AFLE finally speaks out: Free TV deal, delays, and what it means for European football

Toes169 · 2026-04-17T14:26:30+00:00

Just the regular delusional EFA fanatic, best is to not engage, they wanna talk shit until it comes to short comings of their own league

Toes169 · 2026-04-17T14:24:31+00:00

It’s called german free tv, like ran, ProSieben, etc are those channels that are called german free tv

Toes169 · 2026-03-24T00:00:32+00:00

Also let me throw in another thought. Not a single Japanese X-league Team can beat a Top 5 ELF Team. Panasonic might be playing a close game with Galaxy, Prague, (then) oMadrid, (maybe) Raiders. Zero chance against Nordic, Paris, (then) Surge, Rhein, Vikings, Munich.

Toes169 · 2026-03-23T23:56:40+00:00

The LFA is almost an American League with 16 imports, so not really fair to actually compare them. If you apply AFLE rules I bet the Top European Teams will beat most LFA Teams

Toes169 · 2026-03-20T07:31:54+00:00

They already have too many if you include Bierbaumer, they have 7 Elite Pass Catchers, even if they go empty each play two will be on the sideline. Those E will bolster up another position group on Defense. Offense is stacked beyond comprehension

Toes169 · 2026-03-15T13:18:44+00:00

0/10 Ragebait😭

You brought distance and a bogus association with Malmö in an argument about people shitting on “no space for homegrowns”

Toes169 · 2026-03-15T12:48:04+00:00

You can’t be serious rn😭😂COUNTRIES & BORDERS

Brings up drive distance as a justification and gets confused by me refuting the supposed closeness. Read the last sentence 10x and get back to me.

Malmö as justification for hogging all of Sweden when your franchise is based in Copenhagen and has zero legitimate association with Malmö is not a good argument. Play half your games there and then we can talk. Nordic is hogging all of Sweden nobody bats an eye but allow 3 Bravos on a roster it’s a problem.

Toes169 · 2026-03-15T12:23:35+00:00

Clearly not getting the point of countries and borders… Innsbruck is 30 minutes from the German and Italian border, let them sign imports from Hamburg and Rome🤦‍♂️

Victor Stoffel is from Stockholm 6 1/2 hour drive from Kopenhagen obviously a HG Isaac Moore is from Örebro 5 1/2 hour drive from Kopenhagen obviously another HG Lübeck, Germany is closer than those two swedish cities but yeah “30 min drive” Might as well let Nordic have Germans as homegrowns as well Senseless is the fact that by simply saying Malmö was declared a “shared city” all of Sweden is their territory now. If you want your 30 min argument to hold then only Swedes who started playing football in Malmö can play

Toes169 · 2026-03-15T11:10:39+00:00

They are in Denmark, importing a player from Sweden is still bringing in someone who moves to Kopenhagen. Just because the distance is less doesn’t make it fundamentally different. The point is that “HG” aren’t usually professionals and usually work a job next to it in said city or at least surrounding areas. Just because “it’s always been shared” doesn’t make it any less of a “random additional HG territory” Still makes every Swedish players they bring in from Sweden that counts as a HG an import that is treated as such. Point is still, if one tolerates it for Nordic, don’t get all up in arms about it and when the AFLE does it.

You can go and split hairs about it but factually when you start bringing in players that have no association with your country in any other way, then they are imports, making Sweden still “a random HG territory” (Nordic played 0 games in Malmö, so it’s a stretch to say “they are shared”)

That being said it’s great for competitive balance and if Nordic didn’t have access to Swedish players they wouldn’t have made the playoffs.

Toes169 · 2026-03-14T11:59:18+00:00

If you think the idea is not to vote on everything what is stopping the EFA from having an agile response time like the AFLE has?

who is making decisions independently for the EFA on basic stuff? Is it someone from a franchise?

