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7-a-side debuts in Sydney women's league

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Sunday, March 21 2010 @ 12:28 am ACDT

To summarise the kinds of ideas we've floated as the new NAB Cup:

- NAB Cup 9s
- lightning tournament style
- maybe several nights of matches at several grounds
- short games
- 9-a-side on smaller ground (or could trial full field say 14-a-side)
- multiple matches at one ground in a given night
- whole tournament last 2 weeks instead of usual NAB Cup 4 weeks
- 1 week of normal 18s trial games

Leaves the pre-season 1 week shorter and far less intensive, and multiple short matches for each side it still leaves playing some of the nights at regional venues as viable. Chuck in 9 point supergoals, golden goal for draws, maybe 2x15 min halves, maybe 1 "burst mode" for each team per game in which you can send on 1 extra player for 5 minutes (and the other team can't copy in the same 5 mins), some fireworks etc and you've got the Aussie Rules version of Twenty20 cricket. Gimmicky, but a bit of fun and draws attention to reduced player number formats.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

7-a-side debuts in Sydney women's league

Authored by: Joel Adin Porretta
on Monday, March 22 2010 @ 09:45 am ACDT

Some of those ideas sound alright Brett but I don't think that fireworks or player bursts will make it to football. The reason being is because our game unlike many is a game built on not only history but tradition also and in my opinion it wouldn't seem right to stray away of tradition.

I do like the idea of smaller forms of the game particularly 9 a side. Another one which I like but isn't used anymore is 12 a side which was used by towns in the Victorian Highcountry back during the gold era due to the lack of size for some (or many) of the grounds.

I'm not exactly sure that smaller forms of the game will ever make to the professional level but I think they could greatly help those country towns that are unfortunate enough not to have a club.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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