The AFL did a great job to even be able to have a season. Look at competitions all over the world. Soccer, NBA, tennis, even the Olympics were impacted. To suggest the AFL ruined the season is rubbish. They did the best they could under the circumstances.
This is a big miss am afraid KingKaleen - what else were they supposed to do? It was a pandemic near-unprecedented in human history - we were lucky to get any footy at all
How the AFL ruined it? They didn't choose between A) have a normal season or B) have a pandemic effected season with reduced quarters etc etc etc They did what they could to keep the season running at all in a time most sports just stopped entirely.
The 2020 season was so unique tho. We literally had like 18 days of football in a row. And the grand final was special in Brisbane. Brisbane is the only city to hold both the afl and nrl grandfinals, i wasn’t fortunate to see the afl game as it sold so fast, but I was lucky to see my panthers win their first comp since 2003. What we learned from the 2020 and 2021 seasons is nrl and afl grandfinal can and should be moved around.
@@Kaleen_YT ooooft that’s even worse :p I don’t think 2020 was a failure on the part of the afl it was a shitfight for every competition of professional sport.
Yeah, that season didn't feel right with the reduced time, it felt preseason like. I'm confused why anyone would use excuses over lockdowns as if it wasn't a badly structured season.
Brother seriously, this was all out of the AFLs control. And it shows you don’t know what you’re talking about. Firstly you said Maguire would be happy about the revenue… he literally runs channel 9 not channel 7. The afl made the product as good as they could.
Eddie McGuire has said on multiple occasions that he wants the AFL to run night grand finals. Some of it the AFL had no control over, while some of it they did, including AFLW season cancellation, night grand final and 16 minute quarters.
@@Kaleen_YT yeah but saying eddie wanted it for money is incorrect because he works for nine. Running the AFLW wouldve cost the AFL more money and wouldnt of been worth at all during those economically hard times and the night grand final was an amazing spectacle. if they had full length quarters after players had 3 months off what sort of soft tissue injury crisis would we have had?
@@harpervowles7067 The eddie maguire part you are correct on, his primary motivation was TV ratings. Gillon McLachlan regreted cancelling the AFLW, showing that the AFL did not make the right decision. The night grand final is personal opinion, almost everyone I know hated it but you can have your own opinon. The full length quarters part, you have a valid point.
The fact we had a season is a amazing. The AFL did the best they could given the circumstance. Living in Melbourne = Lockdown was sheeeit. But yeah, give the AFL. A break
Bro acting like this wasn't the only way to get the season done. Not the AFL's fault they had to change everything, lol. But their decision for a night grand final was disgraceful
everyone here defending the afl for managing the season well during a "pandemic" when it was a disgrace that the footballers were able to go to their job but the working class couldn't and their businesses shut down because of the actions of the government.
cancelling the AFLW, cutting quarters to 16 minutes and night grand finals were all extremely in the AFL's control. Gabba grand final you coul argue. I may be late to the party but I thought it was an interesting topic
@@Kaleen_YT the only thing I had a problem with was stopping the aflw. I don't have a problem with anything else. The whole country was dealing with unprecedented circumstances. At least we had football
The AFL did the best under the circumstances. Every major sports league in the world was impacted by the Covid 19 pandemic and I think the AFL did well to get through it. Also and I said this at the time you don't know that Fremantle would have won the AFLW premiership. Other teams at the time like Carlton and North Melbourne were serious contenders as well.
@@thepoliticalloser it wasn't on the same day, they can convert stadiums within 24 hours (it was done in 2012 at Stadium Australia), and it was indeed an option reported at the time.
@@urbanyouths A preliminary final is different compared to an NRL grand final. They also have other grand finals for different leagues. How could they create the NRL within the span of 12hrs?
Reading these comments some of you can't share different opinions, or think there's a timeline where opinions are no longer valid. Are any of you even Australian? Telling someone "shocking take" or the equivalent without explaining why is a shocking fucking take on anything in itself. Without putting words in mouths and all of that whatnot, what would have been easier was to resume the AFL season without hindrance, you know, never having called it off for any period of time and definitely not cutting quarters down by 4 minutes. The AFL fell victim to coronavirus propaganda but what can you expect from an organization that virtue-signals, preaches safety over freedom of choice every chance it gets and participates in American wokeism trash.
