POLL: Do you want AFLX to fail?

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Do you want AFLX to fail in Australia?

Yes
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55%
No
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45%
 
Total votes: 51

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Post: # 1711341Post Numpty »

iwantmeseats wrote:Utterly ridiculous concept with no purpose to it. AFL football WILL NEVER be a "thing" overseas, no matter how bad the imbeciles at HQ want it to be.
Fake news!!! :twisted: AFLX-rated is the best deal ever, believe me! I will be there with my great friends Rob Porter, Billy Bush and Luciano Pavarotti. There will be so much winning! Believe me! #makingthex-ratinggreatagain


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Post: # 1711374Post chook23 »

What a load of rubbish.......

it has failed already

Commentators and gil trying pump it up makes it even worse to watch


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Post: # 1711375Post footynut »

Wow... even worse than I thought it would be!!!


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Post: # 1711376Post chook23 »

silver ball a huge colour mistake..........dickheads afl


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Post: # 1711377Post mr six o'clock »

They called it AFLX because AFL SHITE was already taken .



Can't wait to watch the saints play :shock:
Setting the vcr now.


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Post: # 1711378Post Jacks Back »

It's the type of game where I'll be only really watching the Saints play as I really don't give a stuff about the other teams.

I think if we're in it we might as well try and win it as we do have a lot of novelty trophies in our cabinet.


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Post: # 1711379Post Jacks Back »

Interesting to see Geelong & Adelaide in the "grand final" - two of the higher, more successful, teams.

GO SAINTS!


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Post: # 1711380Post Drake Huggins »

Having watched tonight, I'd say, "who cares?"


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Post: # 1711383Post Jacks Back »

Drake Huggins wrote:Having watched tonight, I'd say, "who cares?"
I'd say your not emotionally invested in other clubs and players, and neither am I. Once our guys are out there (8:04pm v Essendon and 9pm v Hawthorn) you might at least be partially interested. I know I will be.


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Post: # 1711384Post SaintPav »

Adelaide are the inaugural AFLX Premiers and most teams haven't even played a game.

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Post: # 1711385Post SaintPav »

Drake Huggins wrote:Having watched tonight, I'd say, "who cares?"
The AFL treats its fans like infants, doesn't it?


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Post: # 1711386Post st.byron »

Richard Hinds' writes, "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." He goes on to say, "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."



Enough said.


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Post: # 1711387Post asiu »

yea , read that.

quite the serve


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Post: # 1711388Post samoht »

I think this 7-man-a-side idea works better with rugby - you no longer have an impenetrable wall of players blocking, and it frees the game up.
Makes rugby more of a spectacle (it might convert people to it).. maybe it would work with soccer too?
I think this is where the threat may be (to traditional AFL) .. if there is any?

AFL is quite free-flowing, anyway - and doesn’t really benefit from it.


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Post: # 1711389Post desertsaint »

do we really want to win it and place a big ugly plastic X in our trophy cabinet?


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Post: # 1711390Post desertsaint »

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a thing of beauty - oh look - they've scripted the winners already anyway.


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Post: # 1711391Post saynta »

SaintPav wrote:Adelaide are the inaugural AFLX Premiers and most teams haven't even played a game.

:roll:

I thought it was rubbish and turned it off and watched "I'm a fool, get me outa here." instead.


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Post: # 1711392Post Enrico_Misso »

SaintPav wrote:Adelaide are the inaugural AFLX Premiers and most teams haven't even played a game.

:roll:
How does that work?
Are there going to be 3 premiers?


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Post: # 1711393Post Sainternist »

Scollop wrote:
Sainternist wrote:I'm yet to watch a game of it, but I'm not liking what I see so far. Keep Mickey Mouse out of our great game!
ffs. how can you not like it if you are "yet to watch a game of it"? Typical negativity from some on here is so boring. The game is always evolving. The players are all professional athletes and the tactics and coaching is so much more complex than it was in the60's and 70's, but I have a feeling that with the format of AFLX we'll get to see more skills like we used to. It's not quite going to be kick to kick and take speccies but it'll bring back an element of those traditional skills imo

I love a contest and I love the defensive aspect of the game, however I think this could help to create a different look for the AFL and for fans who are sick and tired of seeing continuous stoppages with 20 players bunched up within a 10 metre radius
You obviously like gimmicks. Enjoy your Zooper Dooper sugar fix!!

P.S. Don't get too high on all that sugar, you might come crashing down before the real season begins ;)


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Post: # 1711395Post resaintlee »

A bit like watching the older high school kids playing a scratch match on their confined play area during lunchtime as a step up from kick to kick


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Post: # 1711397Post parkeysainter »

I think it will be good to see the Saints in action tonight even though the game is pretty boring in itself.

Super Dooper goal and silver footies...fairdinkum.


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Post: # 1711398Post bigcarl »

Wonder who will be the first to kick a zooter.


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Post: # 1711400Post Numpty »

? ? ? wrote:I think it will be good to see the Saints in action tonight even though the game is pretty boring in itself.

Super Dooper goal and silver footies...fairdinkum.
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Post: # 1711402Post degruch »

Enrico_Misso wrote:
SaintPav wrote:Adelaide are the inaugural AFLX Premiers and most teams haven't even played a game.

:roll:
How does that work?
Are there going to be 3 premiers?
...and everyone else gets a Participation Trophy, which looks much the same as the 3 Premiers Trophies, as every participant is a winner?


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Post: # 1711408Post Drake Huggins »

I didn't want it to fail until i watched it last night. Now i think it's best to lock it in the same room as Hawthorn's blue, brown and gold preseason monstrosity , our attempts to play in NZ, and Graham Teasedale's brown velvet tuxedo. It was like watching training. I'd like to know what our resident track watcher, Tony74 thinks. Would you be able to tell the difference between AFLX and a morning of drills at Seaford? Still, like the desperate footy tragic I am, I'll be watching the saints tonight.


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