all be blimpires.

- Turn the lights out for 10 seconds at random moments.

- All fans could be given a gun on entry. Nothing life threatening - something between a low powered air rifle and a high powered nerf gun. Three pellets each. Choose wisely.

- If the footy goes into the crowd, the fan can kick/handpass/throw it to any player they choose and play continues (particularly pleased with this one).

- Padded walls instead of a boundary line. Checking. Awesome.

- The AFL boys eat up the distance too easily, so they should play with a half-deflated ball. Or a possum skin.

- Powerplays: This could be interesting. Teams could choose a two-minute block when their scores are worth double. Or maybe the other team have to play barefoot. Or handball only (bring on speedsters).

- Goal posts should be giant pinball thingies where the ball bounces off them at speed and makes a cool noise.

All it needs is a few tweaks.
On powerplays. I'd have one where you get to choose a player from the opposition team whom must sit out for 5mins, and choose a person from the crowd that must play for 5mins as a replacement for the opposition player (most likely the 150kg bloke in the front row devouring a pie, hot dog and super sized coke). It means something for everyone. Even fat, lazy, totally unathletic subjects get their moment in the sun. Win/win for everyone ;D
 
Panthera Tigris said:
On powerplays. I'd have one where you get to choose a player from the opposition team whom must sit out for 5mins, and choose a person from the crowd that must play for 5mins as a replacement for the opposition player (most likely the 150kg bloke in the front row devouring a pie, hot dog and super sized coke). It means something for everyone. Even fat, lazy, totally unathletic subjects get their moment in the sun. Win/win for everyone ;D

Good idea but you haven't thunk this one through enough. We could have Celebrity Fan Power Plays. Out Dustin Martin, in Mick Molloy. Out Patrick Dangerfield, in Steve Bracks. Out Buddy Franklin, in Ita Buttrose.

It would be epic.
 
It's *smile* but the changes I'd make are
- play on after an uncontested mark
- make the ground a bit bigger
- get rid of the behind posts
- one point for a goal and 2 for a zooper goal
- don't call it a zooper goal
 
Couldn’t be more excited about the potential here. Just wait, in 5 years time this is all we’ll be talking about.




[edit] sorry thought this was the Mourice Rioli Jr thread.
 
Did they play something last night?
Someone posted that the Crowbaits won the X factor Granny, so happy for them, they won a consolation prize. Hope Tex starred, he was looking a bit down hearted not so long ago.
 
Grow the game overseas , give me a break .It will never ever happen so get over it and instead of producing this *smile* put the $$$ to junior clubs for development ...
Jeez Tassie football is dying there help them ....
 
Harry said:
It's sh!t but the changes I'd make are
- play on after an uncontested mark
- make the ground a bit bigger
- get rid of the behind posts
- one point for a goal and 2 for a zooper goal
- don't call it a zooper goal

I agree with the 'Zooper' term. (I know its sponsorship)
Why not a 'stiffy' goal?
 
I'm enjoying the AFLX tonight. It's fast open footy using the skills of foot passing and creative loose man play. There is tackling and contested ball.

Then I remembered you Victorians are like the Poms always wingeing about anything different. If the game was run by you backward Victorian based fans we'd still be watching tribal VFL football and eventually see our great game disappear into obscurity.
 
craig said:
Silver Balls have been given the arse if i heard correctly.

What! That was the only reason I was watching.
Fully enjoyed not knowing where the ball was.
 
Some Melbourne player just reffered to the "Melbourne Person". Talk about a cheap ripoff. It's the Richmond Man...
 
Tigers of Old said:
Has Australian Rules finally jumped the shark? Tiges win the flag & the footy world has gone mad.

I reckon you might be on the mark mate re - jumping the shark.
 
fitchy86 said:
Some Melbourne player just reffered to the "Melbourne Person". Talk about a cheap ripoff. It's the Richmond Man...

He only said it cause he couldn't pronounce "sommelier".
 
Watched the first 5 mins of the Hawks-Dees game and felt like they missed one cool feature.

Leave the soccer goal in (10 points) and each team has a goalie.
6 pts for a zooper and 3 for an over (Gaelic footy style).

All the fields around the world have a soccer net and it would change the offensive side of the game.
Same amount of players but one less midfielder.
All of the sudden the 40 meter goals have to travel 43m through the air or the goalie jumps up and stops it.
One goalie staying home means all those crappy round the body chips now have to go higher to score.
And then if you get an open player running in he can decide to go over for the easy goal or go for the net and beat the goalie. That is always the best part of the International Series or Gaelic games.

Best of all, if playing around the world now you just add 2 witches hats for the behind posts (or scrap the behinds all together) and they can use the soccer posts already there and they just judge the overs like in the old days at school when you used your school bag or jumpers.

I think there would be plenty of Aussies playing soccer around the world who could convince their team to play this for 10 mins at training to mix things up for some fun.