@@jamies3031 if you'd care to explain why it's a shit take, I'd be more inclined to take you seriously which is what you want by responding to this in the first place. if you aren't fluent in English, that's fine, at least give it a go.
@@jamies3031 also, AFL is Australia's cash cow franchise/business. We don't need rainbow flags in our sport but we do. You tell me that AFL's virtue-signaling and rule changes aren't intended to rake in money from people that also follow American idealism and glorify it, you know it's targeted towards younger people. The problem with following ideologies is that you never hold yourself accountable, you blame the ideology. AFL is in the business of making money, more so than ever, it just appears that they are corrupting the sport by desperately trying to achieve new standards, if you can call them standards. New standards are allowing umpires to give the opposition the ball, 50m penalties and goals whenever their feelings are hurt by a player disagreeing with their call. I'd enjoy a thorough debate about this since you disagree but you'll probably just say "shit take" and personally, at this point, I can't blame you. Have a good day, Jamie-boy.
@@CalculatedPsychoThe AFL is largely bankrolled by The Australian government, and the government wanted lockdowns. There was a 2019 recession, so all countries using The Federal reserve needed lockdowns in 2020 to reduce cash flow to stop hyperinflation. Had nothing to do with health, the state couldn't careless about peoples health.
No 1. The only reason I saw the 2020 flag in the flesh was because of covid. So there's that. 2. We are very very lucky that little virus wasnt 5-8% more deadly. 3. Is this video borderline RWNJ/antivax?
I'm Jewish, and I find you to be anti-Semitic for suggesting 1940's WWII style experimentations on innocent people was justified during the early 2020's. May have to report you to The ADC.
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No! I’m late to the video! Love the vids like always man keep it up, 1K subs incoming, and I can say I was here at, like, 100 subs!
Appreciate it. You’re a legend of the channel.
@@Kaleen_YT You’re a legend yourself.
@@LucUltraRWB hi again
The AFL did a great job to even be able to have a season. Look at competitions all over the world. Soccer, NBA, tennis, even the Olympics were impacted. To suggest the AFL ruined the season is rubbish. They did the best they could under the circumstances.
No, they ruined it by taking away 1 quarter of play time.
So the AFL failed because they stopped all games just like pretty much every other major sporting league did?
Yeah honestly there was nothing else the afl could do,
But that’s what made it bad I guess
Surely this is a piss take... Honestly can't tell
This kids just angry that he's a gold coast supporter.
The whole covid thing was a piss take
Reducing the play time by 1 quarter did ruin the spectacle. They should have just kept it the same as the other seasons.
This is a big miss am afraid KingKaleen - what else were they supposed to do? It was a pandemic near-unprecedented in human history - we were lucky to get any footy at all
Be grateful we got to have footy played during that year!
How the AFL ruined it?
They didn't choose between A) have a normal season or B) have a pandemic effected season with reduced quarters etc etc etc
They did what they could to keep the season running at all in a time most sports just stopped entirely.
Because they reduced the time by 1 quarter, when they could have keep it to the same time.
Jesus christ. This is so out of touch
The 2020 season was so unique tho. We literally had like 18 days of football in a row. And the grand final was special in Brisbane. Brisbane is the only city to hold both the afl and nrl grandfinals, i wasn’t fortunate to see the afl game as it sold so fast, but I was lucky to see my panthers win their first comp since 2003. What we learned from the 2020 and 2021 seasons is nrl and afl grandfinal can and should be moved around.
The AFL has only been around for 33 years, beginning in 1990. Before this there were state leagues including in states other than Victoria.
yes, when I said AFL I meant AFL/VFL
@laurens4561 🤓🤓nerd
The AFL is The VFL which started in 1897 just under a revised name,.
Great video, yet again. Happy Friday!
What's even worse, is that shoulder fracture Gary Ablett JR took was the injury that made him retire🫤
No he said that it was going to be his last game before the grand final
As someone from Sydney I'll never forget what covid took from us
RIP Neafl, the best comp there was 😔
Even though the grand final was played at the Gabba and was at night I still think it was a great game definitely not biased
after 2020 I stopped giving a fuck about footy, I thought that after the 2020 season it would just go downhill
Did u change the editing or did u reupload the video? Because this seems different than last time.
Haha did you watch it twice? No nothing changed. Just the title and thumbnail.
why would Eddie McGuire (channel 9) be happy about channel 7 having high ratings?
