{"id":12540,"date":"2018-02-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/this-afl-great-didn-t-rate-aflx-did-you\/"},"modified":"2018-02-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T00:00:00","slug":"this-afl-great-didn-t-rate-aflx-did-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/this-afl-great-didn-t-rate-aflx-did-you\/","title":{"rendered":"This AFL Great Didn\u2019t Rate AFLX &#8212; Did You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>AFL great Tim Watson says he was underwhelmed by the inaugural AFLX tournament held in Adelaide on Thursday night.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/crows-win-aflx.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cI was so excited about watching this last night, it was worth the experiment, but the game just left me a little bit cold,\u201d Watson said on SEN.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cI didn\u2019t find the excitement levels I thought I would find.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThe game itself, it is a completely different game. The great features in our game don\u2019t really appear in AFLX.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cNo one was kicking the ball long to a contest, because players are programmed to kick the ball to each other, they hit the targets, there is free running and no real tackling pressure.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThere was no atmosphere at that game.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The night after&#8230;Tim Watson has given his thoughts on the AFLX. What did you think of the new concept? | <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1mBmgvSlz8\">https:\/\/t.co\/1mBmgvSlz8<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFLX?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AFLX<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qEblZSqNcU\">pic.twitter.com\/qEblZSqNcU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; SEN Footy (@SENfooty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SENfooty\/status\/964229320448208896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFL great Tim Watson says he was underwhelmed by the inaugural AFLX tournament held in Adelaide on Thursday night. \u201cI was so excited about watching this last night, it was worth the experiment, but the game just left me a little bit cold,\u201d Watson said on SEN. \u201cI didn\u2019t find the excitement levels I thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-12540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>This AFL Great Didn\u2019t Rate AFLX - Did You? 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