Here we are, approaching Round 6. We have an eighteen-team competition staged over twenty-four weeks. And eighteen — OK, for the purists, seventeen — doesn’t go into twenty-four.
Yes folks, it’s now official. The AFL’s fixture is unbalanced and some come out of it better than others. Alistair Clarkson has confirmed our worst fears — the Hawks have had a really tough start to the year and will end up having played lots of good teams twice.
And in other surprise news, cosmologists have forecast that the sun will rise in the east tomorrow, the Pope is allegedly a Catholic, and West Coast and Freo have to travel across the Nullabor roughly twice each fortnight (there and back).
The Age’s Jon Pierik, having nothing better to write, tells us that the poor old Tigers have had a tough run too.
We could have a fairer home and away season. Revive the ‘Roys, relocate the Swans back to South and cut those silly interstate expansion teams loose. Then, with only twelve teams, we could play each other twice — home and away! — in a twenty-two week season.
There is much about that old suburban VFL that AussieRulesBlog loved, but by and large the expanded AFL has been good for the game and good for spectators — aside from Ned Kelly running the catering concessions.
Interestingly, it used to be thought back in the VFL days that the Cats had an advantage because they travelled up to Melbourne every second week! So, you Eagles! Stick that in your pipes and smoke it! ;-)
Can we just get over this nonsense quickly?
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