How did you edit this? That’s crazy you did amazingly!!
Thank you. Next video will have 10x better editing.
@@Kaleen_YT How is that possible?
Just gonna try and improve every video
@@Kaleen_YT nice
This guy needs more subs
6:43 What about the fact Nick Vlastuin getting a concussion by Patrick Dangerfield seconds before the Gary Ablett
In my opinion the best part of the 2020 gf was the half time performance
Sounds to me like you’re a Geelong fan mate
haha sydney actually. quite the opposite.
@@Kaleen_YT ooooft that’s even worse :p I don’t think 2020 was a failure on the part of the afl it was a shitfight for every competition of professional sport.
i was wondering why 2020 games were so low scoring
Yeah, that season didn't feel right with the reduced time, it felt preseason like. I'm confused why anyone would use excuses over lockdowns as if it wasn't a badly structured season.
the editing is so good! Such a underrated channel
really appreciate it. hoping to improve my editing even more and just create the best AFL videos possible.
Great editing, I subbed
Thanks for the sub!
the only good thing that came out of 2020 was my tigers winning the flag, and even then, it was devistating and wish to forget it
Same go tigges
The only thing you forgot was the footy frenzy
4:28 bro sprayed it fr fr 😭😭💀
Brother seriously, this was all out of the AFLs control. And it shows you don’t know what you’re talking about. Firstly you said Maguire would be happy about the revenue… he literally runs channel 9 not channel 7. The afl made the product as good as they could.
Eddie McGuire has said on multiple occasions that he wants the AFL to run night grand finals. Some of it the AFL had no control over, while some of it they did, including AFLW season cancellation, night grand final and 16 minute quarters.
@@Kaleen_YTbecause they had to play so many games close together, they had to shorten the quarters so the players could recover..
@@Kaleen_YT yeah but saying eddie wanted it for money is incorrect because he works for nine. Running the AFLW wouldve cost the AFL more money and wouldnt of been worth at all during those economically hard times and the night grand final was an amazing spectacle. if they had full length quarters after players had 3 months off what sort of soft tissue injury crisis would we have had?
@@harpervowles7067 The eddie maguire part you are correct on, his primary motivation was TV ratings. Gillon McLachlan regreted cancelling the AFLW, showing that the AFL did not make the right decision. The night grand final is personal opinion, almost everyone I know hated it but you can have your own opinon. The full length quarters part, you have a valid point.
Richmond v Swans was held to low scoring because of the rain in Brisbane
well that literally explained what 2020 was....
The quality of these videos are great! You need more subs!
thankyou.
next you should do “players who got robbed of medals”. like the brownlow, goal and mark of the year
The fact we had a season is a amazing. The AFL did the best they could given the circumstance. Living in Melbourne = Lockdown was sheeeit. But yeah, give the AFL. A break
Chapters in description would be nice but you don’t have to Ofc!
Yes I might do that later
They didn't play many games on the Weekend.
I want you to real think about your statement that because the quarters were shortened, there were less last minute goals.
This vid is what pisses everyone off about afl, the Victorian fans thinking they deserve everything.
I'm not Victorian
Great video mate you deserve a lot more subs than this
Appreciate it heaps!
What the is this guy waffling on about
2021 was worse, and I'm a Crows fan who endured a spoon in the 2020 season.
The people sooking about shorter quarters, welcome to afl women’s. 🤦♂️
That’s the point… no one wants to watch that
I can agree with you! But seriously women's football should be the same length as the men's competition.
alternative title: the worst decade in world history
Bro acting like this wasn't the only way to get the season done. Not the AFL's fault they had to change everything, lol.
But their decision for a night grand final was disgraceful
This is a shockingly out of touch video
Exactly I can't believe he ridiculed the AFL when they did all they can to have a season. Honestly such a bad take
what u yapping about bro u act like they wanted to do this they were forced into doing it
That's the sad part.
Defo a shit season but idk what u expect them to do
everyone here defending the afl for managing the season well during a "pandemic" when it was a disgrace that the footballers were able to go to their job but the working class couldn't and their businesses shut down because of the actions of the government.
1916:Hold my beer.Four sides only,final four,bottom side Fitzroy wins premiership.
