It's official - Dubai game gets NAB Cup status

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It's official - Dubai game gets NAB Cup status

Authored by: Ash Nugent
on Wednesday, October 17 2007 @ 12:10 pm ACST

In the past the AFL preseason has often not been taken seriously by clubs and as an incentive, greater prizemoney is now awarded to the winner (and I believe a bonus on top of this if both the preseason and the season proper are won by the same club). Hopefully by awarding these 'Feature games' preseason status the clubs will take them more seriously and security will prevent your Aussie larrikin from streaking, causing a scene etc. - after all whilst the majority of the crowd will be Aussies, we want to reach the locals with our game, and some parts of our culture aren't appreciated elsewhere.

Personally I'm not sure if I'm a fan of the preseason, at least in its current state. Even with the greater prizemoney there needs to be a greater incentive - something drastic like awarding a high draft pick to the winner. Then again...that could backfire with Carlton being recent preseason premiers and season proper wooden spooners! Perhaps they could make every week feature matches. Week one overseas, week two country Australia and week three small cities (Newcastle, Cairns, Darwin etc.). There would be no tournament as such and money would be awarded to each club, depending on the number of wins they had and how convincing they were.

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