09-09-2018, 12:41 AM
(09-08-2018, 07:00 AM)Lods link Wrote:No offence Kruddler because I know you're a big fan of the American systems for their major sports.
I just have a feeling there may start to be some backlash to the 'Americanisation' of our game.
Draft, Free Agency....now conferencing.
Does any of it make the game better.
Does any of it make it more equal.
I'm not sure....but I'm starting to question it.
Having early draft selections certainly hasn't helped us a great deal.
Even picking first rounders up from other clubs has been hit and miss
It's a complicated situation with Northern teams struggling to retain players.
As quick as the initial contract period ends many look for a move home.
I can't see the Gold Coast surviving in their present form.
Free Agency is a mess.
Conferencing presents problems because of the lack of uniformity in the geographical nature of team's locations.
How do you conference with so many teams located in one city.
What criteria do you use?
OK, a bit to go through here.
Firstly, its not clear from your post if you noticed the 'w' at the end of the AFL there. Just want to make sure that was noticed.
Secondly, the AFLs 'americanised system' does not work because we have half-ar$ed it. We take bits and pieces of it, but ignore other parts. Its no wonder the system doesn't hold up.
Its like trying to copy the car as a mode of transport. You take the engine, you take the chassis, you take the wheels....but you don't take a gas tank.
How is that 'car' going to work as a system? It won't.
Thirdly, Our game is unique, but running competitions and fairness is far from unique. Being stuck in our own system simply because it is our own does not mean its the best system for us. Honestly, that kind of logic is why America still use the imperial system. A better (metric) system has come along, but we like what we have and thats that. *fingers in ears*
Finally, the criteria used for the conferences is IMO by far the biggest issue with implementing the system in AFL. However, AFLW doesn't have such history, and implementing it NOW would be a lot easier to do than with the AFL.