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Round 1 of new format AFLG a success

Authored by: Harley Vague
on Monday, June 01 2015 @ 06:00 pm ACST

Round VI of the AFLG's 9s series in Frankfurt and I got to speak to more people about the series. All were very happy and even even the sceptics were convinced. I put this down to 3 reasons.
1. This format (in the AFLG) is not a "threat" to traditional football but an important lead-in.
2. It makes for better economies of travel and catering.
3. The game itself provides for good competition across the board with teams experiencing varied opposition. It's a solid workout and blowouts are minimised.
There is one very important observation to be made. The German teams don't play 9-a-side overlaid on a 100 pitch. They play on a 120m oval. This small increase in length provides at least some chance to defend the the fast break out of the centre of the ground and reduce the regularity of scoring by sides with a strong centre contingent. IMO the numbers on the ground are not that important, indeed teams should be mutually able to vary numbers, but the minimum length should be 120m. Unfortunately we know that is not always possible or we have zero chance of removing the rugby posts to gain the extra 20m of in goal area, but we should keep this in mind where possible.

Round 1 of new format AFLG a success

Authored by: Cam Homes
on Tuesday, June 02 2015 @ 03:23 pm ACST

Thanks for the "update" Harley. Great to hear about the feelings of those involved (from the horses mouth as they say), and the "success" so far in the format.

I have kept an eye out on the scores etc. at the AFLG website over the past month and as you say there hasn't been many blow out matches. The biggest winning/losing margin matches appear to have occurred when the newcomers have come up against the "power" teams in the League(which was to be expected).
Only one team forfeit so far(a split team). Wolves have also scored a genuine win(not forfeit) and the Redbacks who copped one "pasting" have also scored a victory or 2.

Its a bit ironic when you mention that the format is not seen as a threat to "traditional" footy, when only this week we have had the Chief Football writer in South Australia Advertiser criticize the SANFL in Adelaide because they have not followed the AFL with the 50 metre penalty (pay only a 25 metre penalty).

Goes to show we still have Aussie Rules "followers" who can't think outside the box or accept adaptations for the game outside of Melbourne let alone Australia. :-)

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