{"id":13311,"date":"2017-10-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/the-afl-s-big-pre-season-experiment-may-not-happen-after-all\/"},"modified":"2017-10-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T00:00:00","slug":"the-afl-s-big-pre-season-experiment-may-not-happen-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/the-afl-s-big-pre-season-experiment-may-not-happen-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"The AFL\u2019s Big Pre-Season Experiment May Not Happen After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A shortened form of Aussie Rules inspired by the success of T20 cricket &#8212; known as AFLX &#8212; was tipped to kick off before the next AFL season, but now the league is not so sure.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"366\" width=\"650\" 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\/sherrin.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the release of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/Adelaide-Crows-Reveal-Their-Pre-Season-Fixture\">pre-season fixture<\/a> on Thursday, the AFL\u2019s Travis Auld said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>&#8220;AFLX is something we&#8217;ve been talking about for some time now and we&#8217;re still in the process of developing.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cWe\u2019re not really in a position to finalise both the format and when we might program AFLX games. There\u2019s no sticking points, it\u2019s just a new product. New products take time to develop.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cWe like to (proceed) pretty slowly with that stuff and we want to make sure that our format\u2019s right, that our clubs have bought into the product and the journey of what we\u2019re trying to do with it.<\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;There&#8217;s certainly no need to hurry it.&#8221;<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AFLX is no longer a certainty to be introduced during the 2018 pre-season. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QcLx3Znwbm\">https:\/\/t.co\/QcLx3Znwbm<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OwCFKz3agh\">pic.twitter.com\/OwCFKz3agh<\/a><\/p>&mdash; FOX FOOTY LIVE (@FOXFootyLive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOXFootyLive\/status\/923350438258151424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shortened form of Aussie Rules inspired by the success of T20 cricket &#8212; known as AFLX &#8212; was tipped to kick off before the next AFL season, but now the league is not so sure. 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