Wild Card Round For 2026 on

[BFG]

All about the money for AFL executives, It's in their KPIs.

Not good enough to make the top 8 after playing 23 rounds? Well have a go at this.

All it does is take away the bye for 7th and 8th meaning top 6 is now so important. If after the second last round you are in 7th or 8th and can't be displaced, would you rest a heap of key players for the last minor round, as teams were doing prior to 2016. You sure will so you get a better chance of advancing in the finals.

AFL HQ has been an idiot show for a long time now - and it's continuing!

[lwjoyner]

Money hungry AFL. Waht makes its important other than that to add 2 extra teams to the finals.
Helps mediocrity, maybe they should be dropping it back to six or saying u need to win at least 15 or 16 games to make the finals.

Absolutyely ridiculous change