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What are the initial reactions to the mid-season AFL tournament proposal?
Can I just address some business with you? Yeah. I think as a collective, the front office audience today are laughing at the idea. Like, I've put it out there. Do you like the idea of in-season tournament, which is something that's been floated with AFL CEOs? It's laughter on the text line. People are saying, no, that's a bell and whistle. That's not required. What's been the reaction?
Mostly against. Yeah. But that's ā so there's four ā proposals for what the future looks like once tasmania comes in and i do think that's the least likely of the four but it's the sexiest one to talk about yeah there's going to be a fixture restructure and hopefully we get something that addresses the inherent inequities in it um so
The best model for an AFL Premiership season would be 20 games. It would be everyone plays each other once, which gives you 18. There'd be a gather round and a rivalry round to restage all the local derbies. And... That is the model that then includes the in-season tournament to give you the content that's required to fulfill the obligations.
But if you parked the in-season tournament, that would be the best structure, which is why... So I'm leaning toward option three, which then goes into a group stage where you play three more games against your like teams from there. And I hope we have the imagination for that. But yeah, we at one stage had... an in-season tournament, which was quite revered.
And we use the example this morning, Dermot Brereton was always introduced as five-time day, five-time night premierships because the night premierships carried some cachet. They were midweek games when I was growing up. But I don't think the current day grassroots supporter has much tolerance for the idea.
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