What did you expect the afl to do, COVID 19 was crazy
what a pointless video, would you have preferred they call off the season. also you're a bit late to the party
cancelling the AFLW, cutting quarters to 16 minutes and night grand finals were all extremely in the AFL's control. Gabba grand final you coul argue. I may be late to the party but I thought it was an interesting topic
@@Kaleen_YT the only thing I had a problem with was stopping the aflw. I don't have a problem with anything else. The whole country was dealing with unprecedented circumstances. At least we had football
They had to cut the quarter length as some teams had to play 3-4 games in a 2 week period at times.
I was looking for a video like this, not pointless to me
Should have continued the season as normal with the crowds.
The AFL did the best under the circumstances. Every major sports league in the world was impacted by the Covid 19 pandemic and I think the AFL did well to get through it.
Also and I said this at the time you don't know that Fremantle would have won the AFLW premiership. Other teams at the time like Carlton and North Melbourne were serious contenders as well.
That doesn't magically make the season not bad when compared to other seasons just because they managed to generate a poxy season with reduced time.
23? There’s 24 my brother…
bro... if you werent a afl youtuber *afl doesnt attract many viewers* you would thrive in youtube
thanks bro, don't know what else I would do but maybe one day.
The AFL was so good to have a season running. Why are you getting so mad mate
There was an honest to god pandemic lmao. What do you expect them to do?
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Where else would they play the GF champ
true! Unless WA was an option
@@tigermastr1021Perth Stadium and Stadium Australia were options.
@@urbanyouthsStadium Australia was being used for the NRL grand final lol
@@thepoliticalloser it wasn't on the same day, they can convert stadiums within 24 hours (it was done in 2012 at Stadium Australia), and it was indeed an option reported at the time.
@@urbanyouths A preliminary final is different compared to an NRL grand final. They also have other grand finals for different leagues. How could they create the NRL within the span of 12hrs?
Tbh I don’t think the 2020 season was that bad
Reading these comments some of you can't share different opinions, or think there's a timeline where opinions are no longer valid. Are any of you even Australian?
Telling someone "shocking take" or the equivalent without explaining why is a shocking fucking take on anything in itself.
Without putting words in mouths and all of that whatnot, what would have been easier was to resume the AFL season without hindrance, you know, never having called it off for any period of time and definitely not cutting quarters down by 4 minutes.
The AFL fell victim to coronavirus propaganda but what can you expect from an organization that virtue-signals, preaches safety over freedom of choice every chance it gets and participates in American wokeism trash.
now this is a shit take 😂😂
@@jamies3031 if you'd care to explain why it's a shit take, I'd be more inclined to take you seriously which is what you want by responding to this in the first place.
if you aren't fluent in English, that's fine, at least give it a go.
@@jamies3031 also, AFL is Australia's cash cow franchise/business. We don't need rainbow flags in our sport but we do.
You tell me that AFL's virtue-signaling and rule changes aren't intended to rake in money from people that also follow American idealism and glorify it, you know it's targeted towards younger people.
The problem with following ideologies is that you never hold yourself accountable, you blame the ideology.
AFL is in the business of making money, more so than ever, it just appears that they are corrupting the sport by desperately trying to achieve new standards, if you can call them standards.
New standards are allowing umpires to give the opposition the ball, 50m penalties and goals whenever their feelings are hurt by a player disagreeing with their call.
I'd enjoy a thorough debate about this since you disagree but you'll probably just say "shit take" and personally, at this point, I can't blame you. Have a good day, Jamie-boy.
@@CalculatedPsychoThe AFL is largely bankrolled by The Australian government, and the government wanted lockdowns. There was a 2019 recession, so all countries using The Federal reserve needed lockdowns in 2020 to reduce cash flow to stop hyperinflation. Had nothing to do with health, the state couldn't careless about peoples health.
Disagree. Having an AFL game every day for like two weeks straight was the bees knees.
This has to be a piss take 🤣
No 1. The only reason I saw the 2020 flag in the flesh was because of covid. So there's that.
2. We are very very lucky that little virus wasnt 5-8% more deadly.
3. Is this video borderline RWNJ/antivax?
I'm Jewish, and I find you to be anti-Semitic for suggesting 1940's WWII style experimentations on innocent people was justified during the early 2020's. May have to report you to The ADC.
Hello
Go giants
Some horribly uneducated opinions in this video. Probably the intent though. It's just a piss-take, right?