I am sitting at Sydney Airport after last night's NRL Grand Final and was thinking.
Why not have a match between VFL Premiers and SANFL Premiers as a curtain raiser on AFL Grand Final Day.
What are everyone's thought's on this?
I am sitting at Sydney Airport after last night's NRL Grand Final and was thinking.
Why not have a match between VFL Premiers and SANFL Premiers as a curtain raiser on AFL Grand Final Day.
What are everyone's thought's on this?
Those days are well gone Robbo.
The bulk of them would be still on the turps.
The AFL don't want any type of distraction to their beloved pre match "entertainment".
Do you know why the SANFL grand final was held this year a week before the AFL instead of the traditional week later. ??
I wondered the same thing Digs.. Maybe to align it with AFL sseason for the Crows and Powers benefit?
I doubt it would work as a curtain raiser, and it would rule out supporters attending too.
If the Foxtel Cup gets moved into pre-season, maybe the two teams could meet then?
For the VFL only clubs it would have appeal (assuming there was a decent prize).
But I don't think the western bulldogs reserves would be that excited about postponing mad Monday for another week. Plus they have a minimum amount of "preseason" time off, and another week of footy would be another week before they could get the afl players back in training.
I reckon it would take the gloss off a premiership win, if you got beat the following week against the SANFL side) and vice versa for them.
It would be a mickey mouse game, like when the two conferences of the NEAFL play off the week after their GFs. I had a mate who was involved and said they partied for three days straight then had a light kick around before playing the next week and couldn't have really cared if they won.