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The real Australian Football prize is the Premiership Plate. FFA has to rethink the HAL finals and bring them into a working relationship with the ACL.
What is currently known as the Championship finals are too long, with the six teams who qualify.
It needs to be culled down to a workable unit of a four team playoff final series, with the reward being the second prized ACL’s spot that exclude the Prem-Plate winners, who should be known as the real Champions with no further reason to be involved in the playoffs for the second ACL spot.
As it is currently, this year’s end of season is overly congested, with the six team final playoffs and the ACL starting up at the same time.
Something has to give.
The finals are a cultural importance to Australian Football. That said, however, let’s get real about it and acknowledge that the ACL is far more important, which every HAL team should aspire to win.
The Premiership Plate is rightly rewarded, with the automatic qualification into ACL.
FFA should be bold enough to cull the end of season finals from six to four. The next best four teams should play out for the second ACL prized spot in an ACL-place Final.
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