Herald Sun - 12 March

THE AFL is weighing up nine and 10-team finals formats for when the competition expands to 18 teams in 2012.

Chief executive Andrew Demetriou confirmed the AFL was exploring the merits of expanding the home-and-away season to 23 or 24 rounds once Gold Coast (2011) and Greater Western Sydney (2012) join the competition.

And he hinted the league was leaning towards creating a nine-team finals format, although the merits of 10 teams making the finals was also being discussed.

"We're actually doing a huge body of work on 17 and 18 teams," Demetriou said in Perth.

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