⚡MINI: The New AFL Wildcard Round INFURIATES Max! 😡

The new AFL wildcard round has been announced and Max absolutely hates it.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Let's talk some footy please. The AFL is expanding with
their finals. If you haven't seen, they're doing a wild
card round now, which is taking a leaf out of
the American books. So as it stands, let me explain
this for you, Adelaide. Top eight makes the finals, right,

(00:30):
That's what it's always been. Next year, top ten play finals.
So you've got an extra two teams playing, and they're
going to put that's It's just like so dumb. I
hate it infuriates me so much. At the moment, we've
got four weeks of finals. We're gonna have five weeks
of finals. What they're gonna do is they're going to
add an extra week on the front end in the
buy which the AFL made like it's a buye of

(00:53):
their own, choosing seventh will play tenth, eighth will play ninth. Confused,
two extra teams make the finals is what you have
to know, Okay, And I think that is.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Why so boring? Why is it boring or bad?

Speaker 1 (01:07):
The AFL has brought this in four one reason they
say it's for a few reasons.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Oh, it's good for the fans. You get more teams
in the finals.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Everybody's playing for a better chance to still make it
in September. They brought it in for money because they
get two extra cutthroat finals. They get two extra days
of Channel seven broadcast rights Foxtel games, two extra days
of one hundred thousand people at the MCG. If Melbourne
teams make it. What it does is it dilutes the finals.

(01:36):
It means that you have teams making it.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
This year. The team that finished tenth.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Was fairly after I mean your tenth was fairly out,
not that good. You have over half the competition now
making the finals. You play for twenty four weeks, twenty
five weeks just to get there, and now it's like
a lot of teams are actually making the finals.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Here, so they're doing what they do in primary school
and everyone's a winner and no one gets a place.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
It's sort of getting a little bit that way. But
if you're like, you're a be powerboy, and if the
power are tenth and.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Its finals don't deserve to make the finals, so you're
happy for them to be scratched.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
At that point, you don't deserve to make it. And
here's the right.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
So if you finish ninth and tenth, you will never
win the Grand Final anyway, even in this new system,
it is I reckon one team is maybe two teams
have won it from eighth. No one's ever won it
from seventh. No one's going to win it from ninth,
no one even bother going that far ahead, because it's
the chance, you know, it's the dream where in the
finals where a chance. But that won't happen because you

(02:30):
have to play an extra week at the start than
those teams that finish at the top, they've all got
the week off, and then you still have to go
through the entire normal gauntlet. You have to play five
games of football to win the flag if you finish
in tenth.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Are you the only person that's upset about this or
the other people who care about.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
I FL Are they everyone's like your American American afying it?

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Do they do that?

Speaker 2 (02:50):
There? Do they? So?

Speaker 1 (02:50):
They have a wild card round in the NFL. But
the thing is in the NFL they've got thirty two teams.
But typically if your teams at say twelfth on the ladder,
at a certain point in the season, you go, oh,
that's it, we're done for finals.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
There's still a chance because if they can get up
to tenth.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
For exactly, you take away hope from people.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
That's what they'll say. That's what I say. That's only
going to be a good thing.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
No, because you've got hope to finish tenth and then
go and get rolled by seventh. And even if you
do win, you'll get rolled the week after and you
have to play five weeks of football.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
You're looking at it class half full. You're being very negative.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
These people, these people who are tenth, potentially there has
to be some chance that they could win the Grand Final, like.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
The smallest number. Yeah, but it's still a chance. Keeps
the fans in a bit longer. No, you're incorrect. It's
not going to happen.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
If you finish tenth next year and you're excited about
making the finals, enjoy it for maybe.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Two weeks because you will lose. No, you will not win.
We're making him more angry, but I don't think it
is at all.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
You're better off being worse so you get a higher
draft pick than being stuck in mediocrity at tenth hoping
to scrape into finals.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
I think they should do fifteen.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
I reckon they should get rid of the final system
altogether and just everyone play each other.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
One time and they just get a participation. Everyone just
has we won't keep scores. Let's not keep scores everyone
and have a guy. As long as we're still getting
broadcast revenue.