I hope the 10th team wins the flag.
Tons of fun.
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So we are now the new 11thington
Belatedly-sacked fool Brian Taylor has taken to facebook, telling everyone that this stupid decision is somehow the fault of āwokeā.
Dumbest. Timeline.
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Has BT really been sacked? Thatās some own goal
B.t sacked?
I had THOUGHT he got future endeavoured at the end of the season after his long-time protector at the network got the arse. It wasnt framed as a sacking from the broadcast, more a reshuffle of deck chairs. Although admittedly I didnāt watch much footy for the last half of last season for obvious reasons, so I might have misinterpreted or misunderstood.
If Iām wrong, then Iām both sorry for spreading false hope, and deeply disappointed.
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Its going to be a 19 team competition, this needed to happen. Whatās not a good idea is the expansion of the AFL. Should of just kept it as it was. Although iām sure people said the same thing when the VFL merged lol
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Sorry to be a pedant, but itās should have not should of as so many posters write these days. Does my head in 
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Whilst I agree with the sentiments, it was a BT parody account, which admittedly can be difficult to differentiate from the genuine articleā¦
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Screw development. If everything goes right for us, 10th is within reach. All in baby!
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Yep, the position doesnāt matter now, the only key thing is that we need to be playing great footy at the end of the seasonā¦
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This change was inevitable.
It will not help parity across the league. It never will.
It will not stop teams from tanking. It never will.
But itāll make games a little more interesting towards the end of the season and the two extra āwildcardā finals will also get attention. And that equals more money at the expense of two more games leading into the finals. It totally makes financial sense.
It would be great if they just call it what it is. Which is a top 10 finals. But thereās probably some contract clauses that wonāt allow that to occur. Thatāll include player, stadium and other obscure contracts.
The weird part about all this is that a win during wildcard weekend wonāt be considered a finals win. Regardless of whether itās 7th or 8th winning or 9th or 10th winning. Itāll be discredited.
Weirdly, I think this opens up more opportunities for teams finishing 5th and 6th to progress further in finals. They will have the one week break and are a good chance to have an āeaasierā finals win leading into the next week of finals against the top 4 teams.
One thing of interestā¦
When they were reporting it during the week, it was mentioned that it gives fans more hope in making finals so they donāt ādissengageā late in the season. I then thought of how people on this forum would react if it were late in the season and we were āpushing for 10thā. The amount of shitposting in the six weeks leading up to it would be insufferable.
When making those kind of statements, they are ignoring typical forum and social media sentiment. Itāll be interesting to see if it increases game attendance during the normal season.
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Imagine finishing 8th on 13 wins and being knocked out by some plonker that finished on ten wins. Youād be filthy.
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Youād probably be Essendon
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Isnāt that for the AFL to decide?
I donāt think itās a good idea but I really donāt get the outrage. Final 8 isnāt something thatās been around forever. Itāll likely have a marginal impact on who wins the GF. If anything it gives more of an advantage to better teams. I donāt have the energy to get angry about it TBH.
Weāll henceforth be known as 11ndon
Iāll probably change my tune when we lose to 10th next year.
I meant more from fans than AFL.
AFL will count it as a win. Not sure if itāll statistically itāll be a āfinalsā win. Weāll have to wait and see how AFL tables handles the result.
They could do what the NBA do which is the statistics donāt count at all towards a player or a team. Not towards playoff records or regular season records.
Iām not expecting it to get Brownlow votes.
I doubt itāll count towards the Coleman medal.
Itās just in no-mans land because itās not called a final and itās not called a regular season game. So thereās enough of a gap for fans to overreact to things.