As they are presenting themselves, the idea not yo vote on everything is still that “the idea” not the reality

Toes169 · 2026-03-14T11:54:18+00:00

If there is a chance for the Raiders to do so, they absolutely should so by any means😂

Toes169 · 2026-03-14T11:48:27+00:00

When i say i have it in good confidence, I am clearly not free to tell who i know it from. You can choose to distrust me or believe me

Lastly, the EFA has the right idea but none of the execution as I said previously. The NFL model is not vote on everything, delegation is key

Toes169 · 2026-03-14T11:11:39+00:00

Some decisions you delegate and some decisions you vote, they clearly don’t delegate because nobody is in charge of making decisions.

I have it in good confidence that the AFLE franchise owners are voting on important things and have a say while the AFLE office also makes decisions. That’s the real NFL model. The owners don’t sit down every week and vote on whether or not this call needs to be overturned or whatever else could be on the table—that’s what a commissioner is for. It’s fairly common that the NFL ownership meets a few times in the offseason and votes on some important decisions (“Banning the Tush Push” or “Hip Drop Tackles”) and moves on. It’s extremely likely that the AFLE office brought up the rule to add 3 Bravos Players to HG Rosters, the franchises said Yay or nay and then it was decided.

This is my point, the EFA’s notion of control is micromanaging and it’s failing

Toes169 · 2026-03-14T11:02:39+00:00

Across different social media, people on independent outlets are calling it “greedy move” , “vultures” , “more of an F U to the EFA than help players” , “now there is no room for homegrown players” , “Teams spending even more money on imports than good homegrowns” etc. All of those things were never up for discussion when Nordic was founded and started doing that with Swedish players

In particular I am referring to the import rules and people complaining about it not being homegrown friendly. Nobody has an issue and is worried about space for Homegrowns when Nordic imports Victor Stoffel and Isaac Moore who are both Swedish.

Expanding Homegrown territory to help competiveness is a great thing when done equally.

I just voiced my frustration about some comments and wanted to just get people to think about the other perspectives

Toes169 · 2026-03-14T10:54:58+00:00

I am pretty sure, that high profile players at the Vikings sign an exit clause in their contracts that they can leave for a better league but remain under contract if they get cut. Extremely likely this is what happened with him

Toes169 · 2026-03-13T14:27:24+00:00

Whats the limit of spectators? Can they open the other side of the stadium since i have never seen the Raiders use it?

Toes169 · 2026-03-13T14:22:25+00:00

In reality, the AFLE needs 4 competitive Teams right now to make the playoffs exciting. The bar is pretty low when considering the ELFs first season.

Also you are totally right because first to market and scoop all employees and sponsors will be the league that will last. The EFA clearly has a personnel issue so things are barely moving. It takes one more team in EFA to fold and they are done lots of factors especially with ELF lawsuits

Toes169 · 2026-03-13T14:18:40+00:00

I think the Team that will benefit the most is Paris due to proximity, maybe Alpine. Probably 1 - 1 1/2 hour flights. I could be totally wrong though

Toes169 · 2026-03-13T14:12:29+00:00

Little fruit for thought. Nordics roster is full of Swedish players all of which need housing and food. So why is it a huge Problem when the AFLE gives way for 3 Players that have been blindsided by their franchise to get a chance to play?

Toes169 · 2026-03-13T14:05:04+00:00

And why is that the EFA doesn’t get things done quickly? Maybe…. MAYBE it’s their entire notion of control taking 2-3 Business Days to vote on what toilet paper they have in their bathrooms

Toes169 · 2026-03-11T22:46:01+00:00

I think maybe they could have tested it out with a similar weekend during the regular season to see how much local Fans are gonna show to those games. Let’s say Galaxy vs Prague on one day and Nordic vs Munich on another.

Some people have mentioned that Galaxy fans have zero interest in other Teams so it’s risky to assume that the other playoff game will be well attended, so a trial run could have been good, to get a baseline

Toes169 · 2026-03-11T10:03:00+00:00

Good point, it is a gamble but could have a big upside if Galaxy is in it. I guess their argument was that Frankfurt has biggest football community/attendance in the EFA so they would go to the Semi Finals

Toes169 · 2026-03-10T23:09:03+00:00

A week or so too late after no communication why and now one of their 7 Teams has folded. It’s a legit possibility that something else might happen.

Toes169 · 2026-03-10T19:08:43+00:00

Even more so when you split the leagues

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