Carlton Supporters Club

So what you're saying is given where all the teams are currently.

We would play against GC, Freo, Adelaide, St. Kilda, Brisbane, Bulldogs twice....as well as 2 new teams twice.

But wouldn't play against Collingwood or Richmond at all....and Essendon just sneak into the bottom section, but would most likely go up the next year meaning that we wouldn't play any of the other big 4 (including traditionals Melbourne, Hawthorn and Geelong).

Yeah, nah.

Not many games for me to get excited about seeing. With teams like that our gate takings would fall through the floor as well as interest in the team. $'s would dry up. We hand back the keys.

Good plan 

The draw is easy, everyone plays eachother twice......for a total of 38 games?

Why not just have the current system and do the same thing and end up with 34 games?

The reason why is that its too many games, the AFL, players and every man and his dog doesn't want that many games.

So on that point alone, the rest of the 'system' is irrelevent. It won't work.

Players want less games.
Supporters want less bias.
AFL want more attractive football.

Thus, my proposed system.

You guys who want a relegation will find a hell of a lot more opposition to the idea than what i've suggested.
I'm not sure that there is any benefits either.

I can see pretty quickly that teams will come and go...and by that i mean from the entire competition Fitzroy style.

The AFL want equilization, not segregation.

Under my system, all i'm doing is creating a fair draw that cannot be altered by the powers that be to suit their agenda.

You would have to overhaul the player system too.

Imagine Patrick Cripps languishing in Division 2?

One major difference between AFL and EPL is 100's of millions of people interested in it.

AFL is struggling from saturation now, more games and teams is probably not ideal.

Initially, sure.

Long term? No hope.

How many kids are going to grow up supporting Div 2 sides. Especially when they wouldn't get as much (if any) air time by comparison.

Under 1 of my original suggestions i eluded to earlier, i suggested the same addition of those 2 teams.

It would make the whole conference/division system a million times easier to implement, understand and manipulate to give better results.

Problem with the 2 up and 2 down type scenario is the salary cap, and retention of players from the lower clubs.

If we were going to copy another competition,  I'd rather copy the English Premier League.

Play each team twice home and away.  At the end of a 34 game season you have your Premier.

Most consistent team wins the league.

Abletts come with a lot of mental baggage.

The old 'if you're not first you're last' mantra.

Abbott has an uncanny resemblance to Hitler's secretary,  Martin Bormann.