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AFLX: What is it, when is it and how to watch it?

The AFL’s flashy new short-form game is set to get underway in February, with all clubs participating in the format over three days from the 15th-17th.

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New rules and a new field will be used in an effort to bring more fans to footy, here’s everything you need to know about AFLX 2018.

What are the rules?

  • The games will be played on rectangular fields, 100-120m x 60-70m in size. This allows AFLX to be played in stadiums configured for soccer or rugby.

  • Seven players on the field per side with three substitutes. Teams can make as many interchanges as they like. Two players must start in both the defensive and forward 40m arcs, while three start in the middle third of the pitch.

  • 2 x 10 minute halves with no time on.

  • 10 points for a supergoal kicked from outside the 40m arc.

  • Last touch out of bounds = free kick against.

  • All scores result in a kick-in.

  • All teams will be broken up into three events, battling it out in a pre-pre-season showcase at various venues around the country.

Hindmarsh Stadium and Allianz Stadium will host the new format in Adelaide and Sydney respectively.

Thursday, February 15 - Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide

WHO WHEN

Port Adelaide v Geelong Cats 6:10pm
Adelaide Crows v Collingwood 6:38pm
Geelong Cats v Fremantle 7:06pm
West Coast Eagles v Adelaide Crows 7:34pm
Fremantle v Port Adelaide 8:02pm
Collingwood v West Coast Eagles 8:30pm
Grand Final 9:03pm

Friday, February 16 - Etihad Stadium, Melbourne

WHO WHEN

Carlton v Melbourne 6.40pm
Hawthorn v Essendon 7.08pm
North Melbourne v Carlton 7.36pm
Essendon v St Kilda 8.04pm
Melbourne v North Melbourne 8.32pm
St Kilda v Hawthorn 9.00pm
Grand Final 9.33pm

Saturday, February 17 - Allianz Stadium, Sydney

WHO WHEN
GWS Giants v Richmond 4.10pm
Sydney Swans v Western Bulldogs 4.38pm
Richmond v Brisbane Lions 5.06pm
Western Bulldogs v Gold Coast Suns 5.34pm
Brisbane Lions v GWS Giants 6.02pm
Gold Coast Suns v Sydney Swans 6.30pm
Grand Final 7.03pm

How to watch

Go to the games!

Tickets are cheap as chips, with adults being hit for $15, concession $10, and kids under 12 getting in free.

The AFL is promising a day of fun for the whole family, with Big Bash-like entertainment and non-stop action.

Fans can expect "fireworks, music DJs, in-game commentary, roving performers, kids and family zones and giveaways." **

If you can’t get to the games, AFLX will be broadcast nationally live on the Seven Network - check your local guides as to whether it will be on 7, 7two or 7mate.

The games will also be simulcast on Fox Footy, as well as live streamed on the AFL Live app.
Who will be playing?

As yet the games are currently just an exhibition with nothing but a bit of pride on the line, so don’t expect teams to go risking all their superstars or blokes carrying injuries.

The fast-paced nature of the game should lend itself to smaller blokes, though the wide open spaces might see more one-on-one duels to give the key position players an advantage.

Squads are yet to be announced but we will be sure to see plenty of youngsters and fringe players getting a run.

** :roll_eyes:

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Fireworks

Etihad stadium

Not sure the roof has been open for a night game before?

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I’d rather watch a dog turd dry out.

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Sounds garbage

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They use to train for the season proper?

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Big Bash-like entertainment…FMD!

Will the goalposts light up when the ball hits it for a behind like the stumps do in the cricket when they’re hit?

Honestly, sports is now being catered to to bogans with the attention span of a farking gnat these days.

And they can fark off all the fireworks, Djs and loud music too.

Sport is being reduced to a soundbite now, just butchered beyond belief.

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In 20 years time I’m hoping to hear a conversation starting with “Does anyone remember that ■■■■ idea the AFL had, playing those preseason games on a soccer pitch? They scrapped it before it even ended, it was that ■■■■. Think it took place in the first year that Essendon dynasty took off and they then went on to win six flags on the trot.”

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Fixed

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So the AFL saw how cricket made a successful product by making a version of their game about the same length as an AFL game and so made an even shorter version of AFL but are putting it on in a format with a total duration longer than an AFL game?

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“Fixed”?

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Bite sized bits. For modern attention spans.

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And those other modified games apply almost the same sized field, and rules that would be easy enough to transfer. This game is going to be on a totally different field, and won’t look entirely similar.

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We’ll reduce the playing area to the size of a soccer field!
Cool. Where will we play it?
Etihad!!!

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Yeah, … but they will roll the movable seats forward, … right??

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You didn’t notice the change from 20 years to 2 years?

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And lets charge people $15 to get in even though they will be sitting around for 3 and a 1/2 hours to watch their team play for 40 minutes, in a format they don’t even know if they will like.

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Oh how painful the TV commentary will be.

  • The commentators will be extra excited so will be shouting at us constantly.
  • Commentators wont know the rules (or some the players)
  • “AFL’s version of T20 cricket” (if they don’t say this its because they have been explicitly told not to say it by AFL/CH7)
  • “whoaaaa how exciting is this Lingy?”
  • “He’s the quickest in the AFL BT”
  • “Excitement machine”
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Of course. It’s still AFL.

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If you are a frikkin club member, or even to promote memberships, members should be allowed in for free.

I wonder if AFL members get in for free?

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I’m going with a girlfriend and we’re taking a bunch of kids with us for a night out.

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