{"id":61947,"date":"2021-10-14T09:42:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T23:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/?p=61947"},"modified":"2021-10-14T09:42:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T23:12:14","slug":"adelaide-footy-league-backs-radical-plan-to-change-the-afl-fixture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/adelaide-footy-league-backs-radical-plan-to-change-the-afl-fixture\/","title":{"rendered":"Adelaide Footy League Backs Radical Plan To Change The AFL Fixture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CEO of the Adelaide Footy League has thrown his support behind an idea floated by Geelong great Jimmy Bartel to give community footy a leg up and not schedule Saturday afternoon AFL games for the first six rounds next season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/fiveaa-sports-show-with-rowey-bicks\/roweys-sports-show-13-october-2021\/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Rowey's Sports Show - 13 October 2021\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Adelaide League\u2019s John Kernahan has told Rowey\u2019s Sports Show:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWhy stop at six weeks? \u2026 The AFL has the flexibility to be able to play any night of the week\u2026 would it be too hard to give Saturday afternoon to community sport?<\/p><p>\u201cThere\u2019s also a bigger agenda here and it\u2019s called participation and making sure the game is sustainable for a long, long way past the interest of shareholders\u2026<\/p><p>\u201cVictoria and NSW in particular have probably had 18 months off. If they don\u2019t make an extra effort \u2013 and I\u2019ve had detailed discussions with the CEO of Victorian amateurs \u2013 they\u2019re going to miss a whole generation of young people that are coming out of junior footy, 16-18 because that\u2019s a really vulnerable time.<\/p><p>\u201cIf they don\u2019t keep them playing the game, the game\u2019s in trouble.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LISTEN HERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/fiveaa-sports-show-with-rowey-bicks\/interview-john-kernahan-13-october-2021\/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"INTERVIEW: John Kernahan - 13 OCTOBER 2021\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em>FIVEAA FACEBOOK LIVE STREAM &#8211; THURSDAY 14 OCTOBER &#8211; WATCH HERE:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F1395FIVEAA%2Fvideos%2F590232922328984%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=560&#038;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO of the Adelaide Footy League has thrown his support behind an idea floated by Geelong great Jimmy Bartel to give community footy a leg up and not schedule Saturday afternoon AFL games for the first six rounds next season. The Adelaide League\u2019s John Kernahan has told Rowey\u2019s Sports Show: \u201cWhy stop at six [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"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-61947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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>Adelaide Footy League Backs Radical Plan To Change The AFL Fixture - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/adelaide-footy-league-backs-radical-plan-to-change-the-afl-fixture\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Adelaide Footy League Backs Radical Plan To Change The AFL Fixture\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The CEO of the Adelaide Footy League has thrown his support behind an idea floated by Geelong great Jimmy Bartel to give community footy a leg up and not schedule Saturday afternoon AFL games for the first six rounds next season. 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