Sportsday’s Dwayne Russell is reporting that the AFL will not pursue its idea to have a national second-tier competition.
Back in February, Russell said the AFL was working towards having this competition running in 2022.
Although the league will abandon this idea, Russell believes the VFL could be expanded.
“I’m hearing that the AFL will scrap its idea of having a national second-tier competition, this idea that they’ll have a second-tier senior men’s comp with all 18 AFL teams playing the reserves team against each other is no longer going to happen,” he told Sportsday.
“The VFL, the SANFL and the WAFL will continue as is, I’m hearing they’re pretty happy with the way the SANFL and WAFL are going.
“The eastern states could one day align with an expanded VFL, but that’s as far as it’ll go.
“The VFL will essentially stay as it is.
“It’s going to be tightened a little in the future, so there’s no holes in the fixture that means teams don’t have a week where they’ve got players not playing a game and they might need to get the game into them.”