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The AFL with 18 teams should have 17 rounds with every team playing every team once, sticking with Final 8. With less rounds, they can bring back State Of Origin footy – and scrap the International Rules series.
Here’s how it should work:
Every Australian state and territory should have their own team, plus a ‘Globetrotters’ team which is the best of the Overseas players. There should be three groups of three teams. One each from Pool A, B and C. Teams in each group play each other once. Each team in one group will play one home game and one away game, plus have a bye. All State of Origin Matches will be played on weekend.
Pool A (the strongest teams)
Victoria
South Australia
Western Australia
Pool B (fairly strong teams)
Tasmania
Queensland
Northern Territory
Pool C (the weaker teams)
New South Wales
Australian Capital Territory
Globetrotters (A team made out of players from the rest of the world)
The top two teams from each group progress to the next stage; the SuperGroup stage. The top team from each of the group goes into SuperGroup 1 and the second placed team goes into SuperGroup 2.
Teams in the same SuperGroup play each other once. Each team in the same Supergroup will play one home game and one away game, plus have another bye.
As soon as the SuperGroups are over, then comes the SOO finals. Which will have the three teams from SuperGroup 1 and the Top placed team from SuperGroup 2.
The format of the SOO finals should work like this: The third placed team from SuperGroup 1 play host to the top placed team from SuperGroup 2 in the SOO semi-final.
The winner of that match will play away to the second placed team from SuperGroup 1, who had automatically qualified for the SOO Preliminary final.
The SOO Final will be between the top placed team from SuperGroup 1 and the winner of the Preliminary Final. The top placed team from SuperGroup 1 will get to host the final. If a semi-final, prelim final or Grand final match is tied after normal time, extra time will be played to find a winner.
The first week of the Group Stage should be one week before the start of the AFL season. The second week of the Group Stage should be three or four weeks after the start of the AFL season.
The third week of the Group Stage should be six or seven weeks after the start of the AFL season. During the Group Stage there will be one match on Friday and Saturday night and a game on Sunday twilight.
The first week of the SuperGroup Stage should be three months after the start of the AFL season. The second week of the SuperGroup Stage should be seven or eight weeks before the start of the AFL finals. The third week of the SuperGroup Stage should be three or four weeks before the start of the AFL finals. During the SuperGroup stages there will be one Friday and Saturday night game.
The semi-final should be two weeks after the AFL Grand Final. The preliminary final should be three weeks after the AFL Grand Final.
The Grand final should be four weeks after the AFL Grand Final, and be on a Saturday Night.
The finals games will be on Saturday Night.
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