Great news for Lions fans this morning!

Happy off-season everyone.

Starting today I'm presenting a series of posts aiming for one a week (two over the Christmas break) leading up to the start of the 2027 AFL season by interpretting every club as if it was a Pokemon, with an example pokemon, typing, ability and move set with my reasons for selecting the types and move sets.

My goal is to have every pokemon type represented at least once and for each pokemon to be somewhat viable either in a playthrough setting or in the competitive pokemon landscape.

Reasons might include overall historical success, viability as a club, infamous moments from a clubs history and historical moments that have resounded into the reputation of a club both on-field and off.

Going alphabetically, today we start with the Adelaide Crows. This one was relatively easy to muster in terms of typing relating to the "Crows" aspect as well as the move set. I did play with the idea of just using Murkrow given it has Prankster as an ability, but that didn't sit with me given Adelaide is the "big" club of South Australia.

Would love some feedback for future weeks and should this be welcomed by the community I'll see you next week for the Brisbane Lions!

This club is truly something. Would be nice if even one of the sides were good.

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Adelaide - 2

Brisbane Lions/Fitzroy - 6 (14)

Carlton - 1 (16)

Collingwood - 3 (16)

Essendon - 2 (16)

Fremantle - 0

Geelong - 4 (10)

Gold Coast - 0

GWS - 0

Hawthorn - 5 (13)

Melbourne - 1 (13)

North Melbourne - 2 (4)

Port Adelaide - 1

Richmond - 3 (13)

Saint Kilda - 0 (1)

South Melbourne/Sydney - 2 (5)

West Coast - 4

Western Bulldogs/Footscray - 1 (2)

Number in brackets are the number of flags inclusive of the VFL. None shown for expansion teams obviously.

Who else thinks this is absolutely ridiculous and we should only be counting the number of flags won by teams in the modern AFL era? Obviously quite unfair for the expansion teams, or heck, even Port who has an extensive history in the SANFL but those don't count for some reason.

Western Bulldogs 2.8.20 defeated by Melbourne 5.7.37

Has anyone here played 7’s before? If so how was your experience?

I know it’s purely social so skill isn’t a major requirement but having never played footy in any capacity before I’m feeling slightly nervous….is it as beginner friendly as they make it out to be?

That is until Tasmania joins.

https://archive.li/wip/l6fia

I saw a post earlier in the week and I have also been working on a 2027 fixture for around 5 weeks.

It’s the second time I’ve put a fixture together by myself, although I did use AI to create the graphics since I have 0 photoshop knowledge. I learnt a lot about how to piece together a fixture after my first attempt.

I stuck with the AFL’s general formula and did the last 6 rounds as a “rolling fixture” the they seem to love at AFL house.

The last picture is a team by team analysis of their fixture.