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NEAFL to reshape Aussie Rules second tier landscape

Authored by: Mister Football
on Thursday, November 11 2010 @ 09:31 pm ACDT

Brett

If you go to the AFL site, there's a comprehensive description of how it's structured, and it is being designed to decrease travel costs.

There are two conferences:
Northern conference comprises 10 teams: Lions reserves, Suns reserves, NT and 7 QAFL teams.
Eastern conference comprises 7 teams: all five ACTAFL teams, GWS reserves and Swans reserves.

16 rounds include respective conferences playing each other. A further four rounds are dedicated to the two AFL reserves teams from each conference playing each other twice, i.e. cross conference. It's only during these four rounds that cross-conference games will occur between the other teams, so as you can seem they are focusing on minimising travel.

Very innovative approach all round.

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Mister Football

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Mister Football

NEAFL to reshape Aussie Rules second tier landscape

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Thursday, November 11 2010 @ 10:11 pm ACDT

Yeah I agree they've tried to reduce it, as you say, quite innovative. Still not cheap I bet, but a lot of money is going in to those areas already so I would guess it would come out of that. Yep the structure is laid out here:

http://www.afl.com.au/development/sta...fault.aspx

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

NEAFL to reshape Aussie Rules second tier landscape

Authored by: Michael Christiansen
on Friday, November 12 2010 @ 07:47 am ACDT

I guess the most obvious omission is not one team from the Sydney comps. Not even a Pennant Hills.
Does this mean the best young players from Sydney leagues will be 'drafted' into Canberra teams? That's where you'd want them 'developing'.
I can only presume that 10 and 7 in the conferences, that, there might be a desire in future to even it out at 10 apiece, so, including a couple of the stand out Sydney teams,
then, we'll have a bit of a template for a functioning AFL 2 conference 20 team league,
in readiness for Tas19 and either WA20, NQ/PNG20 or ACT/NZ20 joining the league????

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

NEAFL to reshape Aussie Rules second tier landscape

Authored by: Michael Christiansen
on Friday, November 12 2010 @ 07:55 am ACDT

The other aspect to this - in the Herald Sun, I found the NEAFL mentioned about 3/4s into an article about "Jack (Anthony) going to the Dockers".

Does not the Herald-Sun regard the NEAFL as a significant story?? At least big enough for it's own headline??

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

NEAFL to reshape Aussie Rules second tier landscape

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Friday, November 12 2010 @ 06:13 pm ACDT

Yeah the lack of teams from the Sydney league is a bit of an indictment of that comp which you would hope has been improving over the last 10 years. I guess something had to be done so yeah hopefully they can step up 2 or 3 sides to join the NEAFL in a few years.

I agree, down the track I'd expect FNQ (Cairns and Townsville) to join. And a dream for us certainly has to be a PNG side joining one day, and why not NZ. Tassie recently switched to a statewide league again. I'd love to see Tassie join the AFL proper by 2020 and NZ and PNG after that. PNG would need a lot of economic progress before then but it's a nice goal.

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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

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